[hobbit] Goodbye "Hobbit", hello "Xymon"

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Mon Nov 10 03:11:22 CET 2008


Now when you're goofing off on the job your buddy can yell "XY MAN!"
as a warning :)

On 11/9/08, Samuel Cai <Samuel.Cai at ehealth-china.com> wrote:
> Our VP is Simon, interesting.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik "Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 12:20 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Goodbye "Hobbit", hello "Xymon"
>
> In <200811081334.13063.stef.coene at docum.org> Stef Coene
> <stef.coene at docum.org> writes:
>
>>On Saturday 08 November 2008, Henrik St=F8rner wrote:
>>>
>>> As of today, the official name is "Xymon" (pronounced just
>>> like "Simon").
>>
>>It sounds nice.
>
> I'm glad you like it.
>
>>Why have you choosen for Xymon ?
>
> It's really just a name that popped into my head one
> morning, and it sounded "right".
>
> It also fits with the criteria I listed back in August
> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/08/msg00193.html :
> No clashes with Tolkien or existing book/movie characters;
> it isn't trademarked; it's short and easily pronouncable;
> and the relevant domains were all (mostly) available.
> (xymon.net wasn't, but I can live with that).
>
> That it ends with "mon" is also a plus, that seems
> reasonable for "mon"itoring software.
>
> And I can just hear everyone shout "what does Xymon
> say?" when there's an outage. Sorry 'bout that, if you
> happen to have a Simon on your admin team :-)
>
> Finally, the ultimate sys-admin - the BOFH ! - was created
> by a Simon: http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/
>
> (Just joking about that last one).
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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