What is the name of your computer(s)?

[senectus]

Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".

[professor_chaos]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.

Now I call it Lazarus

[TravisNewman]

My machine is Eniac, when I got my Mac I called it Univac. When my fiancee and I moved in together, she thought it'd be funny to call hers Abacus, because her computer is so slow.

Eniac and Univac were two of the first major computer landmarks, and an abacus, for those who don't know, is a pre-electricity way of adding without doing it in your head or on paper. With sticks and beads and such

[dare2dreamer]

While the reasons for it are long and sordid, my current naming convention consists of somehow-relevant female mythological beings whose names begin with the letter "E".

So, with a little work we have:

echo - The jukebox, named from Greek myth.
evaki - My desktop, named for a South American Indian Goddess of Night and Day.
eve - A fileserver, named because she serves every network type including apple.
erzulie - Primary laptop, named for a Vodoun Loa of lust. (known for getting around.)

I'm thinking of eventually redoing my naming scheme so that all my machines are named for female supervillain sidekicks, just because I'm amused with the idea of calling my main machines harley and mercy.

Yes, my girlfriend thinks I'm weird too. Of course this is coming from a woman in possession of a laptop named after a stuffed animal.

[skoal]

I never thought about doing this before. I guess I call her 'ole grey skin. I lost the screws to the case and banged it up a bit over the years. A couple layers of duct tape keeps 'her' together for me.

[KiwiNZ]

Now come folks , naming your computers, now thats crazy, naming your car yes naming your favourite shoes yes but your computer ???:-P:-\"

[Ubunted]

Ever since Strong Bad got "Lappy 486", I've taken to calling mine "Lappy 686". Not all that origional but it works for me.

As for the tower... I think I'll call it "Flo" for the six case fans and Thermaltake Volcano 12 I stuck in it. :grin:

[kassetra]

I have geisha, maiko, and geiko ... :)

[Dragonfly_X]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.


LOL! I did the same... :smile:

[Slapdash]

Mine is Called STATION like in Bill and Teds Bogus Journey.

[A-star]

I call mine Earth, the other one I call Moon.
My workgroup was called Milkyway (when I was still using WIndows that was).

[poofyhairguy]

My toshiba laptop is called "the brick," my iBook is "clammy" and my desktop is "sterling."

[nocturn]

LOL! I did the same... :smile:

My past windows machines where named crash95 and crash98, matching the wincrash version they were running.

[nocturn]

My server: Nocturnus (derived from my nick)
My workstation: Cronos (the god of time)
My wife's workstation: bobby (her choice)

Some other names:
Centrion (from Battlestar galactica, not Roman)
Nemesis (the godess of revenge)
Anubis
Hal
Prometheus
Taranis

[fng]

all characters from southpark

gateway (p100 running a freebs-kernel) : Kenny
desktop (amd 2.8 running hoary): Butters
laptop (powerbook g4 running mac os 10.3.8) : Timmy
mom's desktop (amd 1.2 running hoary) : Token
Lan q3 server (p2 333 running suse 7.x) : Chef

That q3 server is a very old install, i just never get around for upgrading it.
Why should i? it just works :)
Plugging in the box on a lan-party -> ssh into it -> setting op the servers with 1 command -> never have to look at it again :)

[paretooptimum]

I name mine after small countries/islands. Nice tropical islands I like to visit on vacation are for users (eg kohsamui, oahu). Servers are named after famous military islands (eg crete, malta).

I remember reading a book on samba where the author named his servers after characters in Larry Niven's Ringworld.

[TjaBBe]

I use boring names with gk in the start (gk are my initials) like:
- gkDesktop for (you probably guessed) my desktop.
- gkLaptop for (oviously) my laptop.
- gkDaemon for my server, this is the only one I actually like a littlebit as Daemon stands for "server" and it is running FreeBSD (FreeBSD's mascotte is a demon).

I'm thinking of using chars from LOTR. Then it would be like:
- Gandalf for my desktop. As this is the most multimedia (flashy, magic) system I possess.
- Sam for my server. As it serves :).
- Gollem for my laptop. As it is small, and acting a bit nasty concerning linux.

[primeirocrime]

my pc is mongrel. he is just like my cats.

[bigzak]

My desktop machine is Maverick, to complement my (now defunct) file server called Goose. My old laptop was Lampoon, replaced with HunkaJunk, and now Fireblade ('cos it's nice an' fast an' new). HunkaJunk is still around but hardly used due to slowness.

My work machine is Caspar, and previous jobs had machines called Spider1, Shrew and Eriador (complemented by Mordor, my 'debugger' box).

[Juergen]

My next box will be 'Joey' because all other names from 'Oggy and the Cockroaches' are already used :-)


as Daemon stands for "server" and it is running FreeBSD (and freebsd's mascotte is a devil).No. Beasty is a demon - what a coincidence ;-)

[TjaBBe]

My next box will be 'Joey' because all other names from 'Oggy and the Cockroaches' are already used :-)

No. Beasty is a demon - what a coincidence ;-)

Whoops mis-typed, I get confused sometimes ;).

[Glanz]

Thule, SimpleCity, ***, Kanookia

[CrustyDOD]

1 is called Elefant and other 1 Naked Elefant..

[defkewl]

I call my Laptop lexer, I picked it up after a Quake 3 champion.
I call my server streambuffer because I own that domain on the internet. I picked it up from C++ function.

[mike998]

Server: Ariadne
Workstations : Wolfspider and Camelspider
Workgroup : thenest

Anyone seeing a pattern?

[Yukonjack]

My pc's name are Borg and Northstar.

[jdodson]

this is a cool thread.

my new desktop is "moe"
my laptop is "disco-stu"
and my test machine is ..... well i really dont have a name for that. maybe i should come up with one.

basically my naming scheme is other simpsons characters. i could name an entire grid that way.

[Nis]

So far I only have one computer to name and that is "machina". A little play on it being a machine and "the hand of God" (which is me when things are going my way :))

[kassetra]

Server: Ariadne
Workstations : Wolfspider and Camelspider
Workgroup : thenest

Anyone seeing a pattern?

Yeah, EW EW EW EW. To each his own, but smash them! spray them! EWWWW!

[darkoptix]

darkstar is my main computers name, and my router is named router.

[dataw0lf]

darktower - main workstation (Ubuntu)
gilead - file / web server (Debian)
roland - email / authentication server (FreeBSD)
crimsonking - media server (Ubuntu)
midworld - router (OpenBSD)
gunslinger - laptop (Ubuntu)

[paul cooke]

Now come folks , naming your computers, now thats crazy, naming your car yes naming your favourite shoes yes but your computer ???:-P:-\"

so how is your machine distinguished on the network then???

still called ubuntu???

This one is big-box
the server is cooke-one
the laptop is lappy
the one I'm building will be a bit more imaginative... maybe some fictional inspiration required here...

Genua
Lancre
Djelibeybi
Klatch
XXXX (a windows machine I keep for some games I've paid good money for and can't give up)

and make the new server "CoriCeleste"

at least it's easy to change their names (as long as you remember to go around and sort out the dns entries in all the /etc/hosts files...)

[ZeFroG]

My Hard Drive is "Bibiche" :p
My PC is "Thermal-Georgette"

I Know that's stupid but I love them :p

[sas]

Mine are named Bacardi and Smirnoff :) As Smirnoff is what I was drinking when I installed Smirnoff and Bacardi just kind of followed on....

[trash]

Bigmac and Littlemac... but lilmac has just passed..rest in peace lilmac :cry:

[kiddo]

Heehee ^^ mine are currently named Kirika, Khloé (some people might know the relation there), Kitsune, Kairi...... XD naming computers sure looks like an anime-fan obsession to outsiders, but it's such a better way of recognizing them quickly in a LAN :)

[poofyhairguy]

and my test machine is ..... well i really dont have a name for that. maybe i should come up with one.


If you are trying to do things the Debian way (great to do for fun things), then the appropriate name is Nelson...

[mike998]

Yeah, EW EW EW EW. To each his own, but smash them! spray them! EWWWW!

Yah - but my last name is kinda spider related... I just went with that...

[somuchfortheafter]

no fair dude my lappy is named darkstar and the server is darkserver, and the main gaming desktop is darkloard, i have the series lol.

[arctic]

i always give my boxes historical names. as i studied history, it seemed to be a logical solution for me. so far i have:

main i686 box: scipio
i686 laptop: perikles
g4 powermac: xerxes
secondary i686: attila

[Stormy Eyes]

Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".

I name my machines after female characters from a set of stories that I write. My machine is named astarte, after the protagonist's household AI, and my wife's is named ashtoreth after a sorceress who's most at home manipulating human passions.

[HungSquirrel]

I name my machines after friends of mine. Silly, I know.

My cousin names his after persons and places in the LOTR books. He has an elrond, a gandalf, a moria, etc.

[baza41]

My Dell Ubuntu box is called, 'Barbelith'.

[terrien]

I name mine after the song I was listening to when I set the hostname...

Desktop is InTheShadows (Story Of The Year)
Laptop is Holiday (Green Day... If you diddn't know that then that's just sad :grin: )
Server is TropicalLondon (Rancid)...

Random, but oh well...

[Brunellus]

This one is nosferatu.

[BWF89]

I've never named a computer. But I call my bike the Pimpster, because it has shocks on it and I like to make it go up and down and pretend I'm in a pimped out car.

[RastaMahata]

Eleanor and Marsha...

Eleanor: 1967 Shelby Mustang GT 500
Marsha: 2000 Porsche Boxster

If I ever get a laptop, it will be called Gina:

Gina: 1990 Lamborghini Diablo

If you havent seen gone in 60 seconds, you will never understand ;)

[kassetra]

Yah - but my last name is kinda spider related... I just went with that...

Makes absolute sense... but that doesn't mean it doesn't creep me out... EW EW EW. heh.

[Brunellus]

if I get a laptop, I've already decided to name it achates, after Aeneas faithful companion. (a comrade, not a dog, although in high school Latin we always used to imagine fidus Achates as a little dog trotting behind pius Aeneas)

[TravisNewman]

dataw0lf-- I may be the only one here who gets your naming scheme, but I love it.

[kassetra]

dataw0lf-- I may be the only one here who gets your naming scheme, but I love it.

You both are Stephen King fans then... or just Dark Tower fans?

[k.ODOMA]

All my boxes are named after characters from Princess Mononoke (ashitaka, yama-inu, etc.). That's where my user name comes from as well (sort of).

[mark]

Hmm...nothing outlandish here:

Desktop: symbiote
Laptop: symbiote-jr

The last professional (as in for commercial use) server I was responsible for I named nikola_tesla. I also had a print server and a test server named coke and gollum, respectively, after two of the leading "characters" from the book The Soul of a New Machine (the first two prototypes of the Eagle, or MV/8000 Eclipse series from Data General).

[wmcbrine]

Mine are named after female pop singers, with a few exceptions.

[mike998]

Makes absolute sense... but that doesn't mean it doesn't creep me out... EW EW EW. heh.

It was a flash of brilliance, really. My last name is Ince (as in incy-wincy-spider - did I ever get tortured with that when I was a kid) and when I was setting up my home network, I decided to go with a spider naming scheme. I now need to find another spider god for another server... Hmmm... What was the name of that spider god in American Gods...?

[dataw0lf]

dataw0lf-- I may be the only one here who gets your naming scheme, but I love it.

Word. I love the Dark Tower series, and Stephen King in general. Critically, he's probably one of the most underrated writers of our time. I think of him as a cross between Dickens and Twain.

[la-karaviro]

So, mine is KARASKISTE

and that comes from my name in the Virtual World la-karaviro and means Kara's Box
on german, cus im from a german spoken land :) as my english shows

[carlc]

Word. I love the Dark Tower series, and Stephen King in general. Critically, he's probably one of the most underrated writers of our time. I think of him as a cross between Dickens and Twain.

I agree the Dark Tower series is great, or at least what I have read of it. I have read the first three and have WIzard and the Glass but am taking a break from the series to read "The Fall" and "The First Man", both by Camus.

my pc name- BLACKBOX13

[MasonM]

I never thought about doing this before. I guess I call her 'ole grey skin. I lost the screws to the case and banged it up a bit over the years. A couple layers of duct tape keeps 'her' together for me.

I had to laugh when I read this one. I thought I was the only person in the world who's lappy was held together with duct tape. :-P If you can't fix it, duct it.

As for names, I just call my lappy Betty. No special reason, just fits.

[Tsjoklat]

My main computer: Persephone, my others: Poseidon, Zeus and Hades :) (And yes, Hades is a windows rig)

Sense a theme here?

D

[dataw0lf]

I agree the Dark Tower series is great, or at least what I have read of it. I have read the first three and have WIzard and the Glass but am taking a break from the series to read "The Fall" and "The First Man", both by Camus.

my pc name- BLACKBOX13


Wow, you should get into Wizard and Glass ASAP! It's the best book in the series, IMHO.

[telmo]

I call my laptop animal.

[Rodrigo]

I cally my PC: Makina, and the others from my bussines:
babosada(has kubuntu), cerota(dont want to run ubuntu), niña buena(has never give me a problem) y cochina(every body uses it).

Adios

[aerials]

Right now I'm calling my computers after the character code names from Reservoir Dogs, eg. mr. pink etc.

Here we go:

brown - notebook running hoary
pink - desktop running windows xp (I will get rid of that machine once my docking station arrives)
white - server
orange - nas
blue - virtual machine I need on the laptop for school use (access, visual studio, oracle...)

But since I'm soon running out of colors (in reference to Reservoir Dogs), I'll have to think about something new (or just forget that movie reference ;) )

[MetalMusicAddict]

Hack, Slash, Dash and Ash.

It started with Dash because I couldnt name my PC "-". I usually put in "-" when I need to enter info but I dont wanna use personal info. So "-" became Dash then I just started rhyming them. :)

[WirelessMike]

So far, mine are named:

Metropolis (Ubuntu workstation / admin console)
Gotham (Dual-boot Ubuntu / WinXP Pro home-built)
Central (W2K consumer-grade)

Future names will include Argo, Opal and Keystone

[papabean]

My main box is ellison (named after Harlan, not Ralph).
My backup server is pimini. It stands for Pink iPod Mini. (My wife chose it, it's mostly her files)

Previous names were: clarke, zelazny, silverberg, asimov.

[tristan]

Nerdbox

[crashtest]

Debian Sarge server = chaos
Ubuntu notebook = disorder

[gizzmo]

Sorta a Greek mythology thing going:

Apollo: Domain
Phoenix: Firewall (IPCop)
Zeus: Domain Controller (W2k3)
Athena: SME Server (Linux)
Adonis: Desktop (Kubuntu)
Artemis: Laptop (WinXP/Suse 9.3)

[XDevHald]

Ground-0: Desktop
DDS: Server

[JPatrick]

Desktop: Titan :razz:

[musicman2059]

I'm boring. I have a nature of calling everything "dahbam", like I do my desktop.

[ecadre]

My desktop is called star_city.

The two laptops are vostok and soyuz. I used to have a sputnik.

[bami]

my notebook is called brain, and the server's name is superbrain - they support me keeping things in mind.... :-)

[macgyver2]

Places/things from norse mythology. For instance, the server I used to have that contained all my stuff was yggdrasil (the world tree), my 1.5 kilo notebook is skidbladnir (Freyr's ship that could be folded up to fit in a pocket), and my color printer is bifrost (the rainbow bridge between Midgard and Asgard).

[smoon]

My desktop is called twoflower, the router is rincewind, my VDR's name is conan and the pc of my flatmate is chest.

[Brunellus]

Places/things from norse mythology. For instance, the server I used to have that contained all my stuff was yggdrasil (the world tree), my 1.5 kilo notebook is skidbladnir (Freyr's ship that could be folded up to fit in a pocket), and my color printer is bifrost (the rainbow bridge between Midgard and Asgard).

Yggdrasil Linux? Wow. I hadn't heard that name in ages.

[Omnios]

When I was using windows my computer was named Mainframe like the computer animated tv program. When I started using Linux I abreviated it to Main as Mainfram was to long in the terminal. Now I have to come up with a new one before Breezy comes out possibly inet not shure yet

[Dural]

I generally name my computer(s) after video game characters. For example, my laptop is called Dorkas after a character from Sega's Virtua On.

[kleeman]

Call my main box dual from the bad old days when it was a dual boot. Thankfully removed winblows about 18 months ago and have no withdrawal symptoms at all :) :) :)

[kumakun]

I'm an anime geek so I went with a chobits theme.
Yuzuki (my desktop)
Yumi (my [extremely old] laptop)

My wife went with an Evagelion theme, naming her box Melchior.

We're scrapping our current computers and theme, though.

So, to that end, the 3 new computers will be
Akamatsu (my new desktop)
Watase (my new laptop)
and
Fujishima. (Her new desktop)

Yeah...we're geeks.

[bored2k]

kumakun join the otaku thread http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=279554#post279554 !

Anyways,

My box is named Noir.
My older box has no name, but I think of her as my Crash.Test.Dummy

[KrisDwyer]

kumakun join the otaku thread http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=279554#post279554 !

Anyways,

My box is named Noir.
My older box has no name, but I think of her as my Crash.Test.Dummy
unfortunately mine is named after my work - dwyernpayne...

[vladuz976]

call mine "box" that keeps the name in the terminal short;-)

[darkmatter]

My system (which serves as a workstation/testbed/desktop) is the 'Ruler of Men' from Greek mythology -- and her name's Andromeda. :smile:

[NeoSNightmarE]

Mine has the name G14. There's a story to go with it but I'll keep it short. When I was living in NYC, I was in trouble for something computer related with the FBI and they were investigating and what have you. This was back in 2000 btw, and they took my computer that was running Debian at the time. The reason it got the name though was because the agent that I was talking to had the rank of G14...or that's what he told me. Since then I've been using that when naming a computer anywhere. Just thought I would share the history too ;)

[Brad wilkinson]

PIII-733/5.04=Ruth
Dual PIII-800/5.04=Jaxom
Dual XP-M@2600+/5.04=Damia
XP2400+/Windows=XP-Box

The first 3 are named for characters out of Anne McCaffrey novels.
The 4th is just what it is.

[Psycho275]

My desktop machine is called Deimos (and any machines from now on will be named after planets / moons, etc). My main server is called Genesis (The beginning, etc). The server which I am currently building will be called either Sol or Mars (Unless anyone else has any suggestions?).

[Galathalion]

My laptop is called Spike (after Spike from Cowboy Bebop) and its Spike in Japanese, Spiku ^^ Nyaa~~ And my stationary puter is called Kasumi after my favorite character from Dead or Alive.. Neko Neko Chan!! Nyaaa~~

[Xian]

My box is named Spy1.
I never really cared much for Spy2.

[DarthBagel]

The domain name in my house is 'Griffins'

My lappy is 'Stewie'
Desktop is 'Peter'
Firewall is 'lois'

Family guy is awesome

[bored2k]

The domain name in my house is 'Griffins'

My lappy is 'Stewie'
Desktop is 'Peter'
Firewall is 'lois'

Family guy is awesome

Word.
http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_familyguy1_1e.jpg

[kvidell]

I used to name my boxes based on whatever game I liked at the time that had cool words in it ;P
Max Payne and Deus Ex were my first two targets giving me:
Denton Valkyr Ambrosia Debeers Dowd Gypsy Manderly Savage Valhalla mj12 Wanchai and a few others.
Occasionally I deviated, like my Win2k3 box was "ColdFusion" and for the longest time my Core 3 box was "Valkyrie."

Then I started being a little more random.
Right now I have a Core 3 box named "Wonky", My 1U Breezy servers are "McCoy" and "Eccelston" (I'll let you figure those out), my previous laptop was "PortaKel" and my next server will probably be Tennants.
My next desktop (Gentoo) will most likely be something from The Divine Comedy of Dante Aligheri as I've been reading it again. Hehe.

- Kev

[Skel]

I named mine skel \\:D/

[PatrickMay16]

I call my computer "my computer". But I've been thinking of giving it a nice name.

I know! I'll call my computer "Deven Gallo".

DEVEN GALLO

[gray-squirrel]

Now come folks , naming your computers, now thats crazy, naming your car yes naming your favourite shoes yes but your computer ???:-P:-\"

C'mon now, ain't nothin' wrong with namin' a computer. After all, since people on MTV name their cars and try to "pimp their ride" there's no harm in "geekin' our boxes" and namin' our computers. . .

Seriously, I might add a few cool mods on the next computer I plan to build later this year. I could name the one I have right now Romeo and the new one Juliet, but I know better than that. hehe. Actually, I may name mine Batman and Robin or something. I'm still undecided right now.

We should name yours cool, cooler, and coolest perhaps. . .

[blueturtl]

I didn't infact come up with my computer's name by myself, but it is never the less a bit embarrassing: stud.

It's because it has a fairly large case (a Compucase CI-6169 to be exact).
In my eyes this is huge for a PC, but modern computers today need bigger cases to handle the heat and space requirements... :-P

edit: Named my girlfriend's laptop "creature". We're Addams Family freaks. Now we're even. :D

[JayCnrs]

I name my PCs after some of my favorite comics:

Laptop - Dilbert
Desktop - Foxtrot

Kind of boring I know.

[kvidell]

Names for computers... you guys need to get a life/girlfriend/cat or something. ;-)

Er, uh, I just call mine Precioussssss.
You mean you've never set a hostname for your system?

That's what _I_ thought we were referring to anyway.
- Kev

[Juergen]

For all those that think naming a computer is silly, I just came up with a nice idea:
Use a numerical scheme...

You could, say, name your box 127.0.0.1 ;-)

[Claark]

What an intresting thread. I'll contribute.

I do web programing on an automated pharmacy ordering, sorting and shipping system. I called it called BluePill

[jouni]

My desktop is called vaino and my laptop hella. This is a somewhat complicated linguistic joke: "Väinö" and "Hellä" are Finnish given names, but if you remove the umlauts, as you often have to do when dealing with computers, you get the words "vaino" (which means persecution or oppression) and "hella" (cooking stove).

[call3]

my client is named "Uranus" and the server is named "Jupiter"
and my dear (non workin ibook) was named "Luna"

[xequence]

I dont name my computer O_O

[Bilko]

Pc 1 - Feanor, reason - runs Gentoo - it's an Athlon, runs hot and needs some cooling badly (Tolkien nuts will get that one),

Pc 2 - Cirdian - Ubuntu.

[Ampersand]

I name mine (and occasionally other people's) after female androids from animes. My main computer is Kurumi, backup computer is Ropponmatsu, laptop is May, the sgi is Nukunuku. Mahoro, Mew and Mica are currently retired, although I might set them up again once I have the space. I've named a couple of other computers Minawa and Chii after despywaring them for people.

[skoal]

pookems...

\\//_

[KingBahamut]

Bahamut, Tiamat, Oolong, Galarung, Grummsh, Moradin, Hextor, Smaug, Puff, Figment, BigDuo, BigFau, Grundle, Rhindle, Yorgle, Scatha, Fafnir, Zu, and good ole KingGidorah.

[kvidell]

pookems...

\\//_
best system name evar.

I just setup a box for a friend, I named it "Hammersmith" >.> Damned Eddie Izzard.
- Kev

[phen]

i call my laptop "schlepptop", which is pronounced shlaptop. schleppen means carrying something heavy...

but i do not talk to my computer! i am talking about networking names, k? :-)

[welsh_spud]

Im pretty boring, my laptop has the original name of bens-laptop and its domain is HOMENET, catchy hey

[NeoSNightmarE]

Im pretty boring, my laptop has the original name of bens-laptop and its domain is HOMENET, catchy hey
On a computer that I just made for someone I named it Nukes because setting it up was like scheduling a nuclear weapons system for some reason that I still don't understand. Then when I started it back up it installed normal. So it got the name Nukes anyway.

[Chadza]

My music/server comp is babylon4, from the show Babylon 5 (the station that went back in time for the first Shadow War) and then wolf359 for the workstation - the infamous battle when Picard was leadin the Borg.

[El_Don_Casper]

I named my calculator the great equalizer, my laptop the super equalizer and my server the supreme equalizer

[Brunellus]

I named my calculator the great equalizer, my laptop the super equalizer and my server the supreme equalizer
I'm going to chime in, since i'ts been ages. new boxes have been added to the network.

My "nice" computer is named "Funes" after Funes el memorioso, a character in a Jorge Luis Borges short story. Funnily, it doesn't really live up to its name, since it's only got 80gb of hard drive space. I should have saved that for a fileserver, which I guess I wll now have to name aedificium (literally, "building," but the name of the labyrinthine library in Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose")

The old computer is called nosferatu...it's a coppermine celeron (ugh!) that has come back from the dead a few times--once rendered unbootable by WinME and viruses, once again after having been trashed by me misunderstanding RPM hell under SuSe, once again during a short-lived warty installation, a clean warty installation, and a somewhat eventful dist-upgrade to hoary.

[sir_mud]

I've been on a Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com) kick for quite some time, so my computers get named as characters they resemble. My Desktop is Tycho, my PVR will be Divx, and my ol' 386 is Gabe.

*Edit*
If I could get one of those toasters running BSD I'd call it Fruit F***er

[agger]

Mine is Called STATION like in Bill and Teds Bogus Journey.
I've only got two computers - right now I like naming them as Hindu gods.

My laptop (my own main computer) is called Ganesh, and our family desktop is Lakshmi.

[A-star]

I keep it simple:
My main pc is called EARTH, and the other one is called MOON.

In the next few months I will add another one who I will call SUN.

[Perfect Storm]

Mine is called Universe.

[nickless]

Mine is called meanmachine. I was inspired by judge dredd :D After all the trouble I went through meanmachine kind of fits.
I can't give computers meaningless names :D Don't ask me why. Sometimes I sat 30min. just thinking how to name it...
Also I give my pc a new name with each serious upgrade.

[drogoh]

Personal computers:

tiberium (taken from Command & Conquer, a ficticious element (running FreeBSD 5.4))
protium (the first isotope of hydrogen, aka hydrogen (a small computer scavanged from work running Ubuntu))
deuterium (the second isotope of hydrogen, aka heavy hydrogen (running XP Media Center (gotta have the games!)))
tritium (the third isotope of hydrogen (running Windows XP, currently living in a different state in possession of a parental unit))


Work computers (all below are under my direct control and running a variant of Windows XP unless otherwise specified):

cronus (off-site server running Fedora)
helios (personal workstation)
atlas (internal webserver running FreeBSD)
hyperion (workstation)
epimetheus (workstation)
prometheus (workstation)
iapetus (workstation)


Broad naming conventions are good (periodic table of elements (including isotopes) and Greek mythology). :p

[clapton]

213374u - is a dream, but a cool name that I use
Or sometimes I use my name.

[jpkotta]

I name mine after mathematicians.

cauchy - parents' WinXP machine
euler - my desktop (ubuntu)
goedel - my laptop (ubuntu)
gauss and euclid - some computers I had access to at school last year

[Psycs]

Just like professor_chaos' computer, mine is used to some nasty names, but not because of Windows.

Mine resets for apparently no reason a couple of minutes after start-up, unless if given a good *BANG* with your open palm on the side. :p

[The Mekon]

We have three PCs each of which is named after one of our past or present pets. This PC, running Ubantu and XP Home, is Daisy a lovely old Tabby Cat, the other Linux PC, running Simply Mepis and XP Professional, is Fonze a long departed Tortoiseshell Cat and my wife's PC, running XP Home ( she is addicted to the Simms), is Pierre after our elderly Standard Poodle Dog.

I am using linux as my preferred operating system but still require windows to run my unsupported Canon Scanner and a backup for my wife's computer.

I have just installed Ubantu to replace FC4 which I found too much effort to set up.

[gorkhal]

My lappy a symbol of both fear and order in the republic,

thus aptly named 'DeathStar-Beta', a complete revision of the older death star models,

alas the one-central-thermal-pipe flaw remains...

[senectus]

A while back I had fun with the names on my network..
I named my PC "mine" and my partners "Yours" and the server "theother" and the spare laptop "theother1"

:-D
It cause MUCH confusion.. but it had the desired effect.. My G/F stopped bugging me about fixing her PC.. the whole experience was just TOO PAINFUL for her :-D

[Tiede]

Hmmm... Well, because I have been sooo into Linux from the start, I couldn't help but call my main PC Linuxed. And when I installed Debian Woody on my (now broken :( )laptop, I called it Tuxed... I guess my names don't fall far from the tree :D

[niobe_logos]

I used to do a hackneyed Star Trek theme:

desktop: enterprise
laptop: voyager
palmtop: defiant


After getting rid of those, the pattern changed. The next computer got the name 'discobox' because it was a homebrew upgrade, and the best case I could get was one of those gamer cases with funky lights on the outside. The next laptop got the name 'voyageuse' because I spec'd it for foreign travel.

[CTSLICK]

Desktop=Zims_mothership
PDA=zims_brain
laptop = zimsraider (newly reborn, Ubuntu powered and ready to rock \\:D/ )

[Zodiac]

Laptop 1 = Helion Prime
Laptop 2 = Valhalla

[Stormy Eyes]

Mine resets for apparently no reason a couple of minutes after start-up, unless if given a good *BANG* with your open palm on the side. :p

That sucks.

*looks at Psycs avatar and wants to hug the kitty.*

[labs_bane]

Wallace and Gromit characters!

[Lapeth]

Stationary: Jupiter
Laptop: Saturn

You see there's namespace for a couple more :)

[Maniak]

Mine - WinXP = dads and linux = maniak
Hers - WinXP = mums

Working on converting her to linux.......she is quite stubborn....

[drucer]

My computer's hostname is "northwood". (based on the Intel P4 Northwood processor)

[0okami]

From serial experiments lain...

Desktop computer: "Navi".
PocketPC(siemens sx-66 blue angel): "HandyNAVI"

More details on WHY I chose that name (very interesting read too):　http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm#navi

the whole page is quite interesting if you are really into Serial Experiments Lain...

[jc87]

Stallman-e-Torvalds-limitada , in honor of the two main masterminds behind this great OS.

[nsa_767]

My main box is called "Big Bertha"... Not sure where it comes from but we used to speak of "...Big Bertha has your number...." whenever referring to the government cracking down on someone.

Our other computer is called "Maclaurin" because the case is silver and black... It reminded me of a much disliked F1GP team... Needless to say, I don't used that PC.

My brother owns a laptop which he calls "Ubuntu-Khaia", which translates into "The House of Ubuntu".

[earobinson]

null, void, i think my next computer will have to be 0, empty, or NaN

(At work we name our computers after starwars planets)

[nsa_767]

null, void, i think my next computer will have to be 0, empty, or NaN

(At work we name our computers after starwars planets)

Cool, NaN as in "Not-a-Number" of Blender-"fame"?

[Jeremiah85]

I named my laptop Rivendell and my desktop Lothlorien mainly because Tolkien is one of my favorite authors.

[mgor]

firewall: slartibartfast (openbsd)
server: prefect (ubuntu)
test machine: arthur (ubuntu)
laptop: zaphod (ubuntu)

they all belong in the hgttg.local domain ;)

[Iandefor]

I use names from general Mythology that appeal to me; My notebook, while it still worked, was termed "Wraith", and my current computer has been tokened "Brownie". One exception: I call the Macs at my school "Worthless [except for the two G5's we have that each have dual g5 2ghz processors and 2 gigs ram]"

Oh, and the next computer I'm lined up for is gonna be named Leviathan.

[Mr_J_]

Depending on which I am and what network it'll be a part of I give them diferent names according, but my personal one is called Tron.
On diferent networks I have names in my local language.
Some being names of local cities; others are funnier.
One I called it a name I can't translate to english.

What do you call a car that's nearly only held by paint?
That works so slow and moves in ways even snails call it slowpoke.

In case you know portuguese... Cangalha

When the computer is for another person I ask them to name it.
Usually it's something most people like.

Familly is a name I somethimes use. Only in portuguese.

[raublekick]

My computer is named Mario, my sister/mom's computer is Peach. I want to get a laptop which will be the brother of my desktop, named Luigi. I have an old computer in the attic that I might bust out for testing if I can find a monitor, it will be named Toad.

[Big Venus]

Zero Angel is the old system amd duron system
Kana Aurora is the new AMD64 3400+ system...

[bwog]

Lots of celestial bodies in this thread. I name mine after craters on the moon. I have got only two, and lots of names to go.

Some of the really nice names, like Mare Tranquillitatus (Sea of tranquillity), are unfortunately too long to be practical.

[earobinson]

Cool, NaN as in "Not-a-Number" of Blender-"fame"?
NaN as in not a number keeping with the whole Null Void thing.

lol kinda makes me sound like an emo programer lol

[x__dark]

I usually name my PCs after myself "Jeremiah" or I name them after my mood at the time. (weird naming scheme, but it's fun)

[Brunellus]

tranquilitatis. It is possible to use certain latin scribal epigraphic conventions to come up with suitably short phrases, though. Latin students usually learn this the hard way, when they have to read stone inscriptions rather than nicely-copied texts.

[Iandefor]

My desktop is called twoflower, the router is rincewind, my VDR's name is conan and the pc of my flatmate is chest.
Terry Pratchett would be proud... or saddened that someone actually likes his books enough to use his characters' names as monikers for their computers...

[amohanty]

Breezy desktop : Kandinsky
Win2K laptop : MichelAngelo
OpenBSD firewall: Loki

[Nrvnqsr]

Brother's PC: Alkaid
My "dead" laptop server with External HD: Altrouge I/Oberon
My Current dual-boot laptop: Altrouge II
Mom's PC: Sumire

[senectus]

Terry Pratchett would be proud... or saddened that someone actually likes his books enough to use his characters' names as monikers for their computers...

no he'd be insulted.. It's Cohen, Genghiz Cohen. Not Conan.. completely different characters.. no similarity what so ever :-P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_the_Barbarian

[Lifesteeler]

My lappie is named HAL...:D

[tonymoyoy]

yoshimi

based on the Flaming lips cd Yoshimi battles the pink robots

[lcg]

My lappie is named HAL...:D
Is it an IBM Thinkpad?

[Lifesteeler]

Is it an IBM Thinkpad?

Nope, its a HP. What about it?

[bwog]

tranquilitatis. It is possible to use certain latin scribal epigraphic conventions to come up with suitably short phrases, though. Latin students usually learn this the hard way, when they have to read stone inscriptions rather than nicely-copied texts.

Interesting, but I never was a latin student (I just pick up the crater names from the atlas of the moon).

What would the shortcut for Mare Tranquilitatis be in epigraphic conventions? Do I need a hammer and chisel to write it?

[DeafStar]

I'm using HalV, HalX, Halub etc. All derived from HAL 2001 (the famous One)

[joselin]

I called it with the femenine name of several animals. The names in spanish are pantera, lobezna and tigresa. In english sound like panther, wolf and tiger.

Regards.
Jose

[siorai]

For the longest time it used to be "Raoul." I just love saying the name. It rolls off the tongue so nicely. Then one before doing a reinstall, I was going through my HP Lovecraft collection quite heavily and "Dagon" was born.

[lcg]

Nope, its a HP. What about it?
There's a story about 2001 and the HAL 9000: If you replace every letter in HAL with its successor (H->I, A->B, L->M), it reads: IBM

Because of that little story, it is IMO especially funny to give that name to IBM computers.

Lars

[SteelValor]

Mine are...

Pickles - 98/2000 400Mhz Laptop
Nuclear.Kitten - XP 2.8Ghz Gaming Desktop
Steel.Kitten - Hoary 1.1Ghz Family Desktop
Iron.Kitten - 2000 500Mhz WebDev Server
Purkle - Hoary iMac 333Mhz
Beowulf - OS9/Hoary iMac 400Mhz

[betamax]

Datathing - T23 laptop
Buntybox - Shuttle system (currently unwell :( )

&

Crock-o-crap - XP system (borrowed)

[bonzodog]

My first linux box was a slack default name box called 'DarkStar'.
When I built my current box, an AMD64 based machine, I decided i liked the naming conventions using types of star, so my current one is 'DwarfStar'.

[spike666]

I use Aphex Twin songs.

I started with Ventolin, which I transfered from my 7600/132 to my second machine (a G3/450), and my first windows machine was WetTipHenAxe.

following was:

fingerbib (G4/450)
waxenpith (Titanium Powerbook 1ghz)
cowcud (1ghz PIII)
mookid (G4/800)
flaphead (600mhz PIII)
yellowcalx (sony vaio laptop)
alberto (dual G5/2.7ghz)

[Lomas]

Name: Happy

AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz - MSI K7T266 PRO (MS-6380) - Samsung SyncMaster 152s - Seagate 40GB barracuda 7200rpm - MSI Geforce 4 TI 4200 64MB

[m@dm@x]

I name mine after planets. I have a file server that I named "Uranus". Simply so I can put things in "Uranus".

[firenurse4]

I named our computers after our cats.

My main box is Randy.
My backup box is Midninght.
My wife's box is Mittens (deceased).
And the the notebook is Notecat.

I fogot what I named our granddaughters box but then its not on my network here.

[curuxz]

How the names came about are long stories, but the main reason for naming them is to confuse people browsing my network.

Primary PC is always named : CuruXz (hence my username)
Its slave laptop, that always sits next to it: Triax
finaly the one in my room for multimedia is: Enradi

To this day Curuxz is on its 6th incarnation, there have been 2 systems to bare the name Triax and 3 Enradi's since I started building systems. All run ubuntu, keeping the name the same for pc's doing the same job helps me know what backups im looking at by hostname. Also I once had Kobos as the name of a firewall server.

Its a good policy, treating them like pets mean you care for them....and dont abuse them by installing *******.

[Bandit]

I use theme names.
When I was in college many moons ago I helped setup our new network and we named the servers after the Little Rascal, we had spanky, alfalfa, darla, etc..
It wasnt pratical to give names to all the workstations, espt since we had about 3000 PC's :)
At that time I used biblical names on my computers at home. John, Luke, Mark, Jacob, etc..
Now I am using a celtic rune theme. So currently my box is named Sigel. Which the sigel rune represents god and power.
You can also use cartoon themes like transformers, smurfs and so one :D
Cheers,
Joey

[doitashimashite]

I guess I had too little inspiration when I named the seven Ubuntu workstations I recently installed for one of my customers:

ubuntu1
ubuntu2
ubuntu3
ubuntu4
ubuntu5
ubuntu6
ubuntu7

[Kelpie]

it depends on what i feel like naming my computer each reformat... one time it was Bob another it was Sh*ttles another it was POS xD etc, usually i name it everything in the book when something screws itself over (like the fact that one time i rebooted and the system registry screwed itself over and i didnt even do anything to cause such a thing to happen) (im gunna be on Windows till i get muh CDs and thisll be Windows 98se that ill be with :()

[veehell]

*nix machine: neteru, winbox: anubis, (the ancient gods' entities)
laptop: (company standard :(
oldones: holy, starbug1, (reddwarf ones ;))), my roomate has bluebug and network was holly.net ;)

[Rinzwind]

My network is called Discworld and my PC is called Rinzwind and my laptop is called Luggage :) :)

Rinzwind always puts files into Luggage and Luggage keeps on accepting them :P

[Watcher]

I call mine after micro-organisms (as i am a student in biological engineering ;)):

big computer (used for study): Hyphomicrobium
home computer: Desulfuromonas

There is btw no specific for those names, if I ever get a server i'm gonna call it after something very resistant :)

[dgray_from_dc]

Desktop named LV-426 (Planet from First Alien Movie)
Desktop named Fury 161 (Planet from Alien 3 Movie)
Laptop named Nostromo (Ship from Original Alien Movie)
Laptop named Sulaco (Ship from Aliens Movie)

Samba Domain/Workgroup is Weyland-Yutani ("The Company" from Alien movies)

I'm a bit of a fan if you can't tell.

[ape]

Let's see. I've got:

hippy
spongebob
squidward
patrick
dante
bishop
gamer
little
(don't remember what my wife's iMac is called)

[carlosqueso]

Mine's named Burgess...the next one will either be Cesar, or Lee if it's a particularly good-looking machine. Bonus points if anyone can guess my naming scheme.

[Lovechild]

Mine are all named after things in the X-Files since I'm a big fan (and yes I do own every single season on DVD)

Desktop: Mulder
Laptop: Majestic-12
ex-gf' laptop: Scully

The old server sorta breaks the naming scheme though, my dad named that one Sleepyhead since it was only a 100MHz Pentium and honestly was rather much a junker.. it served us well for several years though, much praise to Linux.

[spdl]

Main Server and Graphics Workstation: stargate
Second Server: stargateII
Laptop: sghybridmobile

[tim.n9puz]

Mine are named after Knights of the Roundtable. At a former employer the three servers were named Curly, Moe, and Larry. Years ago I went to a DEC networking class and the three Vax machines we used were OHare, Midway, and Migs.

Tim

[ormus]

very boring here.
gold, silver and bronze.
tin for any guest PC to join the local network.

[IanLowe]

ooooh - nice thread.

My main server is "Dawkins", (which replaced "Turing")
voip server is "Feynman",
The workstations are "Kepler", "Babbage", "Darwin", "Einstein"

my laptop.. in a slightly less serious twist is "Farnsworth" - good news, everyone!

;)

I.

[benplaut]

breezy@cooky:~$ uname -a
Linux cooky 2.6.14-ck1 #1 Tue Nov 8 18:47:24 HST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

my next desktop is going to be named something else... i haven't decided yet

[ardchoille]

Mine seems to be named "Jesus Christ".

"Jesus Christ you're taking your time copying that tarball aren't you?" or "Jesus Christ you sure take your time opening that 50Mb file"

[almahtar]

What an intresting thread. I'll contribute.

I do web programing on an automated pharmacy ordering, sorting and shipping system. I called it called BluePill
What? Why not red pill? You telling me you'd prefer escape to the truth? :-p (J/k, of course).

I like to get creative with my computer names.

