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Pretty neat, huh!?!? I only just found out.

Sadly they are not Star Wars rebel fighter ships, they are what used to be steam powered printing houses which were built in the 18th century.

My work has Printers named after Transformer.

No. I don't trust Starscream at all, and am glad I don't have to use it.

If you had enough wings to have an X-Wing I'd be impressed

Your work also has slow days!


My office currently has 2 A-wing, 3 B-wing, 1 K-wing, 2 E-wing, 1 U-wing, 7 X-wing (of two types) and one each of Z-95, YT-1300, YT-2400, VCX100, VCX shuttle, Sheathapeade and an Auzituck.


Because I am selling my Rebels for X-wing and they are sat on my desk

Unfortunatly our annexes are named after people and are boring.

Our meeting rooms are named after cities in which we have branch offices.

This enabled me once to decline a proposed meeting in Madrid because I was scheduled to be in a meeting in Madrid at the same time.

When we remade our network a few years ago we decided to name all the virtual servers after fictional starships. We've got:

Enterprise
Discovery
Defiant
Sulaco
Serenity
Tantive
Orville

And maybe a couple more I can't remember, sadly my suggestion of PlanetExpressShip wasn't taken up.

 Riquende wrote:
sadly my suggestion of PlanetExpressShip wasn't taken up.

You should have burned it all down

 Riquende wrote:
When we remade our network a few years ago we decided to name all the virtual servers after fictional starships. We've got:

Enterprise
Discovery
Defiant
Sulaco
Serenity
Tantive
Orville

And maybe a couple more I can't remember, sadly my suggestion of PlanetExpressShip wasn't taken up.

There's a shocking lack of Babylon 5 names on that list. Agamemnon would be pretty sweet.

Interestingly, all those names are actually the names of real historical ships, except for course for Orville, which is the name of a ventriloquist bird puppet.

It makes you wonder.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:


There's a shocking lack of Babylon 5 names on that list. Agamemnon would be pretty sweet.

Funnily enough the network manager (I'm the senior tech.) is a huge B5 fan and it's just never come up. We're both SF nerds obviously but are hugely divergent in what we like - the Discovery/Orville battlelines are properly drawn.


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 Kilkrazy wrote:
Interestingly, all those names are actually the names of real historical ships

Well a lot of SF (notable Trek) does draw on history so not surprising. Although I doubt Tantive IV was ever real (that's our Exchange server. It was a courier ship delivering a message...)

except for course for Orville, which is the name of a ventriloquist bird puppet.

Well he did always wish he could fly...

 Riquende wrote:
When we remade our network a few years ago we decided to name all the virtual servers after fictional starships. We've got:

Enterprise
Discovery
Defiant
Sulaco
Serenity
Tantive
Orville

And maybe a couple more I can't remember, sadly my suggestion of PlanetExpressShip wasn't taken up.

How long can a server name be? Have you suggested The Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival? Or Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath?

Sulaco isn't a real ship, either; it's a town from Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.

3 of the buildings in my complex are connected by a 6th floor "Skywalk". Anyone named Luke crossing it can be called Luke Skywalker
But sadly I work in building 4 and never get to use it, nor is my name Luke, so that wouldn't matter either

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One of my previous jobs provided goods to the Golgafrincham 'B' ark. That's as close to an SF reference we got.

*seriously. We were state govt. supply. We supplied customers with cases of "telephone sanitiser" amongst other things (condoms to bodybags and everything in between).

I used to work in a steel mill. Friends used to ask how many killer robots from the future we'd crushed that week.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
How long can a server name be?

Whilst there is probably a technical maximum, having to type it out is more of a concern (as well as being able to spell it - my boss is a big nuBSG fan but can't trust himself to type Galactica correctly so we've left that).

They've since been renamed, but our meeting rooms used to be named after the planets. The store room in the area was called Uranus. As it was kept locked, it led to frequent hilarious conversations with Security along the lines of "Hello mate, I need to stash something in Uranus, can you come and open it up for me?"

The old ones are the best, aren't they?

I suppose once Pluto got demoted, you had to say it was named after a cartoon dog.

We use to have team names hardwired into our reporting of warbirds.

Spitfires
Corsairs
Mustangs
etc.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
The old ones are the best, aren't they?

I suppose once Pluto got demoted, you had to say it was named after a cartoon dog.

Pluto was the little kitchen room. You couldn't make it up!