Reading about this made me want to reread this classic cyber-punk novel

I know this article is going to get flooded with "My servers are named..." but here's a good rule of thumb in a corporate setting. If you want to get sympathy points with users use cute names. For example, I have mine based on Seseme Street characters. So when a server, Linux, Netware, NT, or what have you you can say "Oh Elmo's sick today, why don't you send him a get well card from Blue Mountain?" and set up a e-mail account for Elmo that forwards it to the admin in charge of that system. Believe it or not it has worked over here, I have Linux, OS/2, WinNT, and Novell Servers and while our NT machine reboots Oscar's (the Grouch) mail gets quite a few cards (Heh heh).

Also another suggestion mentioned from the techncian next to me, call one backup server "hell". So if someone asks for more CPU cycles tell them to go to hell!

"Superman had Kryptonite, I have NT. Life is real." - Unknown