Friday, 28. May 2010, 13:00:00
First we named our computers by surname of its first user. When new people of the same second name came, we used their first names. Still the names started to clash pretty fast. So various combinations of a first letters and other names were introduced. The result was an unmaintainable mess so we soon decided to rename everything.
The second naming scheme, introduced by our chief programmer, weren't any better, unsurprisingly. Though carefully assigned to the core employees relating its sizes to their apparent weight, the names of the planets in the solar system quickly ran out. So did all the pronounceable names of other real-life stars; moons too. Inevitably, administrators soon brought their own invention into the scheme and now we have computers named Savara, Deliani, Hebridan,
Proclarush Taonas (of the primadonna programmer),
Chulak (of the nitpicker developer) or
Melmac (of the useless manager).
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