Zomb0r - a hastily scrapped together computer I never bothered putting the case covers on.
Biotch - network file server and jukebox
almahtar - my faithful old Athlon 550 I've had since 1999. Almahtar is the elvish translation of my real name (Jonathan Mark), which means (loosely) "Blessed warrior." I came up with it before LotR was such a mainstream influence, and it's proven to be a great screenname.
Almahtarphoenix - Almahtar's replacement when I flashed its bios unsuccessfully and ruined it.
Santa - Biotch's replacement which also ran a deditcated game server. It was such a benevolent machine, always giving and never recieving, so it was named Santa.
Zao - Old Greek for "Alive." The machine I hosted my CS381 group's CVS repository on.
Dragonfly - my only currently operational machine, a laptop. It's zippy and portable, but more importantly "dragonfly" and "firefly" have been very symbolic of the similarities and differences between me and my (pseudo) girlfriend, respectively.

[almahtar]

Mine's named Burgess...the next one will either be Cesar, or Lee if it's a particularly good-looking machine. Bonus points if anyone can guess my naming scheme.


A google search on the terms didn't help... I'm very interested but clueless. Do tell.

[Lovechild]

Mine's named Burgess...the next one will either be Cesar, or Lee if it's a particularly good-looking machine. Bonus points if anyone can guess my naming scheme.

I mean the first thing that comes to mind would be military leaders.

Robert E. Lee, the dashing moron who lead the south in their defeat during the american civilwar

Cesar, the name used for the leader of the Roman empire - most famous is Julius Cesar

Burgess, this one I don't know.. Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess maybe, not a military leader but double agent during the cold war

[almahtar]

I mean the first thing that comes to mind would be military leaders.

Robert E. Lee, the dashing moron who lead the south in their defeat during the american civilwar

Cesar, the name used for the leader of the Roman empire - most famous is Julius Cesar

Burgess, this one I don't know.. Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess maybe, not a military leader but double agent during the cold war
Yeah, it was the Burgess that was throwing me off. Brings up shadowy memories of revolutionary war people, but no one person.

[futz]

Currently the 4 main machines here are named:

numberone
Big old InWin Q500 http://www.eprom.com/home/images_of_cases/inwin.htm

bigblue
http://raidmax.com/images/subpage/colors/colorcasepics/scorpio_668_blue.jpg

shiny
http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=15001#

xblade
http://www.a-top.com/xblade/xblade-s.jpg

[Lovechild]

I found two new scheme for my network:

Desktop: El
Parents Desktop: Elohim
Laptop: El_Shaddai
Server: Adonai

Desktop: Price
Parents Desktop: Smith
Laptop: Finlay
Server: Randi

I can't really decide, oh and this one is another bonus round, guess the two scheme themes.

Since nobody cared to guess these I'll just tell you:
The first one is names for God in the hebrew old testament, my favorite part is Elohim which is God in... plural. (feel free to double check bible clutchers.. it is true)
The second one is famous atheists/sceptics (Robert M. Price, bible scholar; George A. Smith, Author of Atheism: the case against God; Reginald Finlay, Radio host www.infidelguy.com and James Randi, Magician and sceptic famous for offering a million dollars to anyone who can prove their supernatural powers... the money of course has been sitting savely in bonds for several decades now... go figure, once you ask for proof nobody is willing to ste p to the plate.. even if you offer them a million dollars)

[jeffdano]

I called some of mine the following...

Monolith
Tycho
Durandal
Leela
Guardian
Scrappy

Since I switch from Windows, I call it a tool (that's tool is in like screwdriver or chainsaw, not what Window's users are- the other definition of TOOL).:???:

[John.Michael.Kane]

Mine is named [Black-Light] After the special forces unit named in Escape from NY and plan's for a server code name Texas-Thunder.

[almahtar]

I found two new scheme for my network:

Desktop: El
Parents Desktop: Elohim
Laptop: El_Shaddai
Server: Adonai

Desktop: Price
Parents Desktop: Smith
Laptop: Finlay
Server: Randi

I can't really decide, oh and this one is another bonus round, guess the two scheme themes.

I like the first naming scheme, but then I'm biased :-)

[M3ta7h3ad]

Mines fairly random.

Laptop: Hufflepuffle

Tower: Redemption (Its meant to redeem me for all my years of use of underpowered computers :D)

Desktop: Smoochiekins
PDA (Ipaq): SnugglePuggle

And yes... im a bloke.

[otey]

Mine's called 'osys'

[JimmyJazz]

mine is called "my laptop" and my other one is called "my server" and the other one is called "my mac" pretty original eh

[almahtar]

Astonishing. Where do you find the inspiration?

[J.C. Denton]

Servers (colocated):

Darkstar
Acheron
Contagion


Desktops/Laptops:

Reaper
Demon
Juggernaut
Ice
Sono
Ion
Icarus

My names vary from Nordic/Roman/Greek names, to game names (notably Doom 3 and Mission Force: Cyberstorm), to common names.

[bluefunnel]

The one I'm on right now is just my sn(bluefunnel), but I plan on using a naming scheme later on based on cheeses. The one I'm building next month will be Gouda. I love gouda.

My wife calls her laptop Bob.

[BoyOfDestiny]

I like naming them after Greek/Roman gods and demi-gods.

[garnertr]

Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".


My laptap is named SONIC (my nicname @ work) and my wifes is called by her first name... :)

[OneWingedAngel]

I tend to use Final Fantasy villain names. At the moment, I have a RiscStation with the net name 'edea' and my main box (x86 Kubuntu) is 'gilgamesh'. I've had others in the past (springing to mind are 'sephiroth', 'garland' and 'golbez'). My router box is 'enkidou' (Gilgamesh's sidekick on FFV).

[Virak]

Stuff from games, as I do a fair bit of gaming. For example, my last computer was "Metal Gear Rex", and this one is "Cortana".

[JimmyJazz]

Astonishing. Where do you find the inspiration?
science fiction novels mostly

[carlosqueso]

I mean the first thing that comes to mind would be military leaders.

Robert E. Lee, the dashing moron who lead the south in their defeat during the american civilwar

Cesar, the name used for the leader of the Roman empire - most famous is Julius Cesar

Burgess, this one I don't know.. Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess maybe, not a military leader but double agent during the cold war

Woah.....that is pretty clever, I wish I'd thought of that ;-)


HOWEVER....appearantly there are no fans of the orignial Batman series here.

Burgess: Burgess Meridith, the original Penguin (it's my first linux box)
Lee: Lee Merriwether, Catwoman (if it's pretty)
Cesar: Cesar Romero, the Joker

Okay...I"m a nerd.

[nighttime]

I call mine Bogambo.

Kramer rules! Wooh!

[Revert]

Network's named Netty, computer's named core.

I really should think up some better names one day... :rolleyes:

[raydel]

Firewall box is an old pemtium 166. I call him "porky" cause he's a pig.
My main server is "bugs" because he has all the home dirs and file storage.
My machine is the fastest so he's called "taz".
The wife's machine is of coarse "tweety".

[unkemptwolf]

My laptop's name is lapdance.
My desktop's name is tabledance.

My girlfriend does not find this as funny as I do.:rolleyes:

[eriqk]

Mine are:
XP desktop: Zen (currently under threat for obvious reasons)
XP Audio system: Orac (Not going anywhere as long as AudioMulch and Sonar are windows only)
XP on shuttle: MobileMulchingMachine (the odd one out)
Ubuntu on shuttle: HAL9000
Ubuntu on server: Proteus (currently offline for a stupid reason: not enough power outlets!)
Now all I need are a SkyNet, and a Gog and Magog.

Groet, Erik

[nauseaboy]

Last year I started using an Alice in Wonderland theme. So my ubuntu workstation is Wonderland and my server box is LookingGlass.

[Feadan]

Desktops & Laptops
- OISIN
- SEDANTA
- DAGDA
- NIAMH
- EPONA
- SIDHE
- GRYFFINDOR (my son’s PC)

Server
- OGHAM

Workgroup=TIRNANOG

[BLTicklemonster]

Mine here at work is a vietnamese computer, I named it

Damnth Ng.


'course it's not running 'buntu, or it would be named "sweet thang", lol.

[thezerogroup]

I name my computers after old GFs

[Brunellus]

I name my computers after old GFs
If I followed that naming convention, I would despair of ever having a stable and reliable computer...although some of them might be fun.

[wolfe]

Linux box (main pc) - omniscience
Windows box (soley for running ventrilo) - idiot

[curtis]

I didn't really get that creative when I named my laptop ;)
I called it 'laptop'.

[afhp]

Internet gateway/firewall is always called "jumpgate".

The laptop is "quark", current workstation is "helium".

In accordance with this theme, future desktop machines will be named from the last column of the periodic table. Anything mobile will be named after a subatomic particle.

[Vlammetje]

I called my pc Atlantis, after the myth of the Lost Atlantis, because I had to reinstall everything due to a Lost XP Partition :rolleyes:

Now it's kinda grown on me (the name.. not XP)

[LoclynGrey]

any networked MS Windows machines connected are called
"microsux 1"
"microsux 2", etc

anything else is called the generic and boring "ubuntu x", etc

[0okami]

Is it possible to change the machine's name without affecting anything?
I might be renaming my machine to Cerberus or Cerberos or Kerberos (for kubuntu) hehe

Cerebus was the three headed dog of Haydes. After tonight, i will be adding a third monitor to my setup.

[Dr. Nick]

Is it possible to change the machine's name without affecting anything?
I might be renaming my machine to Cerberus or Cerberos or Kerberos (for kubuntu) hehe

Cerebus was the three headed dog of Haydes. After tonight, i will be adding a third monitor to my setup.

You can change the machines name with minimal effect. It depends on your network setup.

A overly simple but practical way to tell
If you ever need to know your current hostname for usage on your network then it will have an effect
If you dont have a network that you use or you dont need to know the name to connect to it from the lan then you can change it without a problem.


I call my laptop ubuntu since I didnt name it on install, My laptop is springfield after the simpsons, I am going to rename my desktop shelbyville.

[Minyaliel]

any networked MS Windows machines connected are called
"microsux 1"
"microsux 2", etc


lolz, that's funny ;)
Err... how do you rename a computer? The one I came up with is kind of embarassing... "mom's little baby".... *blushes hard* I'd like to get rid of that... was so proud that I'd installed ubuntu on my own that I couldn't help myself :P

[The Mekon]

My two computers are named after cats which we have owned (or have owned us:)) over the years. I am at present working on Fonze who was a lovely tortoiseshell and my print server is Daisy a black and white shorthair. These are Ubuntu Linux boxes.

My wife's computer is called Pierre after her, recently deceased, black standard Poodle. Unfortunately she is using Windows XP.

All machines show pictures of their namesakes on their desktops.

[NotJustANewbie]

denola (for my dell)
cenola (for my compaq)

[Dr. Nick]

lolz, that's funny ;)
Err... how do you rename a computer? The one I came up with is kind of embarassing... "mom's little baby".... *blushes hard* I'd like to get rid of that... was so proud that I'd installed ubuntu on my own that I couldn't help myself :P

Should be as easy as going to system-administration-networking then general tab and chanage hostname. That assumes you use gnome, Not sure how to do it in KDE but I bet their is a command line that works regardless of the enviroment

[Galiphraen]

I name mine after Dr. WHo characters and units of time. ie galiphrae, Dalek, eon, era, tardis, tempest......

[Deaf_Head]

Computer, that's what I call it .. sometimes laptop .. and when I'm mad: POS.

[afhp]

Should be as easy as going to system-administration-networking then general tab and chanage hostname. That assumes you use gnome, Not sure how to do it in KDE but I bet their is a command line that works regardless of the enviroment

Edit /etc/hostname. Depending on how your network is set up, you might have to change it in a couple other places related to name resolution.

[clparker]

I know this is gonna sound super geeky...I named my computer SHODAN, after the super-computer SHODAN, that tried to destroy humanity in the classic PC Game series System Shock. Anybody remember that Game? I'm Thinking of Naming my New PC Xerxes, after the AI on the VanBraun Ship in System Shock 2.

[paul cooke]

well... I think I'll have to come up with some more 'exciting' names than "big-box", "cooke-base" and "laptop-one"... perhaps something seasonal like dasher, dancer, prancer, donner, blitzen and rudolph... :smile:

[DaddyOh47]

Way back when, I named all the M$ machines after family members.Most of the time when I'd add a extra machine to play with I'd call it HAL9000 from 2001. Lately the various linux distros kept their default host names, Right now I guess I'm lookin for a handle for my kubuntu machine. Maybe Dellbert! :rolleyes:

[Enter]

my windowze was DIGITAL-20 and is :lol:
my linux is localhost dont know why i named it that :lol:

[noco37]

The winderz XP box is Grendel, the compaq 386sx "portable" is brick $h!t house, and the Dell C600 is leaf-blower. I love that fan noise.

[mrgnash]

My old XP box was called 'Steve,' for no particular reason. This box however, is called SMG for reasons that are probably fairly obvious :smile:

[Chris Tucker]

LostBox (formerly Footrest)
AcerNotebook (still thinking on that one for something more creative..)
HaywardsP4ubuntu (dads machine, again, not very creative..)
Smoothwall (yet again.. still pondering to make a more creative name.

[encompass]

Mine WAS called Janet, But due to my recent marraige, bot my wife and my computer got a name change. ;) I haven't figured a new name. Maybe, Cronk, from Emporer's New Groove. Cause the compåuter is my servant, but not to bright about it. I mean, heck, ever computer I have had for the past year has been someones garbage.

[Gurgeh]

I name mine along the line of Iain M Banks 'Culture' ships (for linux) and startrek ships (for the windows machines):

GSV Supremacy - Main desktop
GSV Cowardice - Wireless Thinkpad 600 (bugger to get working)
GSV Prefect - Other desktop
GSV Swine - Mates laptop Running Xandros (the poof)
IKV Punisher - Gaming machine (Busted :()
USS Deliverer - File Server/Firewall
USS Corporate - Mates Work laptop
USS Defiance - Mates desktop (refuses to switch to ubuntu :()

CommCen - Wireless AP
SubSpace - Network

PS: I though it was wicked to compare the culture universe to linux (in its complexitiy) and windows to startrek lol.

Bit geeky I admit...

[Fearan]

I named mine g-velocity when I had Gentoo, even though it's around 8 years old by now.... I'm gonna get rid of ubuntu on this one after I get my new compy set up, as this compy is my dad's, and he won't give it up to the trash. He still wants a dual boot with windows 98 for this old thing! Then i'll name the new one something even faster... i wonder what that would be...

[stimpack]

Desktop is called "desktop"
Laptop is call "acer", because hmm its an Acer.

Yes the creative side of my brain is dead.

[Taino]

I just call my laptop "Lappy" (Lappy <-- just a made up name)
and i call my desktop "Dobby" (Dobby <-- from Harry Potter)

Just seemed fitting to me to call them that since "Lappy" spends
quite a bit of time on my lap as i move from room to room working,
and "Dobby" is a server, much like Dobby in Harry Potter was a servant.

:KS :KS <-- these stars are addicting :p

[majikstreet]

my desktop: oreo
my moms desktop: esher
my server: ripleyhost

oreo = my cat
esher = our oldest cat
ripley = one of our cats who is dead

[roachk71]

I'm a fan of the Oh! My Goddess comics, so I've followed this naming scheme:

Notebook: Urd (my most favorite of the three)
Router: Skuld

Of course, Dad's desktop in the other room is simply named after the family (I'd rather call it dead_HaDIbaH; it runs XP.)
:smile:

[britjm]

I name my box for my site. My site's name is photosfromwords. (period included)

[xequence]

Wait! I realised my computer has a name. Its patrick-31ac816.

[briancurtin]

currently: schi6068dap

the name of the server my web app was on at my internship this past summer. it just stuck in my head and when i installed ubuntu i figured id put something in there besides "ubuntu"

my computer name on suse was just "linux" as the default, since i have little to no creativity and i dont care about a computer name really

[stevea1210]

MY domain is SNPP.burns (in honor of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, and its owner)
Servers:
MMM-ts (Terminal Server)
MMM-dc (Domain Controller)
MMM-fs (File Server)
All in honor of Homers variety of MMM-anything sayings

workstations:
Laptop-ubuntu (Breezy) -main laptop
Laptop-xp (XP Pro) - laptop used for stremaing media to tv
Laptop-emily (wifes 2k pro) - POS wife uses
big-daddy (Breezy) -my gaming rig
emac (Breezy) - testing and aggrivating old POS.

A little fun mixed with an expandable, understandable convention.

[fuscia]

i think i might have called it '****chops' a couple of times.

[Gunder]

Laptop -> Milamber ( replaces Pug: deceased! :( )
Server -> Macros

[Aithnea]

Nobara is the name of mine.

[poofyhairguy]

My new computer is named "Zap." Partially because its dual core 3800 X2 CPU is a dreamy speed (I have wanted a dual core since I heard they might exist at one point), and partly because the case has a lightening bolt on the front.

[SteelValor]

Mine are...
Pickles - 98/2000 400Mhz Laptop
Nuclear.Kitten - XP 2.8Ghz Gaming Desktop
Steel.Kitten - Hoary 1.1Ghz Family Desktop
Iron.Kitten - 2000 500Mhz WebDev Server
Purkle - Hoary iMac 333Mhz
Beowulf - OS9/Hoary iMac 400Mhz

Updated for 2006!!
MasterShake - Samsung a950
Beowulf - 2000 400Mhz Laptop
Nuclear.Kitten - XP 2.8Ghz Gaming Desktop
Steel.Kitten - 98/Hoary 1.1Ghz Family Desktop
Iron.Kitten - Hoary 500Mhz Wife's PC
Purkle - Hoary iMac 400Mhz
POS - OS9/Hoary iMac 333Mhz
Crissy (named after an old ex-girl - the 5.25 drive often destroys disk's. She's still pissed I didn't marry her!) - C64
Meatwad - Apple ][

[Parkaboy]

Darkstar because taht is the default name when using Slackware which was my first Linux distro

[pegleg]

everybody has their own computer in this house so the network names are boring simple initials of the primary user, such as:
JAB (mine)
CAB (my wifes)
AJB (my sons)
AGR (my oldest daughter)
MBR (my youngest daughter)

some others I have include:
Sojourner (my laptop)
Alpha-Prime (my gaming rig)
videoserver (obvious)
ubuntu1 (my new toy) ;)

and my DC cluster includes:
Ghost Rider (currently the fastest horse in the stable)
the burro
Thunderbird
Cheepbird
Toaster-1
Toaster-2
Frankenputer - I gave it that name after it ran for almost a year as just a pile of parts sitting on a TV tray (it is in a case now - the wife made me do it)...

[pja]

I have two PC's; a Toshiba portable which is my 'production' machine and a Cougar (Canberra based PC builder) desktop which is my 'test' machine.

The Toshiba is called 'Rocinante' after Don Quixote's horse.

The Cougar is called 'Sanchos' after Sancho Panza who was the Don's travelling companion.

Weir I'll admit but they are my PC's so there!

Regards,
Peter

[penguain]

my workstations name is Snorkles ... as in the Penguin God

[chimera]

The previous one was Tanya(pentium 1, 200mhz,64mb ram, currently serving as a router), the one I'm using now (pentium 4 3.2ghz@3.8ghz, 1024mb ram, geforce 6600GT,300gb hdd) is Katya

Am I the only one giving PCs woman names?:-\"

[GA\/1N]

i have a PC running on MS WINDOWS BOOMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!! i dont name it because it doesnt deserve a name:mad::mad::mad::mad:

[InsaneSith]

I call my main one (the one I'm on right now) BothanSpy, a reference to Return of The Jedi when Mon Mothma says "many bothans died to bring us this information". I've killed this machine so many times.
Like they say though, break things and you tend to learn how they work.

So being the Star Wars nerd that I am, I felt it was an appropriate name.

My other's range from the weird to the mundane.

Sazabi, Watanka, Gray-****, The Green Machine.

It all just kind of depends on what the machine is used for. If it's just kind of there, it'll get a boring name (see Gray-****).

[truthfatal]

This one is geekbox, my fedora machine is tewaker, and my slackware box is slacker.

[graabein]

I don't really have a naming scheme. My previous Windows machine was called Iggy (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?P=amg&sql=11:sem1z84ajyv4~T0) (Iggy Pop, The Stooges). I wiped it and installed Ubuntu for my mom to use and renamed it skippy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skippy_the_Bush_Kangaroo) after our old cat. My desktop computer is named barbosa (http://www.nba.com/playerfile/leandro_barbosa/) after a basketball player and my recently aquired 8 year old laptop is called gatsby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby) (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, old sport).

:confused:

[Derek Djons]

My notebook is called Voyager. Since it's mobile and explorers different kinds of networks (wifi or local) :)

My Server is called DASH. Don't know why I chose that name but I kinda liked it.

My gaming computer (which unfortunatelly) still has to run Windows is called WildChild. It's full of anger and fury :)

[biguns]

My computer name is FiSH for the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. And of course Jesus is a "fisher" of men.

You might think that I am one of those religious zealots..I'm not, I just like to give respect where it is due...

[lgmdaniel]

Grinch.. which is my biking nick name. As I'm a bit of a Grinch when it comes to Christmas, I'm rather hairy and have a thing about green.

[Rinos69]

ubuntuzombie
because my laptop has started it's second life after 4 years of W2k.

[handy]

My Ubuntu drive is called - BirdFish

Because ******* is stoinked! my win xp drive is called - Junk

My wifes tower is called - The Ant Farm
it is an xp machine, & she is a musician so you can probably see why I called it that.

My wifes Powerbook is called - The Ants Nest
for obvious reasons I hope.

All the ******* machines that I build for people I call Doo-Dah, because they are all Doo-Dah, to me. :rolleyes:

handy

[guano]

My laptop is called Event_Horizon, which is, in theory, the limit of a black hole. Beyond it... the unknown...

My desktop station at the University is called Valhalla, the Viking's heaven.

[Ubuntuud]

Mine is called VORT, I don't know why...

[Virogenesis]

Mines called Trouble.... the main reason is because I had sound working and did not know it.
Reinstalled so many times and moving away from windows is trouble for me as I'm in a windows state of mind still.

Old comp used to be called Sleak-739 (the numbers mean certain letters on a phone)

[DrBair]

OK, so the tread hasn't been touched for a few days but I had to throw in my 2 cents.

My machines are named for dead (or should be dead) programing languages.
My Gentoo laptop: Pascal
My Gentoo PIII server: REXX (named it that to annoy my Dad who loves REXX)
The wife's old Gentoo desktop: BASIC
Our new Ubuntu desktop: Fortran

[Tichondrius]

I name them based on some feature or purpose they have which makes them unique to me (different then the others), so its easy to remember too. I have "gamma" for gaming (well it used to be, now its the ubuntu server), "sli" cause it uses nForce4 SLI mobo, "blackbox" and "thinkpad" (for obvious reasons).

"sli" is my crown jewel, it has $5000 worth of parts (dual core, dual videocards, 2GB, 24" LCD). it's a monster

[mstlyevil]

I name my computer fooker. Everytime I ran into trouble I kept saying mother f***er so I decided to name the computer fooker. I used the derivitive fooker in case a kid was to see the name when I had the terminal open.

[Tharkun]

I don't name my computer and if/when I do then I'm going to put it's name on the computer.

[Tichondrius]

I don't name my computer and if/when I do then I'm going to put it's name on the computer.


you don't need to name it if you only got one

[fuscia]

i've just named my box mrs. loboscus, after my uncle's first wife's mother.

[Tichondrius]

I hope you people realize there is a practical purpose to naming computers - so that you can easily refer to them when you have multiple computers on your network. We're not doing this as a hobby or cause we have nothing better to do. And btw, for home networks which usually don't have a name server, you can put all the computer names with their IP addresses in your /etc/hosts file, and then you can connect to these computers by using their names instead of the IP

[hamil]

Well, my Computer at home, has its name after a God in the Norse Mythology.
I named it after the God for seamanship and sailing, Njord.
Wikipedia about Njörðr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njord)

To the computer at school, I simply named it after the class I attend to. So it would be easyer to find at the network. TF1A, simple as that.. :)

As to my laptop, it is also named after a God in the Norse Mythologi.
I named it after the God for the sea, Ægir.
Wikipedia about Ægir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir)

[fitzman49]

I call my laptop dualbox49 since it dualboots windows xp and ubuntu and my compaq desktop greenmachine49 since it has a bright green light in the front. The 49's are because im a big fan of Tim Wakefield who plays for the Boston Red Sox. :)

[garnertr]

Laptop = Tardis

Wife's PC = Tirzah

[Flashman69]

I have named mine after states in the mid-west US ;-

Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah & Nevada, which is ironic as I live in the frozen wastes of Scotland :rolleyes: . Utah is the network ID and Nevada is my elderly Dell laptop running Breezy (slowly, must do summat bout that). The rest are XP boxes, and there will be a new addition in a couples of days, likely to be named Dakota.


Flash

[Bragador]

I like to call my computers in a way that the network looks like it's a cyber world.

Right now my laptop is called CyberGate since it's my gate to everything.

[dosed150]

i only have two so i dont name them

[fuscia]

i'm changing it from 'mrs. loboscus' to 'annie get your gun'.

edit: damn! this feels great!

[rfruth]

My computers name is Breezy, I also have a G3 iMac and I call it the iMac, creative aren't I ;)

6229

[MAbans]

My mac is called "Aki" cause she's sexy and my Linux machine is now called "Bans"

[Glarbl_Blarbl]

My dad's a pilot, and in true uber-geek form I live at home - so I name my computers as follows:


gps - 800Mhz PIII server running breezy
cabin - Athlon XP 2500 guest room also running breezy
parachute - 2.4Ghz P4 encrypted Dell laptop running breezy
cockpit - AMD K6-III 500Mhz basement couch browser running guess what
blackbox - a black shuttle f95g5 AMD64 dual boot with breezy and winxp which I use for multi-track audio recording and light gaming.. Once Freebob is mature enough I'll get rid of the M$ virus.
atc - nocatauth gateway for public wifi access.


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[fuscia]

My dad's a pilot, and in true uber-geek form I live at home - so I name my computers as follows:


gps - 800Mhz PIII server running breezy
cabin - Athlon XP 2500 guest room also running breezy
parachute - 2.4Ghz P4 encrypted Dell laptop running breezy
cockpit - AMD K3 500Mhzbasement couch browser running guess what
blackbox - a black shuttle f95g5 AMD64 dual boot with breezy and winxp which I use for multi-track audio recording and light gaming.. Once Freebob is mature enough I'll get rid of the M$ virus.


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you should get a newton messagepad and name it 'splat'.

[orlox]

My actual PC has no name, but I mentally referred to my previous one as the watertower(water means WC where i come from). Before I replaced it, it was so slow it would take at least 10 minutes to startup windows, and 5 to open any app!!(guess I deserved that for keeping it open and full of dust...) my new PC with ubuntu works pretty smooth, and I haven't even thinked in naming it. Guess that only disfunctionality motivates me to doing that...

[trivialpackets]

freedom is my notebook

[K.Mandla]

I just use the serial numbers off the bottom of the machines. :( I can be incredibly uninventive about things like that.

[jstueve]

Network Name: SWAMP

PIII 800 - Log - Windows/Breezy Dual Boot
Dell 600m - Frog - Windows Laptop (wife's)
Dell 700m - Tadpole - Breezy Laptop
Linksys NSLU2 - SLUG - DebianSLUG firmware (nslu2-linux)

[Qrk]

"Prometheus" after the greek titan who gave fire to mortals, thus sparring them from extinction.

The false god-king, Zeus (lets call him Bill), wanted to leave humans for dead by denying them the knowledge of fire. Prometheus, as we all know the story, now must have his liver picked out by an eagle forever. (Or, as the metaphor goes... )

Its a very apt name for a Linux machine, I thought. In fact, I thought I was being quite clever, but my friends didn't get it. (They never do)

[meldra]

Semi-interesting reasoning for mine. I initially had my computer named simply Mel because I couldnt think of anything cool when I initially got it.

Then I got me an old 'puter to run as a web server while I was studying, and named it scorpion (web = arachnid = i f***ing hate spiders = scorpion is an arachnid that's not a spider). When I set my PC up as a multi-boot (currently only xp and dapper, but a freebsd cd is on my desk waiting for me to install it), i named it Mantis, as in Praying Mantis which changes colour during it's growing period (still in that period!). I also have a laptop with Damn Small Linux which I call 'ant' (ooold and tiny capacity hardware) although I'm pretty sure the hostname hasnt been set on it as such.

So:

Desktop: Mantis
Server: Scorpion
Laptop: Ant

[trivialpackets]

My desktop was always justice. My notebook, since justice is no more, is called freedom. Values I hold dear, but also, I have the freedom to use my computer everywhere.

[Wallakoala]

I just kept the default "ubuntu" but now, after reading everyone's interesting computer names, I wish to change it. How would I go about doing that?

[rado_london]

My desktop is called Looser because it runs windows (my brother uses it for games lol). My laptop is called HPU-44ie71e588. No reason just like it

[Glarbl_Blarbl]

I just kept the default "ubuntu" but now, after reading everyone's interesting computer names, I wish to change it. How would I go about doing that?

There are a couple of ways,

1. Use the hostname command like this:
sudo hostname newname

or
2.edit the /etc/hostname file.

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[Leo_01]

I usually name mine like Winxp_<system number> or Ubuntu510_<system number>
i am the boring kind :P

[Krigl]

When I was asked to set up some name for my box, WinXP that time, I just listened to Current 93's "Crowleymass Unveiled" so it bears proud name Megatherion. Might come I buy a laptop one day, it could be something like Loki (cause comps are cheating n' deceiving beings, you know), Alarich (and they cause mayhem, too) or some of my favourite fictitious characters - Morpheus (Sandman, not Matrix) or Skrebec (from Ziemkiewicz's "Red rugs, restrained pace" cycle).

Here's part of the song that inspired me:
the televoice starts whipping round
the vision comes today
and this is what the voice declaims
it's to megatherion's birthday!

[CaptainTux]

I have four systems in my office. They are named after the members of the band The Corrs. Jim, Andra, Sharon, Caroline. My server is Cassiopeia(every server I build has a name from various mythologies) and my laptop is named Fergie (from the Black Eyed Peas). At home my two PC's are Thing1 and Thing 2 from the Cat in the Hat.

[nzruss]

My Network is "Dr Evil's Underground Lair"
My Main working PC is "Dr Evil" (XP)
My Wifes laptop is "mini-me" (XP)
My Media centre (Mythtv on Breezy - in progress) is "Number2"
Company name is always "Virtacon"
My old file server was "Fat B*stard" (Win2K) till I used the parts for my media centre..

... got plenty of names left should i add to the network.. Scott, Frau,... it goes on.

Not a super Austin Powers fan, just like the names!!!

[Ahriman]

All mine are based from the Wilbur Smith book/series "River God"

My firewall/file server is called "Tanus" - he was a strong warrior
My wife's pc is called "Lostris" - she was beautiful ;)
My main machine is called "Taita" - he was wise, etc
I have a WinXP machine that is called "Lord_Intef" - he was Lostris' father and a traitor
The router I called TheNile and the workgroup is named Egypt

All except Lord_Intef are running Ubuntu "Breezy Badger".

What can I say, I like the books :P

[suziequzie]

I call my system "Sexy Baby" most of the time... or "*expletive* piece of crap" when Windows crashes it. I like my case: It is black and has two bubbly-filled blue LED light tubes on either side of the front. It makes a nice night light when I'm downloading stuff overnight and the box has to stay on.


Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".

[Qrk]

I renamed mine "pergamon" after an angel of destruction in the Book of Revalations. I thought it was apt for a Dapper machine, but again, only I think its funny.

[Bandit]

My current system is names "stardust".
I did orginally name it "thorn" (Celtic rune for protection), but it kept giving me problems. Thorn in my side???..
So I renamed it and now everything works??? :confused:
My other PC i have put up right now is named "sigel" from the Celtic rune representing the god of power.
Cheers,
Joey

[w.f.voogd]

all characters from southpark

gateway (p100 running a freebs-kernel) : Kenny
desktop (amd 2.8 running hoary): Butters
laptop (powerbook g4 running mac os 10.3.8) : Timmy
mom's desktop (amd 1.2 running hoary) : Token
Lan q3 server (p2 333 running suse 7.x) : Chef


It's southpark for me too:
Marklar, my laptop - coz it tavels around (it's a p4-2.6ghz, breezy)
Cartman, my server - for it is too fat for what it can do (it's a p3-550 in a 4u case, debian sarge)
Chef, my tower - since it is black, fat and cool (it's a amd64 3000+, breezy)

Kenny was used for my M$ machine, when i still had one in the network, it died all the time you know... ;)

I'm still looking for a way for my DNS to call a client Kenny automatically whenever someone visits and plugs a M$ machine into my network... :evil:

[w.f.voogd]

My desktop is called Looser because it runs windows (my brother uses it for games lol). My laptop is called HPU-44ie71e588. No reason just like it

In my dual-boot days, loose was the name for starting windows, as opposite to the win command you's type in the dos for starting 3.11 in the ol' days, and i felt i had lost every time i had to boot m$... ;)

[zkissane]

My main machine is always named zkissane. As the various incarnations of zkissane rotate "out of the spotlight", so to speak, they get different names. These names are nicknames given to the characters by the recappers of the TV show 24 at televisionwithoutpity.com. Actually, I haven't had this policy in effect for that long, so only a couple of computers abide by it.

My ancient laptop, and the first to be named zkissane, is now called TaterTot (TWoP's name for the baby in 24's Season 3). Next in the lineage is a computer that's in parts right now. When I get around to rebuilding it, it will be called PotatoFace (Chloe O'Brian). Next in line (this one actually runs) is SoulPatch (Tony Almeida). I also built a computer for my grandma; it was christened GreyAdder (Paul Raines).

Future plans include ImhoTerror (Habib Marwan), NakedMandy (Mandy), NoDaddyNo (Gary Matheson), TheMacGuffin (the Dobson Override), and TerrorTeen (Behrooz Araz; this is planned for a laptop).

[Endwin]

Originally I named my computers after the towns/castle from Dragon Warrior (video game series), then I liked ReBoot (TV show), and now with Lain I added more in so my names are...

Main machine – Navi
Laptop – Lain
Web Server – Cantlin
File/radio server – Sylvaria
Desktop for family – Guardian

Out of service

FTP server – Charlock

[Tipo]

I've tried to stick with a Roman Emporer type theme.

My Ubuntu Desktop -- Severus
My Mac Powerbook -- Filius
My iMac G4 -- Dedalus

[clarkritz]

KITT.

It's got a black case and some red LEDs on the motherboard. Next I'd like to put together a little circuit to replace the HD light with a scanner just like in the show. If you haven't seen "Knight Rider", you've missed, well, probably only some pre-baywatch hasselhof.

[jakemikey]

GI Joe characters:

Lab Computer: Destro
DG box: Snake Eyes
Laptop: Flint
MythTV box: Breaker

[MrDan]

Main box =minnow
Mine = skipper
Kids = giligan

[davideckels]

The Chief loves Disney, I love cats.

The Chief's Win box: Minnie.
The Little Chief's Win box: Mickey.
My Ububntu 5.10 workstation: Sabretooth.
My lame Win/SuSE box: Manx.
Laptop Win/VMware: Bobcat.
Each VMware OS: kesali-[something that indicates the OS] [kesali was a ghost cat in some piece of fiction or other. I found it on google].
PDA: kitten [hmm... soon i'll get linux to boot here].
Router: CatsHome.
File server 1 [NSLU2-Linux]: Catbox.
File server 2 [stock Linksys OS for comparison]: Mousebox.

[WelterPelter]

As a Mandrake box, it was named "aurum," but now with ubuntu it's become "sequoia." Mainly because we went and saw the sequoias recently, and they're gorgeous.

[kanem]

Do many of you recycle names for a new computer? I have a computer that I'm giving away soon. It's been with me through some important times (bulk of my phd work, and first GNU/Linux installation), so I'm thinking of giving my next computer the same name.

The name is 'free' btw.
My other one's 'rain'.

[Lux Perpetua]

My Ubuntu system is "helium," and my SuSE (formerly Ubuntu) system is "neon." No reason other than it looks nice on my bash prompt. :-)

[Swiss]

Mine is: Jack@Ubuntu:~$
I was going to have Jack@GNUgeneration:~$ But that install didn't work out and I had forgot about it...

[ixus_123]

My main desktop PC is called "happy" - I just like seeing that word & it has a positive effect on me.

My server is called "bitx" which is more descriptive (it's a mini-itx mobo in a back case.

I think I may change my naming scheme to cities in the future like

london, Dublin, Paris, etc

[batty505]

Hey folks
running static ip's except for the pda and laptop. But all of them are named for greek folk, Ariadne, Medusa, Daedalus, Perseus, and soon Persephone <sp?>

I dig all that stuff..<g>

peace
D.

[threethirty]

I name my comp after birds I have:
Condor
Corbie
NightHawk
Raptor (hey its evolutionarily correct)
Osprey

and my girlfriend has
Finch
Bobolink
Wren

and our wifi AP is called theNest

[Mr Wrath]

My machine is Domicile...
mrwrath@Domicile
Always had screen names as MrWrath...just needed a home.

[henriquemaia]

Mine are pc1 and pc2. If I get more, I'll continue numbering them upwards.

[Jucato]

OT question: is there any danger in changing your hostname? I want to change mine too, so I could properly name my box. :D

[bored2k]

Try System/Administration/Networking
or

sudo hostname mynewhostname

[Jucato]

Ok, so there are absolutely no side effects, right? Coz I changed my hostname the other night (using KDE), and now my DSL doesn't connect during boot, not even using pon. I have to do pppoeconf again and again. But that's another topic, and probably caused by soemthing else.

Thanks for the go signal. :D

[klahjn]

I call my system "dta"
for Death To All......i just figure the ones that aren't n00bz figure out that means "Death To All Windows Boxes"

[bored2k]

My next piece of hardware, whatever it is, will probably be named "Starbuck" or any other name from the Starbuck universe (depending on what it is). I could even name everything to a character from it, as they all sound good. Starbuck, Helo, Boomer, Adama, Lt. Bling (ok, that was kassetra's invention), etc.

[Teh Ethan]

My desktop is named Ethan
My laptop is named Laptop
My server is named Mastodon

[Minyaliel]

After reinstalling Kubuntu, my laptop's official name is Cherceros. People have always said I have an unhealthy fascination with Hell and all things "dark" and "evil", so I suppose this definitely proves that :P

[mikedtemple]

I name my PCs after my family...

Home server (ClarkConnect Linux 3.1): fishies (as it resides with the fish tank in my office)
PC (Ubuntu 6.04/WinXP): buddy- the furry guy in my avatar
Mythtv (Ubuntu 5.10): jennvo- my wife + TiVo

[Bender the Robot]

PC-1 - MS XP:- Nemesis
PC-2 - MS XP:- Fury
PC-3 - ubuntu:- Adrasteia

[Bandit]

My next piece of hardware, whatever it is, will probably be named "Starbuck" or any other name from the Starbuck universe (depending on what it is). I could even name everything to a character from it, as they all sound good. Starbuck, Helo, Boomer, Adama, Lt. Bling (ok, that was kassetra's invention), etc.
I think someone has been watching to much Battlestar Galatica :)
Next season aint until Oct!!! :cry:

[adam.mech09]

I have two, an old Desktop, which used to be Candy (I figured a good name for a stripper, as she spent more time with her covers off than on :P ) and Is now Veronica. Figured since she's a little more modest she'll get a more modest name. My laptop's called Edwin Allistar Owen IV, Edwin for short, as It was the longest actual name I could remember anyone having, and I was having a (sad, geeky, pathetic) d**k swinging contest over longest computer name with some eng friends. Yes, I need to get out more, but i'm an engineering student. All we do is geek-work-drink-work-geek.

-Adam

[Ivaldi]

I've named my computers after characters in the Monkey Island games.

Desktop: Guybrush
Server: LeChuck (Fat, old and terribly slow :) )

[fuscia]

i've changed it again to 'you droll bastard!'.

[Agent86]

Black case = Morpheus
Beige case = Neo
Pretty blue case = Trinity
Network = THEMATRIX

Not original, I know. But it was cool... before the 2nd movie, anyway

[zlogic]

I call my Ubuntu PC "Overload" because, well, it never overloads. Or perhaps because hadles overloads better that Windows.
I previously called it "mercury" because mercury is highly adaptable.
My Windows PC is "Isengard" because is used to ba acting like a router between my intranet and the evil Internet, just like the evil Isengard fortress between Middle-Earth and Mordor.
My old Pentium-166 is called "Cray".

[RJMacReady]

My PC is named 'TheThing'

[Derek Djons]

I've renamed my notebook to Blackbox. It has nothing to do with the blackbox window manager. After two years of Voyager and some crappy luck I decided a new name for the thing would be a cool restart.

[wolfmaniac]

i address my desktop as "DIBBA"
and laptop as"LAPPU"

[Scree]

Bosworth is the name of the PC itself, with my external hard drive sporting the name of Dreamscapes.
And then there are all the desktop icons that have their own names, with the short cut to "My Computer" being named "*****" appropriately.

[Selbstmord]

My main/laptop is called Durandal, after a rampant AI from Bungie Studio's "Marathon" series.
Durandal (more specifically, Durendal) was the name of Charlemagne's paladin Roland's sword, which allegedly contained within the hilt a tooth of Saint Peter, blood of Saint Basil, hair of Saint Denis, and a piece of the raiment of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And the influence that made me choose that name is a poem, called "The Song of Roland".

[dermotti]

I named mine Warlock

Has so many meanings and just looks cool :-)

[zi99y]

I have a local domain called "miyazaki.local"

off that I have my laptop - nausicaa
my server - yu-baaba
my multimedia pc - totoro
my wireless access point - pazu
and my adsl router - kodama

we're just a big happy family. Oh I mustn't forget my phone, Kiki!

