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Ah, that old chestnut. Well in planning my new setup, I need to come up with a naming scheme. I have an old naming scheme, but there was no big pattern to it (basically mythological creatures).

Ideally I’d like something with several sub-classes to it, e.g. DMZ, test, etc.

I’ve so far seen:

  • famous computers (e.g. HAL) - popey uses this
  • fruit
  • grape varieties
  • colours
  • four horsemen of the apocalypse
  • class A drugs (then class B when they ran out, then class C)
  • lakes
  • cartoon characters
  • species of penguin

I wonder if I could do herbs (’erbs for any Americans :-)) and spices. You could split them in to green leaves (parsley, mint), then perhaps spicy or Indian ones. But then I’m starting to struggle a bit.

I think I’ve just found a winner - characters from some classic films:

  • Alien
  • Aliens

Yes, my mind does have a nasty habit of getting mental blocks on things like this. However some films (e.g. the terminator) don’t actually have many famous characters in it.

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