Well,
I am glad to have suscitated such excitement.
The winner is "bud", short and to the point. We understand it has nothing
to do with beverages. So adrian can now collect his prize of 120 GB of
scratch area, on the machine bud1.
BTW: everybody else also gets 120 GB of disk space, starting from budN,
with N>1.
regards,
tancredi
About the voting "procedure"
_ a honorable mention goes to michael for "bmw's, Blast Multiple
Workstations", which was a good second. Unfortunately you still
need a vowel to make something readable.
_ "yam" was of course disqualified from the start, because of its ambigouos
pronunciation. Plus some insisted on the ethimologically correct Cassawa
_ McKenzie and Hal were found too literary.
_ WMD was not found at all.
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research scientist MIT/Bates, 21 Manning Av Middleton MA, 01949
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Michael Kohl wrote:
> Or
>
> Gigahertz Unlimited Local Processors (gulp01-24),
> Blast Multiple Workstations (bmw01-24),
> MY THesis faster (myth01-24),
> Weapon of Massive Data analysis (wmd01-24)
>
>
> MK
>
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Michael Kohl wrote:
>
> > How about
> >
> > BLast Unlimited oFFline analysis, BLUFF01-24
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Tancredi Botto wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The time we will use 24 new computers next to the spuds is coming up.
> > > Ernie B. needs a name to give these new machines, possibly tomorrow.
> > >
> > > Suggestions have been "duds, yams, studs", all rather un-appealing.
> > > So I want to ask around and see if you could please come up with a
> > > catchier name, possibly 1 or 2 sillables only. It does not have to rhyme
> > > with spud, I guess. Foreign words welcome.
> > >
> > > The winner will get 120 gB of disk space all for himself (on a
> > > non-removable disk, sorry). So, let's hear it (by tomorrow)
> > >
> > > -tancredi
> > >
> > >
> > > P.S.
> > > I am out of the race having already had to find a name for my son
> > > recently. Ruggero0-24 is not a good choice obviously.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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