[Swiss]

My (Ubuntu) PC is named "GNUgeneration" and my XP istall is named "Msserver"

[Blippe]

Main computer "stereo", due to the two monitors connected (two channels :P).
Diskless mediaplayer "tricolour", (was supposed to be pal, but forgot the name, and since i am in europe, ntsc would be to strange).
Ye olde extra: "mono", if booted in (x)ubuntu, or "mono2000" if booted as a windows box.

[Stewart]

Deep Thought...:-D

[Simplex]

I use four-letter girls names always in caps.

JADE, an Windows XP HP Desktop
HOPE, My Ubuntu Desktop
DAWN, My Fedora Core 1 Server (I want to move it to Ubuntu soon)
ANNA, a Windows XP MCE Desktop

Upcoming: TESS, an Ubuntu Laptop

Previous (before I thought of the system) and now retired computers: FRED and SONY

[Parkotron]

My old PC was named 'parkotron', but when I got my new PC, it became the new 'parkotron'. The old PC is now 'parkotron-legacy'. (A bit of a joke if you've ever palyed Tron 2.0)

[mcduck]

When I built my current machine I just couldn't think about any good name, so I just named it 'kone' ('machine').

But from this on, I guess I could try the same rules that are traditionally used with ships names: womens names with four syllables, and ending with 'a'.. Not because that would sound cool, but because it's easier to come up with names if you have some rules to limit your options :)

[fatsamurai]

I call mine whatever I feel like. My main laptop is called 'minerva', goddess of wisdom I think. My other laptop is called cosmo.. for no other reason that I liked it.

I don't think naming your machines is wierd. Leaving it as localhost is wierd...

[IYY]

I just added a new machine by the name of "muddy", named after the blues musician Muddy Waters. I already have a dylan, hendrix and a floyd.

[nr4g3d]

I named my personal and work computers from starcraft.

Originally I started the scheme when with my personal computer. I thought it would be pretty cool to have sound schemes to be in character with the particular computer.

ie: upon login, my computer would go "Goliath online"

So my main computer would be Goliath :)

Other machines from work:
Wraith
Ghost

[Sharkscott]

The Sharktank

:-)

[slider2800]

Mine is slipstreamone , actually its the name of my current music project, but as soon as i have a notebook, i'll name that slipstreamone-mobile or slworks

.. just so. :P

[alan_t]

random references from "neuromancer"

[pitr]

I name mine after the Forsaken in Wheel of Time.

So far I've got
asmodean - desktop
lanfear - laptop
aginor - server

[cvcaelen]

i named it simply "Penguinbox"

Christiaan

[YuHoo]

Strange Fruits and Literature make for the most excellent names.
Hulaski-Wala -- Dune
Kumquat -- Funky fruit
Bunbury -- Importance of Being Ernest (imaginary friend used to get out of doing anything you don't want to do)

[tegwilym]

My main XP machine is "Columbia"
Linux Ubuntu machine is "Challenger"

[Brunellus]

My main XP machine is "Columbia"
Linux Ubuntu machine is "Challenger"
Did you choose two space shuttle missions which exploded on purpose?

[vertigo]

random references from "neuromancer"

Another Gibson Fan

I currently have
Straylight = Server
Case = Small box I try differnet distros on
Sprawl = Main Rig
Finn = xp media rig

[Burgresso]

I named mine after Atlas Shrugged characters -

One is named Dagny (the ubuntu box) and the other is Howard (the XP box).

[barthel]

I name mine on the basis of my SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) persona, Barthel aus Pennswald.

The main desktop is "calainar" (because my SCA household is "Haus Calainar des Pennswalds").
The laptop is "trippant" (a heraldic term for "walking"--my arms include "stags trippant")
My local network is "pennswald.pri".

One place where I worked, all the systems were named after deities: Zeus, Thor, etc.

[rcmiv]

I name my machines after characters from "Keeping Up Appearances."

Onslow - my first PC 166MHz Pentium (Win95) is mainly just a tv set.

OnslowII - my current PC (Dapper, dual WinXP)

Rose - my wife's machine (Win98); I should change that to Daisy.

Daisy - my machine from between Onslow and OnslowII - a Dell XPS_T500 that was dead for a long time (over a year) until Puppy Linux brought it back to life! (runs Breezy now) - my experimental ubuntu/kubuntu/knoppix/puppy/dsl/vmware win95/98/2000/XP box.

Violet - a spare PC in the basement for use by visitors / the kids (dual Breezy, WinXP)

I haven't bothered to name the amiga, the (4) C64's, the Mac Classic, or SunSparc.

-rcmiv

[rbenchley]

My computers are named for a variety of mythological and science-fiction related sources. Some of the current names for machine in my home are Beowulf, Grendel, Loki, Valkyrie, TARDIS, The Doctor and Galactica.

[dbott67]

I've been running Ubuntu on my old P2-300 laptop for over a year now and started naming it after the version of Ubuntu (Warty, Hoary and Breezy). Earlier this week, I just ordered a new laptop from Dell (a duo core T2400, with 2 GB RAM, 100 GB HD, ATI Radeon x1400 video, 8x DVD) and was trying to give thought as to what I should name her.

At work, I am doing a very large computer upgrade and am replacing 6 servers & about 100 PCs. I needed to come up with a naming convention for the new servers (the PCs follow a location-based convention to make them easy to find). I decided to use the Greek alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, etc.) for the servers. In researching some of the names and history of the Greek alphabet, I found that there are a few 'obsolete' letters (stigma, qoppa, digamma, sho, man & sampi). Considering that my laptop is circa 1999, I decided to rename her 'stigma' (as it's a very fitting name for an IT professional to be using such an antiquated computer).

My new laptop will be called 'omega' (as 'mega'=big and that it's probably the end of the line for new computers for a long time!). I also renamed my iPAQ 4350 PocketPC to 'omicron' (and fittingly micron=small).

-Dave

[kadymae]

Heh.

At work, one of the Systems people was in my office, trying to figure out what to name the computer in the cubicle next to me. It required a special image and permissions (and it's not the sort of thing she normally does) and she wasn't quite sure which naming convention applied.

A few months back she took me on a tour of the server room and that's when I noticed that a certain class of servers had male LOTR themed names. (Gandalf, Aragorn, Frodo, Bilbo, etc.)

I suggested she name it Galadriel, Arwen, Nienna, or best yet, Rosie Cotton. (It's just a little Gateway desktop)

While she agreed that a good laugh would be had watching the three *nix gurus running around trying to figure out (a) why is there a "girl" server? and (b) where the hell in the building is this box? and (c) why is it running XP? she took pity on them and didn't do that.

[calx]

JAH - Windows pc
DUB - Ubuntu pc
SPLIFF - Ubuntu laptop

:mrgreen:

[vayu]

Mine are mostly named after Sanskrit qualities/entities:

Akasha - FreeBSD desktop (Space)
Prajipati - Windows XP desktop, boots Breezy with same name (God/Father)
Santosha - Breezy Laptop (contentedness/happiness)
Prakriti - Win95 printer server (Mother Nature)
Indra - WinNT SP4 IIS/ASP web server (God)
Agni - Five year old sons Win98 (Fire)
ZnK - Five year old sons Breezy (Initials)
Devi - Wifes' WinXP (Divine Mother)
Wave - Mac OS 7.6 Quadra - still works, don't use it

[xenmax]

Mine are mostly named after Sanskrit qualities/entities: So you are the wind ;)

hostname of my desktop is MiddleEarth. i planned on naming it Shadowfax ;), but since mine is a modest p3, 850 megs, 256MB sdram... maybe i'll use it when i get a new one

[meborc]

my 800 duron box is named homer as it is just so damn dumb :)
the notebook in my sig is named bugman - as it is for testing dapper

[Stealth]

Let's see:
My Desktop - D4600 (under Windows) and D4600U (under Ubuntu). D4600 is the type of Dell it is...
My Laptop - BARPTOP (under Windows) and UBUTOP (under Ubuntu). BARP (stands for Bowl a Rice Productions) is just a little brand name thing I came up with to slap on anything I make. UBUTOP is self-explanatory ;)
My Server - SOLDAT (Ubuntu), because it's the server for a game called Soldat :P

Sister's Main Machine - FATGIRL (Windows) because, well, she got nick'd that after playing Earth 2150 and using the Fatgirl tank's so much.
Sister's Old Machine - GODZILLA, (VectorLinux). Because she has 2 turtles, which I like to call the bigger female Godzilla ;)

Mom's Machine - UBUTRON (Ubuntu), cuz...it needed a name, and adding -tron to something makes it robot-like...

and Dad will get a Media PC soon, I guess I'd nick it FIESTA or SALSA for it's media capabilities, and because we're spanish! ;)

[derjames]

Mine is HPLCCBM, I din't know what name to use so I typed those letters randomly...

[vyruss]

I had a laptop named critter, but it was stolen, and in its honour I named the next one critter2. My main machine is called gremlin and an older PC I have here is godjira. See a pattern here? ;)

[Rikostan]

I name it for main user in some way.. for example My wife's machines are called Mom and Mom_recipe. My daughter's machine is called abuntu because her name is Ariel and I just installed ubuntu on it and my son's pc is named jackass because that is my nickname for him. :)

The rest just fall into descriptive categories. The bedroom laptop is called bed, the web-server is named web-server and the living room laptop is named livingroom. My main machine is called ubuntu when logged into ubuntu and Riko when logged into windows.

[mangz74]

well, i used to name my computer and even routers in my home network to greek gods and goddesses. if you are into these stuff, you'll know which server to get into once you see these name -- zeus (my desktop), hera (wife's computer), hermes (laptop), poseidon...and the list goes on. but now, i used Philippines revolutionary heroes.

[SHodges]

I name them all after the various AI's in Deus Ex :-|

[arijmj]

I name my PC "@RIJ's WORKSTATION":KS

[z3r0]

quadrat :KS

[stormoog]

Carmen (it had that name when I got it)
Spinoza
Amartya

next will probably be:
Axelrod

[phorque]

My home LAN consists of:
BURNINATOR
Flameboy
Leprechaun
and Frances (still thinking up a name for this 600Mhz Celeron printer-server/Word processor with flashy lights)

[æþeling]

you...you NAME your computers? Mine's just HOMEPC (and the one at my workplace is PENGUIN_POWER_230B_SHIVA, thanks to the IT guy's imagination)

[bigken]

Im realy boring with names

Dell inspiron 9200 = inspiron
Toshiba tecra 9100 = tecra
PIV work station = pentium4
Athlon XP 2600 work station =yes u guessed it athlon :(

being thinking about renaming them any ideas anybody :-k

[zachtib]

My desktops are all lizards
Iguana >> Chameleon >> ChameleonX2 >> Komodo

My notebooks follow a 'not' naming scheme
notapowerbook (thinkpad r51) >> notathinkpad (planned macbook pro)

while my servers go by names from don quixote
quixote >> cervantes

[unbuntu]

scorpius

[stoeptegel]

redmoon

[white_tiger_daniel]

Juggie because I couldnt find a power cable so I nicked the jug cord off my parents 8)

[augied]

Spotty - my computer, named after a stuffed leopard I've had my whole life (my family chose the name.)
Norton - my sister's desktop, inpired by Norton antivirus.
Isabella - her laptop, named after Isabella Rosellini.
Gina - my dad's computer, named after his soundcard.
Tubey - media center, named after the Television With Out Pity mascot.
Noname - my mom's computer, she couldn't think of a name.
Godfrey - server, named after William Powell's character in My Man Godfrey (get it?)

[guine]

the almighty bob

[PowerWCRulez]

Here is my puter nicknames,

Compaq Presario = ComFuq PreScram (WIn95)
Sony Vaio lappy = BlueStorm Tuxxie (Ubuntu Linux)
Modded PC = BlueStorm Box (still not finish of modding case)

Non-puters,
Power Wheelchair = BlueStorm Hacker (Modded)

[bb002]

Unless I have another name in mind, my boxes get named after the case.

Desktop is a black Cooler Master Centurion case = Sentinel
mythbox is a silver someone(forgot) Xdreamer case = SterlingSilver
ltsp client box is a beige OEM box of some sort. MB supports both SIMM and DIMM memory while is supports both at and atx power supplies. I'll call this one OnTheFence since the MB manufactures decided to support everything.

[jorgerivera]

Well... my first computer with a name was an old 286 running DOS. My dad named it Thomas, as in Thomas Alva Edison.

I changed motherboard and kept the case. First to a Cyrix486 66Mhz, and then to a AMD 5x86 133Mhz and kept the name, so I decided to give names to the cases, even if their minds changed.

I kept using scientist's names, but using the last name, and not the first name as my father did:

Hawking (as in Stephen Hawking): PII 400Mhz
Einstein (as in... we all know after whom): AthlonXP 1800+ (my sister's box running WinXP)
Volta (as in Alessandro Volta): AthlonXP 2700+ (Ubuntu Dapper)
Ampere (as in Andrè Marie Ampère): in my office AthlonXP 2400+ (Ubuntu Dapper)

Fortunately, there are zillions of good scientists out there to name a big big family of PCs... May the Good Lord make good scientists of us, too!

-----
Jorge Rivera
Cadenux

[tribaal]

Well I like norse mythology so I decided to go this way.

Fenris (my laptop)
Skoll (Home desktop)
Ragnar (Office desktop)
Odin (handheld)

;)

-trib'

[TeeAhr1]

The first machine that I could really be said to own was a Win98 box with 128MB of RAM, a roughly 700 pound monitor, 1.5GB of hard disc space, and a killer speaker set (all it was really good for; I still use the speakers on my new machine, they kick the crap out of anything I've seen and they're 10 years old). It was Goblin War Buggy (Magic: the Gathering players will get the reference). Since then, I've had the Orcish Spy, the Goblin Mutant, and the Kyren Glider. My present machine is War Buggy Mk.II.

[aktiwers]

I call mine H.A.L or HAL.

Thats from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" by my favorite Director Stanley Kubrick.

(HAL, is the letters before IBM in the alphabet :) )

[endersshadow]

homesteadgrays or Homestead Grays for those of you unfamiliar with Negro League Baseball and the greatest player of all time, Josh Gibson :-D

[Iesos]

totoro
After the super cute forest spirit from the movie with the same name. (which I realy can recomend)

[morequarky]

My desktop is named Nikola. My pda is named Tesla.
My linksys is Albert. My mac laptop is named Eistein.

:)

[aundwer]

I'm naming the computers in my network after their mainboard models; I'll give you an example by providing the name of the oldest computer in the net in use today: It has an Asus P2BF mainboard, hence, the computer is called "P2BF".

It is a ten year old tradition here :)

[groggyboy]

I'm a huge fan of William Gibson, cyberpunk author and creator of the word cyberspace.

All my computer names are references to his book Neuromancer:
-my windows xp partition is called theDixieFlatline
-my ubuntu breezy partition was called Freeside
-until i upgraded to dapper and renamed it OnoSendai
-our home network is called Sense/Net
-if i need to enter a company name when installing software, i use Metro-Holografix

They don't follow this naming scheme, but my cat is called Little Lady and my bike is just called Bike.

[ben s]

My machines are all named after characters/elements in the movie "Alien". This is being writen on "ripley", my wife's machine is "dallas", our mail server is "ash", my laptop is "nostromo" (the ship), the router, which runs Linux, is "jones" (the cat).

[azazel-]

Main Desktop - 'Cthulhu'
Old Desktop - 'Dagon'
Wife's laptop - 'Tiamat'

[drfalkor]

ubuntu

[Pololilo]

Hello,
Mine are simple...

My server : The-King -> Sarge
My Desktop : The-Prince -> Dapper (With Gnome)
My GF laptop -> The-princess -> Breezy (Wth Gnome too)
My Laptop -> The-heir -> Breezy (Dual boot - Gnome and XFCE)

@++
PoL

[BooVeMan]

I call my main one (the one I'm on right now) BothanSpy, a reference to Return of The Jedi when Mon Mothma says "many bothans died to bring us this information". I've killed this machine so many times.
Like they say though, break things and you tend to learn how they work.

So being the Star Wars nerd that I am, I felt it was an appropriate name.

...

Calling yourself a Star Wars nerd - see me:

server - Suse 9.3 - obviously: r2d2
my laptop - win2k: luke
wifes laptop - win2k - obviously: leia
testing system - whatever necessary: c3po ('cause talking stupid)
new desktop (coming up next week - yeyeye) - gonnabe ubunto 6.06: MillenniumFalcon
runnig on vmplayer on that machine - winXP: hansolo
if any other machine will run on vmplayer thats gonnabe: Chewbacca
Samba Domain: STARWARS

beat that :cool:

[centered effect]

Wow i just name my systems after their processor:

xp1800
xp2800
P2400
3300md (amd 3300+)

[leach]

Mine Are
File Server- "Weapon of Mass Instruction"
DAAP Server- "Odin"
Desktop Comp- "Noam" (after Noam Chomsky)

[therunnyman]

My whole Machine is called the PROTEUS Difference Engine. It's got 2 processors:

CPU0 - Proudhon
CPU1 - Bakunin

2 fully operational sata drives:

sdb [1,5] (Breezy) - Trotsky
sdc [1] (Storage Partition) - Lenin
sdc [2] (Storage Partition) - Marx

and one experimental sata drive:

sda [1,5] (Dapper) - Brecht

Oh, and I made a theme called "Sputnik" for my DE

comrade therunnyman

[Pugaciov]

Very interesting thread. So far I've given a "seriuous" name only once, on Windows XP: PAPERSTSERVER. Tyler Durden of Fight Club lives at Paper Street.

[MenZa]

My desktop isn't named, however my laptop is--unofficially--called "*****". Yes, that's right, P-E-N-I-S (in honour of Jennifer (http://www.geeksmakemehot.com) who calls hers "Vagina" :D)

[Reshin]

I named mine 'reshinae'. Don't know what that ´ae´-ending means but it looks cool IMHO :p

[Rhapsody]

I originally named my PC Vegeta a few years ago at the height of my anime fixations. I've since resisted renaming name it (I think that's supposed to be unlucky) but I have better ideas for the future.

[matthew]

I just added a new machine by the name of "muddy", named after the blues musician Muddy Waters. I already have a dylan, hendrix and a floyd.Sweet!

Mine are:
Telecaster for my laptop and main work/play computer
ES335 for my wife's simple, yet elegant computer
Flying V for my testbox which I use to experiment with.

[Pugaciov]

Sweet!

Mine are:
Telecaster for my laptop and main work/play computer
ES335 for my wife's simple, yet elegant computer
Flying V for my testbox which I use to experiment with.

Then I should call mine Charvel Fusion Custom (http://jimosity.tzo.com/Gear/Guitars/CharvelFusionCustom/P3010062.JPG) :cool: :-D

[matthew]

Then I should call mine Charvel Fusion Custom (http://jimosity.tzo.com/Gear/Guitars/CharvelFusionCustom/P3010062.JPG) :cool: :-DNice!

[mikl]

My computer is named 'elijah', and the laptop I had earlier was named 'job'

[janne_oksanen]

My computers are named after Star Destroyers.

Desktop: Devastator
Server: Libertor
Xbox: Executor (figures, eh?)
N-Gage: Engager (duh?)
iMac: Avenger

[3rdalbum]

Once, I had two computers who were called Ren and Stimpy.

Then I had another two computers, one of which had two partitions. All three partitions were named after my pets: Polly (dog), Arnie and Cosima (cats).

Now I only have an iMac and a PC, which are just called 'iMac" and "Compaq".

[Lopsicle]

Mine is called TuxToon :mrgreen:

[xtacocorex]

Currently my laptops name is Radioshack from a nickname I was given by my friends in one of my Aerospace lab classes since I always set up the experiments, the data acquisition equipment, and pretty much did the lab since I was the only one to really understand them.

I'm thinking I need a change though and will probably rename it soon.

EDIT: I think I figured it out: tincan.edi, the UAV from the movie Stealth.

[Monster Boxx]

I'm sure you will notice the lack of irony in my computer names...Though if i acquire new systems I will need to become more cleaver in the way of naming to slow the confusion curve.

I Run a LAN party where I live and my computers are heavily depended on for certain vital files.

2+tb Fileserver = server-boxx(ubuntu)
Gaming rig = game-boxx (XP pro)
Media rig = media-boxx (xp pro) /note this also serves as a backup gaming rig
handy p3 web server = web-boxx (ubuntu)
mp3 streamer = juke-boxx (xp pro) /for now, I havent touched it in months
old trusty mp3 player p3 laptop = lap-boxx (xp pro) /until I get the idea of this linux thing... im such a n00b...

[shrimphead]

my laptop is called haruka, after suzumiya haruka in the anime Kimi ga nozomu eien.

[Sammi]

My laptop is called "Marvin" after the paranoid android in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

Marvin rocks! :D

[Raavea]

*points* Bernard. *pats*

She's a good girl. :)

[cromestant]

Well continuing my absurd fascination with sponge bob.. my main ubuntu box is called Bob...
the other one, is just buzzlightyear

[cblanquer]

Not very original:
1- mubuntu - multimedia box with XP, Kubuntu & Ubuntu
2- ybuntu - with Edubuntu
3- pubuntu - PDA

[shuttleworthwannabe]

my wife loves eating arugula, so mine is called arugula!

[hobbestec]

I've named mine after characters from William Gibson's Neuromancer novel, I've got my desktop machine named Armitage, and my new laptop is named Wintermute. I think wintermute is the best name I've come up with for one of my computers yet.

[PrimoTurbo]

#1 Globex - From the Simpsons, the name of the company Hank Scorpio tried taking the world with. :D
#2 Skynet - From Terminator, the computer that took over. :)

It's all about world domination.

[netztier]

After a few excursions with name into the greek mythology (hades, persephone etc...), I found something new: references to "fire" or heat.

It started off with my first Unix/Linux Box, which still has the name that started it all:


fire, a Sun Ultra 5, 360Mhz UltraSPARC IIi
blaze, a self-built low-noise file server in plasma's former shiny blue full tower case (P-III 500Mhz running Debian Stable)
flame, a Compaq ProLiant 1850R, 2x P-III 600Mhz, might replace blaze some day, provided I have an appartement with a closet to put the noisy box in
ashes, an low-spec Sun Ultra2 (2x 167Mhz, 128MByte RAM) grill, a Sun Ultra 60 (2x 360Mhz, 512MByte RAM) Keeps your feet warm...
torch, my employer's HP Compaq nc6000 (1.6Ghz Pentium M) when booted off the (inofficial) 2nd disk with Ubuntu


Former Systems:

plasma, my former debian/gentoo/windows workstation (1.6GHz P4)
embers, an oldish Sun Ultra 2 2x200Mhz, sold


The odd one out:

cube, a shuttle SN95Gv3 with an AMD Venice 3000. I just couldn't resist calling the neat box after it's shape. And I was fascinated by the movie.

There's still a few names left for future projects and boxes: match maybe for a WLAN-enabled PDA?, light, glow, phosphor, magnesium, sulphur, furnace, oven, kiln, stove

keep the names coming!

Marc

[nightweave]

Because I am a paper and pencil roleplayer (Dungens and Dragons for those not in the know)
I name my computers after charcters and game worlds.

I have called my Ubuntu box Tombworld after a RPG I wrote myself.
My wife's computer is called Lunchbox as my ego fit's in fine there.
My old box was called Namatjira after a story I wrote about a space warship called HMASS Namatjira.

[MiKuS]

hey, some of these names are really cool, and the concepts behind them.

i just name my computers with either the users name, or thier prupose with a twist, i substitute e for 3 and i for 1 (very original, i know :P)

after readhing through this thread i think i'll have to start naming my computers after the lion king movie ^_^

[Sushi]

Main desktop running Ubuntu: serenity
Old laptop resurrected by Xubuntu: phoenix
Mac Mini server running Fedora Core 5: calcifer

[Brynster]

my main PC is called Agnes-Bumcrack, my laptop is call BilleCheesewhiz

I guess i as having a silly day when i named them....

[pauljwells]

My Apple Powerbook is called Pooh (when running OSX) and Kanga (when running ubuntu). My wife's Powerbook just has OSX and is called Tigger (she 'bagsied' the best name...). My PC desktop is called Owl (running ubuntu) and Eeyore (running XP)

I thought myself very clever naming the M$ lump to be the donkey :D

Oh, and I have an apple airport express called Christopher Robin.

I plan to build a monster 2 x dual-core opteron workstation and am keeping the name 'Piglet' in reserve

[chiefy]

My old system was naming my computers after one-word Hitchcock film titles. I had "vertigo," "notorious," "psycho" and "spellbound."

New system: Kids in the Hall characters...
New HTPC / Ubuntu machine: Gavin
Windows Box: Kathie (with a K)
Windows Laptop: Cathy (with a C)
Mac Mini: Cabbagehead

:rolleyes:

[aaarg]

primary desktop - turbo (not cuz its fast..its not, just because)
game machine - aaarg
lappy - spivy (interestingly enough i also have a cactus named the same...go figure)
server 1 - warthog (started this one with warty warthog and it stuck)
server 2 - budro (short and thick like this girl i call budro)
gf's - sally (not my gf's name, just her machines)

[Alexeon Lanar]

I call my PC Earth, or Sol III. My brother's PC is called Venus. Im saving Mars for a new PC...
My USB flash drives are named after battleships in Star Ocean.

[graigsmith]

VOLTRON!!!!!
or
THUNDERCATS!!!!

[ctgray]

Cheeseburger.

[OniAnubis]

Desktop - Demon
Laptop - Osiris
File Server - Iso
Web Server - www
Oracle Server - Oracle
Firewall - Interceptor
Seldom used sun server - Nephthys

[bvanaerde]

I took the question quite litteraly, as there are the computer names I selected when installing Ubuntu on it.

my laptop: benubu
my desktop: ubentu

oh, and my name is Ben ;)

[arsenic23]

This thread is awesome, I just love seeing how other people name their machines.

I have too many compies running in and out of my ownership to only have one method. So for machines I actually own ( and some I don't ) I name them based on a scheme which I change every year.

My main machine's name is Woglinde, and he hails from a year where all my computers where named after space ships from various fantasy sources.

My Windows/game/Photoshop box is named Cliffjumper, and the family's PC is named Megatron. ( 2005 was Transformers year )

My laptop is named Sticky and my server ATzilla, because 2006 is physical description year. The laptop's name is Sticky because I got him after his previous owner dumped a gallon of 7up into him and left him for dead, so the keyboard was sticky untill I happend upon a replacement. The server gets it's name from being a K7 running on an AT power supply.

The lab I built at work also follows the 2006 theme. Half of them are generic black/white computers and the other half are sitting in custom painted cases I made durring a particularly slow week at the shop. We have BlackKing, WhiteQueen, WhitePawn, OrangeBox, RedRooster, Bloo, Pinky, and shitball. The names being pretty much self explanatory.

[codergeek42]

My desktop's hostname is "TuxHugger." :D

[ronlybonly]

This is a great idea. I'll name my computers tonight. My old computer (I still use it though) has a "Leslie J. Savage Library" sticker on it, so it is now "Leslie" - "Les" for short. I'll call my other comp "Chelsea."

[der_joachim]

I've used several hostnames from several contexts over the years. Here's a few:

sickbock (1998-1999): Crappy old Cyrix box in an old server case.
sickbock (1999-2000): Upgraded my Cyrix to an AMD K6-2 box in aforementioned server case. Sickbock was a comic character by Maarten Toonder.
dickerdack (1998-2000): my girlfriend's PC, an old IBM. Dickerdack was the mayor in Toonder's books.
cantecler (1998-2000-ish): an old Tulip 486 desktop. Cantecler was the marquis in Toonder's books. Parbleu!

joaputer (2000-2002): A crappy Compaq Presario. Joaputer is short for Joachim's computer.
kimputer (2000-2003): my old K6-2 box, reinstalled for my girlfriend. Guess what her name is. When she moved in with me, she started using eisenmann.

eisenmann (2002-2006): Another AMD box, albeit with a crappy mobo, eisenmann is German for 'ironman' and refers to the ultra-marathon in the US desert. I thought up the name at a LAN-party I was attending. I had a half marathon planned, but I did not want to miss the LAN-party, so after a long night of gaming I snuck out and ran the race. I ran a PR that day, do the name eisenmann came up and it stuck. :)

remade (2006 - now): When eisenmann died, I had to come up with a new PC and a new name. I was reading China Mieville's 'Iron Council' and Remade seemed like a good name. I salvaged some parts from Eisenmann and 'remade' it into something bigger and stronger. The Remade in Mievilles books are people who were punished and 'remade' into crude cyborg slaves.The PC is an athlon X2 system, on a nForce platform.

[Hanj]

Don't ask me how it started, but I've ended up giving all computers I install linux on a hostname after a Russian dictator. This one is called leonid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev).

[dlai]

In our small home network we set it up, with country names....
African for my roommates computers, and descending in machine capability so that the most capable computer gets the highest name in the alphabet:
His desktop computer: congo
and his laptop: kenya
my computers are named after southamerican countries:
My desktop: bolivia
my laptop: columbia
and our server was named antarctis, but we changed for a lot of reasons, to jafu... which is somewhat ruining our idea of having a small world inside the appartment...

[woot]

i just use spongebob characters :D

my laptop is patrick
my always-on pseudo server is sandy

the network name = bikinibroek (which is bikinibottom in english if im correct)

[christhemonkey]

My laptop (which today after months without a screen, realised that there was a piece of broken plastic holding down the button to switch off the screen!) is just called laptop... original i know.

My desktop pc is called computer.

And my brothers laptop is called....wait for it....Jons Laptop.

Im so imaginative with my names! :D

[sudomania4]

my windows password years ago was shell something, so when i got my new windows computer a few years back, i named it shell. now that i have ubuntu, its name is atlantis. shell and atlantis are both aquatic words...

[JamesNorris]

hmmm...

I name my computer James and my girlfriend's computer Katy, because they're the names of the people who use them... I might think of something crazy when we move house, and I re-work the whole network system

[ubnoobie]

at work:


george
judy
jane
elroy
astro
rosie


at home:


bart
homer
marge
lisa
duff (new)
burns (retired)
flanders (retired)
maggie (to be re-built)


servers:


fry
leela
bender
amy
farnsworth (to be built)
zoidberg (to be built)

[amgat]

I call my computers salt(workstation), pepper(workstation), hoover(webserver), andromeda(databases and general project storage) and fatboy(large media fileserver and indexing services)

[rowanparker]

I call mine "hal" after the computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Rowan.

[projecteternity]

I broke linux one day and had to reinstall. Since then I have called my computer broken.

[Lunixfanboy]

After Ghostbusters heroes: Egon, my machine; Venkman, wife's.

[Lunixfanboy]

After Ghostbusters heroes: Egon, my machine; Venkman, wife's.

[eriqk]

With the advent of Dapper, I'm thinking about giving all my Linux boxes Drexciyan (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Drexciya) names. Bubble_metropolis will be the server, my laptop will be renamed Wavejumper, and so on.

Groet, Erik

[chadk]

My PC is "figment" and my wife's is "wife"
though if I was being clever I could've come up with more interesting names for two PC's. Maybe if just Yin and Yang

[?????]

I never thought of giving the computers fun names, just gave them boring name. On ubuntu, the name is "ubuntu" and on WinXP i called it "n00bos"

[cyberdork33]

All my PC's Live on SesameStreet (Domain):

Bert - dd-wrt Router #1
Ernie - dd-wrt Router #2
BigBird - Ubuntu Webserver / Fileserver
Oscar - Windows Media Center PC
Snuffy - Ubuntu Laptop
Kermit - Old Laptop...
Elmo - Fiancee's Laptop

[RAV TUX]

UbuntuJozef----Ubuntu 6.06

Copernicus----XPsp2








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[GrepZen]

my servers and workstations are named after various renown scientists and mathematicians: Darwin, Einstein, DaVinci, LaLaurie(wife's), Galileo, Newton & Fibonacci

Naming schemes used in the past:
[] Character names from the TV series "Reboot"
[] Planets
[] Towns that made up the Outerbanks (NC) communities
Kittyhawk, NagsHead, Duck, Corolla, Manteo

[Freddie.Ruddick]

Because I'm a bit of a Nintendo fanboy, I name em after ninty characters. So my Dapper box is mario and the laptop is Link. The windows box came before the naming scheme, so its Freddie-hp, it'll be luigi when I get round to rebuilding it though

[MellonCollie]

Mine's called "omfg" because that's what I usually say when I can't figure out how to fix/change something in Ubuntu.

[whatrucrazy]

due to an unhealthy obsession with iain m banks books...

main pc name: mindcore-alpha
testing pc: mindcore-beta
secure pc: mindcore-aegis
(for those who - incredibly - are yet to read a Bank's novel the AI's are called minds, duh. and for those ignorant of their ancient greek history the 'aegis' was zeus' shield)

old XP box: msis****ed
(no more needs to be said, other than my previous win2000 boxes were a tamer mssuxbad and nomore*******)

[stychman]

I tend to name my computers after movie characters, particularly sci-fi or fantasy movies. I currently have Legolas and Gimli running on my network.

[flar]

Originally I named my two desktops "bella" and "java" after our cats.
Java was my wife's computer and was retired and replaced by "Daisy" (she named it).
Other than that, everything else rhymes with "bella"

Currently,

hella--my server, because it is a PII-300 from the garbage it has the word hell in it.
bella--my main desktop
fella--the sh#*ty computer I experiment on
della--my office computer, originally a dell
daisy--wife's computer

[Dr. Falken]

mine is called Joshua as the nickname of the WOPR mainframe of the movie Wargames (http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s22117/badki/WOPR.jpg)

http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s22117/badki/WOPR.jpg

Yeah, I know that my nick must be Prof. Falken instead of Dr. Falken; but, you know what you do when your desired nick/login is used by someone and you must improvise...

El doc

PS: Yes, i'm interested about a nice little game of chess... ;)

[stoppeltje]

Mine is called "Jupiter" for innovasion and expansion :D

[biff]

biff.......as in Biff Tannen from Back to the Future.

'Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?'

[catflea]

My PC was named by someone else as "Igor" because its a bit of a hotch-potch
and never seems to run quite right.

(saying that, it actually does run right now I've changed some of the things he did)

my convention for naming is using engine capactities from the A-Series engine (used in British cars throughout the 50s/60s/70s/80s)

0803 - was going to use that for my basic box in the garage
0948 - my crappy old laptop
1098 - Thats what my main system would have been called
1275 - future use
1380 - future use

[SleepyZ]

"Patria" (Latin for "homeland").

[Naglfari]

Vickie....VCE, actually

Years ago I sound a wav file online somewhere that goes like this....

"Welcome to the Virtual Command Environment....I'm the artificial intelligence, who will be assisting you!"

I've used that as my "startup sound" ever since ;)

[amazilia]

Hi,

Like many I used hal

there were Asterix, obelix and geriatrix for the laptop, big one and old one

the very original new_pc and old_pc

now it is asus for the laptop, serveur for the server and kokodakilako for the big one (an invented word used by my father when I was a kid to name food I did not know...)

Philippe

[bruce89]

Always cartoon characters - first one was called Scratchy (my brother's was Itcy), then now I have Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo. My brother's router is called Baleen, after the whale type, whereas his main computer is called Spitfire.

[seanUSXIII]

My main ubuntu box is Terminus
My second desktop is Anacreon
And I plan on adding a server named Comporellon once I get a HD bug fixed.

10 points to anyone who figures out where the theme came from :D

[The Mekon]

My main ubuntu box is Terminus
My second desktop is Anacreon
And I plan on adding a server named Comporellon once I get a HD bug fixed.

10 points to anyone who figures out where the theme came from :D


Major and minor planets featured in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series

[andrecasteliano]

Ubuntu forums is culture. ;)

[Koori23]

echo - The jukebox, named from Greek myth.
evaki - My desktop, named for a South American Indian Goddess of Night and Day.
eve - A fileserver, named because she serves every network type including apple.
erzulie - Primary laptop, named for a Vodoun Loa of lust. (known for getting around.)



Wow, that's quite a complete circle of life you have there. Artistic even. Mine is named Lucifer. It works great, so I don't know why I have the name.

Did you major in some kind of literature/history/cuture study in college or something? Because that's quite meaningful

[spartas]

Currently I have four machines, named for Norse mythology (except for one).

Asynjur: my stable Breezy Badger server (very competent file/web/ftp/subversion/dns/ssh DMZ server). It has no X install, but I didn't install the server CD because I didn't know it existed at the time. The name reflects its overall purpose. Intel Xeon box running 5 HDs in RAID5 array. 2GB RAM, Hardware RAID card.

Athena: semi-stable KnoppMyth distribution, currently running R5B7 with a Hauppauge 350 card. My only AMD system. Sempron 1800+, 320Gb HD, 512 stick of RAM. Not named for Norse mythology. Occasionally I'll break this while upgrading to a newer version of KnoppMyth, but I like to keep this pretty stable, and not trash my recorded programs DB and filesystem.

Odin: My apple (final generation) G4 PowerBook. 1.67Ghz G4, 80Gb HD, and a gig of RAM. She treats me well--real well. My everyday stable machine.

Freyja: So named because I ran out of cool sounding names in Norse mythology. I'm still not sure why I chose this naming scheme, but I do like the names. Ancient Compaq Presario P3 450Mhz purchased in 1999. Original hardware, but with 224Mb RAM. Dapper runs okay on it. No BIOS support for USB keyboards (makes booting with grub a hassle). 686 Kernel panics on it. Sigh.

I am currently in the process of building a machine to replace this one. It's very quirky (and proprietary), and I want something newer to use instead. This one is my test machine, that I can break and fix and break again. I'll probably test Edgy on it soon before replacing it.

I used to have a 2003 Dell Insipron, but I sold that to my dad, he is running Fedora on that, the name is Epiphany. P4m 1.9Ghz with 768 Mb RAM and two batteries. Fun machine it was, but too bad it's not upgradeable. That was the main reason I didn't want to keep it around.

[Slicedbread]

Desktops: Computer-01(02,03....)
Laptop: Laptop-01

When does anyone look at their computer name enough to consider a name?

[wickwire]

Loki for the desktop, Heimdall for one of the laptops, there was a Thor in the group but I gave it away, quite old really - and the local domain is valhalla.

[flaimo]

my network is called Diphthong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphthong) and my computers are called Monophthong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monophthong)-D (for Desktop and Monophthong-L (for Laptop/Linux).

i guess my next network will be called Cybertron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_series) and the computers will get names from the autobots. the windows box however will get a name from the decepticons :-)

[pixelbunnie]

Lappy, IBM T30, christened ERGO
PC, P4... when it was functioning, christened AMGOD
And for the Macbook waiting quietly for me, IGNATIUS

[Livenoise]

Bignoise = Desktop (cos it's big)
Littlenoise = Laptop (cos it's small)
Whitenoise = Server (cos it sits in the background)

All derived from my slightly odd nick, Livenoise...:)

[Lunar_Lamp]

I had to call mine by what I was allocated at work, otherwise I can't get on the network :-(
"PMSEH" is what I was allocated.
*grumble*

[djsroknrol]

Kenny (mine..I'm always killing it..)
Kyle (Daughter's...likes the name...)
Cartman (Mrs..likes Cartman..)
Stan (Server..has no say..:) )

and the laptop comming today is.....

Timmy


LOL

[Robb Kidd]

I have a tendency to use mythological figures, usually the ever popular Greco-Roman batch. The god-roles map to host-function thing sits nicely in my head.

janus - two-faced god of gateways - firewall/router
hermes - god of trade and communication - mail servers, natch
arachne - weaver lady turned into a spider - web servers
clotho, lachesis & atropos - the fates - LDAP servers, where accounts are born, prosper and die
chronos - god of time - time servers, natch
asklepios - god of health and medicine - anti-virus servers
hades - god of death and the underworld - anti-virus quarantine servers
minerva/athena - goddess of wisdom - file servers, This naming doesn't quite satisfy.
vulcan - god of the forge and fire - the CD mastering host


Two that I've come across on a network that I wish that I'd come up with:

caduceus - heraldic staff of Hermes/Mercury - forward-facing mail gateways
talos - bronze man created by Hephaestus - spam trap, This one may require an explanation. According to one legend, Talos would run laps around the island of Crete, throwing boulders at ships approaching without authorization. If someone managed to make land fall, Talos would grapple and hold them and then become red-hot. I love the imagery of fighting spam with rocks and red-hot metal.


At home, I used to use character names from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series ...

rincewind - a main character that gets buffeted about by events - firewall/router
hex - a magical computer - my primary desktop
hamish - a seemingly indestructible gnome - my Toughbook, now deceased

... but now use an assortment of the Discworld's gods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_gods) .

khefin - two-faced god of gateways, not unlike Janus - firewall/router
flatulus - god of the winds - wireless AP :D
fedecks - messenger of the gods - the mail server
patina - goddess of wisdom - my primary desktop, formerly hex, running whatever distro of Linux I'm using at the moment. Patina is a Discworld analog of Athena, but instead of an owl, her symbolic animal is a penguin.
ceno - "a rather liberal god, not big on commandments" - my new laptop, which gets blown away and reconfigured all the time
astoria - goddess of love - wife's desktop, natch

[seanUSXIII]

Major and minor planets featured in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series

+10 ;)

Like most themes they have meanings.

Main box: Terminus (main planet of Foundation)
Second box: Anacreon (believed to be the start of galactic civilization, this was our first comp)
Server: Comporellon (A cold planet where many people live underground, i.e., it sits in my basement)

No im not crazy those are just planets in the book ;)

[siman]

I call my desktop "silentia", after removing the old and noisy HDs.

The powerbook is called "redblood".. because its white and I like blood :)

[lapsey]

pantheon: artemis, chione, ixion, tantalus, orpheus, aulos

[poofyhairguy]

I have a new DEll XPS 200 with a Pentium D 3.2 GHZ and 4 gigs of RAM I call "Turbo." This is more due to the fact that when it gets going its loud as hell. But for a gift I can't complain.


