Random Computer Names

How about one of these? ;)

http://www.bestapples.com/varieties/

I name my servers after ED drugs.

First server: viagra

Second server: levitra

Current server: cialis

I figure, hey, I want it to stay up, right?

I've named my servers after famous people in science. And yes, I'm quite a science fan (as well as a science-fiction fan).

Linode 1: edison

Linode 2: newton

Dedicated server: nansen

The last one is located downtown from my physical location (Ålesund, Norway).

My personal server at home doesn't follow that naming scheme, though. That one's called "gammern" ("gammer'n" is slang for "old guy" in Norwegian), more or less because it's an old one (AMD K6 233 Mhz, 160MB RAM, 6GB HDD, and it's still able to run Gentoo Linux).

@Internat:

????? (insert name for aple here)
scrumpy

wozniak, or just woz

I've had a number of machine names over the years… currently:

godzilla - a mongo fileserver with 4x120GB RAID5 and 2x120GB RAID1

wibble - a Shuttle SK41G cube

roadwarrior (only when running Windows) - a ThinkPad T22 (it just gets a random DHCP address when running Linux)

jake, elwood, and bluelou - xenU instances when wibble is running Xen

skynet - a Linksys WRT54G running Sveasoft Satori in bridge mode, hooked to a D-Link DI-514 connected to a cantenna that shoots a signal through a couple of buildings over to a coffee shop that I go to, so I can take the laptop there

The cantenna was made from a Glenfarclas Scotch whisky tin. :) That's right, for the price of the commercially made "Super Cantenna," you can get a DIY version that comes with a free bottle of very good Scotch.

Another cantenna, made from a ravioli can, gets hooked to the laptop for coffee shop use…

I name all my computers after rock stars…

metallica

dio

priest

judas

(priest is my linode in gentoo, judas is the same in debian for backup recovery)

icedearth

ozzy

etc etc etc

> I figure, hey, I want it to stay up, right? hooboy -_-

If you think your machines might last a real long time, name them:

cheops, giza, sphinx, 7wonders

If your theme is eventual world domination, perhaps:

pinky, thebrain, microsoft, grandpoobah

If your theme is number-crunching to answer the universe's greatest mysteries:

seti, et, 42

If you think these are sexy machines, then:

jenna, ron, peter, debbie

If you've got a pretty secure network, then:

moat, gatekeeper, drawbridge, mace

In the case of a nice MacOS X-based laptop, I might go for eyecandy as the hostname. :-)

Ah, the possibilities are endless. :D

the IT guy from a previous employer of mine named all the hosts after battles of the American civil war.

My machines are named after beer brands or styles.

Linode: stout.

Home PC: chimay

Laptop: ipa

PDA: cascade (Tasmanian beer)

Have compies named:

Erwin

Marvin

Vogon

@Internat:

So.. i just bought an apple laptop and am trying to come up with stupid names for it..

suggestions?

worm, jack, butter, cider, crisp, pie, dumpling, schnapps

rotten, core, mcintosh (its a type of apple fruit as well as PC), granny smith, sour, tree, stem, newtonsmasher, etc, etc

@erik.elmore:

rotten, core, mcintosh (its a type of apple fruit as well as PC), granny smith, sour, tree, stem, newtonsmasher, etc, etc
I take it you're not particulary fond of Apple?

I have no opinion of apple pc's, but the ipod sure sucks.

I have a tendency to use comic strip characters.

My servers are named after Peanuts characters:

-Snoopy (P4 Celeron)

-Woodstock (AMD K6-4)

-Redbaron (my soon-to-be Linode)

My other boxen are named after UserFriendly characters:

-Dustpuppy (Linux P4 Workstation)

-Miranda (iMac)

-Mirwin (iBook)

-Erwin (Dead Dell Laptop)

-SmilingDude (A different laptop)

-Stef

-Pearl

You get the idea ^^

I simply use ugly women's names (ugly names - not ugly women) starting with d for normal desktops and m for any mobile machines (laptops):

Desktops
* doris

debbie

dolores

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Laptops
* mildred

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whirry, swirly, glowey, flashey, and stuffy. I've run out of names, but I have nothing more to name, so that's ok :D

@christian:

whirry, swirly, glowey, flashey, and stuffy. I've run out of names, but I have nothing more to name, so that's ok :D
…yet! :wink:

You'll have to guess what these come from: (computers I've been naming at work)

dren: My rather crappy desktop machine

trance: Zippy little dual-xeon LTSP server

scorpius: win2k3 server

dargo: firewall

pilot: LDAP server

moya: Storage array

@taupehat:

You'll have to guess what these come from: (computers I've been naming at work)

Ooo! Ooo! I know!

But then, I'm a cheater and I Googled. ;p Bad me.