How do you name your machines
Posted in Personal, Random on 10/15/2009 12:28 pm by Laura CzajkowskiI was curious and tweeted how do people name their machines, is there logic behind or just random. I tend to chose characters or themes in movies/shows. It started out with cypher being my login on skynet my computer society back in college. I’ve had Enigma, Matrix, Bigbox, currently my toshiba is Cypher which is running Karmic, and Gorgamon which is the mini 9 running Hardy.
Some of the answers that came in were: from Daniel darkstar and sunlight, JD chose his from Egyptian gods Isis on 8.10, sekhmet on 9.04 & baal as a win7 vm, and Mikkel chose his from List of Roman Emperors.
How do you do yours 
10/15/2009 at 4:56 PM
At work we use soft furnishings or almost. Curtain, quilt, rug, …
10/15/2009 at 5:22 PM
book characters (piglet, pooh, wol, tigger, heffalump)
acronyms (SNAFU)
internet in-jokes (lappy486)
boring (dev & pvr)
fruity (banana)
No real pattern, just whatever takes my fancy at the time.
Or what I happen to be eating at the time.
10/15/2009 at 5:33 PM
Mine are names of stars, brightness/other attributes roughly oriented:
Laptop: rigel (fairly bright)
Server: polaris (unmoving and stable, at least in theory)
Netbook: alcor (small and easily missed)
10/15/2009 at 5:43 PM
Mine machines are called after Star Wars planets – so I have tatooine, myrkr, kashyyyk and even coruscant
10/15/2009 at 6:19 PM
I use characters from Shakespeare’s plays. My small office is the cast of Hamlet.
10/15/2009 at 6:37 PM
simple
my dell PC is named dell
my vaio laptop is named vaio
ah at wor my hp PC is named hardy :p
10/15/2009 at 7:53 PM
I name my machines after Asterix characters. My netbook is Dogmatix, the home server is called Obelix and my laptop is called Asterix.
I used to name them after The Beatles songs.
10/15/2009 at 7:56 PM
I name mine after sci-fi starship names. So far I’ve covered Star Trek, BSG, Stargate Atlantis, His Majesties Starship and Ringworld
10/15/2009 at 8:36 PM
When I was dj’ing the main machine was called mute, the laptop was called noise and the pda was squeek to represent their relative musical abilities..
I set up an 8 machine server and workstation system for a school and it was Snow white and the 7 dwarfs
Now its a bit more mundane, the work machine is named by corporate, the media pc is media, and the home machine is called rayne for historic reasons.
10/15/2009 at 9:26 PM
I use Futurama characters. Macbook Pro is Bender and my server is Nibbler etc.
10/15/2009 at 10:13 PM
I have (or had) machines named bedsa, ursula, fatima, aelita, elen, saeko, helin, etc.
And I doubt anybody can guess the “logic scheme” behind those names…
10/15/2009 at 10:30 PM
My home machines are named after the Endless from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman graphic novels. This box is “desire”, my server is “despair”
At work, we name our supercomputers after malevolent AIs from movies, games, books, etc. We have a “SKYNET”, “HAL”, “QUEEG”, etc
10/15/2009 at 11:23 PM
I pick words or names out of songs in my current play list. My computers, both past and present, have been mostly named from Led Zeppelin songs. For example: shook, dazed, confused, lotta, ramble, moby, immigrant, tangerine, ocean, quarter.
10/16/2009 at 3:15 AM
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy characters! Desktop is adent, laptop is trillian, server is ford, netbook is zaphod.
10/16/2009 at 3:18 AM
Mine are named after spacecraft from space operas and video games. My most recent was Blue Earth. My current desktop is Vic Viper. Next I’ll probably go with Arcadia or GodPhoenix.
10/16/2009 at 6:20 AM
I use aeroplane names. I have hercules, galaxy, firefly. the power of the PC determines the size of the aeroplane to be used. (ie. my quad core is galaxy, named after the c5 galaxy, one of the largest transport aircraft in the world).