And I have a new Macbook. It lacks a name, but when I do give it one it will be a girl name.

[NiceGuy]

Well...

My mum and dad's first pc was/is called Dan - after the company which made it.
My old (now deceased) laptop was called wildcat - mainly because the fans in it screeched :mad:

My current laptop is called sharky because a) its sliver and b) for my job I fix pc's so my laptop often comes in to contact with pc's which are infested with viruses and malware (ie is networked to infected pc and often scans infected hard drives etc) and so needs to have good antivirus and firewall software etc. in other words a good 'immune system' and you may or maynot know that sharks have an AMAZING immune system! - In my defence I was VERY bored the day I though that one up :p

My main pc was called panther (it had a black case and was almost silent :-$ ) but after I replaced the mobo and case I decided it was almost a new pc so I renamed it Pingus (think penguin) because its the first that ONLY runs linux.

My little bro's pc is called storm because a) its got some pretty powerful fans on it and you can hear the air blowing b) its case has a X on it which kinna looks like like the X-men costumes and c) because its a 'cool' sounding name and my brother chose it :P

Finally the newest addition (and oldest pc :-P ), my server is called alfred - server > servant > butler > alfred (ie. from batman).

And yes I do have WAY too much time on my hands!

[simon360]

I call mine slaptop (simons laptop, but it's a knee-slapping fun computer to use!).

[Talan6400]

I have always used a number/character combo.....but then I'm paranoid!

[InsaneBeast]

Personal Computers:

ShadowMatrix - Laptop
TraceBack - very old PII desktop
MonteCarlo - current Desktop

The first two are path-recording strategies for dynamic programming. The second is named for a sampling algorithm. Perhaps a bit nerdy, but still cool names.

Work Computers:
Gaston
Eiger
CMDPC12

Not sure about the stories for the first two, I just inherited the names when I got there.

[sandyeggoboy]

Mine are called Barney (Server) adn Freddy (laptop)

[DoctorMO]

Laptop, Powerbook PPC - Laura (people send me their vcard via bluetooth because of that name too, wierd)
Linux Desktop - Ferlan
Work Machine - Basher
Sisters Computer will be called - Dornis

[darkhatter]

Matrix themed!!! :D :D :D

my main computer is White Rabbit
then my next one is Neo and so on

[shoffman11]

I name my systems after characters from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
My workstation - arthurdent
server - zaphod
other workstation - trillian
laptop will be - fordprefect

[frozenflame]

I have a dell Optiplex G1, apparently coffee fell on the mobo, but it still works, so i called it "Miracle". It's my first computer actually, as in ownership, something I can call mine. I am a very broke person.

[spyke01]

I used to call it mini0n, but it wasnt a very good one and always fought with me and i had to kill and restore it several times over the years, so now it's aptly called

phoenix

[BoomAM]

I prefer more descript names myself.
For example my naming system for PCs ive built are:
Processor Manufacturer - Processor Model - Graphics Chip.
So my main PC would be: AMD-64-X800XL.

And then laptops would be whatever laptop model it is, so for me, TP-Z60M.

:)

[UbuntuniX]

This computer is called phr1,
and my other computer is called phr2 :P

[TechHut]

I name them like
(adjective)(act of emotion)
This one is called FlamingFury
my laptop is called BrightRage

[Toynbee]

Mine are all boxes.. I have:
jukebox (my dedicated music player),
ibox (my iMac running PPC Ubuntu),
candybox (my server running, for the time being, Win2k3 Server),
minibox (one of my laptops),
littlebox (another laptop),
picturebox (another laptop that does nothing but scroll pictures),
mediabox (a video player hooked up to my TV),
and Pandorasbox .... my main machine. I have some more, but they don't have any OS's, so they're not named.

[projecteternity]

I'm posting here again because I have a new computer. I decided to call it Phoenix because I took the processor from the blackened remains of a motherboard that had burst into flames:( .
I've also renamed my main computer because broken was no longer an apropriate name. Now I call it Titan because I have it in the heavy antec p180 case and because it dwarfs my other computer in physical size and computing power.

[sabredog]

Each PC is named after the family member using it;

Hence;

Sabredog
Ubuntu
Lori
Alison
Kelly
Hobbyroom

[bestiarosa]

My laptop is objecto-livre, which means "free object" in Portuguese.

[jrcmuniz]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.

Now I call it Lazarus


hahahahahaha LOL!!! great!!

I have the same thought....

My computer is now "Marrion"... not a good name... but I can't change now...

Joao Renato.

[BoomAM]

My computer is now "Marrion"... not a good name... but I can't change now...
There will be a way to change it i would have thought.

[andlinux21]

All My PC's are named after movies my laptop is Ninja Scroll, Server is Aliens, Home PC dual boot is Predator=D>

[pjot]

This is how my PCs are named:

tv - running winxp and only used to watch tv (not connected to internet so there's no ad/apy-ware issues).

pjot - My desktop running dapper. For some strange reason this one always gets the newest and best hardware :-\"

x - My 'cinema'-computer running dapper, only used to watch movies on my projector or listening to music. The x is for experience.

shared - The real workhorse in the group running gentoo. Printer-server, web-server and ftp-server.

sara - My gf's computer running winxp. Obviously her name is Sara.

:)

[LaMishto]

I have a single computer, running Ubuntu 5.04 & Win XP, with a Intel P4 processor, running at 2400 mhz and 512 MB of RAM and he`s called Welchia. I just like how it sounds. 8-)

I want to buy a laptop soon, but i don't know yet what name he`ll have. Maybe Jeefo :lol:

[Ak37]

I named my laptop Fuji since it's a Fujitsu Laptop. And I call my Desktop PC 'Nobita' from the old Japanese Anime Doraemon (since the author of Doraemon is Fujiko F Fujio)

I know, it sounds really really childish.

[Mr Wrath]

Servers: The Factory-Debian Sarge-Main Server
The Pit-Ubuntu Hoary (waiting on Dapper discs)-Archive/Storage Server

Desktop: Wrath's Domicile

[Xzallion]

I only have one computer right now, but I have names picked for future projects.

My current desktop - XP/Dapper dual boot > Xzallion

Future names:
File server > DM
Media center (myth tv :D ) > Gnome (because it entertains)
game computer > Halfling (they always seem to have drinking games)
Work computer > Human (they work hard in their short lives)
Router > Dwarf (the ethernet cords are like mine tunnels)
Laptop > Elf (just because)
Dedicated Game server > Orc (built for power)
and on the off chance I get a mac > HalfElf

Can't tell I like D&D can ya?

[musicinmybrain]

I name mine mostly after amusing animals. The desktop is woodchuck (back when it ran a dual boot, it was both woodchuck and groundhog); the laptop is squirrel; a pocket pc I once had was called chipmunk; and the router, in keeping with the theme, is called zookeeper. The print server is the only exception. I couldn't resist calling it gutenberg.

[GuitarHero]

My windows (soon to be dual boot) is named tank because its huge. All steel case with room for 9 cd drives. it weights at least 55 lbs. My ubuntu computer is just called ubuntu for the time being, but im moving the hard drive from it over to the tank to dual boot.

[%hMa@?b<C]

I have named my computer "linux" not a real name, but it does have tux painted on the side.

[n6mod]

My real computers are mostly named for ficticious ones:

Zen: iMac
Slave: MacBook
Orac: Watercooled P4 in a clear case (under construction)
Mycroft: File server (Shuttle with a Turion...way quiet)
Holly: ZmaxDP, red of course
(diverging a bit)
Starbug: Compaq Turion notebook
Kryten: Roomba Red :D

[sharperguy]

All the computers in this house are named with ali + the clock speed

I am on ali2600 right now.

[Frem]

I've had

- Lappy (486 laptop. DOS)
- Trogdor (Green 100MHz Pentium 1. Mandrake 7)
- Widget (Yay for ArchLinux)
- Wombat (Still using ArchLinux)
- Shark (Went to south Florida and saw one. Tried out Debian for a while.)
- And my current laptop is just a combo of my first and last name, as per the demands of my colleges IT people.

[xyz]

Nothing really original here but mine is "luser" l stands for linux.

[Compucore]

Mine are just as simple nothing fancy in names. Gaming machine server, linux 1 and two for both linux distros amd last but not least the main machine for my main work on over here.

Compucore

[halitus87]

ha im suprised i only saw one pc which has the same name as any of mine as i was flicking through

laptop - ordos ( from frank herberts dune series)
desktop - bonito (its a fish ( well it does run win2000))
retired dukebox- shark (bloody 500mhz thing its ok we blew it up)
family server- mullet ( daddy is sliping behind me in the computer race)
sisters pc - starfish (eh its a nice girly name )
girlfriends pc - ASH (named after her meh leave me alone i like her)

the one next to me is yet to be named (and built) im thinking of a renameing session when he is
im thinking of nameing them after authors assimov clarke wyndam
etc but ill probibly think of something nicer by the time it happens

[cristianvirtual]

my Desktop : Quijote
my "home server" is Sancho
and my Laptop is Rocinante
like "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" of Miguel de Cervantes

[Toe]

In our home network we use initials followed by MHz - e.g. AK1400 (which I'm using right now), AK1000, JK500,...

[Seanypoops]

Mine's the only computer in this house. it's the ROCKBOXX. i love it. it does everything i want...except i need a video card

[BuffaloX]

Logic1

[w_r_cromwell]

I have been using hostnames and domain/workgroup names based on various mythological settings such as Camelot and King Arthur's court to Greek and Roman mythology. A DNS server might be Herald while the domain controller could be Arthur.... you get the picture.

Bill

[Odinist]

I named my computer Lucy, after the character Joey's computer in the movie Hackers. ^_^

[arkangel]

My laptop is grey, then: GREYBOX

[virtuethecat]

Virtue

[virtuethecat]

My machine is Eniac, when I got my Mac I called it Univac. When my fiancee and I moved in together, she thought it'd be funny to call hers Abacus, because her computer is so slow.

Eniac and Univac were two of the first major computer landmarks, and an abacus, for those who don't know, is a pre-electricity way of adding without doing it in your head or on paper. With sticks and beads and such

hahahahahahaha

[craigi]

I name my computers and equipment from references in Stanley Kubrick movies (2001, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, etc).

My Mac is named Korova, my Windows PC is Discovery, my Linux install is Overlook, my iPod is Fidelio, and my iBook is Strangelove. My network is Milkbar and I've named my hard drive after characters, such as Alex, Bowman, Dim, Jack, and Hartman.

[Deacon Nikolai]

I name them after various fictional characters, either from video games, comic books, magna, anime, etc. As for my partitions, I am less creative and name them Mac OS and Ubuntu. :KS

[scottwill]

My primary computer (laptop) is called Janux. It was called Janax pre-Linux.

All the computers I admin at work are named after various species of animals.

[Glauco]

Gandalf.
:cool:

[Zifnab]

I often use the name Zifnab, from the Death Gate Cycle book series.

My desktop computer is my box. Zifnab + box = Zifbox.
I also have a laptop (which doesn't have Linux yet). Zifnab + laptop = Ziflap (not as cool as Zifbox, but meh).

[moclippa]

I don't name my PCs, seeing as I spend most of my time cursing at them.

[ukemike]

liberator

My main PC is a homebrew PC. It is a dual athalon machine. I'm also a beer geek. Most German Dopple Bocks (a "double" bock) are named something like Optimator, Salvator, or Celebrator.

[sanderella]

My computers are named Windows, Linux and Laptop. Boring, huh?
I once knew two very nice filing cabinets called Pixie and Dixie.:neutral:

[synthetic_fenix]

My home Fileserver / LAN Party Gameserver (Running Ubuntu 6.06 as of today upgraded from 5.10) is named Zero-One.

My Gaming Rig (dual booting windows XP and Ubuntu 6.06) is named Blue-Phoenix. Named it this because its Blue and I like mythical creatures and I also have a Blue Phoenix applique on the window.

My Laptop is named Dell-POS

My Internet Game Server (hosted at work, running Ubuntu 5.10) is named Olympus

My Webserver (hosted at work, running Ubuntu 5.10) is named Denali

[dexter]

Mine are called like The Simpsons:
- my main pc is homer
- secondairy pc is bart
- family pc is lisa
- laptop is maggie

:)

[nrayever]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.

Now I call it Lazarus

LOL nice name for a winbugz computer professor_chaos!!

nforce is the name of my laptop. because almost everytime i bought a piece of hardware i prefer to have a nvidia north/south bridge or video card. in this special case my laptop has a geforce 7800gt!!;)

nrayever

[the-65]

I name my PCs after the cars from the car manufacturer Borgward, who build cars from 1925 to 1961 in my hometown Bremen; Germany.

my Desktop = goliath
girlfriends pc = isabella
girlfriends SAP server = konsul
laptop = hansa
tablet pc = pionier
backup server = borgward
file and web server = beetle; not from borgward, but they didn't build so much different models and i wanted to stay in the car scheme :)

[GStubbs43]

My computer with Ubuntu is called Artemas which is a (I think Greek) name meaning Safe.

[sagarhshah]

My desktop is called ElBeasto mainly because of the two 300GB hardrives and the specs(well they were awesome when I got it last year)

My Toshiba laptop is called ToshiX because well its a toshiba and has LinuX on it.

My mac desktop is called Stevie after steve jobs

My previous toshiba laptop was called BriX because it was like a huge brick and had linuX on it.

[ericesque]

Once upon a time I named my desktop after my gaming handle-- moyupae
(if you say 'more you pay' real fast, you'll be close--as in: the more you pay, the better your computer *should* be) I think later I used moy --an obvious abbreviation as most of my gaming buddies couldn't figure out how to say the full handle.

I haven't named my computer in a while. Tho I refer to my notebook as lappy from time to time-- in homage to Strongbad's Lappy 486.

[pixelatedpirate]

I name my systems the first word that comes to mind, and they really end up fitting them well somehow. Chronologically, they are:


Sinatra - x86 box, suave like no other.
Mima - iBook G3, named after the main character in "Perfect Blue." Adorable.
Destroy - iBook G4, way too many dual-boot trials and OS restores.
Leprosy - iMac G5, doesn't play well with others.
Warhead - borrowed eMac 700mHz. Firewall/testing machine.

[Texdude]

Mine are named after tv/movie machines: HAL9000, Colossus, M5, VIKI.

[araz]

My laptop is SHELBY, my girlfriends laptop is UBUNDERELA and my desktop is PCSALA.

[Camellia]

I call her Navi, which comes from the anime "Lain".

[TecnoVM64]

My computer is Heather (from Silent Hill 3), and my server is Warrior because it fell down from the stairs and it's still working :D

[abstractism]

I named my main machine Reki(from Haibane Renmei). she runs ubuntu dapper x64. my windows machine for games is Mahoro(from mahoromatic). if I had the mac that I wish I had(20" iMac), it would be called Chii(from Chobits).

oh yeah, I kinda like anime. ^_^

[unconquerable]

I got a new HP dv2000t, it has these patterns like blowing sand all over it.

So I named it: Sandblow

here is a picture of a sand blow on frasier island, qld australia. (yes I have been to that exact spot)

[UbuntuniX]

What is your computer's assigned or default name?

My main system is phrbox1 and I'm developing a debian server which I call debphr1 :mrgreen:

[bruce89]

Scooby-Doo and the other one is Scrappy-Doo. You can tell which one is more powerful.

[potrick]

Mine is x-potifer, and is mightier than both pen and sword.

[jayemef]

Chance and Opportunity.

[matthew]

telecaster

[BigDave708]

Fred.

When it misbehaves, I call it 'that pile of s**t'.

[John.Michael.Kane]

Theres a thread about this What do you name your PC's ? (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26150&highlight=computer+names)

[BigDave708]

Once I built a network and used the periodic table to name the computers on it corresponding with their IP address.

For example:

192.168.2.1 = hydrogen
192.168.2.2 = helium
192.168.2.3 = lithium
192.168.2.4 = beryllium
etc.

I thought it was a pretty good idea anyway :mrgreen: . . .

[UbuntuniX]

I see.

[milehigh]

Penguin.

[matthew]

Theres a thread about this What do you name your PC's ? (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26150&highlight=computer+names)
Doh! I knew that...I posted in the other one (a long time ago). I'm going to merge them together.

For those in the original thread...the reason a few of the previous posts seem out of place is because a second thread was started on the same topic and I merged that thread into this one.

[kigina]

Theres a thread about this What do you name your PC's ? (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26150&highlight=computer+names)

Its the same thread...

[kigina]

I made a post in here. Where the hell did it go.

[Biltong (Dee)]

Kidnapped by Internet Bunnies perhaps??

My complicator... err Computer is called DeesLinux.
Not a spectacular name, but at least the other users on the network know its me :-)

[GStubbs43]

kigina- It is te same thread now because they got merged, your post is still there, but in a different place because more posts got stuck in there from the other thread. ;)

[Dogmudgeon]

I've been using computers since 1969, and had my own since the Commodore64 came out in 1980, but I've never given one of them a name.

--d!

[schurtek]

I have a very twisted way of naming PC's and servers...

At home I have two servers... one runs windows (shudder) 2003 server edition... so I called it Damien (those of you who read horror novels will know that Damien is a common name used for the son of satan.) The other server is running RHEL3.6 so I named it Igore... when I telnet in to that server, the welcome screen says... "Yessss Massssster...."

I have two laptops, one is an old PII that I use to run Getright and BitLord. So it only downloads stuff, nothing else... that one is called Gollum. My newer laptop which is a PIII, is called Frodo.

My desktop Machines I have two... one is called Benji, as it is the machine my mother uses the most, and it is named after her late dog. The other desktop is running Ubuntu, so I named it Tsotsi.

I am busy building a PC for my girlfriend, so I don't know what I am going to name it yet, but I am working on some ideas, like Gladerail? Yeah, I am a bit of a LOTR freak...

My web server that sits in the US is loving named Mordor.

At the office, I have two servers... the one is called Zeus, as it is the main server and handles everything, except phone calls. That is handled by an Asterisk Server, and that machine is named Hermes, the Messenger of Zeus... each PC in the office is named after the department that it belongs to... Admin1, Admin2, Admin3, DTP-IT1, DTP-IT2, DTP-IT3, GM1, PM1, etc...

[Enigmus]

It depends. My personal computer's name is "enigmus" as per my net alias. I never really bothered with thinking up anything else.

[Nobel]

Mine is named "Legoslot".

Lego, as you all surely must know (otherwise, where did your childhood go? :)

And Slot is "Castle" in Danish.

So a Castle made of Lego, Legoslot.

It makes no sense whatsoever, no. But i find it funny :)

-Nobel

[lcbl86]

"Agatha" dont know why... it was the first name that came tomy mind...

[Minyaliel]

I was in a dark mood after reinstalling Ubuntu, so I named it Azazel. Lol.

[apollo1900]

I don't have a PC.

[mips]

Desktop- Obelix
Laptop- Asterix

[NZ-Wanderer]

Hmmm hokay here's mine..

Main (Gaming Computer = Checkout Chick (Named after a real cute checkout girl at the local supermarket))
Secondary Computer = Little Chick
Third Computer = Baby Chick
Laptop = Lappy


http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?u=188671&c1=FFFFFF&c2=000000&c3=000000&c4=0000CC&c5=FFFFFF

[RavenOfOdin]

I don't really follow any sort of theme with anything except usernames on my main and backup computers.

[matc]

masq - my system doing routing and masquerading (+ many services)
darkbox - my gaming pc with an old black-painted AT big tower modified with iron saw to fit ATX boards
dialin-gate - my dad's modem dialin gateway
amilo - as you might guess: My FSC laptop

[slimdog360]

fred and gary

[nicbink]

ruiner - laptop
complication - file server
thegreatbelow - XP/graphics machine
intothevoid - IPOD
thewretched - thumbdrive

workgroup/domain - halo


anybody guess what band i'm quite fond of?

[SeanHodges]

Desktop: Ganymede
File Server: Metis
BitTorrent/Test Server: Callisto
Laptop: Europa
Wireless Router: Galileo

My network is called Jovian.

Bit boring, I'm liking the South Park idea!

[Tatey]

My Desktop: Fillets
HTPC: Popcorn
Server: Zingers
G4 iBook: Nuggets

The entire network is called "Strips"

The theme comes from KFC, I thought it would be rather unusual to use such a naming scheme.

[mrazster]

Papa Smurf...or as it is called in swedish Gammel Smurf

[RavenOfOdin]

My Desktop: Fillets
HTPC: Popcorn
Server: Zingers
G4 iBook: Nuggets

The entire network is called "Strips"

The theme comes from KFC, I thought it would be rather unusual to use such a naming scheme.

I didn't know KFC sold fillets. :D

[mips]

I didn't know KFC sold fillets. :D

Well you can order the fillets that go on a Rounder(burger where ever in the world you are) seperately. KFC like most fast food take away joints is shite though.

[Tehas]

Workstations are named after the characters from The Last of the Mohicans: Uncas - Ubuntu workstation; Hawkeye - Windows XP; Alice & Cora - virtual machines; Magua - Mandriva server; Heyward - old Win ME about to go under the Ubuntu knife.

I also have two Linux hand-helds machines (Sharp Zaurus) which were given names with a "Z" Zephyrus & ZootSuit.

[mvdw]

Darkstar? Wasn't that the old slackware default name?

[s_h_a_d_o_w_s]

mine is called ubuntuzilla

[martin8777]

every PC of mine has been called Lazurus ever since I first had to bring one back to life.

I also have a laptop called Balthazar.

not sure what to name my old G3 iMac though. want to stick with the biblical theme though.

[Simian]

Desktop - lemon
laptop 1 - sunshine
laptop 2 - logo

[_simon_]

Mine is called Ghosttouch.

I don't know why, it just popped into my head and stuck. :)

[Catsworth]

Named after Dragonlance characters:

Caramon - The workhorse, just gets on with what it's told to - My file server

Raistlin - Versatile, a little sly, quick, and powerful - My laptop

Kitiara - Adaptable, with a dark heart, insecure, a definite risk - The other desktop

[teh_chris]

i just call mine what they do:

file server: NASguy
IIS server: ASPguy
SE-LAMP server: PHPguy
mediawiki server: wikiguy

i had a friend that used a color and either flag or fish:
blackflag
redfish
bluefish
whiteflag

i worked one place where the servers were named after beers:
newcastle
redstripe
corona
guinness

i also worked at a startup company called planet7 technologies (technology from uranus... didn't last long) the servers were named after the moons of uranus, a couple of whihc are named after characters from a midsummer night's dream:
titania
oberon
ariel
puck

[nmsmith]

I use the names of objects in the solar system. Typically I like asteroids, but moons will also do.

desktop - cruithne
work laptop - thrymr
mobile phone - gaspra
personal laptop - Nick's and Ruth's Laptop (unimaginatively!)

My previous desktop was called Grendel, after the monster in Beowulf, but also after a bike I used to have called Grendel.

For that matter, my bikes:
original race bike (crashed) - grendel
original winter bike (wore out, rebuilt) - gladys
original town bike (wore out, discarded) - jofeph
new town bike (stolen) - colin
time-trial bike - anouk
new race bike - hermione
rebuilt winter bike - haven't named it

I haven't named my car.

[Alexeon Lanar]

When I get a car, I will name it Federation Ship Independence

/Star Ocean Till the End of Time SPOILERS/




(Single-handedly destroyed an Executioner with all its quantum torpedoes. It was destroyed soon afterwards though (as were most Fed ships...))




/END OF SPOILERS/

[Saibot]

My computers are Balthasar, Melchior, and Casper. It was the only logical thing to do since I'm an Evangelion fan. :mrgreen: Naturally I had to name the network Magi.

[fluffnik]

All my names begin with "f", highlights include:

florin - dual processor, after the old 2/- coin.
flagstone - this T41 Thinkpad
flivver - an X30 Thinkpad
fanfare - a P166mmx jukebox

...and about 20 others over the years

[bobbybobington]

my desktop is unimaginativly named austinsbaby, i used to dual boot it with suse 10 but it clunked out and im stuck with xp:( . My families old desktop thats running Damn Small Linux doesn't have a name. But i think im gonna name my future laptop chewie, so i can say "punch it chewie" and go into hyperspace lol\\:D/

[ylixir]

desktop: poseidon
misc needs server: baal
ibook: khuno
firewall: oscar (i found it next to a dumpster ;-) )

[ruvil]

I name my computers/server after famous composers.
Workstation: Bach
Server1: Beethoven
Server2: Mozart
Laptop1: Tchaikovsky
Laptop2: Wagner

[codypumper]

Our family computer is called Ooboontoo. Creative, I know.

[stoeptegel]

My main box is named "mybox", and my testbox is called "roestbak" (because it's an old 256MB sd-ram 1.8Ghz willamette)

[nookadum]

My box is named Lorelei, regardless of whatever OS is currently running on it.

Nope, it's not named after someone or something. I just like the name. ;)

[PingunZ]

" Dapper " and " Edgy "
My ms partition " NASA " ( actually a friend who typed that during the install so it was to late when I came back and I'm to lazy to change it )

[atrus123]

My computers are all named after Myst islands.

My laptop: exile (dapper)
My Maya tower: riven (SLED)
My wife's laptop: channelwood (breezy)
My MythTV box: stoneship (kubuntu dapper)

[RichJacot]

Being a StarTrek fan....

Workstations - defiant, enterprise, prometheus, voyager
Server - ds9

[matsberglund]

My box is called "Spector", after Phil Spector and the fact that I only had mono sound in my speakers for a while.

The laptop is "Barbar". With two Swedish dots over the first "a" it would have meant "portable" (a decent name for a laptop). But now without the dots it means "barbarian" (a not so very suitable name for a six year old computer that barely runs Xubuntu).

[KDayz]

I call mine 'Dayz' for my handle/tag

[philipacamaniac]

Mine are astronomical, starting with the closest stars to Sol. I skip weird ones and also take a little artistic license.

proxima.centauri
rigil
wolf359
sirius

[Fondor1]

As composers:

SaintSaens - My desktop
Mozart - Parents desktop
Dvorak - Brothers desktop
Williams (Formally Bach) - File server
Vivaldi - Sisters desktop
Holst - Sisters Laptop

We're a music-oriented family; we could think of nothing more appropriate.

[Breeman]

My computers name is Yinglong, a winged chinese dragon and is the oldest of the Eastern Dragons. As this is my fist just mine don't have to share if I don't want too, one day she'll be old and deserve the name.

[Blender]

Mine is called intelectus :)
I found that name in some (very) long list of dog names or so

My girlfriend's is named host (does internet sharing and subversion)

[%hMa@?b<C]

my desktop which is a pretty decent 95% home built machine is called
"ubuntu" I AM CREATIVE
my server (http://theironknuckle.com/) on the other hand is a G3 PowerMac and i named it
"maclintosh" because it runs linux

[rattlerviper]

Hal...original huh?

[mattwilsonmcp]

I named mine after Scooby Doo Characters. My Laptop is Scrappy. My Desktop is Scooby. The server is Shaggy. My Wife's laptop is Daphne. At my last job, I named all the PCs after Dickens Characters.

[Fyda]

I spent way too long on the Ubuntu installation dialogue because I couldn't settle on just one name. :P

This one box has gone through several names (mind you, I re-installed Ubuntu on it around 7 times, and only recycled two of the names):

- Feuerwerk ("firework")
- Andromeda (after the titular spacecraft of the TV series)
- Rosenrot ("rose-red" - I'm still addicted to the Rammstein album/track of the same name)
- Esperanza ("hope")
- Zukunft ("future") -- that's the current name.

I must have a short attention span or something. :(

Strangely enough, I've never thought about naming my MP3 player.

:D Bah, I can just imagine living in my own place someday, with a whole brood of machines. Serve the Hive...

[tosk]

My personal machines have my nick in them.

toskbox == my desktop

toskpad == my thinkpad
At home, all other machines on my network, however conform to a naming convention--they're all named after celestial bodies in our own solar system.

jupiter == server

mercury == bros comp

europa == bros PSP

saturn == parent's comp

--Tosk

[peanut butter]

whenever i do an ubuntu install on a new computer its always trivial for me to think of a name for the computer, which i will be able to remember. So im wondering how do you think of a name for your new computers?

[aktiwers]

There is another threat about this somewhere.

I call mine H.A.L

[Biltong (Dee)]

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26150

[G Morgan]

I'm rather boring and name my PCs 1, 2, 3 and 4. They are tools after all. Only my main desktop gets a name and I simply call it the rig.

[kostkon]

I named my pc kostkon.ubuntu only to discover that the . (dot) is not a good way of combining two words because on the terminal I get (with username kostkon):

kostkon@kostkon:~$

instead of

kostkon@kostkon.ubuntu:~$

When you combine words with the dot as a hostname, only the first word survives; I don't know why. Anyone!!??

[Stormy Eyes]

I name my computers after pagan sex goddesses. My Ubuntu box is ASTARTE. My Mac is LILITH. My wife's computer was called FREYJA. My router is VENUS.

[richbarna]

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26150

Aah, be a sport. All we're doing is coming up with ludicrous names. Like Gentleman Giraffe.
Or Crazy Cheetah... :smile:

[Biltong (Dee)]

Woah boy. Merely pointed out the original thread like the helpful sort I am...

[SOULRiDER]

I called mine "Tupperware"

[Tails Prower]

taurus. the name has no meaning, I just had to type something in for the netword ID, and I disliked all the numbers in the default name.

[richbarna]

Woah boy. Merely pointed out the original thread like the helpful sort I am...

Lol ! :mrgreen:

[Vorian]

My lappy is called "Liger"
my desktop is called "he~hate~me"

[bubz_the_troll]

I name my computers after tables in the game Morton's List. Goto http://www.mortonslist.com to learn more about that.

Currently my desktop is called "rainbow-dragon" and my laptop is called "im-neutral"

[RAV TUX]

Theard # 234543 (Nameing computers) merged here

[Evil_Ether]

Well I called my first computer "Bob" then the second "Bob the 2nd". This was back when I was a ******* user and I don't have those boxes any more. Now all my computers are named "bt(X)" in honor of there forerunners, however I have started from one again.

Modem/router = bt1
File server/jukebox/irc server = bt2
My laptop = bt3
Partners box = bt4
Little ones box = bt5

And the LAN IP's all end with there Bob number and I call the domain "Bobworld".
:-D

[Malibyte]

Every machine on my network is a Star Wars character:

Server: Kenobi
Main work box: Yoda
Daughter's machine: Leia
Game box downstairs: Chewbacca
Laptops: r2d2 and c3p0
Media server (it's in a cool black case): Vader

[uber]

I have my comp in the Antec P-180b case (Its big, tall and black), thus I call it Barad-dur, the Dark Tower from LOTR.

[Zyith]

This one is Wendy, my other computer is Zelda, and the next will be Daisy or Samus. All after early Nintendo female characters. (Wendy O Koopa, Princess Zelda, and Princess Daisy*, Samus Aran)

*Daisy is the Mario Land version of Princess. I'm not calling a computer "Toadstool" or "Peach." :twisted:

[ReneSDK]

My computers (and portable Audio) have greek god names:

My PC: Zeus
(Windows XP SP2)

Girlfriends PC: Hera
(Windows XP SP2)

My laptop: Hermes
(Windows XP SP2/Ubuntu 6.06)

My iPod: Kore
(iPodLinux)

My HTPC: Olympos
(KnoppMyth)

I only halfof them are running Linux, but it's a matter of that i normally work with Windows computers as a supporter, and then it's easier to keep up the skill by running it at home also. Also I'm having harddrive issues with Linux on my main PC. My girlfriend plays too many games, and doesn't want to go to Linux (and I let her make her own choices).

[Gonzo_PhD]

Mine is: Dirk McGirk

[bobbybobington]

I have my comp in the Antec P-180b case (Its big, tall and black), thus I call it Barad-dur, the Dark Tower from LOTR.

Yes! Perfect! that is so awesome. \\:D/ :grin:

[RIV@NVX]

My laptop (only machine I have now) is called coldharbour -- per Markus Schulz's fantastic compilations.

[Kaloma]

Back when my desktop was a Windows box, I named the hard disks Figaro and Susana after characters from Mozart's opera Le Nozze di Figaro.

Now, my desktop is running Debian 'Etch' and it is named figaro.

I ordered an Ubuntu laptop from system76, which I plan to name cherubino.

If I acquire other computers in the near future, I expect I'll continue with this theme.

Matthew

[The Waco Kidd]

I only have one machine and it's called YHWH. I thought that was real funny, but everyone I've told has gone blank on me. Please, someone appreciate my sense of humour!

[magnoliablossom]

I'm not very original....My computer's name is always Dixie...Along with my truck and my guitar. :p

[Mr Wrath]

Total Annihilation
Debian Fileserver-Arm
Windblows Quickbook Server-Core
--
Wk Desktop-Wrath's Domain
Hm Desktop-Wrath's Domicile

[Kaloma]

I only have one machine and it's called YHWH. I thought that was real funny, but everyone I've told has gone blank on me. Please, someone appreciate my sense of humour!

That is funny! Great choice for a name. If you get a laptop it could be named one of: Ghost, Spirit, Ruah (Hebrew), or Pneuma (Greek).

Another desktop machine could be TheSon, or perhaps HisOnlySon.

;)

Matthew

[Strike>>]

Mine was Strikque , i got it form gundam seed, since i like that show. but now its yoo for simplicity and networking, you know how sensitive microsoft network is about names:P

My windows machine name is Discovery, i got it from the discovery channel.

[indigoshift]

a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".

I love those books! Great read.

The laptop I'm using now (running 6.06 swimmingly) is called "UberBoard", which is the name of the best snowboard your character can get from the awesome PS2 game "SSX Tricky".

[Some_Bored_Dude]

turbo, sparkplug & gearbox.

turbo's the file server, sparkplug is a web server (and general all out testing stuff box), and gearbox is a desktop.

I'm not a car nut :mrgreen:

[Hotaru]

Cool thread!

My laptop is named Cerebra, after a mutant-tracking supercomputer in X-Men comic-books.
My desktop computer is named MAGI, after the supercomputer in Shin Seiki Evangelion anime series.

[yopnono]

Laptop: ubuntu-lap (dapper)
Server: media (ftp,file-server,also connected to tv) (winxp)
PC: ubuntu (dapper,winxp)
------------
Other location
Laptop: none-lap (winxp)
Server: mx-server (mail,file,ftp,web-server (win2000))
PC: none (winxp)
PC: none-h4 (winxp)
------------

[buellman]

Server: Freud
Main PC: Skinner
iBook: Koffka

Looks like I'm psychology student :-)

Greets. Buellman

[Hg80]

PC: Oynx
Lappy: Crystal
PC2: Jade

sure you know how my naming scheme works...

[Mr Wrath]

I know this is quite sometime later...but that's a great game. (SSX Tricky)

[FuriousChipmunk]

Current Desktop = Apollo
Old Desktop = Zeus
Laptop = Hermes
Router = Ares

:D

[indigoshift]

I know this is quite sometime later...but that's a great game. (SSX Tricky)

It is, indeed. I especially dig Psymon. :D

[arox]

darkstar


When Egdy comes out I'll propably switch to snowfly

[troy7777]

AlephNull

[DC@DR]

Mine is simply just Ubuntu :)

[Donnut]

steves-laptop

[argie]

I used to have it labelled after my residential address (114J). "Why" is forgotten now.

I think I'll call it Euclid.

[Snorri]

My laptop is called SnorriTop. The desktop is called Lister (after Lister from Red Dwarf).

My dad has a convention of naming his computers after things in Red Dwarf. For example all of the macs that we have are called Red Dwarf, with a number (I for the first, II for the second etc.) He calls his laptops Starbug, with the same numbering system.

My brother's machine is called EagleOne, after the ships in Space:1999.

All of the old SCSI external hard drives for the first mad that we had (Red Dwarf I - a Mac IIfx) all had names too, but I can't remember them...

[max_croft]

Apart from my server, I just make up fantasy sounding names for my computers.

Server: Sehanine (Elven goddess)
Desktop: Amaethra
Sister's Desktop: Larilabeth
Laptop: Thaeli

[wordsmythe]

Liono
Panthro (newer, stronger, has blue case LEDs)
Cheetara (lappy)
Liono has been renamed Lazarus, too (should this be a standard name convention for older machines reborn via Linux?)

I'd come up with more impressive names, but then i'd have things like a 386 named Porche 911--and that ain't right.

[wordsmythe]

Oh, and work computers:

There's "that Windows box" and then there's "localhost"
...
sometimes, just for fun, I call the ubuntu box "127.0.0.1"--but that's kind of an inside joke (since nobody else can call her that!)

[lord_zerg]

i put the names of characters from anime series.
my actual pc is called saito.

[aeon]

Never really put much thought into naming my computers, just give them a name I find suiting at the time..

Desktop: Aurora
Sandbox: Loki
Lappy: Swingalong

[maniacmusician]

my computers' names are pretty much all music based.

1. Alexis (also the name of my guitar)
2. MissFlo (another guitar)
3. MusicStation

[skymt]

I'm posting from rincewind. My Mac is named twoflower.

The Macintosh (twoflower) is rather innocent and gullible, but it never seems to get into trouble. My Ubuntu box (rincewind) dual-boots with Windows, and is on a quest to get the invasive software out of its brain. :cool:

[darkhatter]

Matrix theme

White-Rabbit, Neo, etc.

[justin whitaker]

Yukon and Adirondak.

[Sparticuz]

My pc is mainframe from Reboot the tv series from the early 90's. My laptop is miniframe, and my pda is tinyframe.

[Thyamine]

Mine are all named after various dragon colors (metallic and chromatic dragons) so I have silver, bronze, copper, black, red, etc...

Although when I had a firewall system, it was called Buffy. ;)

[Bigmack]

Чернобил (Chernobyl) It runs kinda hot:biggrin:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1395940&postcount=220

[Melcar]

My main rig is Magicbox and the laptop I'm posting in is Crapbox.

[Bree]

Lola and Lyla. lol.

[songo]

I get a new one for each new installation and it's usualy the first think that pops up in my head!

barra98 (on win98, winXP and kubuntu*). that PC was from 98 so I called that way. barra=slash, e.g. /98

kinomi (on other PC with xubuntu already). ki=which nomi=name. I was talking to myself "ki nomi ki n ta pol?**" and "that's it, kinomi!"

now ruadtras (rua=street tras=back).

* back then I didn't know the difference between KDE Gnome or XFce.
**which name that I will give it?

[kalle314]

My computer goes by the name pasokon1.

Pasokon is short for "personal computer" in japanese.

[bswilson]

All my systems are named after West Coast rappers. My primary Edgy box is doctordre.

[shrimphead]

my PC's are named Sakura and Haruka. named after anime characters in series that I like

[Kurt`]

Sentinel, Hellrider, (The) Hellion, Starbreaker

All named after Judas Priest songs. 8)

[matthew]

I have telecaster, FlyingV, and LesPaul. I've also used ES335, stratocaster, SG and a few others.

[tubasoldier]

My desktop is TubaSoldier
My laptop is Share - named in honor of my wife :)

[newlinux]

my names are pretty boring, but maybe I'll change them
home-desktop
ubuntu-laptop
debian-laptop
work-laptop


All my systems are named after West Coast rappers. My primary Edgy box is doctordre.
I like the westcoast rappers idea...

[Rhubarb]

Laptop: RhuBook
Server: RhuServer

... Nothing terribly creative there, Rhubarb.

[Henry Rayker]

My desktop is my first name, my girlfriend's desktop is her first name.

My laptop, though, is always named after whatever OS it is running...my main partition is Dapper32b currently...

[chaosgeisterchen]

My names are only temporary so I will probably post more than once into this thread.

Desktop is names SEQUENTIA and notebook SERPENT, the latin word for snake and an equivalent to the word snake.

[taurus]

The one at home is called Taurus while one in the office is called Libra and the other is called Universe...

[John.Michael.Kane]

Desktop:WARandPEACE

[cmoore18]

Hemingway and olive in honor of my mother.

[PatrickMay16]

The hostname of my desktop machine is "ubuntu", because I installed that a long time ago and wasn't sure of how to use the installer, so I accepted all the defaults except for which hard disk it was to be installed to.

My laptop (ordered on ebay, not yet arrived) will be something like "patrickslaptop", though I dunno yet. As you see, I am very imaginitive and creative with my naming schemes.

[bonzodog]

I have just the one machine, a custom home built-for-linux AMD64 3000+ with all Nvidia chipsets and GPU.

It's called the Dwarfstar, as my last computer was a Darkstar box, the default slack hostname.

[Stealth]

There's an old thread here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26150

[lazyart]

My Windows machines-

Mainserver
Heather
Compaq1200
Client03
Bigbox (which replaced Toaster)

My ubuntu pc is named Ubox

[Kateikyoushi]

I name them after their codename, X505, U101 etc.

[John.Michael.Kane]

Stealth thanks for the link.

Threads merged..

[FISHERMAN]

Orac (named after a computer from Blake's 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7))

[Erich K]

My Linux box running Kubuntu is cunningly named KubuntuBox:)

[UbLnoy]

Hello everyone,

I call mine Francis.

After the mule in the Francis the talking mule movies.

Cuz it's like a mule... If I ask it to do something, it
thinks about it for a while, and if it agrees, it does
it. Usually it doesn't agree.

Regards,

UbLnoy

[Woobles]

I've named mine after my nickname - Woobles. :lol:

[ixus_123]

wonderful & happy for my 2 computers

[spockrock]

I dunno why but I name all my computers star wars characters, chewie being my primary computer, hansolo bing my secondary box, and I have a work in progress my htpc, but I might call it ig-88, and laptop bobbafett, I think.

[grte]

Two machines, wintermute and neuromancer.

[DigitalAxis]

For no apparent reason, my old Dell Inspiron 8000 (broken, who knows if it'll be resurrected with a new Hard Drive, an install of Edgy, and given to my younger brother) was called "Patrick", and my new Dell Inspiron 8500 was called "Murdock".

