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Sunday, November 2, 2008

A New World Order

I awoke at 4:15 this morning to the sound of rain. It's not a sound you hear very often here in the high desert so it was nice to lay in bed and just enjoy it. Listining to the rain makes one, feel small in the world. Eventally I decided to get out of bed and start work on our new network design. I had a consept in my head that I had been thinking about all night and it was time to record my plan to create a New World Order. This was to be my first scratch built network and should make for a very eduactional build. I have a wonderful mentor, in the IT field and she has a story behind all of the servers she builds and names...they are often named after Greek, Roman or Viking Gods or mythical realmes often associated with these gods/gossesses. She puts a lot of thought into naming them and she actually corresponds this history to the use of the server or servers. There is mighty Zeus the Network Domain Controller and Hera, Zeus's wife, who is the Domain Controller fall-back system. There is also: Styx, Midgard, Atlantis, Gaia, Mercury, Athena, Argenta and more. All serve a purpose, all have tasks to perform, or the systems fail. I have taken on some of the tasks of creating the IS Departments (Information Systems)test network. In keeping with the spirit of what my mentor has created, I have decided to use Egyptian gods and goddess.

Last week,I started by, resurrecting an old server from the dead and began to restore it to the status of Domain Controller. I shall call her Isis, Egyptian goddess of Magic: friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, the downtrodden, as well as listening to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and rulers and she was she was the protector of all Egypt. Ancient Egyptians once believed, that the Nile River, flooded every year because of her tears of sorrow for her dead husband, Osiris. I like the name Isis for a domain control server, because the name identifies who's server it is, by the repetition of our department initials I.S.. I also like that she is the goddess of magic, and as anyone can tell you, who has worked in I.S., there is a certain feeling of power that you have as a network administrator and it is often viewed as magical, when you are able to fix a clients computer.

We will also be needing a print, web, application and file server, as well. I shall call him, Osiris. Osiris, is the brother and husband of Isis. Being as he is being divided up into sections, to be utilized as the four differently needed servers, his name is also very suiting, for Osiris was slain by Seth and his parts where spread throughout the earth. Isis was instrumental in the resurrection of Osiris. Her magical skills restored his body to life after she gathered the parts of it that had been strewn about. The two shall work together to create a very powerful testing network.

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