10/16/2009 at 8:16 AM
Pokemon all the way!
My PC is wartortle and my bro’s is bulbasaur. We have a good scheme at work, but i’d be a moron to tell you what it is
10/16/2009 at 8:20 AM
I name my machines after Welsh placenames in Wales. The bigger and more powerful the machine the bigger the settlement’s name that I use. For example a netbook would be called Tonmawr as it is a tiny village with a tiny population whereas a laptop may be named after a town such as Castell Nedd since they often have some kick behind them but are not quite the most powerful machines going. Then of course powerful desktop systems are named after the cities such as Abertawe, Caerdydd or Bangor. I like watching people trying to pronounce the names of the systems as well which is an added bonus to using a method such as this
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10/16/2009 at 8:44 AM
I use Discworld characters. I am typing this on Lobsang, my server is Vimes, my netbook is Magrat, laptop Angua, Wife’s is Binky, Kid’s are Twoflower and Rincewind. Have had Mort too but that is now retired.
10/16/2009 at 7:20 PM
English composers: Tallis, Britten, Blow, Bairstow.
10/16/2009 at 10:23 PM
Simpson Characters and sometimes precious stones
10/17/2009 at 5:27 AM
Dharma station names from Lost: TheSwan, TheFlame, TheHydra, TheOrchid etc.!
10/17/2009 at 8:21 AM
pwgen-inspired names.
10/17/2009 at 8:52 AM
Japanese namens which discripes the machine or the job of the machine.
Like Akebono for the Server. A strong japanese wrestler.
Takeshi (means respect to your parents/user) for my Thinkpad, manabu (ready to learn, will learn) for the workstation
and so on.
There is a Page which translates japanese Namens into german: http://www.kunigunde.ch/japanische.htm
Think something should be out there for english;)
Greetings Seraphyn
10/17/2009 at 11:27 AM
I use positions of the kama sutra ^^
10/17/2009 at 6:10 PM
I mainly tend to use cartoon or sci-fi characters. Right now there are two mice in my house: my laptop (Speedy [Gonzales], because I like it’s speed) and my Desktop is Jerry
One of my first towers was named Mother (the board computer of the Nostromo in Alien), cause it rarely did what I told it to…
10/17/2009 at 9:17 PM
Planet names from Asimov’s Foundation series: Aurora, Solaria, Helicon, Trantor, Terminus…
The story spans across many years and mentions many places so there is a lot to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Foundation_universe_planets
10/17/2009 at 10:39 PM
I recently setup a batch of machines named after cocktails – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cocktails
10/19/2009 at 1:49 AM
Seems that i am the the most creative
My machines are named system1, system2, … . Currently on system7.
10/19/2009 at 2:55 AM
My machines are all named after Titan A.E. characters. (Gune, Akima, Stith, Korso, Bob… (as in Planet Bob))
10/19/2009 at 7:43 PM
There was a big meme around half a year ago in planet ubuntu and debian about this, it was fun, i use Looney Toones Character names
10/21/2009 at 4:32 AM
Norse and Greek mythological gods.
So far I have
hermes – server
paean – dead laptop, needs new power brick
pan – cell phone (bluetooth)
icarus – pda
loki – desktop
10/23/2009 at 9:47 PM
Characters from opera – Brünnhilde, Zerlina, Katarina and so on.
10/26/2009 at 10:08 PM
I use towns in northern Ontario. So far I have Dryden, Mattawa, Atikokan, Kapuskasing, Thornloe, Latchford, Geraldton, Nipigon, Hearst, Fort Frances, and Moosonee.
11/08/2009 at 8:04 PM
Named by first Egyptians Pharaohs dynasty :
Menes and Hor-Aha
11/09/2009 at 6:59 PM
We have drug names. ecstasy, heroin, cocaine, vikadin, valium, speed, cat, lsd, nexus, dagga. heh
01/20/2010 at 9:23 PM
I name mine after things I find amusing/interesting at the time
Server = MORPHEUS
(others I havent named yet, and they are extremely boring, so its pointless posting them)