At least until I decided to switch from Ubuntu&Kubuntu to nearly pure Xubuntu... now it's Riedel-02 and I don't know how to change it without rendering my machine unbootable (no, it's NOT /etc/hostname)

[zanglang]

Laptop "Aesir",after the gods in Norse mythology.

Never thought of giving it a more 'person'-ish name like most people... I guess it just feels too creepy. :P

[drphilngood]

Black Adder ~ snake & a TV show I like
Copperhead ~ snake

Many snakes where I live. ;)

[tetherblood]

This computer is called Tetherblood (ubuntu/winxp)
My media PC is called Cable (ubuntu)
The webserver im working on will probably be called Shatterstar

or something else along my theme...:)

[puppy]

The machines in my place are called Auberdine and Astranaar, with my router's SSID as Darnassus (I play an elf druid in World of Warcraft, go figure :p )

Actually, that's quite boring compared to my best friend, where on his wireless network every device has the name of a Kate Bush album - when we shared a flat a while back I would have liked my main desktop machine to have a cool name like "Lionheart" or something like that, but no, it was known as "The Red Shoes" - oh the shame [-( Of course, his router has the SSID "Aerial" :)

[IYY]

We are setting up new systems at the university's computer club, and we decided to pick the names from an old brochure from our CS department, circa 1990. We just pick the names of the old systems we like best: so far we have Tribble and Albacore.

[Old Pink]

matt-desktop :)

[Eric_T]

I work with fluid dynamics, so I name my machines after famous scientists...

Laptop: Reynolds (after Reynolds' transport theorem, you know..;) )
Desktop: Kolmogorov (famous turbulence researcher, because my desktop is a mess..:cool: )

[Tasu]

Laptop: eleryth
Desktop: daelereuth
Barebone: aerith

I love fantasy books... you know..

[Dual Cortex]

Mine: LinuxDesktop
Everyone's: Family
Father's laptop: Papa (= 'Dad' in spanish... doesn't have that childish sound as it does in english).

[fuscia]

on my last reinstall, i named it fuscianator.

[cmorgan47]

futurama characters:
my laptop: bender
her laptop: leela
server: crushinator
router: farnsworth (ok, not named but that's what's in my hosts file)

[daynah]

Laptop: Whituntu
Desktop: Dayuntu

(I have two names, Whitney and Daynah) I don't really know why the desktop is the desktop and the laptop is the laptop. Here's my old names. I liked some of them better and some of them worse.

Windows Desktop: Galifrey (gone, but was the "home world")
Windows Laptop: Hal9000 (still alive, to push out video)
Cell Phone: TARDIS (it's like a PHONE BOOTH get it! HA!)
PDA: SonicScrew (I couldn't finish the name, but it was funnier like that)

[Demio]

My PC is called DEMENTOR, my laptop is called Carlos Lage's iBook G4 or something. It was automatically generated :P

[zcal]

Try to spot these. It shouldn't be that tough for this forum I think... :rolleyes:

Desktop: Kupo
Laptop: Artemicion
iPod: Stiltzkin

[kuja]

Hmm, computer names eh?
My brothers is luna, my parents is gaia, and mine is named terra.

[theicyj]

I am very original when it comes to naming my three computers.. :-D
Desktop name: desktop
Server name: server
Laptop name: laptop

[chickengirl]

I sometimes wish I could come up with a really cool name for my computer, but alas... mine's called "xubuntu".

[sloggerkhan]

depending which partition you boot into, mine can be called

Vault II
Vaulten
opboxkhan
xop
... I think that's it right now.

edit: meant Vault_II, i think.

[yabbadabbadont]

daffy.duckdodgers

[d3v1ant_0n3]

This laptop has something very badly wrong with it that results in very fast battery use (20 odd mins), very slow charging, odd power-offs at annoying moments (the last one was during partitioning. That was fun.) and generally refusing to make it past POST about 1 time in 3.

I believe there's a swear filter on this forum, so I can't tell you what I call it;)

[Patrick K.]

List: Computer Names

Junk Heap (Windows Networking Computer "2003 server")
Nix Box (Ubuntu Server)
TechSonic Nix Box (Ubuntu)
FoxLogic Nix Box (Edubuntu)
The Untouchable Windows (Windows XP Pro (For games)
That server that never bugs us (Unused, no OS, unplugged in basement)
HULK SMASH! (SUSE) Nobody uses this computer, it was just left on and just sits there.

[adam.tropics]

This laptop has something very badly wrong with it that results in very fast battery use (20 odd mins), very slow charging, odd power-offs at annoying moments (the last one was during partitioning. That was fun.) and generally refusing to make it past POST about 1 time in 3.

I believe there's a swear filter on this forum, so I can't tell you what I call it;)

Similar here too....in that it's name depends entirely on what mood the nice ATI people have left me in with the current month's drivers!

[KhaaL]

I call my destop computer Xeraphim and my laptop Tuxic

[drFUNK]

Laptop: Mr-Bojangles (random suggestion from friend)
iBook: jays-toy
iPod: The White Ranger 3 (3rd replacement)

[gholen]

My computers are namend after friends of mine, or characters in anime.

For exempel, My very best friend is like Motoko Kusanagi in the animeseries of Ghost In The Shell.
Therefor, I've namen my workstation after her.
Motoko, simple as that.

My laptop has the name after a classmate, Tina.
My backup computer (desktop) is named after a friend too, so her name is Marie.

My server, has a boys name, and i haunted, so I call him Nazghoul (tolkien name).

These are the computers i play with all day long!
I love'em

[webra]

Laptop: Jakamoto, XP + Edgy in vmware
Desktop: Toto, Edgy
TV computer: Yoko, XP (mostly used for playing games)
Server: server , Dapper

[Hobbsee]

LongPointyStickOfDoom.

I'm serious!

sarah@LongPointyStickOfDoom:~$ echo Hello World
Hello World

I've been thinking of naming my old laptop "OnFire"

That being said, usually i just call them sarah

[Kieranties]

I'm a big dbz fan, so my names all come from there.
My windows machine always just had character names, since I have switched them all to ubuntu the names have gotten much cooler!

"goku" became gokubuntu
"buu" became ubuuntu

What's more, I registered the domain name gokubuntu.com cause I liked it so much. When I get round to things it will be a ubuntu info/help site :mrgreen:

[TMM]

Desktop: neo
Server: blast
Old server: server

:)

[viper]

Laptop name is "MALAKA" ...... anyone who is of a Greek background will definitely understand what this means :D

[CheeseEatingBulldog]

Desktop: Ifrit
Laptop: Bahamut

[Minyaliel]

After a new install my laptop went from "Igor" to "The Mortuary". Every time I log on, I get the friendly message "Welcome to the Mortuary"... *grins* I know, I've got an evil sense of humour.

[KaroSHiv0n]

beef0r
trogd0r
KaroSHi
V3als3rv
Lapdancer

[el_itur]

Mine is called gandalf. My brother has a laptop that is called walkirya, and my other partner has one called ewock

[Castar]

new laptop - Ninja

old laptop - Pythagoras

(I'm a Greek, japan-obsessed geek :cool: )

[stormoog]

My new computer: Turgot. After the famous economist.

[MedivhX]

I call mine Lypto...

[clauguia]

Kunhantan-deck (or the deck of kunhantan).

Kunhantan (stands for Cunhantã) is the word for "woman" in the indigenous tupi language of Brazil.

[munkyeetr]

When I used to run Windows it was always Spastic-A-S-S...
Now it is Ubuntu-A-S-S

Apparently this forum doesn't like the A-word :rolleyes:

[stuh84]

I'm on Chimera, and Pegasus is sat next to me switched off. Gotta work out a name for the Mac Pro I'm getting now........

[jamyskis]

I have a server that I called silent-bob due to the fact that it sits there quietly and just hums inconspicuously. Consequently my desktop machine which is connected to it is called jay.

[stuh84]

Schnoogins!

[dbbolton]

mephistopheles

[iPower]

NoWhere
Nowhere2
NoWhere3

[Peyton]

Athlon-Mobile. 8)

[heathen]

as unoriginal as possible... I've got

laptop
desktop0
desktop1

[jpyanowski]

My HP XE3 GF laptop is called The-Grey-Box because that's what it is. :D

[kevinf311]

Back when I had an HP with XP Home I think it was called something along the lines of "HPP-[Number]-Flowers" (Flowers is my last name). Then I had to deep six the Home installation for XP Pro because of an interesting and as of yet unexplained loss of most of my win32 files. I called that iteration "Pro."

Then I started building my computers. Given my long history with hardware failing at bad times, they all get called "Hal."

I even have audio clips of the Hal9000 computer for my opening and closing sounds on the XP side of my hard drive.

[RandomJoe]

Way back when I first set up my network I decided to *try* to use some reasonably original names. My first thought was cyborg/android names, but it eventually wound up just being favorite female characters from whatever I happened to have watched/read recently. I seem to be on a "witch" kick lately! :mrgreen:

Currently active names are:

Rachael - Blade Runner
Christine - Phantom of the Opera (the actual musical, never seen the movie)
Piper - Charmed
Robin - Witch Hunter Robin
Dorothy - Big O
Ginny - Harry Potter
Tonks - Harry Potter

[bobbybobington]

Old Compaq
475 mhz
384 mb ram

Name: Paploo After the ewok in star wars. I think all my comps with ubuntu are going to have ewok names. They fit ubuntu perfectly cause they're kinda tribal. http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/paploo/img/movie_sm.jpg

[JLB]

I use names based on Greek mythology.

[BlaineM]

blainux... and desktopblainux. I think that I used to use names back in the day like beast... and nosteal. or machine. I dont remember the names all to well. but I did used to give lots of thought to the names back in the day.

[Tux Aubrey]

My main machine is "Big Kahuna".

[squeeniverse]

My desktop is Vice and my laptop is Lucky

[foxmulder881]

Ubuntu box called "Chloe"
Server box called "Zoe"

[wesley_of_course]

Ratdog ! Go figure .

[transantique]

horseview, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF5dXqMtU4) it kills me. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF5dXqMtU4). (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF5dXqMtU4) ](*,) :D

[Interestedinthepenguin]

Steve= Dell Desktop running WinXP (family PC)

Larry= My Dell laptop /w Ubuntu (6.10)

[ZankerH]

HOMEPC
LAPTOP
ROUTER

Not really creative, am I?

[total wormage]

my workstation is called 'wormage' but in real life it is called 'interim wormbak1, wormbak1'
because 'wormbak1' broke down and i'm still waiting for a really good replacement named 'post-interim wormbak1, wormbak$, wormbak1'

next to my workstation there is 'scanbak1' (running win2k) and 'scanbak2' (running ubuntu) who isn't connected to a scanner or network so i don't know why it got that name...

silly things

[SnTholiday]

My desktop is called SnTholiday, which means Steve n Tami holiday.

[finferflu]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.

Now I call it Lazarus

LOL! You made me laugh! :D

I called it themachine, since I was lacking of creativity, even though sometimes I find banal things to be quite artistic :p

[jbtito03]

Mine..

officeone(the workstation) and phoenix(the server)

cheers :D

Jb

[hotbrainz]

Mine is the "TARDIS" my sleek compaq laptop

[steven8]

Do you realize that TARDIS is SIDRAT backwards!! I just noticed that.

My computer is named Pauly.

[hotbrainz]

Do you realize that TARDIS is SIDRAT backwards!! I just noticed that.

My computer is named Pauly.

sorry to be a bit off-topic. but SIDRAT is a term given to "imitation" TARDISes. They appear in the novel "Doctor Who :Invasion of time" if I recall right.

[steven8]

Oh wow! I was just being a Smart-Alek. Go figger.

[dbbolton]

is it possible to change the name ?

[Kratos]

Being a "case-modder" I try to give my PC a visible personality to match it's name. My computers original incarnation was called "BloodRun" with a lovely red and black theme for it. When I next upgrade it, however, I'm going to rechristen it as BreezWay with a theme of silver, black and blue.

Someday, I'm going to get a server called Goliath, and all of my other boxes will be named accordingly. :)

[makakun]

my pc is called: eureka

[Titi]

my windows computer is called blackbox. because it is black and looks like a box.
the old laptop on which i installed ubuntu is called craptop.

[dbott67]

is it possible to change the name ?

Yes... the name is stored in /etc/hostname.

dbott@edgy:/etc$ cat hostname
edgy


I think you can edit the file:

gksudo gedit /etc/hostname
or via GUI:
SYSTEM > ADMINISTRATION > NETWORKING
Click on the GENERAL TAB and change the hostname (you may need to reboot)

[lyceum]

Every computer I name comes from classical literature. I theme networks I create. For example, in one house I built PCs for everyone got names from "The Portrait of Dorian Gray."

As for my personal comeputers, well... that's personal :mrgreen:

[FredSambo]

my workstation is named poopship and my big bad web server is optimusprime.

[Dokatz]

The Lexx.

[fuscia]

fuscianator

[enfield]

The box I'm on now is called Batcave (because of where it's located). The backup/development box is called G6-300, its Gateway model number.

[szf]

Just for fun:

Dell p2 350MHz - "gypsy"
home-built athlon 1100Mhz - "jabsco"
home-built intel 2400MHz - " beehive"
Dell celery 1200MHz (kid's computer and the only non-Linux) - "maryanne"

[optimus.prime]

Router - Hydrogen (192.168.0.1)
iBook Clamshell Indigo - Helium (192.168.0.2)
Server - Lithium (192.168.0.3)
Main Desktop - Beryllium (192.168.0.4)

I'm guessing you can figure out my naming scheme as well as how I assign IP addresses ;-)

[runningwithscissors]

The dev machine:
hostage - Runs Gentoo x86_64 - Athlon 3500+/2GB Memory
The other machine:
tiku (brother's nickname) - Runs FreeBSD 6.2 - Pentium 2.4Ghz/768MB Memory

[robert@debian]

@ optimus.prime

Your System is fantastic!
Unfortunally you are doomed, if you get more than 118 hosts ](*,)


I stick with the greek. Their names sounds so cool :)

Workstation 1: titan (mythology) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28mythology%29)
Workstation 2: Ion (mythology) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28mythology%29)
Server: Zeus (everybody know this guy) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus)

[manmower]

Mine are named after two moons of Saturn which share an orbital resonance, Titan and Hyperion.

[optimus.prime]

@ optimus.prime

Your System is fantastic!
Unfortunally you are doomed, if you get more than 118 hosts ](*,)


I stick with the greek. Their names sounds so cool :)

Workstation 1: titan (mythology) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28mythology%29)
Workstation 2: Ion (mythology) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28mythology%29)
Server: Zeus (everybody know this guy) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus)

If I have more than 118 hosts on a home network, I think their naming scheme is the least of my worries -- my power bill would be the primary concern (well, hell, the power REQUIREMENTS would trump even that!)

[axel-vpk]

For some time i've mostly named my hardware after famous people. i didnt think of anything when i installed my media computer so that got unimaginative.

Now defunct:
Orwell - Celeron (mendocino core) 400 MHz workstation
Trotskij - Pentium Pro 200 MHz webserver
Bakunin - AthlonXP 1500+ workstation
Descartes - PII 350 MHz server

Currently Used:
Oppenheimer - Laptop, 80486, 300MB HDD runs (very old) Slackware
Euler - current workstation, AMD64 3200+ s939 venice, runs Dapper
tvbox - HTPC/server, 1.2GHz fanless VIA C7, runs at ~20W, runs Debian Testing

Workgroup:
same as SSID, based on my Street Address/apartment number so people'll know who they're connecting to.

[MkfIbK7a]

my desk: albert
my laptop: felicity

[BoneSaw]

i decided to name all mine as references to slayer's reign in blood album.

my current on is called monarch as in "monarch to the kingdom of the dead" a line from the song "angel of death"

[M_the_C]

I haven't named the home computer, but when I went on an IT course we had to repeatedly install the OS. So I named them:

Bob, Fred, George, Harry and Tom.

[dexter]

I use names from the simpsons
- main computer: Homer
- secondary computer: Bart
- junk/test computer: Maggie
- My parent's computer: Lisa

[optimus.prime]

For those of you looking for naming scheme ideas, I found this site hades quite a few good ideas:

http://namingschemes.com/Main_Page

[Sunflower1970]

Haven't thought about any fancy names for the computers yet..one desktop is known as Paul (my husband's) and mine is Carrie....Maybe I should just call it "sunflower...since that's my screen name.."

[jclmusic]

this computer is jcl-desktop

[Zuuswa]

My lappy is called Arianlynn. My previous computers were always named Betty, but like many others I always called my M$ machines 'POS'

[artir]

MIne is called PORTATIL (which means laptop in spanish)

[Howitzer]

My computer doesn't have a name, though sometimes when I get mad at it, I'll call it a "stupid peice of sh**". Yes, I'm running Windows, but I'm trying to convert to Ubuntu... again.

[Belyel]

I name mine all based on variations of the first computer I built: pipeline. I also name all the computers that I build based on a ****line variation, so for example:
My main laptop is pimpline (windows) and pimpline-lx (ubuntu) cause it's blingin and new.
My second laptop is ghettoline (ubuntu only) cause it's an old P3.
My desktop is pipeline-jr (windows) and pipeline-lx (ubuntu) because it's the second build in the same chassis w/same hdd different proc, mobo, ram.
My parent's computer (no I don't live with them) is greyline.
A computer I built for a guy who recovers dashboards is dashline.
A computer I built for my roomate who played a lot of WoW is warline.
You get the picture...

[Tsen]

Mine's Kicksey-Winsey. I'd explain, but I doubt anybody will get the reference.
If you DO get the reference, you're automatically my best friend.

[ericallen]

Mine's Kicksey-Winsey. I'd explain, but I doubt anybody will get the reference.
If you DO get the reference, you're automatically my best friend.
good name, that's a reference from the Death-Gate novels from the writers of the dragonlance series, I remember reading those years ago ;)

my pc's name is ericandheather

[Nikron]

Master
nikron

desktop and server respectively

[LookTJ]

Mine is laptop \\

[Moeru]

Main PC: Mizuki
Fileserver: Luffy.

Luffy's gettin a name change pretty soon once I rebuild. I was thinkin somethin cute like Yumi or Shirayuki for that nice touch of Bleach :)

[migla]

My laptop is named laptop.
I don't remember what the desktop is called. I think it was "Datorn" (meaning "the computer").

[Toontwnca]

My name for my toshiba notebook is new.
I call it error90; so-named for the error I
got when I tried to re-install Windows this
past weekend.
lol; well at least I don't have to dual-boot anymore.

[KyleJRM]

My wife named our computer Severus, because it's dual-boot setup is torn between the side of good (Linux) and evil (Windows).

[total wormage]

My wife named our computer Severus, because it's dual-boot setup is torn between the side of good (Linux) and evil (Windows).

:D


i found my interim replacement a month or so ago, but its hdd broke down, so i guess it's named something like
'interim post-interim wormbak 1, wormbak1/2, wormbak1'

i hope i get my hdd back soon, so it can be called 'post-interim wormbak 1, post-interim wormbak 1, wormbak 1, wormbak 1'

[RandomJoe]

My wife named our computer Severus, because it's dual-boot setup is torn between the side of good (Linux) and evil (Windows).
Wow, doesn't look good for the Linux partition then, does it?!? ;) (Assuming you've read through to the sixth book yet...) I guess one day it'll nuke the Linux partition while running Windows! :)

[adam s]

I copied an old university naming scheme - The lord of the rings.

I have bilbo and frodo.

I used to have one of the Middle Earth constellations called menlvenor.

Adam.

[WiseElben]

I named mine shiranix, which is a combination of my last name "Shira" and, obviously, "nix" as in "Unix" and "Linux."

[JayTee]

my computers names are from various sources.

my Ubuntu Edgy workstation = yggdrasil (from Norse mythology, the World Tree. also translates as terrible steed or Odin's steed)
my Ubuntu Dapper server = rockhopper ( a species of penguin)
my Fedora 6 workstation = loki
my Windows XP machine = wintermute (From William Gibson's novel Neuromancer)
my Windows 2003 server = neuromancer (from the title of the novel mentioned above)

[tbodine]

My main, and currently only, computer is named eisenstein, after Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein. All of my computers will be named after mathematicians in the future.

[%hMa@?b<C]

Desktop - "opteron" (any guesses on why? :) its got a dual core 165 opti)
Router - "fonera" (hacked la fonera wireless router)
Router - "linksys" (never changed the name of my wired router)
Server - "maclintosh" (g3 tower running ubuntu server)

[kano]

desktop running edgy: medivh
ibook running osx: aegwynn
macmini running debian (server): sargeras

pretty easy to figure out what they're named after ;)

[steven8]

Some call my computer. . .Tim?

[KyleJRM]

Wow, doesn't look good for the Linux partition then, does it?!? ;) (Assuming you've read through to the sixth book yet...) I guess one day it'll nuke the Linux partition while running Windows! :)

Well, to extend the analogy, I'm partial to the idea that Windows only have done it under orders from the linux partition, to help clear the way for a long-term plan that would eventually have a younger distro wipe out Windows altogether.

But that's for a whole other forum :)

[dasunst3r]

My computer is called "hastalavista2" because... you know...

[Dayylin]

I have 2 main machines.

dylan-morgan and hope-courtney Those are the names of all 4 of my daughters.

[frup]

I currently have Lars and Imp. Two other boxes waiting on spare parts and time... i will be calling those charityOne and CharityTwo as they will be given away with ubuntu installed :)

[Rhapsody]

I'm using Chihiro right now, and my plans include building Shizuku later this year, at which point we'll have a network going.

[total wormage]

I'm using Chihiro right now, and my plans include building Shizuku later this year, at which point we'll have a network going.

woot woot! :KS :KS

[eilu]

The PC's called Cerebrum.

The notebook is Hannibal. He got the name because I like Hannibal Lecter. One of my friends, seeing me on Linux, jokingly remarked "Nangangain ng tanga 'yan " (It eats stupid people; a term we use for stuff that are intimidating to the uninitiated), which is very apt. The notebook has also acquired a title some people in class call it "the MIB laptop", because it's all black and has no branding/markings (it's a whitebox)

My thumbdrive is called Homonculus.

[ghowells]

I have a few, my main workstation at home is gunit my work machine has to follow a boring naming scheme: gerardhowells, my mom's laptop is wubuntu and finally my dev box (a mammoth, roaring Compaq prolient server) is called hermod (running source mage) named after some norse fella :)

[Bachstelze]

Ana, Miu and Chika, named after the girls from the Ichigo Mashimaro manga series :)

[dv5237]

When ubuntu releases a new version i usually do a clean install and then name my computer after the current version.

[Toontwnca]

My computer is called "hastalavista2" because... you know...

:lolflag: Good one.

[Wicca]

Got a mixture of Ubuntu/XP workstations/servers here with the names:
Titan, Mimas, Rhea, Dione, Pandora and Telesto.

Those are moons of the planet Saturnus, an my domain is called, guess what, Saturnus.

[banditti]

woody


After all, it does have a HARD drive.

[Catsworth]

Can't remember if I posted here or not.....

Server: caramon
Laptop: raistlin
Palm T|X: tasslehoff

[yabbadabbadont]

/home/bubba $ hostname -f
yoiks.and.away
:D

[MacsRock]

All of mine are Star Trek Related. Currenlty I have Enterprise, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager.

[krayzee8]

My three year old picked the computer names, I picked the workgroup -

Server - Mickey
Desktop 1 - Pluto
Desktop 2 - Ariel
Laptop - Tinkerbell
Workgroup - Magic Kingdom

[WindowWasher]

My Linux box is Tweedledee
Winodws is Tweedle-dumb

[JLB]

2 Windows machines --> error406 (406 = Not Acceptable ) & error417 (
417 = Expectation Failed)

4 Linux desktops --> Enterprise & different Dutch Cities.

1 BSD --> Server

1 Linux Laptop --> runabout

1 XP laptop --> my wife's pet name

[ccaazz]

mines called: my-slave!

[diepruis]

Desktop: monolith
Laptop: neolith

[red_five]

I name mine after planets in the Star Wars universe...

I currently have:
Endor
Alderaan
Byss
Qella
Dathomir

I have previously had:
Tatooine
Dantooine
Coruscant
Naboo
Death Star (old Philips Velo 500)
Death Star II (Dell Axim X3)

I may reuse a couple of the retired names...

Oh, and my wifi ssid and Winblows workgroup are both New Republic or some variant thereof.

[saulgoode]

Tesla - Main machine 500MHz PIII (has been "up" almost continuously for the last 4 years).
Franklin - New (to me) 2GHz P4 which will replace Tesla soon
Gauss - Laptop (500MHz AMD K6)
Faraday - 133MHz Pentium running IPCop (firewall)
Hertz - 200MHz Pentium II for audio (no fans, silent unless HD is accessed)
Marconi - Wireless Access Point

Yes, I use a lot of legacy hardware.

[FoolsGold]

I've only ever bothered with two names:

Buffybot - the name of my previous computer; anyone who's seen the later seasons of Buffy would understand the reference

Silverblue - the name of my current computer; called so because the case is silver, and the front LEDs are blue, hence, "silverblue". I'm such a genius!

[jariku]

spock - my AMD Athlon XP 1800+ desktop running only Feisty
uhura - my Acer Aspire 3610 laptop running Feisty and Windows XP

EDIT: I'm now turning spock into a test bed for various Unices and Unix-like OS's. Now installing Gentoo which used to be my preferred Linux flavour.

[slider2800]

I'm about to get a notebook. Possibly this month.
I guess i'll name it Touring-Scorpion...

[joshlfisher]

Mine are:
Old Desktop: Dewey
New Desktop: Trey
Other Desktop: Ivan
Laptop: Lyekka
Brothers laptop: Bret
iPAQ (running linux): Ewok

I have a couple servers, but I name those after my buisness, Knight Technology Solutions.
Server #1 : KTS001
Server #2: KTS002
etc.......
Server #15 KTS015

[Iceni]

I name my computers after the forsaken from the wheel of time. Currently I have the following:

Moridin (this one)
Lanfear (laptop)
Semirhage (p4 for gf. Yes, there is irony)

[juxtaposed]

I don't name my computer, I just set the hostname (I think that's what it is) to the distro name, currently debian.

[theredcross]

Mine is Called STATION like in Bill and Teds Bogus Journey.

you are my hero.

Mine is called Mahdi, the prophet from Herbert's Dune.

[Enalia]

The names of my computers are, as follows:

Dianna
Wayne
Kent
Jonnz
Orin

Guess what they're named after!!!

[amphet]

mushroom

[ThinkBuntu]

I always combine "ThinkPad" with the name of the distribution, so it's ThinkBuntu. It's had reasonable stints as "DebPad", "ZenPad", and "ArchPad."

[ZeroXR]

Interesting to see that I'm not alone on naming machines after mythological gods and creatures!

Beast v5 - The Shuttle xPC with an Athlon XP with Ubuntu 6.10 and still packed up in it's carrying bag.

Beast v7 - The G4 Mac Mini with OS X.

(Beast being in reference to The Beast from The Book of Revelations in The Bible)

Suzaku - Dell XPS m140 laptop with Ubuntu 7.04 and Beryl

Suzaku (phoenix) being from the Chinese guardian beast legends, guarding the direction of the South.

I have already picked future names for my terabyte machine (Seiryuu) and Windows gamer machine (Byakko)

[loathsome]

My laptop is currently named frozenpenguin. Haha. :KS

loathsome@frozenpenguin:~$
What about you guys?

[codesplice]

My laptop has some multiple personality disorders.... probably a result of three different operating systems...

XP: LappyWinbloze
Vista: LappyShinies
Ubuntu: Lappy486

:)

[~LoKe]

loke@x04d:~$
Yah!

[fuscia]

fuscianator

[loathsome]

Oh, my Vista desktop is called 'taintedlove'

[rickyjones]

Hmm, I'm boring when it comes to computer names...

Personal machine: selene

At a customer's site I have a full network setup (domain is solarsystem.local) ...

Domain Controller: sun
Linux Server: mars
Secretary: secretary
Sanctuary: sanctuary
Pastor 1: julie
Pastor 2: curt
Pastor 3: travis
Router 1 (Linksys WRT54G): router-01
Router 2 (Linksys ....): pub-router

Ok, so the client's network has an OK naming scheme... servers are named after objects in our solarsystem.

-Richard

[Iceni]

Ohabu!

[insane_alien]

Desktop: gruntmaster9000
laptop: smartbrick

almost forgot:

broken laptop(post-mortem): doorstop

[twirp]

WindowsXP:FamilyRoomComputer
Vista:OtherFamilyRoomComputer
Ubuntu:Tails
Parsix:Sonic

[M$LOL]

Ubuntu :P

[reclusivemonkey]

My main desktop is called "mother". Not because I have an Oedipus complex, but after the computer on board the Nostromo in Alien. My htpc is unimaginatively called "mythtv". When I had a web server it was also named, unimaginatively, "www", but when you want to access your web server internally on your LAN this is incredibly helpful.

[Pobega]

ackbar

Can't you tell that I just love Admiral Ackbar?

[Enverex]

My machines were all named after ships to start with:

Andromeda, Enterprise, Enterprise-Mk2, Ragnarok, RedDwarf, Starbug, Titan and Voyager but now I just pick different names. My desktop is now Xenith and my laptop is Cipher.

[kevinlyfellow]

Hmm, I'm boring when it comes to computer names...

Personal machine: selene

At a customer's site I have a full network setup (domain is solarsystem.local) ...

Domain Controller: sun
Linux Server: mars
Secretary: secretary
Sanctuary: sanctuary
Pastor 1: julie
Pastor 2: curt
Pastor 3: travis
Router 1 (Linksys WRT54G): router-01
Router 2 (Linksys ....): pub-router

Ok, so the client's network has an OK naming scheme... servers are named after objects in our solarsystem.

-Richard

In High School I wanted to build a telescope and would have called it Selene... Nice name.

My laptop's name is Argool, from the game Rygar

[Hallvor]

Lidskjalv. (Lidskjalv was the high seat of the norse god Odin, from where he could see the whole world.)

[kprowell]

5150 :guitar:

[Ascel]

lucitania -- from "Speaker For the Dead" by Orson Scott Card

[tgm4883]

My naming scheme is greek god/asse(s) for all real computers. Car makes for all Virtual Machines

Fileserver: Zeus
Desktop: Poseidon
Laptop: Apollo
Mythtv: Myrtle (dont ask)
VMware Win2K 1:Honda
VMware Win2K 2:Toyota

[juxtaposed]

Oh, my Vista desktop is called 'taintedlove'

I thought naming computers wasn't a windows thing...

[InuyashaDuelist]

dementual-desktop.

Generic? Yes. Do I care? No.

[Enalia]

All of my computers are named after members of the Justice League:

Dianna (Wonder Woman) - Server
Kent (Superman) - Family Computer
Wayne (Batman) - My computer
Jonnz(Martian Manhunter) - My laptop's XP partition
Orin (Aquaman) - My laptop's Ubuntu partition

[prizrak]

My file server is called The Hulk, it's a full tower Matrix Green :) The tablet is called Tablet, I know very creative ;)

[happy-and-lost]

Main machine is Mithos. He's a very... interesting character in the GameCube RPG "Tales Of Symphonia"

Anyone who's familliar with Discworld may understand why I called a slightly unreliable yet marvellous machine also in my care "Rincewind" ;)

[ep2011]

eric@ubuntu:~$

Yeah...

[reclusivemonkey]

Anyone who's familliar with Discworld may understand why I called a slightly unreliable yet marvellous machine also in my care "Rincewind" ;)

:lol: Love it.

[Brunellus]

my new Shuttle XPC box is called 'sputnik.'
my old HP desktop is called 'funes' (after a character in a Jose Luis Borges short story).
my IBM Thinkpad 570e is called 'hooptie' (a word that means 'beat-up old car')

other hosts on the network:

a 2000-vintage HP desktop (celeron 800! 256 MB RAM!) that has seen several OS installations is called 'nosferatu.'

[ghandi69_]

tony@Coolblue

and I always try to use a blue theme.

[bapoumba]

@ loathsome: merged your thread in here.

[laughingquarter]

gangstalicious (from the Boondocks)

[crimesaucer]

I'll probably change my computer and user name soon. When I had first installed xubuntu back in October, I had spent so much time on the forums during my first nubi attempts of installing the xubuntu edgy beta, that after a total crash from a failed Beryl attempt (I should of been using the AiGLX), and then a fresh reinstall, I thought it would be funny to accurately name my computer...

blah@blah-blah

...because I was always asking so many questions

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r161/crimesaucer/Screenshot-19b-2.png
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r161/crimesaucer/Screenshot-19-10.png

[Happy_Man]

Ubuntu-home. take that, creativity and uniqueness!

[loathsome]

Decided to re-name my two PC's :D

Desktop, Vista: drippindevil
Laptop, Linux: twirlyduck

The workgroup are called el banana - it's been like that for two years or so.

Oh, also - our WiFi network are called Orion

[orb9220]

Two-Rivers and Tar-Valon from Robert Jordan's massive fantasy novels "Wheel of Time"
My Location is 1 Quarry Rd,Two-Rivers which is also from the novels.

[Vencislago]

I called my laptop "primigenium" for the name of my first killifish:
Aphyosemion primigenium GEB 94/21

http://www.fische-killifische.de/Galerie/Aphyosemion/primigenium/Aphy._primigenium.jpg

[renzokuken]

my laptop is called nibelheim and my desktop is called jenova

free bacon sandwich for whoever can guess the connection......lol

EDIT: my ESSID is midgar.....hehe.....well it is the greatest game of all time

[Rovdjur]

I stole the name "tux" from my Gentoo partition, because I think it suits the idea of linux just perfectly :)

Has anyone else taken the name plunge and done something other than the boring name+laptop/desktop?

Woot (ignore the failed install. And don't worry, I got it working) (http://pics.krasch.org/albums/userpics/terminal.png).

[John.Michael.Kane]

There's a thread on this subject already.
What is the name of your computer(s)? (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=284229&highlight=computer+name)

[maniacmusician]

I name some of my computers after my guitars


Desktop: Alexis
Desktop (in the basement): Ebb
FileServer: Tulia
Laptop #1: Flo

and I name some of them after real names.

Mini-desktop: Timmy
Laptop #2: Karen

[Rovdjur]

There's a thread on this subject already.
What is the name of your computer(s)? (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=284229&highlight=computer+name)

Aw man :(

[@trophy]

We have a King of the Hill theme here:

This computer is Hank. Our two laptops are Peggy and Bobby.

[Rovdjur]

We have a King of the Hill theme here:

This computer is Hank. Our two laptops are Peggy and Bobby.

Haha, my father is obsessed with that show.

[mike102282]

I stole the name "tux" from my Gentoo partition, because I think it suits the idea of linux just perfectly :)

Has anyone else taken the name plunge and done something other than the boring name+laptop/desktop?

Woot (ignore the failed install. And don't worry, I got it working) (http://pics.krasch.org/albums/userpics/terminal.png).

Bud its my nickname.

[Ultra Magnus]

My computer is called HAL-9000 and my network is called Skynet - Not very original I know, but it makes me laugh!

[stuh84]

Mines based upon Greek mythological creatures. No other reason apart from I like them :)

Mac Pro: Charon
Macbook Pro: Cerberus
PC Laptop: Chimera
PC Desktop: Cant remember..... :P
Phone: Medusa (the bluetooth name)

I intend on adding a few more, so having a lot of creatures available is a good thing :D

[Mean-Machine]

my desktop is called Mean-Machine

[%hMa@?b<C]

my desktop : opteron (it has an AMD Opteron 165 processor) very original name!
my brother's laptop : turion (AMD Turion processor)
my router : fonera (hacked la fonera)

I named them with my creative genius

[bapoumba]

@ Rovdjur: merged your thread in here.

[argie]

Laptop: mjolnir
Desktops: elysium, roshan

[Rog-Mahal]

I named my Sager laptop core. If you've ever had one, you know that it heats up to temperatures only found at the earth's core. It also makes enough noise from its 4 fans to drown out the noise from a wing of F-14's at take-off.

[Ralob]

Desktop: Gizmo
Laptop 1: Blackdog
Laptop 2: Dexter
Router: Gotham :P

[DM was on fire!]

My online/Ubuntu computer is named Solomon, and my offline computer is Josh.

[Nudgeworth]

My laptop's name is Dante.
If I was to get another computer I would probably call it Danzig.

Oh and my name is Dan.

[lisati]

Now come folks , naming your computers, now thats crazy, naming your car yes naming your favourite shoes yes but your computer ???:-P:-\"

on my home network I have static-aspie, mobile-aspie and old-aspie. My neighbour's laptop is gorilla.

The "aspie" part is short for "Asperger's Syndrome" in recognition of the Jerry Espensen character on Boston Legal.

[gvoima]

My babies are Masiina and lollo :)

Server is lollo and desktop is Masiina, haven't named my laptop so it's just gvoima-laptop.

[xpod]

Home1
Home2
Home3
Home roamer1

[doog519]

The Boss, Moose and Plugger :)
With a couple others nameless :(

[Afoot]

Desktop: Mango
Laptop: Kiwi

[Samhain13]

Hello, I'm new here.
My computer's name is Memphis. :)

[John.Michael.Kane]

After upgrades the machine was renamed Blackbriar.

[Xanatos Craven]

roflawful (the one I'm on right now)
shukaku
esperanza
suigetsu

[popch]

Now come folks , naming your computers, now thats crazy, naming your car yes naming your favourite shoes yes but your computer ???:-P:-\"

Why not? I have only one child and gave him a name, even when there was no danger of confusion when speaking about or to him.

Incidentally, I used to name my computers after planets of our solar system. Then, I ran out of planets and I extended the scheme to any celestial body within the system. Virtual computers get named after continents. When these are done, major landmarks of real or imaginary celestial bodies will come next, I suppose.

[Megaton]

My Laptop is called "Treehouse"

My Desktop is called "HomeOne"

The first is from Tad Williams' Otherland series, the second is a Star Wars reference.

[celettu]

I have always named my computer Galahad...after the son of Lancelot, the one who Merlin SHOULD have made first knight of Arthur. The name passes on to new computers, and the older ones become Guinevere, Arthur, or Merlin.
At the moment I have only one PC which is therefor, by default, Galahad :)

When I had more, the network was called Camelot. It seemed appropriate.

[use a name]

XP1800, P-II and laptop. They are an intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz, and a Super Nintendo.

[el mariachi]

central-dogma - the name of the NERV HQ on the anime Evangelion (my main desktop pc)
peace-garden - my old PIII, I only use it to write, print and play LAN poker

[TheeMahn2003]

I have 5 computers in the house, my main is called SledgeHammer name based off the CPU in it, I also have a SledgeHammer2, I also have 1 I call Sled good to ride down the hill in winter (slow) winderz kiddies use it; the 2 in the basement don't know, nor do I care the names assigned ;)

[blithen]

Mine for awhile has been 'sparky' xD

[~~Tito~~]

Tito or laptop

[matchstich]

hellfire

because that is what i go thru to do stuff on here. have a lot of problems trying to install apps and get them working.

am a dumb a## when it comes to this..

this used to make sense to me. was a programmer & day end operator
back in 1980. quit that in 85.

haven't used any of those skills till i got ubuntu.

back to square one.

[Jonq]

Laptop = Lappy

Desktop = G5

[Stew2]

Last machine I built was made from parts left over from previous builds and broken machines, hence the name "Spare Parts" :D

[RedNikon]

My Desktop is Lain
My Laptop is Chibi_Lain
My SAN Drive is Lain_Mini

[eentonig]

gauloises - Main Desktop
Tigra - Old laptop which serves mainly as my Openssh server to get remote access to home
Camel - Production Laptop. It's actually from work and has XP Pro installed. But I run Ubuntu on an external HD when using it for myself.
Bastos - An old server (Proliant DL360 G3) I took from work. It's still at the office though, but I'm already setting it up the way I want it.

[pyros]

hmm, i've gone through several generations:
in the begininning, when I had a mixed os household, I did a typically geeky starwars based naming scheme - empire names for microsoft based systems (my first desktop was deathstar-i, it's replacement was deathstar-ii, my pocketpc was tiefighter, all of which dual booted as degoba, hoth, and xwing respectivly)
I broke with tradition when I bought my first laptop and felt it deserved no other name than monolith. It has since been replaced by a much nicer (and newer) dell.
For a while I used the names of US "founding fathers", now I am using the names of monkeys that were shot into space... albert, able, baker, gordo, etc

[bomanizer]

I've named my laptop "ipari"

It's a Finnish slang name for IBM.

[mrazster]

I'm still going strong with Papa Smurf .... :guitar:

[Arwen]

Desktop : NEMO(yep,from the movie :-P)
Laptop :Delirium(I always mess it up :-)
Old desktop :nootherpclikeme( :-P)

[RhubarbnCustard]

scragglemuffin - 'cos that's what it is

[walkerdude]

Mine is calle jbabes5...reason is we are all J's and there are 5 of us...:lol:

[glupee]

Hey i'm new and this is my first post. Thought this would be a good place to get started with my posts.
I call my machine daisy, as in De La Soul's "da inner sound y'all". I just always really liked the concept. That and I always give my machines Female names (previous names Jane and Lady).

[sacherjj]

Xerox Phaser 8500 Color Wax Printer - Inara (everything that comes out is colorful and beautiful)
Windows XP Workstation - Simon (It is pompous and thinks it is better than the others)
Primary Ubuntu E520N Workstation - Mal (It just gets work done.)
MythTV Server - Book (a place for all kinds of information)
Girlfriend's WinXP PC - Kaylie (She's sweet on Simon)
Backup Server E520N Ubuntu - Jayne (Good to have in a pinch)

Hope to get a Ubuntu laptop named Wash, but my current work PC works when I need a laptop.

[esaym]

I use "user" for the user name.

