I'm writing a short story and there is a cat in it. The cat belongs to a hacker, so I need a name for it that would make a Unix/Linux person chuckle.
I don't know much at all about Unix or Linux, or indeed hacking, and was going to call the cat Torvalds, or Root. Both good names for a cat, I'm sure you'll agree, but a bit too obvious really.
Has anyone got any recommendations for a more subtle name for the cat that is hacking-related?
Thanks
Maria
PS I promise that no cats are going to be harmed in any way in this short story
I'd have gone for plain simple 'cat' (as in the Unix/Linux command), but that would demand that the hacker has a certain sense of humour. Not just a sense of humour, but a fairly dry, ironic, sense of humour and maybe a stripped down lifestyle.
'Cat5' is good for someone who might have had a history of cats, too...
'null' is a possibility, but somehow less funny and '/dev/null' is not what most real people would use.
The command "ypcat" (print the Network Information Services map) could be contracted down to "yp" which would sound great shouted out late at night - depending on how you pronounce "yp".
Trivia: In the unix world you are not allowed to expand yp to Yellow Pages any more following some ancient copyright case.
Or.
"tac" - command to read a file backwards.
"woem" and "rrup" - the sound made by a tac.
Following the Blue Peter scandal when they named their cat "Socks" after a TCP/IP proxy protocol and ignored the phone votes from the viewers, the name which actually had the most votes was "Cookie"! This proves that the vote was compromised by hackers.
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