I 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.
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Hi,
All the names come from the J.R.R Tolkien’s famous book “The Lord of The Rings”: servers and desktop borrow the name of places, cities, etc., laptops are given names of rivers (since they are always moving…).
I prefer using starship names from Star Trek series:
- My 4 years old (now retired) notebook was called “enterprise” (being NCC 1701-D)
- My 1 year old desktop PC is called “voyager”
- And my 3 weeks old new notebook PC is again called “enterprise” (being NCC 1701-E)
I also had an experience on building a diskless cluster for parallel computing; I used to called that cluster “Borg”
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I name all of mine after flowers. VMs are named after fictional flowers and plants (since the machines aren’t real, either).
At work we originally used Scottish rivers, which evolved into ‘bodies of water’ (so lochs, burns etc are fair game), mostly picked at random.
I’ve been naming my personal machines after female anime characters for some years – the current crop being Nene (Bubblegum Crisis), Myung (Appleseed) and Rakka (Haibane Renmei).
I name my machines after crazy killing computers.
HAL9000, GLaDOS, shodan, skynet…
I’m asking for trouble aren’t I?
14:49:30 used to do LotR
14:49:41 company i am at used to do asterix
14:50:09 personally, i switched to “intended use or the exact opposite”
14:50:15 laptop is roadwarrior
14:50:20 work titanium
14:50:26 home adamantium
14:50:39 HTPC is tranquility
Currently:
lan: rivers and lakes
net: planets and moons
Former:
- regions of middle-earth (rohan, lorien, mordor, etc)
- words all starting with the same syllable
just the standard stuff
ubuntu/debian -> silente
slackware -> hagrid
fedora -> ginny
I like harry potter
Since I’m a physical chemist (think mixture of chemistry and physics) I name my computers after the things that make everything go: electron, proton, neutron, photon, quark, …
Saturnian moons.
I was doing things from quantum physics: electron, neutron, photon, phonon. Jan had kitchen stuff oven, spoon, tongs.
I name mine after my departed pups- Frosty, Smoky, Zebbers, and Night.
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Mine are all called Earhart
I named mine U for ubuntu and 0,1,2,3,4…etc for the number of the machine so my main machine (my laptop) is U0 and my desktop is U1 but I never use that because its really old.
Guys at serverfault.com have tons of naming ideas: http://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names
I personally love outmoded names as host names
Mine are all about to be renamed after mountains I’ve climbed in Wicklow…
So there’ll be Kippure, Djouce, Maulin, Scarr, Luggala…
I used to name my machines as Muppet Show characters (Fozzy, Kermit, Piggy,etc.) but now I use the type name of the machine (Amilo, Pavilion, etc.)
Works for me
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garfields-Book-Cat-Names-Davis/dp/0345485165 – Girl’s Section. Or, rather, used to — these-days it’s just random female forenames.
-Dx
Star Trek characters: Spok, Kirk, Bones, Picard, Data, Uhura, Neelix and Tuvok so far.
I have named all my computers after different drinks
my laptop is vodka
my workstation is whisky
my router is gin
my server is jager
my vps is brandy
my wireless router is juice
etc
I used to use names of single malt whisky distilleries (have had Rosebank, Lagavulin, Laphroaig, Balvenie, and Bunnahabhain), and prior to that I used characters out of the John Birmingham “Axis of Time” trilogy. Not really sure why.
If I was in charge of a network now I’d probably use characters from Asterix.
We use greek and romans gods and goddesses. We try to use the right god for the kind of server
I use different species of python (python developer…)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pythonid_species_and_subspecies
I use ancient Greek names.
I mostly like the names of the Nymphs in Greek mythology
I use city names, Atlanta, Bogota, Irkutsk, Brno, Durban, Beijing, etc,
Astromech droids (Star Wars), so I have r2d2, r2a6, r2b1, r2q5…
I’ve only recently started using a consistent naming scheme for my machine when I started naming them after the Tuatha Dé Danann. My work machine is called ‘hegemon’ (because there’s machines called ‘dominion’ ‘empire’ in the office), my Mini 12 is called ‘minime’, and my FreeBSD laptop is called ‘talisra’, the counterpart to ‘talideon’ in a fictional mythology I’m working on, which is where both of those names came from. I’ve always called my primary laptop ‘talisra’.
Of those that fit the naming scheme, there are my parent’s computer ‘aonghus’, which was the first one to fit into my naming scheme, my web/mail server ‘lir’, and my mini-ITX box, ‘etain’.