Hosts and websites are named after girlfriends

[Depressed Man]

vendetta (desktop)
vendetta-laptop (laptop)

[MkfIbK7a]

my desktop is called "albert" my laptop is called "droopy"

[Falcorian]

My laptop was newton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton), my random server in the closest is lawrence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Lawrence).

My new desktop will be... I don't know yet. Some physicist. ;)


My work uses all linux boxes as well, and they're named after local restaurants.

[Thingymebob]

sarauman, aragorn and gandalf on a middle-earth network, uruk-hai user on the sauraman machine is used for network testing/breaking

[notwen]

main pc = notnix
server = notserv
win pc = notwin
ibook = notmac

and when i get my dellbuntu 1420n it shall be called notnix-ii

=]

[Taum]

Linux box: UbuntuBox
Win box: Doom
Macintosh: iMac

[TKR101010]

Now come folks , naming your computers, now thats crazy, naming your car yes naming your favourite shoes yes but your computer ???:-P:-\"

Naming your favorite shoes? Ooooooookaaaaayy, if you so so. ;)

My two computers I have now are L4T2 & D4T2. Firstly, they seem like droid names from Star Wars. Secondly, 4T2 when you say the numbers/letter sound like "Forty-two", my favorite number. And, the L for laptop, D for Desktop.

[jgrabham]

james-desktop

how boring

Cant think of a good name

EDIT: Thought of one (as I look at my DVD rack) - Ripley - because you cant get rid of my PCs :]

[xdarkxanarchyx]

When I was living with my friend we named all of our computers by the Greek alphabet. He had Alpha and Omega of course. My main machine as you can see from my sig. is called, "Epsilon" for the letter E because my name is Eryck.
The other machine I have is called "RocketKnight" because I couldn't think of anything at the moment and looked down at my desk and saw the old Sega Genesis game sitting there.

[Catsworth]

[Update]

I now have:

raistlin - Main laptop, running Ubuntu

tasslehoff - Secondary laptop, mainly used for hacking/security work, triple-boots Ubuntu, Windows XP Pro, and Back|Track

riverwind/gooldmoon - Desktop (dual-boots Ubuntu and Windows, has a different name for each)

caramon - My old (soon to be rebuilt) file server

bupu - Palm T|X PDA, it's small and it stinks

[Taum]

Someone really likes Dragonlance...

[j.miller565]

simon-desktop LOL!!!

is there anyway I can change this? lol

[yabbadabbadont]

simon-desktop LOL!!!

is there anyway I can change this? lol


/home/daffy $ cat /etc/hostname
yoiks
/home/daffy $ grep yoiks /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1 yoiks.and.away yoiks
/home/daffy $ hostname
yoiks
/home/daffy $ dnsdomainname
and.away
/home/daffy $ hostname -f
yoiks.and.away

The rest is left as an exercise for the student. :D

[swoll1980]

Desktop is " BIGMAN" Laptop is " lilman"

[Catsworth]

Someone really likes Dragonlance...

;)

[Milk & Toast & Honey]

notie (my *beloved* laptop)
servie (my server)
kompie (my family's pc)

Simple yet straighforward, isn't it ?

The headache will come at the time I buy the 4th computer, what would be the name ?

[DeadSuperHero]

My computer has had several names, I just make up a new one for each install.
In order:
"sean-desktop"
"Ascender"
"Marauder"
"Visionary"
"Vigilante"
"Taft"


and the latest name I gave my computer is:
"Ubuntu", because I installed through Wubi. Oh well.

[Espreon]

I call my Mom's (dual-boot Sabayon with M$ Winblows XP [soon to have Ubuntu in a vm [I switched from Ubuntu to Sabayon but I still like Ubuntu and would like to keep my skills sharp) This Thing and other times I call it Deidara.

My 7-year old desktop computer (given to me by my friend's mother) has Ubuntu Feisty and it is running Beryl+AWN just fine, I call the desktop Da Bitch (since it acts up sometimes [espically the CD-ROM drive]).

[j.miller565]

/home/daffy $ cat /etc/hostname
yoiks
/home/daffy $ grep yoiks /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1 yoiks.and.away yoiks
/home/daffy $ hostname
yoiks
/home/daffy $ dnsdomainname
and.away
/home/daffy $ hostname -f
yoiks.and.away

The rest is left as an exercise for the student. :D

Cheers!!! Thanks yabbadabbadont :)

[Carbon Tiger]

My computer is named Heliopolis, meaning "sun city" in Ancient Greek. Ancient city of the sun god Ra. I got the idea for the name when looking at the colors used for the Ubuntu theme it gave me the idea of sun warmed earth so I went from there.

Also there are several legends about the sun city and the mythic animal the phoenix. In my religious viewpoint my totem animal is a phoenix so it fit together all too nicely for me not to use. :)

[dbbolton]

one of mine was lennox (named after the character in macbeth). he died.

[DjBones]

mines: KillAllHumans

linux is plotting against us all

[Malh]

Right now I'm referring to my desktop as nothing due to the fact that I've yet to install an OS on it.

[Turboaaa2001]

fileserver

mike

chira

cluster1

cluster2

cluster3

cluster4

cluster5

cluster6

[bobbocanfly]

Changed the names of my computers. They are now Tiger and Marco. Tiger because i am determined to change all my computers names to dodgy animal names and Marco because its like Venetian or something and my dad loves venice. He wont let me change it to Penguin :(

[RChickenMan]

LappieX86

[Tmi]

Origin (desktop) and Destiny (laptop)

Origin is the "religion of the bad guys" in the later seasons of TV-series Stargate SG-1, which I was watching at the time of installing Ubuntu on my desktop. There's not much of a reason why I chose it other than that I have a poor imagination :)

Destiny is sort of an opposite to Origin, and that's why my laptop got the name.

I use my laptop 90% of the time, and I like the name Origin better than Destiny, so after next install my laptop will be Origin.

[Darklotus666]

i call mine lotuspod

[ashvala]

Yosmart(Linux server) & tiger(Linux) & iPod(mac)

[HeavyAl]

My main laptop is called 'chopshop' because I've installed every distro on it that I could find and its cobbled together from various other laptops (modular ibm .. they're cool that way)

Main desktop is called 'Prime' .. it's a gaming rig .. ASUS motherboard, 256 meg nvidia .. its a monster

Movie and Music server is called 'Ellie' .. its also my wifes machine .. she has a thing for elephants so Ellie is short for elephant .. yeah, kinda silly.

My sons machine is called 'SkateCity' .. he's a skater dude .. go figure

My dads box is called 'Ravensnest' as his first name can be translated literally to raven.

Got a new 17 inch monster laptop coming from Dell .. not sure what I'll call it yet .. will find out after I figure out how long it takes to wipe Windows from it and install Ubuntu.

[j.miller565]

woah!! how did you get through every distro?

[thelinux_guy]

LOL! I did the same... :smile:

Thats pretty much a standard name these days :)

My computers name is Kompooter :KS

[sw1995]

Lemon. I like lemons.

[rahimveron]

Mine is called SEBA

[hessiess]

just called "a"

[funpop]

my desktop is called "BlackboX", because its a big black case,
the desktop of my girlfried is called "Schnecke", german for snail, cause its a slow p3 with 650 mhz, and also german for "crumpet" meaning shes a attractive lady :wink:
edit: (not in an offensive meaning)

[HeavyAl]

woah!! how did you get through every distro?

Well, not EVERY distro .. hehe, I guess that was kind of an exaggeration .. I've been using Linux since the mid 90's so let's see .. started with Slackware, then Red Hat, then Crux .. after that I attempted to get ROCK linux to work but had problems which about the time I noticed Mandrake (later to be mandriva of course) .. then I tried Debian which was cool as far as installing packages but the install I tried back then wanted you to compile everything which was too time consuming for me (a touch of ADD here) ..

At some point I took a hiatus from linux after I got a job as a Delphi dev which meant at the time only Windows .. after I left that gig I took up web development which meant (to me at least) that I needed some kind of personal web server to test junk on and what better web server than apache (70% of the web at the time if IRC) .. sooo .. back to Linux!

Along the way I tried at least a dozen other distros (including that-which-is-not-linux FreeBSD/et al) looking for that one sweet spot - I finally came full circle back to Slackware because it was flexible and development stuff was pretty much all built in. Then one day I saw this odd thing called 'Ubuntu' - decided to give it a shot and was pleasantly surprised at how well structured and thought out it was and it used my favorite desktop environment by default.

So, here I am, typing this up on my Ubuntu driven Thinkpad. No, this particular thinkpad wasn't with me from day one of the journey, but it's sort of the culmination of several years of messing around with these various distros, thus 'chopshop'.

Sorry that was so long, but I figured I'd clear the air in case I sounded like an idiot.

[metallicamaster3]

Mac Pro - Lisa, named after the old Macintosh Computer.

PowerMac G5 - "the" PowerMac

eMac - the "e-e" named after what my little 4 year old cousin named it about 2 years ago...I was working the eMac (reseating the ram) and I told her it was an 'eMac'. and thats just what she called it and it stuck :P

PowerMac G4 - "the" Den Mac :P

MacBook Pro - 'Peter's' Mac ^_^

Dell Inspiron 6000 - 'The' Laptop

Toshiba Satelitte - The Toshiba


How original, eh?

[iPower]

scrap heap computer challenge :)
and ibm badhardware

[rkrug]

Mark I and Mark II

Mark I has my old hard drive and dvd drive but in a different case

Mark II has newer stuff inside of it, but a lot of it's original parts as well.

[diesel1]

My desktops are diesel1 and disco.

Diesel1.

[arashiko28]

the laptop's name is Chilindrina, after a character of a 70's mexican TV show, El Chavo del 8. I named her like thath when using windows, because it cried ans squeaked just like her for every little thing.

The desktop name is Mizuho, i'm thinking of changing the laptop name to optimus.:lolflag:

[Jeremiah478]

I have 'che' for my Ubuntu install, 'cash' for Vista, and my server is 'odin', I had a norse god theme for a while but I more or less dropped it. Although my wireless network is still called 'valhalla'

[milosz.galazka]

bluebird :)

[jgrabham]

scrap heap computer challenge :)


Who needs a scrapheap, try the ten tons of stuff in my room.

AGP 16MB Graphics cards anbyone?

P3 700Mhz CPU

1MB PCI Graphivs card

A TV Tuner that hasnt had anydrivers written for in since 1999 and so refuses to work with xp/win 2k let alone linux

several thousand CDs that come stuck to the front of magazines?

[VraiChevalier]

My XP box dual booting Feisty is STRESSMACHINE/Stressbuntu.
My old beige box is UbuntuBonBon (6.06 Dapper/Win98)
My other old beige box is Subuntu (6.06 Dapper/Win98/Kubuntu)

The old beige boxes are named for the persons who gave them to me.

The XP 'STRESSMACHINE' name is self exlpanatory. :lolflag:

[burt_57]

Burt :lolflag:

[iPower]

Who needs a scrapheap, try the ten tons of stuff in my room.

AGP 16MB Graphics cards anbyone?

P3 700Mhz CPU

1MB PCI Graphivs card

A TV Tuner that hasnt had anydrivers written for in since 1999 and so refuses to work with xp/win 2k let alone linux

several thousand CDs that come stuck to the front of magazines?

AGP 2MB Graphics Card
8x CD ROM
zip100 drive (click of death included)
Intel Celeron 333Mhz CPU
Cyrix mII-300GP 75Mhz CPU
IBM/Motorola 132Mhz PPC CPU
tv tuner that needs a apple performa
40MB Harddrive
DVD ROM that doesn't play DVDs

[sumguy231]

Mine are, with what they're running, as follows:

Formalwear - Kubuntu Feisty (What I'm posting on now)
Quicksilver - Xubuntu Edgy
Richard - Old Pentium II clone, runs Debian Lenny
Stargazer - A Gateway 2000 486DX machine running FreeDOS
GERRYS - Windows XP SP2
LISA - Also Windows XP

[bbrg548]

From the Vlad Taltos / Dragaera books by Steven Brust:

Jhereg - My main computer. Laptop running Ubuntu with an XP partition for iTunes/games

Yendi - Recently acquired desktop from work (a small office). Destined for a linux install, and to become my household file server and music repository.

Tiassa - Another desktop also recently retired from work. Destined to become a game machine when I get money for more ram and a good graphics card.

Dragon - My iPod.

Dzur - My Dell Axim X5 (with CF WiFi card)

-Jake

[strider_mt2k]

I tend towards fairly conventional naming.

My main desktop computer is Alpha, My notebook is Delta, my low-ender experimental box is Epsilon (or the tertiary machine) and my new arrival (should it work out) will be my new Beta machine!

Beta and Epsilon are both Ubuntu boxes.

[ivesjd]

My triplebooting MacBook is called MacBook and my desktop is called Whoremonger.

[WanderingKnight]

Bilkis.

[jaakan]

AMD64 ( workstation/server U7.10 )
DELL7500 ( old Dell laptop U7.04 )
and JMSNEW ( XP ).

[DougieFresh4U]

I am running Gutsy on this "Old modest machine" so I have named it 'DougiesLeanMachine'

[jgrabham]

If I ever get this craptacular pc running win 3.11 to talk to my router Im gonna have to come up with a good name :D

[TomGier]

completely Lord of the Rings-themed:
my ThinkPad is called celeborn
my wife's iBook is called arwen
the Desktop answers to the name of frodo
and the server in the basement's called gandalf because although it's an old Dell Dimension LX566cx it miraculously serves as file and mail server, powers a firewall, hosts several forums and god knows what else :) ...

[Daniel Hansen]

Blueray
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/425179778_651c915855_t.jpg

[d80zoom]

It does not have a name. I also do not talk to it. It is a machine that I use to communicate with, watch movies with, listen to music, and lots of reading. I also use it to play games, and waste time with.

If I ever was to consider a name, I suppose HAL (like 2001 movie) would be it.

[yabbadabbadont]

It does not have a name. I also do not talk to it. It is a machine that I use to communicate with, watch movies with, listen to music, and lots of reading. I also use it to play games, and waste time with.

If I ever was to consider a name, I suppose HAL (like 2001 movie) would be it.

It has to have a system name as you were required to enter one during the installation process... ;)

In a terminal window, run
hostname -f and it will show you the name of your computer.

[rabi.fettig]

I don't have anything creative anymore, but when I was in high school and college my brother and I named them after monsters from Godzilla movies. We had:

Godzilla (my bro's old PC)
Mothra (my bro's laptop)
Ghidorah/Monster_Zero (my old PC in Windows/Linux)
Rodan (My laptop)
Mechagodzilla (My bro's next PC)
Gamera (my next PC)

[Ozor Mox]

It has to have a system name as you were required to enter one during the installation process... ;)

In a terminal window, run
hostname -f and it will show you the name of your computer.

I find it funny how some people on this thread think that all these people are actually giving a name to their computer, like they would their children or their car! Computers are required to have a name so they can be identified on a network, and whether you are on Windows or Ubuntu, you must have entered a computer name when you installed or set up the operating system.

:lolflag:

Mine are boringly just based on my name followed by "desktop" or "laptop".

[badhat]

I have two systems, both dual-boot, so four names: fan-club, noisy-boy, blue-moon, silly-girl. The names do have explanations...

The tower system is FAN-CLUB under Linux, or NOISY-BOY under Windows. Both names relate to the high number of fans. There used to be 20 fans: five hard-drive heat sinks with three fans each makes 15, plus upper and lower case fans make 17, plus power supply, CPU and Northbridge makes 20. Recently I changed the Northbridge to passive cooling, so now there are only 19 fans. But I installed switches so the hard-drive fans can be off most of the time; I saw a study recently by Google, which suggests that temperature is not so important for hard drive life.

The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite with a blue tint, so under Linux it is BLUE-MOON. Under Windows it is SILLY-GIRL. (The first syllable of that relates to Cilantro, the disk label of the Windows "C:" hard-drive partition. Also my wife, who came up with the "noisy-boy" name, is the silly girl... We are both silly, it's a good thing. My hard drive partition labels seem to come out of the kitchen: the Linux partition, mounted as X: under Windows, is labeled XLCR, the same letters that are stamped into Excelcior brand Jamaican water crackers. My flash drive labels come from the parts of the mouth and throat: there is a retractable flash drive called Tongue, a dangling one called Uvula, and a thin one called Velum. Of course they are assigned in Windows to drives T:, U: and V:)

Someone might say that giving so much thought to the names of things, shows too much time on my hands. Maybe, but there are times when it makes things easier, to have names that are memorable and that make sense to me.

[amazingtaters]

well, I call my laptop...


Lappy386

[toupeiro]

my ubuntu 7.04 machine = necromonger
Windows XP virt. Machine = Carpathia
Nexenta OS = Corinthia
Thinkpad T60 Laptop = Sindel
Solaris 10 virt. machine = n00b

[synthaxx]

My most imaginative names ;)

Synthaxx-Prime - Main box (ubuntu feisty)
Synthaxx-Server - Server (W2k3, Gutsy)
Synthaxx-Theater - HTPC (ubuntu feisty)
Synthaxx-Tablet - Really old 500mhz Fujitsu tablet for torrents (ubuntu edgy)
Synthaxx-WM5 - WM5 mobile phone (please tell me ubuntu mobile will run on this, Windows mobile is CRAP)

[moonorchid]

For a while, our naming convention focused on Lord of the Rings:

The Linux server was Gandalf, and the two windows servers are Sauron and Saruman. (we also have a windows domain controller who is called Ugluk) A good vs. evil theme.

Now we are in the midst of changing the naming convention to Firefly. We have a mix of desktops and laptops named River, Zoe, Book (that is the new LInux server, I think) Mal, Inara and Kaylee. Hmmm, no one has taken Serenity?

Other naming conventions we have had in the past - Ghostbusters (with servers name Spengler, Zuul and Gozer) and famous inventors.

[Npl]

My Amiga 1200 is called "Amiga"
My PSP is called "PSP"
My PS2 is called "PS2"

The IBM-Compatible I have has absolutely no right to get even an generic name. Its a name- and identyless boring box, an evolution with the worst heritages known to man.

[know1.2]

I picked shark types as names for systems in my environment. So far, I have REEF, BLUE, LEMON, WHITETIP, TIGER, MAKO and, of course, GREATWHITE. I also have a Internet tablet called DIRTSHARK which is a running joke with a buddy.

k1

[gundumfx]

well the name of my computers name is gundumfx an i built my computer

[towerofpower256]

I probably have THE weirdest naming convention for my computers. I was watching the southpark episode where Cartman becomes really fat and says 'beef-cake'. It struck a nerve and thus, out came the new name for my computer.

Beef-Cake : My main computer
Steak Muffin : My server (one that I leave going cause he's quiet :grin:)
Smoothie : My SmoothWall

Everywhere I take Beef-Cake, my mates bag me out and suggest future names like Sugar Stick and Whipped Cream. I plan on using them all just to spite them :razz:.

[Pitbull11188]

Am I the only one that names them according to the model number?

My old desktop is called 4300s

My main computer (self-built) = main

My new laptop = p205-26337

My old laptop = pcg-fx370 (but it's almost dead)

Family computer = 8200

[hessiess]

getting a new computer, probaly going to call it B! (curent one is A)

[cybrid]

udaeus (server), hyperenor (work) and ajenjo (noteboook).

If someone wants to know (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartes)

[derekr44]

Desktop:
silverbox

Laptop (soon to be file/web/auth server):
satellite

[dentaku65]

My Laptop:
Kundabox

My desktop:
kat-desktop

[diffuze]

Current one is simply 'moo' because I ran out of imagination when I bought it.
Past names are Gandalf, Mogul, Wizard.

[InTrance]

My main computer is named Neptune my laptop is named ME my upstairs computer is named upstairs and my server is named Thor.

[Iceni]

For a while, our naming convention focused on Lord of the Rings:

The Linux server was Gandalf, and the two windows servers are Sauron and Saruman. (we also have a windows domain controller who is called Ugluk) A good vs. evil theme.

Now we are in the midst of changing the naming convention to Firefly. We have a mix of desktops and laptops named River, Zoe, Book (that is the new LInux server, I think) Mal, Inara and Kaylee. Hmmm, no one has taken Serenity?

Other naming conventions we have had in the past - Ghostbusters (with servers name Spengler, Zuul and Gozer) and famous inventors.

My old laptop is named Serenity because she is old but pretty and always comes thru:) I'm also a big firefly fan. Great show!

My main computer used to be named Moridin but is now named Ohabu. Name comes from the name of a snake living on some islands ourside korea, Habu.

[Kowalski_GT-R]

"Moebius Reactor" for me.

Had several HAL models through the years....:biggrin:

[Gegglambi]

My desktop is called twoflower, the router is rincewind, my VDR's name is conan and the pc of my flatmate is chest.

I'm using the same theme.

Server: Ankh-Morpork
Desktop: Rincewind
Wireless network ID: the_hub

Can't change the name of my laptop due to it being the company's computer... wanted to call it Twoflower.

Planning to get a new desktop and naming it Cohen.

[boopyg]

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[Dr Small]

My first system is called "drsmall", and the second one called "selftech-server".

Dr Small

[viergeame]

When I still used Windows, the names I called my computers were far appropriate for this forum. Now though, they get called nicer names. Neither one of them has one true name though. Different people know them as different names.

Laptop- Lappy, Lappy-San, Arch
Desktop- Desky, The Monolith, The Heater

Not creative really, mostly just descriptive. I'm getting a third computer from a friend in the next few days, I'm not sure what name it's going to take.

[GreyShadow]

"Ludi" and "basement"

[Ocxic]

xzix , that's my comps name

[gate]

Gaming tower and gutsy alpha playpen: Othalla (One of the worlds of the Asgard in Stargate :) )

Laptop: Haphestus (Greek god of the forge, first character to ever own robots.)

[Acglaphotis]

Acglaptop.

[dashnak]

My now defunct desktop was called merrick, and her predecessor was called akasha, both from anne rice novels.
My laptop is called lillith, you know, from the midrashim.

[dakuran]

my desktop is AXMX1
while my laptop for now is just Feisty (i'm using feisty fawn)

[greymongrey]

The Godfather.

[bruce89]

Scooby-Doo
Scrappy-Doo
Scooby-Dum

[leonlipe]

I call it Crateria, from Metroid game (i like it), my home net is Zebes and my dektop PC is Maridia.

[misse-]

I'm not going to read through all of the 101 pages, so I can't tell if I'm original at all. But I've named my computers after the characters in Orson Scott Cards novel Ender's Game.

so:
Laptop: locke
workstation: graff (old, sluggish, winXP, never used)
servers:
bean My first server, currently hosting mail/Ftp/web etc.
ender which is my dom0 Xen setup.
valentine xen domU, she's going to be my mail daemon
peter xen domU, he'll host my ftp and web.

And yes, it's intended that valentine and peter solely should exist under ender, as it is in xenocide.

I dunno. To geeky? I personally like the command "ssh val" :}

[Fonon]

I named my computer...Zidane from Final Fantasy IX. He is always getting more powerful, cause he's an RPG character, and so is my computer ^^

[Darkhack]

My name is Nick and this is my computer, so it is "Nick's Box" which becomes nixbox. I think it is a cool name.

[p_quarles]

I'm a grad student in English lit, so most of my machines are named after authors:
Desktop: Rimbaud (French poet)
Server: Huxley (as in Aldous, from one of whom's novels my screen name is derived)
Router: Levertov (obscure American poet)
Desktop: Starbuck (not the literary one, though: the BSG character).

[nest]

mine is called....oh my...its called DESKTOP :P


I'm a grad student in English lit, so most of my machines are named after authors:
Desktop: Rimbaud (French poet)
Server: Huxley (as in Aldous, from one of whom's novels my screen name is derived)
Router: Levertov (obscure American poet)
Desktop: Starbuck (not the literary one, though: the BSG character).

Huxley is one of my favs writers :D

[mthei]

Siobhan Cosey

Originally I was having trouble deciding between the two so I took the lazy way out and went with both. Cosey from Cosey Fanni Tutti of TG and Siobhan because I think it's a nice name.

[p_quarles]

Huxley is one of my favs writers :D
Have you read Point Counter Point? Go get it if you haven't. :)

[Crinos512]

Fortress and Garrison.

the wife's WinXP box is Kaos
:)

[Co.Sinecure]

I may as well give my two cents...

My computer names come from Bungie's Marathon series (originally written for mac during the 90s - the predecessor to Halo -- infact alot of the mythology in Halo ideas continued on from Marathon!)

Durandal - Main machine, Dell, dual boot, usually running windows (hence the rampancy possibility that is attributed to that name!)
Tycho - Ubuntu server that will eventually be a gateway & fileserver.
Leela - Was my ubuntu toshiba laptop. Died. Just like the Leela of Marathon.

Also my IP addresses are usually the birthyear of a member of the family!.


My new work machine (running fiesty) I've named brass-kazoo after my trombone! :D

[Henaro]

I named my desktop Froggy (I have several frog stickers on my desktop). My lappy is called "dicks", but I lack phallic stickers for it (although the ubuntu sticker is sort of phallic).

[blackhowling]

Knight, NITE, night :P

[Co.Sinecure]

Gaming tower and gutsy alpha playpen: Othalla (One of the worlds of the Asgard in Stargate :) )

I think my next naming scheme would be based on Stargate. :)

Actually I noticed the other day that someone who has set up some VMs on our network has called them Chevron1 to Chevron8!

[shingalated]

My desktop slash server is named Linus, and my system76 darter is named Lucy.:)

[rharriso]

Lappy and Compy

[kuja]

router: cosmos
my desktop: terra
my laptop:spira
brothers desktop:luna
parents desktop: gaia

[Lord_Sin]

laptop name: lalonde

Lalonde is a planet in a Peter F. Hamilton's book, The Reality Disfunction.

Actually it belongs to The Nights Dawn Trilogy :KS

One of my favourite writers!!

[darsu]

Gazzelloni, after a song by Eric Dolphy, who in turn was namechecking an Italian flutist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severino_Gazzelloni).

[aaaantoine]

Awhile back I had the bright idea to name my computer "pwnz".

For lack of a better name (and the time to care), all my PC names have revolved around this.

- New desktop PC: pwnzbox -- Named for its cubish shape (case is Apevia X-Qpack), and because my old computer is still in the house.
- My laptop system name in Windows: pwnztop
- My laptop system name in Ubuntu: pwnzix

[haden9]

I named my desktop TAIKOOBOO, and my laptop is called SUPU-CHAN. Weird names huh... but I like em :D:popcorn:

[ghostcrab]

Teahoopoo

[asmoore82]

scorpion
blackice
asmoore-laptop

[nest]

Have you read Point Counter Point? Go get it if you haven't. :)

i didnt. ill buy it today :D

[ahaslam]

Mine's named Voodoo.
It's highly overclocked & runs bleading edge/development software, enough said ;)

[backinthecity]

Dante .... yea devil may cry i would of stuck with the whole ffvii theme but... i think its to over done :D

[Rupertronco]

Desktop - Sebastian
Laptop 1 - SebastianMarkII
Laptop2 - SebastianMarkIII
Server - qwerty

[bigbearomaha]

fqdn's are always descriptive of the OS over .bel.local

but short names are always notorious and I am typing this from the one called Henry8.

Others are named Hannibal, Brutus, Jack, Ted and Legion.

Big Bear

[Gorgoth]

Currently my two systems are, in no particular order, my laptop - UtopiansLap, and my desktop - TentacleRape.

And before anyone asks, the desktop was the result of a bet on who could share the most "original" content. It was, at the time, overrun with people sharing mostly the same top40 pop crap and crappy movies. I went an alternate route and just shared as much hentai and subgenres as I could possibly get my hands on...

All of course legal backups of stuff I owned <coughs>

[SLUG-Nixon]

Sweet. I get to follow TentacleRape.
My desktop is called 'Applefarm' and my laptop is called 'Armorplatedfarmer'.
The desktop is called that because... i don't know why. I've just been calling my desktop computers that since high school.
I got the name for the laptop from an Aesop Rock lyric that reminded me of my brother who gave me the computer for christmas.

[multifaceted]

Fred

[voided3]

I always name mine by CPU type and OS instead of using a name, or if it's a manufactured computer I just use the model number (saves time when installing an OS to just have a fail-safe naming system like that instead of trying to think of something clever...). For example, my desktop w/ an Athlon XP 2500+ is 2500LINUX or 2500XP depending on what OS is booted.

The exceptions have been Blackie for a black computer case I have, Blinky II (a K6-III computer I have named after my friend's K6-III computer that died; we always called it that because you'd sit there staring at the blinking IDE LED while it tried to load WinXP from its failing hard drive...), and my friend had a HP desktop called the Intel Infadel because it was the only computer in their house that didn't have an AMD processor.

[Dreambringer]

Server - Alpha
Desktop 1 - Bravo
Desktop 2 - Charlie
Laptop 1 - Whiskey
Laptop 2 - Tango

[markp1989]

on the network i have my laptop called "Marks laptop" and my desktop "Marks Desktop" not very imaginative i know, but it works and makes my life easy lol

anyone know any "pet" names i could give to my computer lol!

[Dreambringer]

Not sure, but you can check here:
Wiki on Technology Code Names (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_technology_code_names)

Might find something useful there. Or do you have pets? kids? cars? hobbies?

[Amander]

It's the SOL, of course.

For those who are not huge Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans, it stands for Satellite of Love (which, in turn, either took its name from a Lou Reed song or the Jerry Lewis telethon-- I forget which).

Sol also could be star...I just realized that. Serendipitous!

Hmm.... anyway, I'm Amanda, just loaded 7.04 this weekend, and very happy to be undertaking this experiment. I've had experience with Windows (naturally) and also over a decade of using Macs.

A friend (IT admin-Fedora Core 7) led me to get interested in Linux.

My first post here!

[ohsoferrety]

Desktop - ferret
Laptop - Edina (AbFab reference)

[Amander]

Love the two lushy ladies!!

[markp1989]

Not sure, but you can check here:
Wiki on Technology Code Names (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_technology_code_names)

Might find something useful there. Or do you have pets? kids? cars? hobbies?

hey, i have pets:

honey the dog
Leo the gecko
Fred the snake
Scott the scorpion
Sidney the cat
Tallulah the cat

i dont have any children, im only 18 lol , don't drive and my oly hobby is computers lol


Thanks for the link, just llooking at it now

[fmc6338]

big daddy I know lol

[h0ser81]

Let's see if you can guess where these names come from:
1. Gobo - Homebuilt Desktop
2. Mokey - Gateway Laptop
3. Wembley - Dell Inspiron Ubuntu Laptop
4. Red - Dell Inspiron Ubuntu Laptop

Figured it out yet?

[Dreambringer]

Fraggle Rock?

*Updated*
Server - Alpha
Desktop 1 - Bravo
Desktop 2 - Charlie
Laptop 1 - Whiskey
Laptop 2 - Tango
*Laptop 3 - November (Ubuntu)

[ggardei]

My Desktop (XP) is N3VQW which is my ham callsign
My Compaq Presario 2105US (XP) is Presario
My Ubuntu Thinkpad T23 is named Thinktank
My Dell PowerEdge 400SC Server (Cent OS 4) is server

[sci-fi guy]

My mom's computer (XP) is Ctrl-Alt-Delete and my system I gave to my younger siblings is called Snafu (named in its XP days). Haven't named my laptop yet.

[trim17]

My computer's name was "brian-desktop" but I changed it to "agamemnon" because it sounds cooler.

[MerlinX420]

That really depends. Let me check.
merlin@LiNuXR0CKz:~$

I guess this one is call LiNux Rockz. Usually I just use the user name with PC speed or Make/Speed for the name. Every once in awhile I name one based on some characteristic or purpose. Most of the time I'm yelling "other" names at it.....oh wait. I forgot I run Linux now!! Ha! I haven't been muttering obscenities about ms. I really wished I could have never "HAD" to run that. As far as "truly" naming a PC? I had a TSR-80-iV that I called Falken "I use to have a C-64 program that used to say command to speak! "Would you like to play a game?" I had a computer that ran a Voice controlled Agent that responded to what is could "hear". It was called Merlin like the character used. (That experiment started to get scary after a bunch of use kept programming responses to what it "Hear") I've probably named most of them but I can't remember.

[oddin85]

on ubuntu it's ubuntu-5580 and on vista it's vista-5580
my iPod video's called TUX
my router's called virusInfectedNetwork
and my iPod mini's called RACCUNK\
my phone's called oddin85

[mattigras]

My old Gateway Desktop is cowpie and the new lappy is AcerOfSpades.

I also name all my flash drives after handles from Hackers (Acid Burn, Zero Cool, Cereal Killer...) I used to have them named after cocktails and characters from the Planet of the Apes.

[galeron]

I'm pretty boring: $function-$host

So, a testing server might be alpha-sodium, while my web server might be mu-xenon and VMware machines will be omega-hydrogen/carbon/oxygen etc.

Weird naming, but it works. And i like greek letters ;)

[turrauko]

I called my internal network/router "khaos". My file server is called DeepThought. All of the other machines get non-descript names like alphaserv, betaserv, desktop0, laptop3, etc...

And they all get nice, neat little labels with their names on them. Awww!

[JBAlaska]

Wow this is an old thread, but a fun one none the less;
SSID is LightSpeed LAN
Main box = AMD64-Ubuntu
Media Server = MediaServer (How original lol)
Encoding Station = XviD_Ripper
Backup Box = WinBlows01
XBMC = Johns_xboxmc (another original)

Electric bill = $230.00+ Mo. :-(

[hellion0]

Don't laugh at my naming scheme.

Desktop (Windows box): Gardevoir
Power Mac G4 (media server): Deoxys
Laptop (yay Ubuntu): Altaria
Other Power Mac: Kyogre
iMac in the "to repair" pile: Jirachi.

[RebounD11]

My old computer, may he rest in peace :( was called Claussiuss - in his honor (and because I got it the day Claussiuss passed away) my phone is now called Claussiuss.

My new... er computer is now called Tron.

Both names come from stuff I once loved: physiscs (for those who don't know Clausius is a great name in thermodynamics) and Tron (movie and game(s))

PS: I like other stuff more but I didn't find it as cool to name my PC Enterprise or Shaq :D

[Zootropo]

My network is called discworld and the computers are named after places from Discworld.

[lobotomize]

my desktop is called asgard, login is Wotan - the old Germanic name for Odin.

[smd0665]

Well, I have two computers named after their locations: LivingRoom (running Linux) and Kitchen (running M$). I called my very first computer Franken'puter, 'cause it was made up of old parts that other people had discarded.

[DuckFOO]

My Xubuntu box is called "****".

[t0p]

My current computer is called x-box. I can't remember why I chose that name - I was somewhat intoxicated due to a foolishly-prohibited substance - but I do know that the choice of name made perfect sense at the time. In vino veritas, as they used to say in Rome. Only it wasn't vino that was making me veritas!! ;)

[stoodleysnow]

My Office PC: Arthur Dent
My Laptop: Marvin
My Big cool home PC: Heart Of Gold
All run Ubuntu 7.04
:):):)

[akiratheoni]

Mine is Zantherus, because that's the name of my company. Well okay, not really a company, but just the name that I use for my domain.

[nweenink]

I named my computers and servers after ancient figures:
Cleopatra, Nefertite, Cicero, Asterix and VanOldebarneveldt.

I used to do that when I was working as a systems engineer/administrators. At one of my former employers I named all the servers after the cartoon figures from Asterix: Asterix, Obelix, Assurancetourix, Panoramix, etc. :-D
So people would logon to the Abraracourix server and such... People in general liked it, and after a while got acquinted with the names:
"Where did you store that document?"
"Asterix has it, in the Sales/Proposal folder!"

Enjoy!

Nico.

[Sc00b]

Mine are named from the Asgard in Stargate SG-1 in some way :).

Thor - an asgard
Freyr - an asgard
Ida - name of galaxy asgard live
Othala - asgard home world
Beliskner - name off Thor's spaceship

Am i sad ? :)

[Conradle]

Server: Server
Mine: Turk
Sister: Thejanitor
Mother: Laverne
Father: DrCox

Yeah, I love Scrubs.

[syväpaahto]

My Desktop Computer: mother (as were all its predecessors)
Wifes Desktop Computer: father2 (for a while it was parallel with it's predecessor. Thats why the "2")

[savemekaizer]

Cuttlefish.
I love them damn things.

my siblings have the names "Shaneenee" and either... "Jewbox" or "Kittensmasher". I can't remember which name my brother chose for his newer computer. :???:

[maybeway36]

My main computer is "banana" but the others come and go.

[Diggs808]

This is Fun:

Personal Laptop (Dell Latitude D820): Fireproof -- So named because of a song --

Work Laptop (MacBook)

Mac partition: Snake --Think Garden of Eden--
Windows Partition: DSEPD (DeathStar Exhaust Port Designer) --that one should be obvious--
Ubuntu Partition (or it will be after this weekend): Remedy

File/Print Server (Vaio 530gz Laptop): Safety Net

Laptop I use in my Church Office: Memory Loss --Because one of the memory chips got stolen out of it when my predecessor took it overseas and left it in his hotel room--

All running 7.04 except My personal system which is running 7.10....

[tsnell]

My laptop is Uzumaki Naruto
My Desktop is Shin Chan
(I name my pc's after anime characters)

[Lexam]

My Laptop is 24oz

[Tachyon_]

(I name my pc's after anime characters)
Me too, but with three lettered names::

Server - Rin
Desktop - Nyu
Laptop - Chi

I hope I won't need new computers, I will run out of names :)

[professoryak]

I name mine after philosophers,

my main computer is 'Socrates'

[DeadSuperHero]

Mine is "Centurion" at the moment.
Love that name.

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

MacBook - Osiris
iMac - Osysseus
Debain Box - Poseidon
Ubuntu VM - Ares
Soon to be built Ubuntu box - Zeus

[faraaz]

Mine is just called Laptop... :P

[KeaponLaffin]

I just call my current one The Box..
Yea, boring..But I never really thought about it before and yall have provided alot of ideas ;)

My old computer I called Frankenstein. Cause it was literally built outta the parts of several dead computers. And yes, I know Frankenstein was not the monster's name..but who cares?

Maybe I should call this one Eris, cause goddess knows it causes plenty of chaos and discord. One half is *******(plenty of chaos there) and I'm still learning Linux/Ubuntu which causes me some discord when I screw it up ;)

I haven't had to do a total re-install in almost 2 days now, so I must be learning sumthin.

[TeraDyne]

Desktop - feralnet (Comes from a fic I am writing, "Pokemon Rescue: Team Arctic Shadow")
Laptop - rescuenet (Also comes from the previously mentioned fic.)

"FeralNet" is the computer network that the main character and his teammates built, and "RescueNet" is the name of the main "Pokemon Rescue" network that most other teams use.

[endoverend]

Main desktop: megatron (grew up on transformers).
Laptop: Annihilatrix (from the current BEST show on television, Frisky Dingo).
Firewall: bananajr (The Banana Junior 6000 was Oliver Wendell Jones' self-portable computer from Bloom County/Outland comic)
Others: ignignokt, err (Mooninites) Emory, Oglethorpe (more ATHF chars)

Edit....oh and the wireless network SSID is "GiantFlyingCocoonLair" (i.e., from Venture Bros...the other current best show on television).

[mini_g]

Lappy (Thinkpad X20) - nurk (The old, now portable, 20GiB HD is named portascum)
Desktop (Slimline Optiplex GX240) - slimjim
The new Pico-ITX Mobo ~ ace (Due to it being 'bout the size of a card deck)
YaCy server (once I get it built) - aquascum2000 (Because of the coolness factor, and a nod to Finding Nemo. Not to mention being able to have the pleasure of cursing it if anything goes wrong. :mrgreen: )

Some others that I've had around the house: blackman (no offence meant), morgan, gorbash, and bob.

SSID's: longsight (B/G) and bigears (B AP with booster).

[un_dave]

My computers, and external drives tend to be named after Greek and Norse gods.

Old p2 laptop - Thor
New Laptop - Platinum (breaks the trend, because it's a work laptop, and work computers are all metals)
Xbox Server - Prometheus
Old Desktop - Zeus
New Desktop - Hades

Etc.

[nowshining]

FLUFFY - it's also pink with pink fluff and shakes and wages it's tail.. :P

I didn't name mine.

[squee]

I called my old P3 piece of sh*t "dusty" because i opened it up and there was about a kilo of dust clogging up all the fans!

Called my new laptop, swirly cos it has the coolest swirls on the outside.

[GSF1200S]

As lame as it is, mine is called "hybrid" because i used the ubuntu kernel and put kde-core on it...

[dimbulb1024]

What great browsing !

Laptop: Wahoo (Dell 6000 w/ 7.04)
DVR: Wascally Wabbit (a BIY with XP)

[RAV TUX]

Name of my computer: CafeLinux

[A_Lyle]

Mine are all named after planets in the 'Verse (yep, I'm a Firefly fan :redface: )

Mac mini: Ariel (one of the inner planets, with a swanky hospital) - OSX Tiger

Macbook: Persephone (somewhat seedier planet, towards the rim) - OSX Tiger + Kubuntu 7.10 beta

Samsung Q1U: Miranda (where the crazy, evil reavers come from, because it came with XP installed - yuk!) - currently XP Tablet, soon to be Ubuntu Mobile/Embedded :D

[HydroDiOxide]

Father=my workstation
Mother=my wife's desktop
Dog=the little Coppermine laptop

[jviscosi]

My Ubuntu computer: VienneseWaltz
My wife's iBook: ChaCha

We spend a lot of time at the Arthur Murray ... ;-)

[ljonesj]

well all my computers my desktop and my 2 laptops are named after a video game charecters real name in the game call akira its also the name of a very popular japanese animation. the name for mine comes from the first set of dot hack games

[roachk71]

My new computer is named Urd, after a favorite character in the Oh! My Goddess Manga series.

As for my old notebook (scarcely used), it's simply named Box, since changing the hostname in DSL and making it stick isn't an easy task.

