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Grex > Coop11 > #116: Contest for a new group id (gid) name | |
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steve
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Contest for a new group id (gid) name
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Jul 30 15:57 UTC 1999 |
And now, for something completely irrevelant to law suits.
We need a new name for the next 'group' of accounts on Grex. Every
account on Grex has a "user id" (uid) and a "group id" (gid) which
meakes it unique on Grex. The uid's started at 1000 the first day
Grex opened up and climbed upwards. There is a limit to them however,
and that limit is 65,535. When we came close to running out of "uid
space" several years ago we rewound the uid counter to 10,00 but changed
the group id by one and started the process all over again.
First we had group people (gid number 50) and then folks (51), then
beings (52) and currently humans (54).
We're at uid 63,845 as I write this. This means that in about 10
days from now (so say August 9th or so) we're going to have to rewind
the uid counter back to 10K and start on yet another group id.
We need to call it something. The last time this happened I think
I picked "humans" after listening to Quark complain about "humaans"
on Deep Space 9. That wrap-around kinda snuck up on us and we had
little time to consider a group name so I just picked one.
This time around we have some time to talk about it, and it should
prove interesting to see what people come up with. The name should
be short (so staff, when changing file permissions doesn't have to
type something really long), and meaningful to a group of people as
a whole.
Let's see if we can't come up with something by August 6th, maybe?
Fire away!
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cmcgee
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response 1 of 58:
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Jul 30 16:25 UTC 1999 |
*joke follows:* How about "slackers"
*joke ends*
Crowd.
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dang
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response 2 of 58:
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Jul 30 16:25 UTC 1999 |
How about "users"? Grex is the only unix system I've ever used without
a "users" group.
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janc
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response 3 of 58:
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Jul 30 16:29 UTC 1999 |
Stuffing the ballot box:
mortals
rabble
proletariat
horde
masses
public <-- kind of like this one - as in "the public"
society
riffraff
grex <-- latin word for "group"
mob
anybody
humanity <-- not bad
individuals
earthlings
creatures
sapiens
homosapiens
units
primates
lifeforms
entities
occupants
inhabitants
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remmers
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response 4 of 58:
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Jul 30 16:45 UTC 1999 |
Jan has so many good ones that I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything
else. So I'll just comment on some of Jan's candidates.
I'd vote against "public", since in the context of online systems it has
the connotation of an area containing publicly-accessible data. Possibly
misleading.
I'll vote against "grex" because it's the name of the system. Possibly
confusing.
Think I like "sapiens" the best.
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steve
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response 5 of 58:
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Jul 30 16:56 UTC 1999 |
Heh. I think I like sapiens too. Users isn't bad though, except that it
might make someone confused seeing a person in users and then discovering
that they aren't one too? Horde kinda works too.
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jep
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response 6 of 58:
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Jul 30 19:08 UTC 1999 |
society
commons
terrans
citizens
mathom
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jep
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response 7 of 58:
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Jul 30 19:09 UTC 1999 |
Shucks:
hobbits
elves
dwarves
orcs
Fuzzies
Vulcans
Oakies
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krj
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response 8 of 58:
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Jul 30 19:14 UTC 1999 |
How about the names of animals, lifted from the "Chinese Zodiac"
as it appears on restaurant placemats? That would get us through the next
twelve cycles.
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gull
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response 9 of 58:
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Jul 30 19:19 UTC 1999 |
Hmm...aren't we currently in the 'Year of the Rabbit'?
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jep
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response 10 of 58:
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Jul 30 19:22 UTC 1999 |
Another idea I kind of like: gentry
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robh
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response 11 of 58:
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Jul 30 20:37 UTC 1999 |
I was going to say "terrans", but it's been taken, so I'll go with
either "tuatha" or "teut", the ancient Irish and Old Norse words
(respectively) for "people" or "folks".
(And no, I don't expect anyone to take the suggestion seriously. >8)
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mwg
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response 12 of 58:
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Jul 30 21:00 UTC 1999 |
"them"
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steve
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response 13 of 58:
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Jul 30 21:01 UTC 1999 |
hahahaha "them"--I love it.
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jep
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response 14 of 58:
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Jul 30 21:22 UTC 1999 |
dudes
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other
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response 15 of 58:
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Jul 31 00:54 UTC 1999 |
sentients
bipeds
baldapes <-- two words...
computers <-- as in "people who compute"
presbyopics <-- people whose eye lenses are hardening from too many
hours spent staring at computer screens. from
"presbyopia"
droogs <-- from _a clockword orange_, if i remember correctly
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krj
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response 16 of 58:
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Jul 31 01:53 UTC 1999 |
Another vote for "tuatha."
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don
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response 17 of 58:
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Jul 31 02:22 UTC 1999 |
From what's been offered up already, I'll have to go with either "sapiens"
or "them". We could use one of these maybe:
things
Actually, that's about it. Sapiens, them, or things
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k8cpa
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response 18 of 58:
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Jul 31 05:29 UTC 1999 |
How about "BOOTIE"
As in shake that Bootie baby!~
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jshafer
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response 19 of 58:
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Jul 31 06:21 UTC 1999 |
Another vote for "them"
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scott
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response 20 of 58:
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Jul 31 11:27 UTC 1999 |
drones
droogs (consider this a vote for other's suggestion)
blobs
shmucks
life
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tpryan
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response 21 of 58:
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Jul 31 14:20 UTC 1999 |
newbies
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don
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response 22 of 58:
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Jul 31 18:20 UTC 1999 |
re 21, whats going to happen with the newbies the next time we have to
recycle?
re 20, people are really going to enjoy logging on to a new system and finding
out that they are in the group of schmucks.... otherwise it's funny
re 0, so it's a contest..... what's the prize? Is any purchase required?
Where's the fine print and the lawyer in a nasal voice talking really fast
about the requirements? :)
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hhsrat
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response 23 of 58:
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Jul 31 23:49 UTC 1999 |
Droids
Dilberts
Others (probably would not work out)
Objects
Blah
WarmBodies
ColdBodies
Living
Dead
boring
I remember reading something about Mathom in a much earlier Agora.
Isn't that some sort of system process?
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tsty
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response 24 of 58:
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Aug 1 17:38 UTC 1999 |
since the newuerse are the coin of this realm, how about specie1 and
then, specie2, etc.
also consider that species are also, well, you get it.
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