Say Hello To Aoi

After collapsing mu.nu down to one big server in October (moving all the stuff running on Akane, Nabiki and Kasumi to Midori, a new quad-core 6GB server), I'm doing the same on the mee.nu side.

Over the next two weeks, the mee.nu servers, Ukyo, Shampoo and Kodachi, will be replaced by Aoi, a quad-core 8GB system.  That means a little downtime for mee.nu - probably two outages of less than half an hour each.  There'll also be a little downtime on the mu.nu side; I'll be adding an extra disk and another 2GB of memory there to give Midori the space to act as a backup server for mee.nu.

What all this means is that I no longer have a Ranma naming scheme. Instead, I now have a colours/girl's-names scheme.  And the problem with that is that I don't know of any other Japanese colour names that are used as girl's names.  And that means no more servers.

I could cheat a little.  Ai means indigo, and is the basis for aiiro, meaning dark blue.  Akane gives us the term akaneiro, for crimson, and Sakura gives us sakurairo, pale pink.  Mikan is the term for Japanese oranges (the fruit), though I haven't seen it used as a colour name; that would be daidai or simply orenji.

Any others?

Update: Okay, according to this list, Akae, Akaho, Akana, Akane, Akari are all forms of aka/akai, red.  So Akari would be a good one.  (Hey, it's hailing!  Plink!  Plinkity!  Bip boop blep! Clack!  Hell, I'm glad my car's not parked outside, some of those buggers are an inch across!)

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