Or, even worse:

"Is it up, Uranus?"

Ken Dibble

www.stic-cil.org

>Love it!

>

>You can imagine the disquiet when someone asks "Is Uranus up?"

>

>

>

>On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Fred Taylor <fbtaylor@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hi Ted,

> >

> > One of the first networks I worked with for a small office was Sun and

> > Planets. Nobody had a problem with the names until we got to Uranus.

> >

> > Fred

> >

> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Ted Roche <tedroche@gmail.com> wrote:

> >

> >> "Worker" and "Pointy-Haired Boss"

> >>

> >> "Parent" and "Child" (I'm sure someone will have trigger issues with

> >> this, too)

> >>

> >> "Worker" and ""Dispatcher" or "Central Control" or "Director"

> >>

> >> "Planets" and "Sun"

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> wrote:

> >> > Dear Vixens and Reynards:

> >> >

> >> > My boss just dropped an interesting one on me. I use the terms

> >> > "master" and "slave" in my app. He asked me to not use "slave" with

> >> anyone

> >> > else, presumably because of someone taking it wrong. I said

> that I would

> >> > see if I could come up with something.

> >> >

> >> > So what can I use for alternatives? I have Web-searched

> to see what

> >> > others are doing and did not find anything that would fit for my second

> >> > case.

> >> >

> >> > I use "master" and "slave" in two senses.

> >> >

> >> > 1) We have the Master Station from which the high-level functionality

> >> of

> >> > the system is done. We have various Slave Stations which are

> used mainly

> >> > for DE. The Master Station is also used for DE.

> >> >

> >> > I have come up with "master" and "satellite". Reasonable?

> >> >

> >> > 2) The second one is puzzling me. I have forms with an (often) key

> >> > portion (master) and a non-key portion (slave). "key" and "non-key" are

> >> > awkward and do not communicate well to a non-IT person. "parent" and

> >> > "child" is not accurate. What do you suggest?

> >> >

> >> > Sincerely,

> >> >

> >> > Gene Wirchenko

> >> >

> >> >

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