Names for ICT suites

[laserblazer]

Our two new suites will soon be finished. I've already started assembling the computers in one suite. I want to give the new suites appropriate names and I thought we could have a competition for the kids. But I thought we could also have one for the staff to come up with some comical names. For example, the basement suite could be Wuthering Depths. What would you call them?

[FN-GM]

ICT 1 & 2

 

Famous people in IT would be appropriate for example:

 

Kilby

Berners-Lee

Babage

[Simcfc73]

I knew a firm that caled their servers Homer, Marge, Lisa etc... didn't have the guts to do it myself.

 

Ours are LRC1 LRC2 etc.. and ITE1 ITE2

[EduTech]

ours are the room names Room 30, Room 31 .. how boaring are we

 

but the computer naming side is for example Room 31 --- RM31-ST-01

Edited November 24, 2008 by EduTech

[kmount]

We changed the old naming convention of C + number between 1-10 for our rooms to C + letter for each department so CH(Hums) CE(English) etc. But then we got a second room in Design so lesson learnt there.

 

I've seen some interesting naming conventions over the years, workstations being named after disney characters (was ok for 30 Cobalt RAQ boxes mind ...) amongst others.

[CyberNerd]

I think you should name them after porn stars

[dgsmith]

Our rooms have numbers here, so the IT rooms go by these. However, our science labs have "unofficial" names of famous people on the door, although officially (and generally) they are referred to by their room number.

 

As for the computer naming conventions, we use DEPT + ROOM + COMPUTER (so, computer #27 in Design Tech room 48 would be DT4827); allows us to identify it immediately and also find it quickly

[K.C.Leblanc]

Ours are called room 9, room 24, room 25, room 26, junior ICT and The Wolfson Suite.

[SteveBentley]

I knew a firm that caled their servers Homer, Marge, Lisa etc... didn't have the guts to do it myself.

 

I have a server called Bart. Which caused some fun when somebody decided to name all the new Exchange servers after Simpsons characters without checking that nobody else had already had the same idea.

[jcollings]

We're very dull. Ours are named after the room so J19-001 to J19-030 etc. The servers on the other hand are much more amusing (well to me at least) in that they are named after Muppets.

[CyberNerd]

The servers on the other hand are much more amusing (well to me at least) in that they are named after Muppets.

 

We name our teachers after Muppets.

[My220x]

We name our teachers after Muppets.

 

You got that wrong they are muppets.

[DG01]

You got that wrong they are muppets.

 

Sure put a smile on my face

[tomdawson]

C1, C2, C3 and C4, with machine names C1-01 - 32 etc. etc.

 

Boring, but it makes sense.

 

I quite like the idea of "key IT people" - Babbage and Berners-Lee especially.

 

Dare I suggest "Gates Room"? Even "Torvalds Room" ?

 

I'd love to have suites named after cartoon characters, but it'd get old pretty quickly I guess.

[FN-GM]

Dare I suggest "Gates Room"?

 

I have spoken to someone who had a room named that. A few years later they changed the computers in there for Macs!

[SteveBentley]

What would you call them?

 

Roy and Moss

[witch]

Ours are CRA and CRB (computer room....etc with computers named CRA1 etc)

But the staff go on calling them: "the IT suite" and "the computers in the year 8 block"

 

So we could probably call them Hortense and Engelbert for all the good it would do!

[laserblazer]

Got it ""Brand" and "Ross". I did think Gates and Jobs but not for long

[WithoutMotive]

Boring room names: IT1, IT2, IT3

Boring computer names: SPHS--

Boring server names: Server 1, Server 2,...

[tmcd35]

Personal opinion - but I absolutely detest 'naming' servers. I prefer descriptive, boring, titles like 'DC1' (Domain Controller 1), File Server, Print Server, Server, etc.

 

Unfortuantly, for me, my predecessor was of a different opinion. So my servers are currently named after ancient gods - Apollo, Rhea, Chronus, etc.

[MK-2]

we used to have homer as a server, but that was when we had one server, so the simpsons theme died pretty quick.

now at this place we just have academic1, admin, firewall, internal

i have to think of server names for when the new network goes in and the servers are flattened.

i do like the muppets theme, "just go to f:....should be labelled as shared on gonzo"

"no, not p:, that's teacher shared on fozzy"

[Hightower]

Rooms are as boring as ICT1 - ICT5, then Textiles, Graphics etc etc.

 

Servers are as boring as xxx-svr-001, but I do have a NAS box called Silo and a proxy called guardian - guess those are still pretty common names though.

[localzuk]

Our rooms are named boring things 'ICT-1' through 'ICT-3'... And servers are currently in the process of moving from things like 'AD1' and 'APP1' to Futurama characters such as 'Hermes' for our license management server, 'Professor' for our Citrix cluster etc...

 

Reason being, staff don't understand names like 'APP1' when you're telling someone to type something, and it ends up being a spelling lesson. Just saying 'Fry' or 'Bender' will be much easier.

[SteveBentley]

I heard of a creative method of naming servers - each was named after a chemical element and the last octal of its IP address was the atomic number of the element.

 

Which meant that you could use a periodic table as a manual DNS.

[Sirbendy]

We've got IT1, IT2, Green Suite, Library, CADCAM, and the laptop trolley. Boring. However it never ceases to make me roll my eyes when I'm asked (by staff and kids) "which is the green suite?".

 

Hmm. Let me see...our corporate/wall colours are Lilac, apart from the green suite which is..oh yes..green. Hence the name.

 

And our servers are all "EDIT90x"...I assume someone at the LEA took the EDIT instruction and thought.."no, it's a suggestion"...

 

Auxilliary servers are TAW900Zxxx. Every school has a zone (900 in our case) and an identifier..we're 900 (main node for zone 9), then there's 912 etc (probably a primary).