[snickers295]

mine computers name in mdsmiths aka "michael"

[Callius]

I called mine Bede, because it's old as dirt.

[King_Critter]

My computer is named like it is -- "1337-computer"

No, really. ^_^

[99bluefoxx]

azurE-prIDE ubuntu/kubuntu desktop running fully up-to-date 7.04.
i chose the name 'azurE' cause i wanted a color, and it related to .hack[azure kite]. i capitalized the 'e' to spruce it up'm but it was still too plain, so i threw in pride for a fma reference, then capitalized "ide", and thus i got what it is, it references to .hack, fma and a hard drive interface[E IDE or enhanced ide], started simple then got complicated, dont have any other computers at the moment but am working on some...

[Poet with a Gun]

This computer's name is Omnivac.

It's a reference to the olden days when computers where as big as warehouses, and scientists raised their families in them and trained their kids to pull levers and what not.

Asimov's super computers were always multivac. I figured mine was way better than that.

:D

[andash]

i call mine gayserv cause its in my closet.

[AuToFiRE]

My comp - DragonFireBlue
moms comp - crap
my laptop - Lapjob
ipod - storage

[phyzik]

Prometheus (my PC) - it brings me Fire, it gets its guts changed very often, and is as tough as they get

Mephisto (WinXP) partition) - although I virtually never use it

Nox (fat32 Documents partition) - name of a very advanced and peaceful race in Stargate SG-1

Phoenix (family PC) - previously called Rincewind (from Discworld novels), I resurrected it after my family killed it (with help from Windows and *ware)

Wubi (my gf's PC) - my girlfriend heard about Wubi installer and liked the name so much she gave it to her PC, cellphone and mp3 player :D

[Lightstar]

My main PC = Chii
My private server (real old computer) = Sumomo
Girlfriend's computer = Teh-Awesomeness

[cwmoser]

I've got three computers:

Klaatu barada nikto



Carl

[FrozenFlame22]

My LAN is named "Middle Earth" and so everything on the LAN is named appropriately. Computers and printers are places, and individual drives are people.

Modem/router: Palantir

Printer: Bree

Laptop: Minas Tirith
- Hardrive: Faramir

Desktop: Erebor
- Harddrive 1: Gimli
- Harddrive 2: Thorin
- Harddrive 3: Balin
- Harddrive 4: Ori

Flash Drives:
- Bilbo
- Frodo
- Pippin

External Harddrive: Gandalf

Digital Camera: Fangorn
Memory Sticks:
- Treebeard
- Quickbeam
- Leaflock

We've had this naming scheme for quite a while now, so we've built up quite a "graveyard" of retired computers and other hardware:
Edoras
- Théoden
Mirkwood
- Oropher
Lothlórien
- Celeborn (later renamed to Thorin in current desktop)
Moria
- Balin (kept name in current desktop)
- Ori (kept name in current desktop
Printers: Brandywine, Bywater
Flashdrives: Merry, Tom_Bombadil

We figure that it will be a long long time before we run out of names with this naming convention! We were recently given a server with 4 harddrives, and they'll probably get either human or elven names. Right now we're leaning towards "Helm's Deep".

[roland]

My server is called gary and my laptop is called sandy. And yes, I got inspiration from Spongebob Squarepants characters (although no computer is called "bob" or "spongebob" or whatever...)

[alphoenix]

Main Linux box - Maverick
Laptop - Hellion
Windows box (gf's ) - Crittr
Printer (networked) - Renegade
Work Laptop - The Deathstar
Smart-phone - X-Wing

[Rokashevich]

calabi-pc and yau-pc from superstring theory :)
thou, all have postfix "-pc"

[vishzilla]

Now its named: clairvoyant (meaning foreseeing the future)
Before that: wireshark

[gOLdenHaWK3D]

My Ubuntu PC is named vinci

:guitar:

[stratty96]

I have been naming my computers characters from the movie Hackers. My laptop is named Acid Burn and my external HDD is named Crash Override. I have two thumbdrives named Razor and Blade. Man that was such a cheesy movie. Still I love it.

[misfitpierce]

HP black laptop with silver on top... Call it the flasing cougar....

Nah I just call it my baby.

[chaumurky]

Calpurnia
Atticus
Scout
Jem

[Incense]

I have been naming my computers characters from the movie Hackers. My laptop is named Acid Burn and my external HDD is named Crash Override. I have two thumbdrives named Razor and Blade. Man that was such a cheesy movie. Still I love it.

What!? No Zero Cool? LOL

[cwhitehouse]

All of my computers are named after Egyptian gods.

[johnjust]

I have been naming my computers characters from the movie Hackers. My laptop is named Acid Burn and my external HDD is named Crash Override. I have two thumbdrives named Razor and Blade. Man that was such a cheesy movie. Still I love it.


What!? No Zero Cool? LOL

What? I named my laptop the default of username-laptop, but I suppose if I had thought of this earlier, I would have named my laptop "The Gibson"

Come on people, let's hack the Gibson! (Not my laptop, in this case).

While we're on the Hackers topic, I'd just like to say (I forget his name) that the security guy, the bad guy, had the coolest job ever. He got to ride around on a skateboard, play with a bunch of stuff, and be the 1337 guy that no one could touch. How awesome is that?

...Then, someone hacked the Gibson.

[veratyr]

I tend to use norse mythology. My desktop is yggdrasil and my laptop is loke.

[bigyoy]

i'm naming mine after lost - the swan, locke, etc

[tiges]

I have a fascination for antiquated names:

Archibald

Name for the next project I have in mind: Beatrice

[Eric the Grey]

Orac (named after a computer from Blake's 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7))

Heh. I loved that show and own the entire series.

My main compute (the most powerful)r is always named Orac, and my secondary is named Slave.

My laptop is named Runabout (Star Trek DS9)


:cool: Eric the Grey

[Anessen]

Main Desktop: Trotsky
Second Desktop: Darwin
Laptop: Attlee

Also, Blakes 7 is really under rated. You just need to look past the 70's BBC props :P

[L1mP]

Obelix
Suske
Sidonie
Jommeke
and...
Laptop

[Meomix]

i used to call my computer "The Revolution" "Transgenic" "Zenity" and "Devex" lol.. yeah my computer crashed alot of times :-k

[rjmdomingo2003]

I baptized my laptop as "lapdanz".;)

[Nunu]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.

Now I call it Lazarus

My pre Linux box was Lazy sack of s***

Oh and then it was f*****

But now it's Zena... Warrior woman grrrrr :redface:

[mramsey]

This is a hillarious thread!:lolflag:

Mine are all named though not as creative as others here.
ubuntu-mike (Mine)
ubuntu-nick (15 yr old sons)
ubuntu-zach (5 yr old sons)
lisas-laptop (wifes M$ piece O S***) Havent got here convinced yet:)

[MemoryDump]

main station: chaos
windows server: core
fedora server: crash
router: gatekeeper
windows station: disaster

[Impotence]

Desktop: Revelation [the 'virus' from uplink, nice powerful machine]
Laptop1: # [seemed funny at the time ;), older laptop with 2 batteries lasting ~10-12 hours]
Laptop2: Storm [after the worm, reasonably fast laptop with 3 hours battery]

[TomMK]

My Windows XP machine is called backslash :)

[vasiliymeshko]

My laptop has been 'VMCountry' even before I discovered linux. Stayed that way ever since.

[arigram]

Desktop's name: Persephone
Laptop's name: Alaniara

Desktop's HD partitions:
Acheron, Kokytos, Flegethon, Styx, Lithi
(Hades' five rivers, in greek)

[wade32505]

When I was with a CPA firm they named the servers after Bullwinkle characters (boris, natasha, etc...)
At home I have:
Heidi, Gutsy laptop
Heather, Vista laptop
Victoria, Gutsy desktop
Jenny, Vista desktop
unnamed as yet, decTop

[Mr. Ksoft]

My computers are half-named. Since the family has control of most of the computers, I don't get much freedom making a nice name scheme (I just name mine, they give the rest of the computers lame, un-fun names)

My Desktop: "Timmy" (my nickname)
Family Desktop: "Familyroom"
Pentium 2: Currently just called "Basement", pending new name
Mac Performa 600: "Old Mac"
486: "Mr. Retro"

[BDNiner]

I normally name my computers after neighborhoods that i lived in as a kid. So my windows desktop is Kabalagala, linux desktop is Kansanga, my linux work laptop is Muyenga and my linux work desktop is Munyonyo.

[MenZa]

Star Wars \o/

Desktop: alderaan
Laptop: yavin
Server 1: geonosis
Server 2: coruscant
Server 3: dagobah

[nrs]

Fustanglor

[CAD-MAN]

My laptop - 'theprecious' (Gollum - Lord of the Rings :D)
And my desktop is nameless :D

[frup]

We currently have

Imp running 6.06, mainly file server
Lars running 7.10 my desktop
Iam5o1 running 7.10 my brothers desktop
Octrev running 7.10 laptop I got off someone because vista was too slow (October revolution. Vista to Gutsy)
Orangutan running 7.10 lower end desktop, used for testing.

mumXP running XP... Mum's Laptop. :(

[mivo]

Mine all have cat-related names:

Feline (current desktop)
Tabby (old desktop)
Ocicat (backup server)
Catflap (firewall, previously router)
Kitten (notebook)
Calico (new desktop, expected early next week)

[escobar_]

hopee

It's a pun of the manufacturer HP and the Finnish word for "silver".

[frbe0101]

My Laptop (running Ubuntu/Kubuntu) is named "Dib", my Desktop (duel booting winXP/ubuntu) is "Zim" and my PDA (palm os) is "Gir"

[Kymus]

before my old mobo died, my PC was named Icarus. Since the new installation and the installing of Ubuntu, I have now named it Shouxing, after the Chinese god of Longevity ;)

My 3x dead laptop is/was (HD is dead, and the battery won't hold a charge, but it can still run - kinda - on a live CD) Eurydice (likewise, my PC prior to it's overhaul of all new parts, used to be named Orpheus)

My iPod is named Benzaiten, after the Japanese goddess of music

;)

edit: I never named my PDA/GPS. I'd give it some name that would mean "I'd be so screwed without you, so don't die on me..... please"

[ubuntios]

Pandora , that's the name

[frbe0101]

Pandora , that's the name
is that pun on it being problematic?

[rustybronco]

None for mine, but every time I use my wifes, I call it a "P.O.S."

[crisnoh]

Named mine "Lappy" in honor of Strong Bad email.

[awalsh]

Nothing original for mine, Greek Gods....

Workstation PC - Olympus
Laptop 1 - Zeus
Celeron PC - Athena
P4 PC - Hades
Laptop 2 - Poseidon

Renamed them all when I played God of War on PS2 a while ago, before then they were just whatever the distro on them called them.

[mikedep333]

My main desktop - Hegemon (as it is/is supposed to be very powerful)
My server I keep in my closet - Conclave (as it is hidden)
My regular server - Sovereign (a server is like a leader)
My small mediacenter box - MiniMEdia
My old conventional laptop - Emissary
My touch-screen tablet PC - AppropriateTouching

[Billy_McBong]

the next computer i make i will name mike after the super computer in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

my current computer is named Billy but i think i already posted that in this thread, im not sure:???:

[Skweek]

I have two laptops with the names;

Lap 1: Turnwise
Lap 2: Widershins

Oh, and yes, I do like the Discworld novels. ;)

[Rajca]

It depends on my humor, but i call it: "Rupieć" it means "Junk" or something else.

[bfdhud]

My main desktop is Miranda
Runs Windows Vista x64

Linux desktop is Serenity
Gutsy
(file server, ssh <-hopefully)

I'm getting ready to build a dedicated file/web server I'll call that one Mal

My macbook is called Jayne

[Zackariah]

Mine PC is called Gizmo.
Windows is called Gruesome
Linux is called Gremlin
:p

[Simon G Best]

Well, back in, oh, 1998, I built a 486-based PC out of mostly second-hand bits and pieces, and the like. It didn't even have a proper PC case, but instead used a crate-like case from an old CP/M micro that itself seemed to have been made out of various bits and pieces (it had had about half an S-100 motherboard - it had literally been sawn in half!). I named that PC "Cydonia", after the place on Mars with the apparent face. That PC served me well for a few years.

During Cydonia's life, I bought a second-hand 486 from Cash Converters, to use as a dial-up router thingy, with NAT and a caching nameserver. I named it "Ophir", after another place on Mars, but I can't remember why (except that it might have had something to do with a gateway, possibly?).

At some point, the friend who'd provided some of the bits for Cydonia asked me if I'd please borrow an IBM RS/6000 that he'd managed to get hold of. It's because he didn't really have room for it, but had thought it would be a sad waste of a good RS/6000 if it had got dumped. If I remember correctly, I named it "Arcadia", again after a place on Mars.

In late 2001, a friend gave me his old Celeron-based PC. It was a few years old, and was in a medium-sized tower case. As it was my first towering PC, I named it "Olympus", after Olympus Mons, the huge volcano on Mars. I used that as my main PC until just several weeks ago.

Now I'm using a Dell Inspiron 530n, which came with Ubuntu 7.04 pre-installed. While I do intend to give it a name, and, again, name it after a place on Mars, I haven't yet got around to choosing a name. But I think I'll go for somewhere near one of the ice caps, because I think this PC's cool :)

[nixclusive]

I call it "teststation" as a lot of testing is always underway..

[jayaramk]

my computer has my name jayaram:)

[Retrograde77]

Main PC : THALAMUS
Server : TURRICAN
Laptop : DIZZY

am a c64 nut :guitar:

[kaptengu]

tux

[Bruce M.]

Quote:
Originally Posted by professor_chaos
Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.


LOL! I did the same... :smile:

Hey! Triplets.

But today my computer is called ... ????
It doesn't have a name ;(

[Bruce M.]

But today my computer is called ... ????
It doesn't have a name ;(

Hmmmmmm have read that, and seeing my little Tux and signature I'm going to call my computer:

Hunter Tux

[Ratur]

My main computer : Zaphod
Laptop : Trillian
And the server : Marvin

[thx11381974]

Not all have names those that do are

Linputer
Oldputer
Carputer

The others I frequently call various four letter words

[kiklhorn]

matrix - with count number = win servers (W2K3)
morpheus = firewall (OpenBSD)
radius = radius server (Ubuntu)
medea = TV & media server (SUSE)
a3 = workstation (WXPP)
saba = second workstation(Sabayon linux)
bird = testing machine (Solaris)

[New-b]

Server = Adromeda
Laptop = Bridge

Since i don't have any monitor for my server the laptop just had to be bridge.

When i was running windows, they were called BSOD1 and BSOD2 :)

[jbaerbock]

Daemon
-Kinda a play on words since I used to name my XP computer Demon Fire.
-Daemon is actually a computer process so kinda cool.

[xoai]

Mine is Macbuntu

[inversekinetix]

Davros-nix
Davros-xp

[FredSambo]

My deskop was Poopship Destroyer back when it ran Winders, but now it is just poopship. My server is OptimusPrime and has always been. The wife's computer is called cathys-macintosh (which runs Debian).

[ch_123]

I put "box" at the end of the name of a description of the computer. Blackbox, because its in a black Thermaltake Armour case. My last PC was Dellbox because it was a Dell... Not the most inventive system, but it works :)

[bremen]

Currently I'm using LotR names:

WinXP = mordor
laptop = rohan
server = rivendell

[Knoeki]

My PPC Mac (( desktop, soon to be used as server )) is called PiNGUiN... and my laptop is called PiNGU..


...wow, I'm so original! =D

Under MacOS I used to give all my hard-drives a name... Link, Kirby, Mario, Samus, Kraid, etc..

maybe I'll go back to the nintendo character naming system when I get more machines ^^

[erisianmonkey]

My wife and I name our computers after Robert A. Heinlein characters. While not the most original, and we do reuse names, we like it.

My box: Minerva Long II, custom build, currently dual booting Gutsy and XP.

Wife's Box: Pallas Athene Long: Dell desktop running XP

Old Laptop 1: Libby Long: IBM ThinkPad 760XD, currently running Win98SE, but soon to run Xubuntu, as soon as I can figure out how to get all the stuff I want to it without a network card for it.

Old Laptop 2: Minerva Long I: Ancient Toshiba (It's a swutting 486 for zark's sake!) running Win95--sitting unused in my closet until I figure out something to do with it that doesn't consist entirely of keeping papers from blowing away in a stiff breeze.:roll:

[Conspirator45]

andy, I'm a huge fan of Red Vs Blue

[eheyl]

Mine is called Hal :)

[Wiebelhaus]

B!TCH ***! or when everything is going right , Ahh yea baby just like that.

[Simon G Best]

In an earlier post, I mentioned my Mars-place-name-based naming scheme. I also mentioned that I hadn't, yet, chosen a name for my new Dell Inspiron 530n with Ubuntu pre-installed. Well, now I have.

The name of my new PC is "boreum", after Planum Boreum, the northern plain, on Mars. It's where Mars' north pole is.

I chose it because it's where Mars' northern ice-cap is - cold! It fits with its "arctic silver" and white case.

[CoolDreamZ]

Zen, ORAC, Slave and Servilan

[Caffeine_Junky]

Well, like a few others here, the name I call my PC when it is playing-up is: "OHH-F***You, ..you stu**d-pain-in-the-A**!"

..but most of the time it has no name.., ..(yes I take the good-times for granted):o

ps: I don't have a network

[jnorth]

Niice - I've just read some 40-odd pages of this thread. Interesting schemes to choose from if I ever rename my net.

I run a small application hosting company as a side-hobby from my day job, but my network has boring names.
fw01/02 - redundant freebsd firewalls
sw01/02 - failover cisco2924's
vs01/02 - ubuntu servers running 7.04 and vmware server
ws01/02/03/04 - loadbalanced web/app servers running on the vmware hosts on dell pe2650's
mx01/02 - loadbalanced mail servers also running 7.04 and postfix
db01/02 - loadbalanced mysql servers also on 7.04
nb01 - my sony notebook running gutsy gibbon
mc01 - "truckpc" still running winblows. see my sig for photos
mc02 - mythbuntu media center for my tv

[Erdaron]

My main desktop is always named RedHQ (for a loose Red Army naming scheme). My old laptop was called RedAir, the current laptop is RedMobile. My new dual-processor monster will be called RedTank.

RedHQ is running Ubuntu, RedAir is where I do all my actual work, and RedTank is basically for gaming (and some windows hacking).

My previous desktop I gave away to a friend who decided to dual-boot windows and linux (a Red Hat, as I recall). She renamed it jekyllandhyde.

[traderpats]

We use the OZ theme
Router - Wizard
Desktops - Tinman & Dorthy
Laptops - Scarecrow & Glinda (The good witch)

[Boaslad]

My wife is going to kill me for this, but Her computer is named "BIll" and Mine is named "Ted" because mine is smarter than hers... (but not by much)

"Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes."

[herbster]

dabox

[jwo7777777]

Some of our machines are archangels: "Gabriel", "Michael"

The server is named "BluGlo" because the case has a blue glowing led strip on it. (Real original...I know).

The kid's machine is called......wait for it......."Kids"

[jpittack]

I only have a laptop and find naming a computer wierd, so I just call it my lappie. But I think a good name for it would be Silver Bullet now that Vista doesn't weight it down anymore. Go Ubuntu Go!

[fwojciec]

Desktop: ground_control
Laptop: major_tom

[Istonian]

lomer for mine

[Simon G Best]

I only have a laptop and find naming a computer wierd, so I just call it my lappie. But I think a good name for it would be Silver Bullet now that Vista doesn't weight it down anymore. Go Ubuntu Go!

A common reason for naming computers is so that they have more human-friendly hostnames on networks. Far from being weird, it's just a practical thing. But then, of course, there's the question of what names to actually use, and that's where it can get interesting :)

[vietunion]

Laptop: Garfield
Desktop: DeepBlue :D

[spec-chum]

A common reason for naming computers is so that they have more human-friendly hostnames on networks. Far from being weird, it's just a practical thing. But then, of course, there's the question of what names to actually use, and that's where it can get interesting :)

Very. :) This machine is Aurora. My previous two machines were Kaitlyn and Briana.

[anandanbu]

I have a "firebird"

[evolutionx]

For me it's a Transformers theme... G1 of course! :cool:

-Ravage
-Rumble
-Soundwave
-Thrust
-Grimlock
-Starscream

and so on...

[brk3]

mine's the best: localhost :D

[aln]

My main PC is called "tron" after movie character. The older one is "optimus".

[alecjw]

Mine are named after roman gods. My laptop's Apollo, my desktop's Jupiter, my brother's desktop's Nemesis, my parents' (windows!!) machine is Ceres, my main xbox server is Minerva and my other xbox server is Mercury.

[davidshere]

US Military jet names.

raptor -- main machine at work
hornet -- FreeBSD vm at work
sabre -- vm at work that runs on our big fast server. I use it for software development.
nighthawk -- experimental vm at work
lancer -- main machine at home
globemaster -- my name for my router at home
warthog -- experimental machine at home
spirit -- vm at home. Its purpose is as yet unclear.

I've used falcon, eagle, lightning, phantom, and tomcat... but for machines that are now defunct.

[Surtr]

My pc is called "thuis" wich is dutch for "home". I'll give it another name soon i think :P. The pc upstairs is a Windows XP box, Ubuntu doesn't want to boot there :( . I'll give it another try when my Gutsy cd's arrive.

[cwrann]

My main desktop is "home". My laptop with xubuntu on it is "laptop". I have a friend who installed feisty fawn on his main computer and forgot either what he called it or the password he gave it, he doesn't know which. Now he can't log on to his computer, that is why I keep it simple and consistent.

[klange]

acerlaptop + ubuntuserver

[PogMoThoin]

l33t-str33t-PC :guitar:

[g4ry.l33]

My first computer was a Packard Bell with Win95. It was always
Puking on me so I named it Barff. Now Barff Is a computer that
is made up of spare parts and runs great.

Barff........Debian (just when I feel like it)
Booger....Edgy and XP (My main desktop)
SPoT.......Gutsy and Vi$ta (My New Laptop)
Digger....Win98 (Old computer I Salvaged)
Honey.....Red Hat 7.2 (as in "Honey Pot")

Any of the above is subject to change without notice.

Life is good .:popcorn:

P.S. Cool post!

[Tundro Walker]

Naming your computer... :)

I'm reminded of the video game "Max Payne", where you overhear two merc's talking in the hall, one of which (Thug 1) is annoyed at how rabidly gung-ho some of the other mercs (like Thug 2) can get at times...


Thug 1: "Can you believe it? I bet they sleep with their rifles. I bet they've given them names."
Thug 2: "I guess so... You mean, you don't have a name for your gun?"
Thug 1: "Hello! Hell no! You do?!"
Thug 2: "Yeah... kinda."
Thug 1: "Alright, let's hear it."
Thug 2: "I like to call it... **** Justice."
Thug 1: "I rest my case."

[alwiap]

Naming your computer... :)

I'm reminded of the video game "Max Payne", where you overhear two merc's talking in the hall, one of which (Thug 1) is annoyed at how rabidly gung-ho some of the other mercs (like Thug 2) can get at times...

lol I remember that scene, what a great game.

sadly my desktop and laptop have the most generic names possible, after dabbling through this thread i see how much of an artform naming is :)

mine are:

alex-desktop
alex-laptop

cool huh?

[Can+~]

Damn, that's what happen when I rush trough the installation, now I have a "name-desktop" name.

When I format (and purge my whole PC from windows and make it a tribute to Ubuntu), I'm gonna name it according to Nordic locations, there's a lot to choose from:


Álfheim, Ásgard, Barri, Bifröst, Bilskirnir, Breidablik, Élivágar, Eliudnir, Fensalir, Fólkvangr, Gimlé, Ginnungagap, Gjallar Bridge, Gjöll, Gladsheim, Glasir, Glitnir, Gnipahellir, Helgrindr, Helveg, Himinbjörg, Hindarfjall, Hörgr, Körmt and Örmt, Idavoll, Jötunheimr, Ironwood, Hlidskjalf, Midgard, Muspelheim, Mirkwood, Náströnd, Niflheim, Noatun, Sessrúmnir, Singasteinn, Slidr River, Sökkvabekkr, Þrúðvangr, Þrymheimr, Utgard, Valhalla, Vanaheim, Hvergelmir, Vigrid, Vimur, Vingólf, Ýdalir, Yggdrasil
(wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology))

[Sgurd]

P.o.s.-1 ... P.o.s.-2 ... P.o.s.-3 ...

[-grubby]

number 1 in my list=nathan-desktop
number 2 in my list=nathan-desktop

[jespdj]

alex-desktop
alex-laptop

cool huh?
Hey, I use the same boring names:

jesper-desktop
jesper-laptop

And my WiFi network is jesper-wifi.

When I was in university we has a number of Unix servers with names of particles: proton, neutron, electron etc. At that time (1994) when I was first installing Linux on my 486, I called it neutrino.

A neutrino is a very small and light particle comared to a proton or electron - just like my 486 was a very small computer compared to the big Unix servers.

[guillelo11]

guillermo-desktop (Ubuntu 7.10)
guillermo-deskt (Windows XP SP2 ue)

[wesley_of_course]

Ratdog !

[Nymphadora]

I'm boring. I just named it after myself.

[yabbadabbadont]

Ratdog !

Why did your dog leave it's chew toy in a basket next to your desk?

Oh wait.... the chew toy is your dog. :D

[yabbadabbadont]

I'm boring. I just named it after myself.

So you named it Tonks?


I'm sure that I've posted this before, but I usually name mine, "yoiks.and.away".

[Sawta]

When I had 7.04, I had named my iMac Eliza, when I updated to 7.10, I renamed it to Habibi. No real rhyme or reason, I just thought that each sounded pretty. (And no, I don't speak Arabic, I was just looking up a song that used the word.)

When I get my Asus Eee, I'm probably going to name it something corny like "short stuff" or "little boy". Hopefully I can get a bit more creative by that time, but I don't feel like searching for this thread in a few months.;)

[OniAnubis]

Main PC running Ubuntu 7.10 and Win XP Pro: Demon
Firewall running Ipcop: interceptor
Storage server running Solaris 10: blacksun
Sun Enterprise Server running Solaris 10: Basestar
Laptop running Ubuntu 7.10: Osiris
General Server running Centos: nephthys

[Psy-Krow]

anything computer related that i have to name gets something from Norse mythology. being a descendant from the viking ship builders i thought it was appropriate

Main Box: Asgard
storage drive 1: Sol
storage drive 2: Mani

convinced my roommate to join in too
his main box: Hati
his laptop: Loki

[Redeyes_Gambit]

My laptop is named Silverhawk: 1. because it's silver, and 2. because the hawk portion makes it sound cool ;-) . Since my laptop has Multiple Personality Disorder (lol, a.k.a. multiboot,) AND runs VMs, I have come to name each individual operating system.

Ubuntu 7.10: Flex-Hawk -Because Linux is so flexible. It runs on anything and bends rather than breaks. Also because Compiz creates flexible windows, a pretty unique feature among OSes.

Windows Vista: Glass-Hawk -Because of Aeroglass, and because Vista constantly breaks on me. Inflexible, rigid, fragile. It fits don't you think?

Windows XP: Plastic-Hawk -Because it's cheap (as in poor quality); because it It will break, but is currently more resilient (IMHO) than Vista; and because the Luna interface looks like plastic.

I'm thinking about getting a Macbook at some point, and its OS will be called Platinum-Hawk, since OSX has a somewhat platinum-esque color scheme, and because it's so ridiculously expensive! Also named as such since OSX is reasonably resilient when compared to glassy ole windows Vista and isn't as "cheap" as XP (from what I hear anyway.) At the same time OSX isn't as flexible as Linux (or even XP for that matter), hence OSX is a metal, rather than some sort cool flexible composite material.

[goumples]

Little Piggy

[s2welee]

Linus, Snoopy, Pigpen and Sir. Not sure why, I have just always used peanuts characters. My two comp before were Beowulf and Grendle.

[andhar]

Main workstation: Vader
Gaming Rig: Chidori (full metal panic)
Laptop : Angel
HTPC: HTPC
Server: Talon (Farscape)
Experiment pc: Raven
NAS: Glitch

As long as I can remember (dating back to when I was 15) I've always had a pc called Glitch & Angel.

[Simon G Best]

Linus, Snoopy, Pigpen and Sir. Not sure why, I have just always used peanuts characters. My two comp before were Beowulf and Grendle.

Beowulf and Grendel were Peanuts characters?

[taavi]

Home computer: kosmos
Work computer: asteroid

When I'm getting myself laptop, I think I'll call it "kuutolm", which means moondust in Estonian, or rakett (in est: rocket).

[Rinzwind]

I have all my system named
discworld
with an extension stating what it is.
DT (desktop)
LT (laptop)
P3 (PS3)
ext1 (share disc 1)
etc.

I like the series + the name is computerrelated :)

[mozetti]

ledbetter (desktop)
evolution (laptop)
crazymary (xbox360)
DEEP (WiFi SSID)

Hmm, guess I need to change the name of my router to something that fits the scheme.

[ljonesj]

well old dell desktop is natsume from ,dothack the first video game series
acer is Blackrose from the same series
compaq is akira which is the real name of blackrose from the books another birth which is from blackrose's side of things

? how do you change the name of a computer in ubuntu i messed on Blackrose's name it should be BlackRose not Blackrose

[Mithrilhall]

I'm a recovering EverQuest player (I haven't played in years but I did play for years).

I used to name mine after zones in EverQuest. Right now they're just named after the OS installed at the moment (Debian, Kubuntu, Vista - don't ask).

[Humph]

Mine are very imaginatively named "ubuntu01" and "ubuntu02".

If I ever get around to building a dns/dhcp server I might consider giving everything a more interesting name. Or I might name it "ubuntu00". Given my track record for innovative nomenclature I suspect the latter to be more likely.

[Chelidon]

The tower system is FAN-CLUB under Linux, or NOISY-BOY under Windows. Both names relate to the high number of fans. There used to be 20 fans: five hard-drive heat sinks with three fans each makes 15, plus upper and lower case fans make 17, plus power supply, CPU and Northbridge makes 20. Recently I changed the Northbridge to passive cooling, so now there are only 19 fans. But I installed switches so the hard-drive fans can be off most of the time; I saw a study recently by Google, which suggests that temperature is not so important for hard drive life.

Jeez. There's no way I could have that thing on overnight downloading something, I don't think I could sleep.

I used to have a beast of a machine we called Clear Compy. It was a lexan box and held together by brass screws. One screw one learned not to touch because it had current running through it. It had several fans, was overclocked past optimal speed, and had five extremely bright blue lights in it. It was impossible to sleep with it on. One day it died suddenly, and a few months later I got

Thess, my laptop. It (kind of) dual boots Ubuntu 7.10 and Vista. It used to just be Vista and then I got fed up with it and did a poor job of installing Ubuntu. Now it all half works. I suppose it lives up to its bit-part Greek hero name.

[s2welee]

Beowulf and Grendel were Peanuts characters?

Nah, that was just what they were named before I got on the Peanuts kick:). Poorly worded post:oops:

[ltk5]

mine is: lotko-desktop
nothing special but I couldnt think of something original :(

[Linuxratty]

Gozzen,Old Clunker.

[Spectre31337]

Servers:
Hermes: My proxy, Router and load balancer
Known for his swiftness and athleticism
Pheme: DNS and DHCP
She announced whatever she heard, first to only a few, then louder for everyone to hear
Phobos: IDS
Greek personification of fear and terror.

Workstations:
Headpool: I couldn’t this of any more good Greek names
Hyperion: means "he who goes before the sun"
Spartan: ...something you do for no other reason than that you would rather not do it
THEWORSTOS : (try and guess what OS it has running on it)

Handhelds:
Atlas: Zeus punished him to forever bear the heavens upon his shoulders
Nyx: is the goddess and embodiment of the night.
Erebus: described as the Infernal Region below the earth

Roomba:
Klink it has a screw or something "Clinking" around and I cant seam to remove it

[Hemmer]

After Strongbad's computers. Probably not that original but still... :)

[Dr. Octagon]

Desktops: Celestial-Crown (Main Workstation), Cemetery-Gates (Gaming Rig), Ebethron (Development Environment)
Notebooks: Crow-Mage (Work Laptop), Death-Dealer (Personal Box)
Servers: Aqualung, Stranglehold

[pmgr33r]

ALLSTARME
1st Track off the best Saves the Day album ever

[siciliancasanova]

I name all my machines based off of famous pirates.

This one is named "blackbeard"

[mellowd]

pc - mellowdpc (how quaint)
server - simba (swahili for lion)

[Velcor]

zugzug

[Iehova]

lucy-mk3, after lucy mk2 and mk1. Named after Joey's computer from the film Hackers.

[orange2k]

kryptos: the name of the sculpture that stands in front of the CIA HQ: it hasnt been decyphered, yet...cool, ha?

[Gordy]

Since I have 4 other computers I call them:
Dell256
Dell512
Pent426
Xeon
Gusty Server
Make more sense to do this for a LAN

[bufsabre666]

my desktop is named AZURIK after my favorite video game of all time, my laptop(RIP) was azurikjr in honor of his bigger brother

[StephX]

buzzer = my desktop

[hhhhhx]

According to the words under my screen it's called "VAIO VGN_SZ491N/x", But i like to call her "Lucy" :)

[th3t1nm4n]

Desktop - Debaser, named after the Pixies song
Laptop - Seether, named after the Veruca Salt song

[Tristam Green]

The desktop: Pollux
The Laptop: Castor

[omega_user]

I name all of mine TARDIS[like the ship in Doctor Who], with my main being TARDIS-0 and then each one afterwords being a digit higher

[cprofitt]

Gallifrey and Tardis

Seems like many of us like Dr. Who.

[Kzin]

Hmmm, Kzinsys the home box, Klap, the laptop (hehe) and at work I have to follow the naming convention, but my co-workers endearingly nicknamed it 'the hacker linux box'. I am the only 'nux user here, surrounded by micro$ites; are they ever going to release a cream for that?

:KS

[bobbob1016]

I'm not that creative,
Bob-Vaio-Desktop - My main desktop
Mac-mini - My PPC mac mini
Bob-Mediacenter - My mediacenter
FC8-Server - Fileserver/Torrent machine (Yes it has Fedora, I wanted to play with FC8)
Bob-Gateway-Tablet
and so on.

I used to have backgrounds that matched, Red Dwarf for my desktop, Blue Midget background for a blue imac, Starbug for my Mac Mini, then I ran out of ships to use for backgrounds.

[dlegend]

Laptop: Se7en
Desktop: Naerok

[Dhar]

Main desktop: Azathoth
Secondary desktop: Cthulhu
Server: Nyarlathotep
Tablet: Mi-go

Wife's desktop: Mountain
Wife's laptop: Molehill
Wife's tablet: Mesa

-g.

[sumguy231]

I'm too scatterbrained to have a naming scheme:

Formalwear - Desktop, running Ubuntu
Stargazer - Old 486 PC, running Deli Linux
Richard - Currently out of commission web server. Was running FreeBSD, but it was too much of a pain so I'm going back to Debian.
Quicksilver - Ironically named desktop, running Xubuntu
GERRYS - Windows XP desktop
LISA - Windows XP desktop

I think one of these days I'll get around to switching them over to a theme or other.

[ÜbuntuMensch]

John Wayne's Colon

[chinchilla2392]

Chinchilla- Notebook on ubuntu
SIr Elvis Chinsalot- Powerbook G4 on os x
Mr Miaow/Chairman Miaow- Desktop on *cough* Windows...

[metalpancake]

I know this isn't a computer name, but my Families wifi network is called BigStink!:mrgreen:

[Furat]

Mine called Furat-laptop

[carrett]

karlheinz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen

[stevieb]

is there any way to change a computer name? i just grabbed a used one from an xubuntu friend, it's already named "angel". i'd like to change this without reinstalling.

my other machines are "cannonball" [adderly] and [charles] "darwin"

[mali2297]

is there any way to change a computer name?

Go through the menus System > Administration > Networking > General, or type


gksudo network-admin

in the terminal. However, I do not know if you have that in Xubuntu. If not, use the directions from this link (http://blog.lxpages.com/2007/03/21/how-to-change-your-hostname/).


Debian based systems use the file /etc/hostname to read the hostname of the system at boot time and set it up using the init script /etc/init.d/hostname.sh.

- Edit /etc/hostname and update to your new hostname, you can then run /etc/init.d/hostname.sh to activiate the change.
- Update your /etc/hosts file to refelect new hostname

You can also use sysctl to change the hostname:

- sysctl kernel.hostname (To read the current hostname)
- sysctl kernel.hostname=NEW_HOSTNAME (to change it)


My computer is called asparagus.

[robjoski]

First desktop (Pentium II 400mhz): "no name yet" :-)
Second (not secondary) desktop - "coolness"... I had Compiz working on it a while ago... P2 500mhz
Third desktop - "fat-chance" (of me using it)... Pentium 166mhz
My First Craptop: "foolish-decision" (it literally exploded...) Pentium mobile 166mhz
My Primary laptop: "Speedy", Pentium III 1Ghz.
Secondary laptop with broken hard drive "crappy-lappy", P2 400mhz. No OS.
I had to switch the last two laptops' hard drives; Speedy's original one failed.
All my computers faster than 400 mhz run Ubuntu 7.10.

Yes, people have told me that I have too many computers. Whatever.

[hellion0]

You'll probably laugh at me, but my machines are named after Pokemon.

deoxys - Macintosh, primarily used for storage and torrents, also functions as a backup DJ rig
gardevoir - Desktop, used for playing media and video game emulation
altaria - Laptop, older machine that was used as a portable music player
flygon - Laptop, newer with almost the same specs as gardevoir, used for playing media, video game emulation and DJing

[iPower]

dell hell (pentium II 400Mhz 384MB RAM)
macaroni (powermac 7600 g3 300Mhz 225MB RAM)
NoWhere (pentium III 800Mhz 384MB RAM)
Wintendo (Pentium III 500Mhz 384MB RAM) (windows xp pro sp2)
Wintendo was killed by me today after it started to bsod even after restoring it a month back (i used an axe)

[chris4585]

Empu-Ubuntu

from cowboy bebop Ed names the satellite

[Nepherte]

I have the habit to name my pcs after ancient greek gods.

Deskop 1: Diana
Desktop 2: Janus
Desktop 3: Hera
Desktop 4: Zeus
Laptop: Minerva
Server: Apollo

[theDaveTheRave]

I realise that I must be a bit boring, but for the moment the main desktop / server is simply debian (I'm sure you can guess why!)

Originally I had started calling all the electrical communication equipment from characters out of the Three Musketeers.

hence the home phone was Athos (the phone tends to live in the kitchen and Athos was the one who was always protrayed as being the larger foody type).

The desktop was originally Dartagnon. but that has no been given to the laptop as this is my main machine - I did SSH from here to the server when required previously... then I pub debian onto it... I guess I will change the name soon, probably to Treville (the real life captian of king louis XIV gaurds, as supposedly who Alexander Dumas bases the original story upon).

The Work group is called Sabinette (after the dog!). Any more hi-tech equipment will be named from the Musketeers though....

we keep saying we need a second phone in the bedroom, this one will probably be called Aramis (as I seem to recall he was either the "lazy" one or the one who was always in bed with some desirable young lass!).

[Linuturk]

My network is called "Fleet Command" and my computers are named after something from the Homeworld Universe.

web server - Guidestone
File Server - Tanis
Laptop - Naabal
Laptop - Soban
Laptop - S'Jet
Dead Server - Bentus

[jordilin]

Mine is called "themachine", meaning a fast and powerful pc box, although it is not. There are very funny answers in this thread :) Very good thread.

[edd07]

My laptop's Cortana
I have another laptop, but its screen has been ripped off (so i guess it only works as a desktop :-D). It's name is Serina. (Both named after Halo AI's)

My cell phone, USB Stick and iPod are named Guilty Spark, Penitent Tangent and Mendicant Bias, respectively. (Again, Halo, but Forerunner Monitors this time)

[el_ricardo]

laptop- ERIC
Ubuntu PC- Ubuntu
Windows PC- SMILYFACE
Matt's PC- matthew (imaginative?!)
Mike's PC- s**t eating w***e (he's a bit strange)

[RelativelyQuantum]

I call my laptop Mycroft, referencing Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Mycroft being Sherlock Holms's brother and the pseudonym of Mike, the intelligent computer. My desktop is Minerva, referencing a computer from another of Heinlein's works, Time Enough for Love.

Yes, I am a Heinlein fan :)

[EXCiD3]

call my laptop toothbrush ;)

[bufsabre666]

dont remember if i posted here but its named azurik after my favorite video game ever

[trannypunk]

"lanjacker"

[dgray_from_dc]

Server named LV-426
Planet from Alien & Aliens

Desktop named Fury161
Planet from Alien 3

Laptop named Nostromo
Cargo ship from Alien

Laptop named Sulaco
Military ship from Aliens

[Nevon]

I call my computer either "lolcat" or "lolbox".

[macogw]

My laptop is Ada. Next computer I get will be Grace.

Ada = the Lady Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace AKA the first computer programmer
Grace = Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, the woman who removed the first real physical bug (it was a moth) from a computer.

The theme is "women in computing."

[BLTicklemonster]

You have inspired me to name mine

The Boxinator.

[xgary]

My laptop is call HAIER:popcorn:

[Ioky]

My IBM Windows called Winz, stand for Window z~~~

My Mac book pro called Macpple, stand for Mac apple (Mac pple, Mac pro)

and Finally my love linux is called BiTuX.

Bi stand for binary (computer)
B*T*X stand for BTX, (it is a BTX form factor computer instead ATX)
TuX, we all know is stand for Linux.

Therefore BTX stand for BTX form factor Linux Computer.

[swoll1980]

BIGMAN (desktop) lilman (laptop)

[koleoptero]

Nuts

[Comm]

my comp name is Ethos...