Here at work we use the names of Scottish Whisky distilleries for our build servers, so we have mortlach, strathclyde, twinpeek,speyburn,speyside,linkwood,inchgower,lochside,craigellachie,glentauchers and many more!
I use “whatever I’m drinking at the time the OS install asks”. It started completely randomly — I looked around me for a name and saw a bottle of Laphroiag standing nearby, and I was sipping on a glass of it at the time — but after that it became a pattern. Unfortunately it’s getting a bit stretched now (my most recent machine name is “aqua”), so I’ll be shopping for a new one soon. I’m thinking maybe ships of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars (eg. victory, bellerophon, etc.) or else something Australian like interesting place names or mythical/legendary names.
the PC is Chester
the Laptop is Phoenix
both from Linkin Park
I name all mine after computers from science fiction.
Laptop: hactar from HHGTTG
Desktop: wopr from War Games
Servers, Oscar (Six Million Dollar Man), Bishop (Aliens), Proteus (Demon Seed).
I keep a handy list for reference
http://popey.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ComputersInSciFi
All my names belongs to the Hamburger Sports club (www.hsv.de)
Routers get’s names from famous football choaes from the HSV
Servers get’s names from the home arenas where the HSV
and clients get’s the names from players from the HSV
The missus names them in our house…
TED
CLIVE
and
BOB
http://liw.iki.fi/liw/log/2004-03.html#20040329c
http://liw.iki.fi/liw/log/2004-Random-thought.html#20040425d
Those have some more ideas people sent me in 2004.
Mine are names from the Wall•E movie: Wall-E, Eve, Mo, Otto, Axiom.
I chose fictional characters or references from classic novels or movies. My current laptop is Pequod (the name of the ship in Moby Dick). My netbook is named MiniMe from Austin Powers. My server is named Snowball from one of the pigs in Animal Farm.
Musical instruments here.
servers: tomtom, bongo, conga
windows virtual machines: guitar, tonkori
routers: flute, clarinet
external web hosts: trumpet, bugle, horn
desktops: piano, organ
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I used to use philosophers. My primary machine was socrates, and my secondary was plato.
I then moved to using “archon” (ancient Greek term) for my primary. My secondary became “fronk” as a jesting abbreviation of “Frankenstein’s Monster”. My work machine remains “socrates” as it always has been.
I am now probably going to use joke names based on the size of the machine playing on the word “box”. For example, my netbook is “raisin”.
In my equipment Female:
sophya
victoria
dellia
constanza
lucia
adria
On my clients IT Rooms where I install the equipment can vary, sometimes musicians:
amadeus
ludwig
wolfang
igor
pietr
johan
Or the name of the applications
I use atomic naming too
Atom for the wireless
My main desktop is Quark (this is more a media server now)
My main laptop is Tau
I’ve had Proton Electron Neutron Photon Muon and Lepton so far for various devices but the names usually get moved around when something new comes along based on size and speed
At uni they used Scottish Islands and in the AI department they used characters from Buffy
I always ssh’d to Tara one of the lesser known characters
My primary laptop with !# CRUNCHBANG distro is called ‘Starfire’ after the sci-fi books series by David Weber.
Secondary laptop running Karmic Koala is ment for distro testing so it’s called ‘robototesto’
Well, I just recently decided for a scheme for my computers, so here they are:
laptop: giskard
desktop: daneel
As per Isaac Asimov’s Robots. (at least in the french translation, tho)
All our machines are after periodic table elements. I’m using Argon, a Macbook, while listening to my iPod Shuffle, Lithium.
John has an iPod named Kerfuffle though
old duron: pc1
old celeron: pc2
macbook (both macosx & ubuntu): macbook
core i7: corei7
sheevaplug: sasha
Twin Peaks:
My laptop: Hurley
GF:s laptop: Donna
N800: Diane
etc.
My MacBook is called Wallace III. Wallace II was my MacBook Pro before it and Wallace I was my 12-inch PowerBook. I can’t remember the reason.
Stella is the name of my iPhone 3GS for the sole reason that when I drop her, I can drop to my knee’s and scream “STELLA!!!!!” really dramatically.
Mine are all named after Pokémon. In Japanese. It’s a bit silly.
This desktop is tekkanin, my old macbook is nyarumaa, my new netbook is rukushio, an ancient Gentoo machine I no longer have was kabigon, etc.