[Perpetual]

landon-laptop

:(

[EnergySamus]

I am Dual-Booting
My Windows PC is named "Greeny"... Which is an overstatement. I should call it ENERGY USER 1200!!!

On the other partition, my Ubuntu PC is called "Phazze-Laptop". Anyone who has played [U]Metroid Prime 3[U] will know what this is !!!:lolflag:

[Roberticus]

Slaptop

[IcarusR]

Laptop Zebedee
Desktop Dylan
Server Florence
Squeezebox Ermintrude

For those non Brits & too young to remember they are all characters from the kids TV program Magic Roundabout.

[Praadur]

My 'buntu laptop is named Gorbash, and I blame a good friend for this particular inspiration.

As to where the name originated, it's the label of a Dragon from an old animated tale.

[christianxxx]

My experimental server is called daredevil :)
My laptop is called silversurfer. (wife's got this now)
And my big, wonderful desktop is called.. err.. fetishheaven.

[Dr Small]

I named the new server that I build, "mycroft" ;)

[Linuxratty]

Gozzyn (Black box) Dreamer.

[chocolatetoothpaste]

well, it's in my sig, but my laptop is named "asthma" and my server is called "slevin". I have a computer I used to run icecast on for getting my music at work, and it was called "gecko". I also have my work computer (which is ubuntu! yay, I get to use linux at work!) which is called laptop-ross. I'm gonna get a HTPC and name it blackbird. Gotta love the beatles. BTW, I've seen a couple people mention they have HTPC's. Anyone wanna PM me some links? I'm curious to see what people out there are using.

[ingvildr]

Ever since i used FreeBSD in college my PC has been called Amnesiac.

[TorqueyPete]

peeooter1
peeooter2

That's just because I have two working ones at the moment. If one breaks, the one that still works will become '1'.
I've used that silly name for my machines since the first time I started up my first one and it asked me to name it. I just thought, "That's ludicrous! It's a computer! So I shouted at it, "YOU DONT NEED A NAME! YOU'RE JUST A COMPEEOOTER! CATS AND DOGS HAVE NAMES, BUT YOU'RE JUST A COMPEEOOTER!"

So there you have it. I don't give my computers names, and I have no desire to post up the reasons for naming them.

Edit: DOH! :-#

[mickeelm]

Well, at first it was just "micke-laptop" but I thought it was kinda boring, so when I was gonna do a reinstall anyway I named it "ktulu". Ktulu is from the H.P. Lovecraft Books originally but the reason I am using it is mainly because "The Call Of Ktulu" by Metallica is one of my all-time favourite songs.

[CCNA_student]

How does "reputer" sound?

[the_sorrow]

Mine is the_sorrow, just like my forum id, I liked MGS3: Snake Eater and that character the most, so I use it alot.

[shad0w_walker]

I spent forever trying to decide on a naming system for my computers and eventually decided on invader zim. It has a nice perk for short names (All 3 characters)

My precious desktop (The favourite): Gir (Best character)
My laptop: Zim
And my server: Tak

[zmjjmz]

I choose random names that randomly pop out of my head.

Macbook: Blokhmen
Thinkpad T20: Esteguan
Thinkpad 560: Oofleschmoop
eTower 400i (1): Eckle
eTower 400i (2): Siplebop
eTower 400i (3): Zappal
eTower 400i (4): Ezlekraz
Pro-Tech: Clipafa
Compaq Presario 5070: Astuguor

[cybergal]

Current laptop is ASCII gal http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00122.html

Previous laptop is Princess, desktop no longer used is Pandora, and first but no longer with us desktop was Baby Blue.

[The Rotten Word]

HAL9000

Because why not?

[pijits]

I played a lot of Shadow of the Colossus so I decided to name my computer Basaran after the giant Turtle you fight.

Ya at one point it was a really slow computer (like 500Mhz).

[Dojan5]

Mines called Kissedesigns-2c because of my little hobby.
Kissedesigns, im making websites and other computer related things... XD

[David Ostrom]

Dell 1420n

[amazingtaters]

Mine goes by Lappy386, because I love strongbad.

[Oppewall]

It is named bobotox after the toxin (a homemade variant of botox) in the series Nip/Tuck.

[CaveRat]

AquaFly....Ultra Micro Fly with PD 925 3.0 and fully self contained internal water cooling >>dual 80mm rads for the CPU and North Bridge.

[white3454]

I name all my machines after WWE Wresting stars (exept my laptop with Gutsy, since I've reloaded 4 times in 2 weeks. I have a D630 with the intel i965 chipset)

Main PC - STONECOLD
Ultra10 (Solaris 10) - MANKIND
Spare PC (File Storage) - JERICHO
Laptop - ubuntu-laptop*

*eventually I will rename this, I just haven't decided on a name yet.

Also being a StarWars fan, I have also considered using planet names such as Coruscant, Dantooine, Dathomir, Hoth, etc...

Here is a list of all the Planets & Moons in the Star Wars Galaxy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Star_Wars_planets

[bufsabre666]

Main PC - STONECOLD
Ultra10 (Solaris 10) - MANKIND
Spare PC (File Storage) - JERICHO
Laptop - ubuntu-laptop*


kane or since its smaller my vote is for hornswoggle

[dn*]

Main Desktop: alisa (a song by Ariel Pink, also a cute name for a girl!)

Server: slottet (roughly translated from Swedish as 'the castle')

Laptop: jules (a play on the energy unit, joules)

I find naming computers way more fun than I should :P

[red_Marvin]

nomad2 -that's my second laptop and main computer.
Lately I've named two computers after weather /conditions/ - snow and duggregn, where "duggregn" is swedish for light rain.

[yabbadabbadont]

nomad2 -that's my second laptop and main computer.
Lately I've named two computers after weather /conditions/ - snow and duggregn, where "duggregn" is swedish for light rain.

I've heard that, in England, the word for "light rain" is air.... :D

[Infinity-al]

willy... after a dog i miss...

[/home]

My new HP 530 is tuxtop
and my old P3 is laptop
Oh and my half dead server is server_1_P3

[sunseeker888]

Skymax:popcorn:

[Jay Jay]

Most of mine are named after ships from the Sci-Fi realm, let the geek fest begin... :)

Mac G4 Tower (main desktop): Titan
Digital Editing Desktop: Prometheus
3rd Desktop: Bird of Prey
4th Desktop (spare PC): Enterprise

Linux laptop: Maquis raider
Spare laptop 1: Delta Flyer
Spare laptop 2: Defiant


I find naming computers way more fun than I should :P

Me too :lolflag:

[Istonian]

Mine is Lomer

[jaytek13]

I call mine Navi in reference to the computers in the anime Lain.

[Tenken]

I have a Norse mythology naming scheme

Desktop - Odin
Windows box - Loki
Laptop - Hungin

[tosk]

Primary Desktop: EARTH
Secondary Desktop: MARS
Tertiary Desktop: MERCURY
Server: JUPITER
PSP: PHOBOS
iPod Touch: DEIMOS
Primary Laptop: LUNA
Secondary Laptop: EUROPA

[slider2800]

I've got a Compaq DeskPro at home.
I called it RECOIL

yes. there IS a Depeche Mode/Alan Wylder reference :D

[Chame_Wizard]

my desktop :JMWF(Jumbo Mega Wing 5)

[fetisha]

F*g. Not because I'm a homophobe (gay myself), but I use it as a term of endearment.

[speedwell68]

My computer doesn't have a name, but my router is called 'Mr Nice'.

[Alexeon Lanar]

I called my new laptop MF (mobile fortress) ALEXANDRIA.

[k2t0f12d]

Originally my desktop was callled ZEUS when it was dual-boot. I took my drives with me to New Zealand when I visited my fiance, integrated them into her computer, and called the result PARADISE, just so the shell would say myusername@PARADISE. When I had to return, I reorganized my filesystem, reinstalled Debian and called the result PROMETHEUS (much more appropriate for a GNU/Linux box I thought). PROMETHEUS is now dual-boot with a built-from-source GNU/Linux I call HERMES.

Names I have used:

ZEUS
PROMETHEUS
HERMES
DAMOCLES
ANACRON (Windows 2K VM)
DAEMON (FreeBSD VM)

[LinuxGuy1234]

My desktop is named "Some useful computer" or hostname "a****-desktop"
I'm going to install openSUSE on my laptop and calling it "Stolen!" or hostname "some-laptop-you-stolen".

(Others call my desktop useless!)

[new2*buntu]

Mine is "Earth"

[DaveCradock]

MainMachine = workstation (Usually, but it's too long in terminal, so I now use "NeXus" (The name of an old OpenGL 3D framework I wrote)

Server = xbox (As my webserver is running on an XBox ;))

[peanut butter]

My laptop is Aslan
Server is Caspian
Desktop is dawntreader
old laptop is silenus

They are all characters/things from the Chronicles of Narnia.

[Nessa]

Sempron, X2 and Vaio.

[Murrquan]

My lovely notebook PC is named Shadowplane, after the Plane of Shadow from the D&D cosmology.

This is because the Plane of Shadow is a transitive plane that bridges dimensions, and Shadowplane is this sleek, black, shiny thing that takes me to other worlds. ^.^

[Mhurst1]

Mine is named mike-desktop lol

[uraldinho]

EviLMonkeY, inspired by the Evil Monkey in Family Guy. I wanted something along the lines of Cheeky Money, or Blue Monkey, or Big/Small _some_animal_, etc... family guy offered the solution.

[pbeesley]

:) I recently renamed my computer 'sol' and my hard drives Mercury(small external), Earth(home drive), Mars (larger external) and Saturn and Jupiter for my large internal drives.

[Joeb454]

:) I recently renamed my computer 'sol' and my hard drives Mercury(small external), Earth(home drive), Mars (larger external) and Saturn and Jupiter for my large internal drives.

Nice :)

My server is called sparda, and my laptop is called dante (think Devil May Cry - it's a video game for those who don't know)

[The Jinx]

I call my desktop "The Left Hand of God" or LHoG for short

[yssida]

My current one is Archangel, I have a partition I call Minerva.

[mijanous]

Mine is named mike-desktop lol

yeah, me too...but not mike-desktop but miro-desktop

[Lod]

Mine is lubuntu. First letter of my name plus the name of some obscure nerdy os.

[hermes0710]

Hermes (Desktop) and Zeus (Laptop)

[pricetech]

Adams Family naming scheme:
Gomez for my computer
Morticia for Wifey.
Lurch is the server
Thing the laptop
Other odd computers (Uncle Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley, etc)

[KrGAce]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.

Now I call it Lazarus



That's funny! That's exactly what I called mine as well! (M$)

[Doombringer]

I call mine Gustave

[mthei]

I just did a clean install with Hardy, so I named by desktop Laurel.

Actually, I called her Brinstar this time around, but now I wish I had thought of that before.

[Jackelope]

I call mine Digital Caffeine 'cause it keeps me up at night on these forums :p

[Living2007]

My Windows XP's machine name is Experience

[vprasaj]

LOL! I did the same... :smile:

+1 :-({|=#-o:-\"

[Martje_001]

Desktop 1 --> tommie
Desktop 2 --> mekkie
Server --> poetie

[jou770d]

My laptop (a toshiba) is called "Shiva" and my desktop is called "The Temple".

[Sotamato]

I've got only simple names: The Upstairs computer and the downstairs computer.

[EvilMarshmallow]

Anduril.

At work I've been naming all my servers after Lord of the Rings Characters... I have Gandalf, Aragorn, Frodo, Smeagol, Samwise, and Elrond so far...

[Fire_Chief]

Imperial (desktop), Jester (media server), Centurion (firewall)

[Sand & Mercury]

My laptop is known to Windows as 'dodo' and to Linux as 'lappy'. I refer to it as lappy most of the time. It sounds cuter.

[gforster]

Ziggy - from Quantum Leap

[jasontu]

My Ubuntu box is named Timmy because it's a cute little microATX.
My full sized box is named Feldman
My laptop is named Howie.
My old laptop is also named Howie I think...

[jbaerbock]

Well I know I posted before but have since changed the name. With the 8.04 install I named it ChiiBit. Why? Well because I am addicted to the anime Chobits so Chii + Bit :D.

[Jackster]

I've not named the actual computers but here's what I named my HDDs:

Macbook: Apollo
External HD: Maya
iPod: Edgeworth
Windows PC: Phoenix

I wonder if anyone can guess what they're named after ^.^

[hellion0]

This one I'm posting from for this post (my iBook) is called Latias.

[Toffeeapple]

Bubblegum
Frontroom
kidsroom

all running ubuntu.

[decoherence]

Over the years I've found that 'three' is a good number of 'primary' computers to have. My three primary computers have consistently been named after the three magi: Balthasaar, Caspar and Melchior.

Eva FTW!!! Crono Trigger FTW!!! I am such a nerd FTW!!! ;)

[kiran_aryan]

computer name is blackpearl and username is jacksparrow ;)

[freduardo]

Server: Vito
Laptop: Santino and Michele (if dualbooting)
Old Laptop: Brasi
--------------------------------------------------
Nokia Phone: Hagen
External Hard Drive: Fredo
Router: Neri
Printer: Pentangeli
Wlan essid and Samba network: Corleone
--------------------------------------------------
Virtual Machines: Barzini for Windows, Clemenza and Tessio for *NIX.

Now you guess where I get them from.
Alternatively, (even) more explanation can be found here (http://freduardo.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/hostnames-revisited/) :oops:

[spupy]

My laptop is the Allspark!

But it seems right it is called... localhost! :)

[kp52]

Right now I'm working on Snotty, my main machine (it runs XP Pro, but I'm just trying Ubuntu :):):) in a virtual machine that is provisionally called Snotty-u). The original idea was to name it after our cat Sooty, but she objected. My laptop is called Donder.

My wife has Honeybee - it started life as Bumble, got upgraded and became BumbleBee, and has now been very upgraded so it's Honeybee.

My son used to have Gobbledegook, but I broke it (hammering in screwdriver to separate CPU and heatsink NOT a good idea), and he's now on Basilisk.

Apart from the days of agonizing involved in deciding on a new name for a machine, I find it very useful to have distinctive names for each machine on my home network.

[zutronius]

My laptop I call Lapumis. My EMachines pc I call E. My newest desktop I call Zutronia. My Pentium 3 I call geezer.

[Arkenzor]

My laptop is called q-laptop, my virtual machines q-virtual0 to q-virtual3, my late desktop used to be q-desktop.

...

And my name is Quentin in case you're wondering.

[cgeorge1122]

Our entire network is based around harry potter, my dad is obsessed. My computer is patronus, our router is filch, it's crazy.-- Or rather, my dad is.

Server (deb): Sirius
Family comp (XP): Fred
Gaming comp (XP): George
Mac G5 (10.4): Hermione
Old windows 95 that doesn't work: Dumbledore
My comp (ubu): Patronus
Dad's powerbook (10.5): Pensive
Dad's old toshiba (XP): Flitwick
Dad's new toshiba (vista[ugh]/ubu): Voldemort (vista) / Harry (ubu)
Old xp: McGonagall
Router: Filch

[doorknob60]

I call my laptop 'Craptop' because it has 192 MB of RAM (max) and a 400 mhz AMD K6, and it's dual booting Debian and 98 on a 5 GB HD :lolflag: And the CD Drive is busted :(

[Canis familiaris]

Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".

PC name is amita-pc (named after my mother)

[NullHead]

Desktop: cortana, jon-desktop
laptop: jon-laptop
server: WOPR

[Frak]

My Desktop is called MAIN, because its the main hub of the computers.

My Macs are Mac1-5
And my Dell laptop is called Lappy.

[Le-Froid]

Never thought of a name...how about Steve?

[MonsterTrimble]

Currently I have four machines on my network, and a fifth waiting for the PVR build. In general I name them for animals which I find cool.

1) Main Desktop - Timberwolf
2) Wife's laptop - Princess
3) Server - Bison
4) Wii - Sabretooth
5) PVR - Raptor

[VChief]

Desktop: Deathstar -- I was watching Star Wars while installing.

Laptop: MiniMe

[macogw]

New laptop is Betty. Old laptop is Ada still. Really old laptop that I was given by my last roommate is Grace.

[zacktu]

My computers are named puccini, wagner, rossini, and verdi. Mozart has left the room.

[oxtail75]

desktop - dangermouse
laptop - penfold
sever1 - elmstreet
sever2 - crystallake
brothers windows box - Influenza

[miss.magenta]

desktop1 - spookshow
desktop2 - poe
eee - leatherface

[Vitamin-Carrot]

My machine is Grim
My missus machine is kitty
And my windows machine is Ghost

[William Dojinn]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.

Now I call it Lazarus


Mine shared that name due to the habit it had of being able to survive all manner of user errors, hardware glitches, and well...

Sad that the motherboard ended up frying (smelled like it anyway when I opened him up for the post-mortum).

[Thirtysixway]

The computers in my house are named based on who's they are. My server used to be called Sora and my other computer Roxas, but that's not the case anymore :\ I was trying to go with kingdom hearts names

[Keerghan]

PC3
:roll:

[Armaros]

Desktop: Sauron
Laptop: Nazgul
Phone: Golum

[trevelyan]

i named mine Poltergeist.
sometimes it does what it wants...

[wrtpeeps]

Desktop: Sauron
Laptop: Nazgul
Phone: Golum

I hope you spelt it right on your phone! :lolflag:

[HousieMousie2]

My first computer was a desktop model, you remember those big flat suckers? Atop it sat a smaller but also big flat power bar with buttons for each plug. Atop that sat a CRT monitor, big honkin thing.

The end result looked like a gigantic head atop a little wide body, the kind of disproportion you see in children... so it was named Baby Monster, or Bamon for short.

The only other remotely interesting computer name was TBGB. The Big Gray Blob. It was the fabulously boring gray on gray color scheme brought to us by HP.

Since then my computer names have gone tame.

Interesting thread, thanks.

[csc2ya]

Main Laptop: WinServ.Laptop
Second Laptop: WinServ

Second one was called that because it runs windows and it's used as a server. (I actually named it after a public access Windows server that I used to have an account on)

I named my main one Winserv.Laptop, mainly to keep a sort of theme.

[Ryuzakii]

My desktop, which I'm on at the moment, is called Watari. My username on it is Near and my online handle is typically Ryuzaki(i)... :)

I've got an older IBM laptop which is named Hyperion.

[NonPermissive]

Mine's called Katt. When I finally get a new HDD and install Crunchbang on it, I will need a new name, and I'm not sure what that will be.

[Traumadog]

My desktop computer is named "Prometheus" 'cause it stole the fire from the computer that it replaced.... :)

My laptop computer is named "Odysseus" because it wanders and travels around with me...... :)

My wireless print server is named "Hermes" because it delivers the print messages of the other computers...... :)

My server is called "Server1"....

I know, I know, I broke the theme I had going with the other computers.... I was in a less creative mood when I named it. I've been thinking about changing it's name to "Memory Alpha", however, because it holds most of the data held within the network and it appeals to the "Trekker" in me!! :)

[Veteropinguis]

The physical components of my computer are named Klapaucius. My Ubuntu desktop is called Flatland because I get a kick out of thinking about how I'm poking around in Flatland. My configuration -or desktop or whatever the phrase is, it's 2:30 AM where I am and I'm still a newb to this- is called Trurl. My XP boot is either going to be called Lem or Tesla, once I figure out how to do a repair installation.

Stanislaw Lem kicks ***.

[SarahKH]

Other halfs laptop is jaffacakes, my big laptop is banshee, the EEE 701's called mini-me, the Flybook is called, oddly enough flybook. Server is called 'madcat' and the MythTV boxes are, originally enough, named mythtv-<location>.

Also appearing on the network from time to time are 'heather-latop', 'heather-desktop' and 'todds-g5-imac'.

[Ajantis]

Used to call it something like Ra, Horus, Nefretete, Anubis.

Now I use various terms from games - X-51 (Deus Ex), right now NCR (Fallout 2).

[MaxIBoy]

Desktop, I would definitely call Maw. (Maw as is in large gaping scary opening, also short for Max Always Wins.)
Lately I've been referring to my desktop as "my new rig" though.

Laptop, I refer to as Anchor, because the battery life is so damn short! :mad: Darn Toshiba! (Tips on undervolting, anyone?)

[TSJason]

anubis, hathor, tiamat, isis, nut, setesh, geb, horus, thoth, snicklefritz, iphigenia, and pintsize

:-) I'm a little random

[spupy]

My Gentoo running laptop is now called.... Zentoo!

Ommmmmmmm...

[NullHead]

My desktop: Cortana,
My laptop: jon-laptop,
My server: WOPR

Anyone know where I got those names from? excluding my laptop.

[D-EJ915]

I updated my site with info pages on all my computers: http://dej915.serveftp.com:777/systems.html

[Bachstelze]

Ana, Miu and Chika, named after the girls from the Ichigo Mashimaro manga series :)

Update: now I have one machine for each of the Ichi-maro girls (in alphabetical order: Ana, Chika, Matsuri, Miu and Nobue) at home, plus two dedicated servers named Itsuki and Iori (from I"s) and an EeePC 701 named Akari (from Five Centimeters per Second).

Details (in French) here (http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/utilisateurs/hymntolife).

[Shippou]

Shippou, from the anime series InuYasha.

Well, I just like it to be that way. :)

[t0p]

My computer is called ubunty. But I've recently taken to running the kubuntu-desktop, so I was thinking should I rename her kubunty?

Naaahh, that'd just confuse the poor love, right?

[jay019]

Lol. What a cool thread.

Well as my lucky number is 19 and I work for a company called Element Media, my laptop got given the name Potassium.

In the description of potassium I have it is described as a soft silvery material (sweet, laptop is silver) and it reacts violently in water (not game to test this claim :P) but frighteningly it is used in the manufactur of explosives and fireworks. Thankfully this has not rung true for the little toshi. Fingers crossed!

[armageddon08]

I call mine CompXtreme. You might be thinking that it's kinda an extreme comp upgraded to the latest extent possible.

Are you joking? My comp's quite low on resources with 512MB RAM. When I used to run WinXP I used to call it The Turtle but now I call it CompXtreme 'cause with Ubuntu I run it to the extent of using 100% RAM sometimes!

[MaxIBoy]

Stanislaw Lem kicks ***. So true.


By the way, I've decided to call my dad's computer "Ol' greystoke." I may or may not build a simple server (if I can convince parents to pay for it,) which would be called "Fred."

Seriously, Fred is the best name ever, besides Max.

[brokenLockpick]

I don't really have enough machines to make it interesting.

But on my college campus they have an interesting convention for the servers. Every single one, to my knowledge, is named after a bird.

Lark, shrike, dove, etc. I think it goes without saying what the Linux server is called, which inspired the name for my current (only at the moment) machine "bluePenguin" because it's, well, blue and running Linux.

[antirem]

Lennon (x61 lenovo, ubuntu)
Majoena (Macbook Pro, Mac OSX)
Zule (emachines, windows)

I rename my computers on every reinstall of an OS.

[HansKisaragi]

My ubuntu box is called Hatenkou (http://hatenkou.net/), same as my domain. :KS

[Kabezon]

Alelhí, I just think it's a pretty name :)

[kunixos]

My old tower that had Windows on it was called Charlene until it ate the big one and now I am going to move most of the hardware into a shuttle and renamed it Arthur.

My laptop (the only computer I actually use) is Alice, and she has never had M$ for more than a day (but has had Fedora 7,8 and 9, Arch, Mint, Xubuntu, Ubuntu, and now Kubuntu - my favorite).

[ModelM]

The old G3 Imac is just "mac"
The G4 mac is "doc"
The laptop is "wyatt"
And my main desktop is always "asimov"

[jmejedi]

My main Desktop PC is named "ZEUS" !

[flytripper]

this is my main comp so i called it "bigdaddy" my laptop "little jimmy" and my wifes comp "mummy"

[Jokimoto]

Desktop PC is named Hal9000 in Ubuntu, WSOGMM in Windows (from Hitchhiker's Guide... the Whole Sort Of General Mish-Mash)

[tom66]

I rename my laptop every time I reinstall Ubuntu.

orpheus
poseidon
apollo
zeus
mars
neptune

Windows XP on the drive is called 'slow piece of ...' or ARMADA.

All mythical gods. My other computers are:
(Correction, orpheus isn't technically a god but instead a figure of Greek mythology; it'll do)

apollo-gameserv (ancient PC I used once for a project but now collects dust)
thomas-desktop (because it was the default :p)
slow (because it is)

The Amigas are unnamed, but the A1200 is intermittent in it's 'capability to shift bits of the register' (i.e. it's broke) so I call it 'ugh'.

[stargirl51]

I rename my laptop every time I reinstall Ubuntu.

orpheus
poseidon
apollo
zeus
mars
neptune

Windows XP on the drive is called 'slow piece of ...' or ARMADA.

All mythical gods. My other computers are:

apollo-gameserv (ancient PC I used once for a project but now collects dust)
thomas-desktop (because it was the default :p)
slow (because it is)

The Amigas are unnamed, but the A1200 is intermittent in it's 'capability to shift bits of the register' (i.e. it's broke) so I call it 'ugh'.

Kinda funny you named it Orpheus THEN moved onto the gods. Haha.


Oh and mine is named...

Steve.

[tom66]

Scratch this. Can I delete this post?

[00arthuryu]

Mine's arthy

[pmills]

Birds of Prey (DC Comics) characters:

WinXP Desktop: Huntress
iPod Touch: Canary
Linux partition on Vaio: Misfit
WinXP partition on Vaio: Oracle

[geekygirl]

I call my EeePC 'The Tardis" small on the outside, so much on the inside!

and my desktop is called "Galifrey" Its the main PC.

[Browncoatdevil]

Shiny. Any Firefly fans?

[tonez2600]

My desktop is hellfire. My server is protos.

[dragon99]

I have the 3 Stooges - Moe, Larry & Curly

[empty_spaces]

My network is called southpark. So far, I have Cartman, Stan and Kyle as my computer names.

[abgemacht]

Tablet: Exxon_Valdez
Gaming PC: Prestige
T60p (Ubuntu): Braer
Old Desktop: Amoco_Cadiz
Very Old Desktop: Bouchard

See the pattern?

[BrokenKingpin]

I have 4 computers.

****** old desktop - Shitbox
Laptop - Lappy
Main Desktop - Desktop
Server - Server

[PryGuy]

Mine are 'lion', 'cheetah', 'lynx'... There are 'server' and 'media' also. I thought it is better not to call them this way. ;)

[therascalking]

My new Ubuntu box is called 'Hanuman'

Hanuman, the magical monkey warrior in Rama’s simian army, is probably the best known monkey character in Ramakien, the Thai version of the Indian epic Ramayana.

I also have a tattoo of Hanuman on my leg.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/therascalking/1486827229/in/set-72157602271869245/

[hrod beraht]

The moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo:


Io = Linksys NSLU2 network attached storage
Callisto = web server
Europa = backup/file server
Ganymede = Hardy Desktop machine

[bks]

Mine is pretty lame, but easily identifiable across a network.

gateway400SD

[solitaire]

The moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo:


Io = Linksys NSLU2 network attached storage
Callisto = web server
Europa = backup/file server
Ganymede = Hardy Desktop machine



Oddly I use the same names on my network...

Except my Media Server Box is called "Monolith" ("My god it's full of Stars!")
:lolflag::lolflag:

[cardinals_fan]

My main desktop is echo. My ancient old Dell is point-and-grunt.

[Keyper7]

My laptop is called "laptop" and my bluetooth phone is called "phone".

Clever, huh? :)

[odysseusjak]

HumanOdyssey

[Joe Soap]

Andelain
Revelstone

and

Hurtloam

From Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series

[Theosa]

I have two machines.
Sydney is my desktop, Aero is my laptop.

[DrumScum]

My main machine is called mordor. The kid's machine is called pink-shoes. And I'm about to set up a little server using an old Fujitsu Celvin machine, which I'll probably call celvin.

[david_lynch]

my main work desktop is einstein (hardy single boot)
my main home desktop is lucy (suse 10.3 single boot)
my servers at home are called toro, libby and hellboy (all hardy)

edit: forgot to mention my laptop, cloverfield (dual boot: hardy and suse 11.0)

[Naralas]

Ever since my friend Yume wrote us a webcomic of me declaring my love of the MSI Wind (about 1 week before I bought one, which I do love, and even hugged once) she has been telling me I have to name it. I wanted something that started with "W" like "wind" but my sister and one of my friends are named Wendy and I can't think of any other name for it.

I call it Windy sometimes?
My PC is usually named after whatever vulgarity my mind pulls out first. because its either for gaming, or its crashing (runs vista) so it causes me to be very vulgar at times.

[Newuser1111]

6 computers, my router shows that they are named
ACER
ADMIN-PC
DESKTOP
GARAGE
DJK-PC
BJK_PC

[cerberus920]

My box used to be called "Cerberus" (3-headed guard dog of Hades) back when I first built it about 6 years ago. It used to have 3 SCSI drives in it. After I tore it down, dumped the SCSI, & rebuilt it, I named it "Lazarus".

[rated727]

computer - operating system(s) - "Name"

Toshiba Satellite - MS Windows XP Pro - "Medusa"
AMD K7 Desktop - MS Windows XP PRO / Ubuntu - "Dr. J" (Jekyll & Hyde)
Dell PIII Desktop - test box for Linus distros, new programs etc - "PScyZZo"
AMD K6 Desktop - SmoothWall (dedicated firewall) - "glass brick"

Network names have no connection to the name that I gave to each device ... WinXP and Ubuntu on "Dr. J" have individual network names and are not even in the same workgroup.

[pi.boy.travis]

Now come folks , naming your computers, now thats crazy, naming your car yes naming your favourite shoes yes but your computer ???:-P:-\"

Naming shoes? That is an interesting topic. . .

OOPs, didn't look at the date, there. . . That was a REALLY old post

[rated727]

five years ago:
Pizza_Box - a horizontal desktop (GF's computer)
Suit_Case - minitower that sat beside the Pizza_Box.

nine years ago:
WeeHawk ** - Toshiba Pentium laptop
Elinore ** - 486 DLC full tower (homemade clone)
Avatar ** - (genuine) Intel dual-Pentium II server
Scorch ** - workgroup name
** (See Ralph Bakshi's "Wizards")

[sharkcohen]

I follow the Batman naming convention. My main workstation is called sharkdesk, my ps3 Ubuntu install is called sharkstation, and if I could name my work XP laptop, it would be called sharktop. And yes, my car is called the sharkmobile.

[lisati]

Currently "portable-aspie" for my laptop (usually runs Ubuntu) and "upstairs-aspie" for my "desktop" (usually runs XP)

("Aspie" is explained here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers).)

[AndreiP1]

''@%^$&£'', or something similar - the most intersting name I had on one of mine once.

[miljan]

My machine is Eniac, when I got my Mac I called it Univac. When my fiancee and I moved in together, she thought it'd be funny to call hers Abacus, because her computer is so slow.

Eniac and Univac were two of the first major computer landmarks, and an abacus, for those who don't know, is a pre-electricity way of adding without doing it in your head or on paper. With sticks and beads and such

Hay, so is mine to.
i have some nice custom "Eniac" wallpaper's, all done in inkskape. So if you want some, just send me a request an U2U :)

[Nepherte]

Desktop 1: Athena
Desktop 2: Hera
Laptop: Minerva
Server: Apollo

[mistakenkindness]

my Linux Box is named holes after a nickname that was given to me.
my pc is name POS because it really is.

[ELD]

"Liams Bad Boy" haha

[tel93]

My computers' names:
Desktop downstairs (not really mine, but it still has debian on it): "Downstairs Desktop"
My K6-2 laptop: "Laptop"

[devil404]

I named my laptop Laptor because it used to be the slowest predator in the computer kingdom. Two iterations later, I have Laptor3. Not so slow now. I named my desktop Qantas hoping it wouldn't crash (Rainman reference).

[coolbrook]

My PC's are named after the TMNT and SPLINTER.

I decided upon this because I was looking for a name for a system that was running on an Intel SAI2 (http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sai2/index.htm) motherboard, so I thought about two sai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_(weapon)) and the first thing that popped into my head was RAPHAEL. I also have a dual P3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Tualatin) (blade) system and two katana blades made me think of LEONARDO. The only system running Windows is MICHELANGELO ('Mike' like Microsoft.)

[RATM_Owns]

Mine's boring. Just comp.
Can't you change it with Ubuntu Tweak?

[coolbrook]

Da Cheat! LOL

System > Administration > Network > General

[DeadSuperHero]

my Linux Box is named holes after a nickname that was given to me.

Care to explain? :lolflag:

My desktop at home is currently named "Homeslice". It's some ghetto term, I suppose. But, my computer is pretty ghetto with all the wires hanging out of it, dents, and whatnot.

Still, a reliable and tough little machine.

[LinuxManMikeC]

Frankenstein - My desktop, which used to be a stock ElitePC, but then I gutted it for a major upgrade. With the added heat and a graphics card with no fan, I cut two holes in the side for a couple 120mm exhaust fans and drilled holes in one of the 5 1/4 drive bay covers for the two fan control knobs. I also got a PSU with a second fan on top, so I cut a hole for that too. Not sure if I'll continue with this upgrade cycle or just get a new case and build a new system. I kinda like the battered look of it, but there are some sweet cases out there that make me drool and I'd like to go water cooled (which would be hard in the current case).

Phoenix - My IBM Thinkpad 770z that my dad snagged from the junkpile at work several years back. The hard disk crashed the first time I attempted to install an OS. After barely getting along with just a 800mb HD (also salvaged from the junk pile) I bought a 40gb drive and it rose from the ashes.

Hive - My server, no idea why I named it this. Perhaps Borg inspired (I am a bit of a Trekkie). An old Dell desktop also from the junk pile.

Pegasus - The computer I built for my mom from the leftovers when I created Frankenstein. She chose the name. Linux powered, currently Fedora 6 (with a WinXP dual boot), but soon to be Ubuntu 8.04 (and WinXP in VirtualBox).

Tinkerbell - The computer I built for my sister when she left for college. All hand-picked parts based on what she wanted and how much money she had to spare. Beautiful computer I must say. She chose the name. Linux powered, Fedora 7 x86-64, will eventually be Ubuntu.

[Martym]

Named after Discworld cities around the circle sea

There is:
* Ankh Morpork A big smelly windows box
* Ephebe, a desktop
* Tsort, a desktop
* Djelebeybi, my laptop
* Omnia, an old file server

The workgroup is called Circle Sea and the network is Discworld anything larger than that would have to be called A'tuin ... wonder if I can get my ISP to change it's name?

[Barrucadu]

Named after Discworld cities around the circle sea

There is:
* Ankh Morpork A big smelly windows box
* Ephebe, a desktop
* Tsort, a desktop
* Djelebeybi, my laptop
* Omnia, an old file server

The workgroup is called Circle Sea and the network is Discworld anything larger than that would have to be called A'tuin ... wonder if I can get my ISP to change it's name?
That is a truely brilliant naming convention. Why oh why didn't I think of that before naming my computers after mythological beings? :confused:

[lovinglinux]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.

Now I call it Lazarus


ROFL. This is really funny.

I call mine Leopold.

[Lacrimstein]

The Terminator

[lovinglinux]

Pegasus - The computer I built for my mom from the leftovers when I created Frankenstein. She chose the name. Linux powered, currently Fedora 6 (with a WinXP dual boot), but soon to be Ubuntu 8.04 (and WinXP in VirtualBox)

What a coincidence, the computer I configured for my mom is also called "Pegasus" and she also chose the name. She is still using Windows, but she accepted to install Ubuntu soon.

[swoll1980]

I have 4 now. Bigman, Lilman, oldman, newman

[Dragonbite]

Portcullis = IPCop router/gateway and content filter
Drawbridge = Linksys router
Dungeon = server in the basement (openSUSE)
GreatHall = desktop in the living room (Edubuntu/XP)
Tower = primary Windows XP machine for my wife (or should it be "BlackTower"?)
Dragon = my laptop (though "Pegasus" sounds like a good one too) (Ubuntu)

Although, maybe "Dragon" would be a good one for the openSUSE server since their mascot is a lizard? :lolflag:

[newlinux]

ubuntu-laptop = well, my ubuntu laptop
debian-laptop = well, my debian laptop
home-desktop = well, my primary home-desktop running linux mint
vonage-router = vonage router
iMacG3 = my imacG3 (dual boot OSX/Ubuntu)
evangemyth = living room mythbox
newmyth = bedroom mythbox
julian = Vista laptop
deathstroke = primary server running ubuntu (files, remote login, etc.)
z500 = ziova z500 networked dvd player
manhunter = garage mythbox

[happysmileman]

Deepthought

[LaRoza]

laroza

[Dragonbite]

larozaOriginal :lolflag:

[scragar]

I've got 3, called:
Enzo - it's a little router box, pentium 2, very slow, but runs well without a GUI
Bob - My windows box, it's less powerfull than my main box and has glitches, I tend not to even turn it on.
Phong - My main box, runs linux and for a good reason.

Then there's my phone(Dot) which I never actualy turn on unless I need to make a call(intrestingly the battery lasts about a month between recharging, so I love the thing).

In case anyone is wondering click here for the reason why. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot)

[Hells_Dark]

My desktop is limeade and my laptop, green-lime :)

[Scunge]

I used to play a DOS game called VGA PLanets and the group I was in had a ship list with names set up by the group, not always the defaults that come with the game. So I named my computers after what they do sounding like the sort of ship it would be in the game.

My disk server is called ferengi, after the Ferengi Tradinger, the biggest cargo ship in the ship list.

My main working machine, nice and fast, which, being a laptop, is alot less visible than the others (mainly desktops), is menhunter, after the Menhunter Interceptor, a ship which can travel twice as fast as others and can cloak.

The one the kids use is just an old thing which I've got working enough for them to use, so it's called sirius, after the Sirius Cybernetics, the most basic cargo ship in our ship list.

The machine I use for "everything else" - it dual boots with Windows XP for those hard-to-find-in-Linux apps and has Hardy Heron on it for me to experiment with (all others have Dapper Drake), is called wayland, after the Wayland Probe, a ship with hyperdrive used to find out about enemy planets all over the game universe.

And finally, my backup machine, the thing that every good user needs and it just does it's job without any fuss, is called foundation, after the Foundation Freighter, my most used cargo ship in the games I played.
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[dracvs]

In the office where I work the boss used the following scheme

The servers are called as Olympian Gods:
Zeus, Poseidon, Atlas.

The External Drives as the Muses And or any female character in mythology:
pandora, Athena, Nike

And finally the two horrible sluggish servers in the office are called after two big creatures

Godzilla. And KingKong

there is one more thats even More nice.

its called paperWeight.

[lovinglinux]

In the office where I work the boss used the following scheme

The servers are called as Olympian Gods:
Zeus, Poseidon, Atlas.

The External Drives as the Muses And or any female character in mythology:
pandora, Athena, Nike

And finally the two horrible sluggish servers in the office are called after two big creatures

Godzilla. And KingKong

there is one more thats even More nice.

its called paperWeight.

I have other two that I can call Paper Weight, a desktop and a notebook. But they are literally paper weight, because they don't work anymore.

[dracvs]

I have other two that I can call Paper Weight, a desktop and a notebook. But they are literally paper weight, because they don't work anymore.

oh this one is called paperweight but because of its sheer size and weight. (About 70cm high and 50 width or something)

its a dell powerEdge 4200 and it looks like a Clothes Washer or a Drier. Seriously its Heavy, Big and cumbersome. I wonder if it even turns on anymore.

[lavinog]

My PC's are named after the TMNT and SPLINTER.

I decided upon this because I was looking for a name for a system that was running on an Intel SAI2 (http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sai2/index.htm) motherboard, so I thought about two sai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_(weapon)) and the first thing that popped into my head was RAPHAEL. I also have a dual P3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Tualatin) (blade) system and two katana blades made me think of LEONARDO. The only system running Windows is MICHELANGELO ('Mike' like Microsoft.)

Same here:
My main computer is Shredder, because of the vents on my black antec mini p180. http://www.antec.com/images/160/MiniP180_q.jpg
My old desktop is Leo
My son's computer is donatello
My wife's computer is april
and My server is splinter (because I made the case out of wood)
My ssid is Krang
I never got around to changing my laptop name...it is still gordita (back from when I used tacobell menu items)

[Skorzen]

skorzen-laptop?
It's currently the only computer at home.

[terabyte1]

I know what you mean ... so you know which PC is which on your Network. Well mine are boring names like sysop1 or computer.room1 I suppose I should name one Linus and the other one Bill and let them fight it out between them, which is best :D

terabyte:guitar:

[R_T_H]

linlap - Linux Laptop

[Chibone]

My old HP desktop is called OldSchool, because it's going on 7 years old now and still runs like a champ with Ubuntu.

My Macs' names are functional; ibook, mini, and emac respectively.

My new laptop ... called AMDmanda after one of my friends Amanda, and it has an AMD processor in it.

[kpatz]

XP Boxes:

My Desktop PC is named STALKERII, short for the Phantom Stalker II. I built it to be a fast yet quiet machine, hence the name. The original Phantom Stalker was lost in a house fire in '05 so I built a new one and added II to the name.

My laptop is named Athena, after one of my cats. When I boot up its Ubuntu partition, it's called "Athena-ubuntu".

Ubuntu boxes:

My firewall/Internet gateway box is named Zuul, after the Gatekeeper in Ghostbusters.

My MythTV box is simply named "mythtv". ;)

[Prominence]

My laptop is named iGrayson, my desktop is named Brick, my work laptop (Sony Vaio) is named T.A.R.D.I.S.

[Redache]

My PC is Called Caliph.

[krai havok]

My main terminal (that I built myself) is named Tyria
My secondary terminal (that I use for a test bed that I "find") is named Salamander
and my Laptop which is now a Linux box is named Dorian

[mellowd]

Simba

[nickgaydos]

Windows XP Dell:
Login name: Administrator
Workgroup name Gaydos-random number
---
Bros lappy:
eXPireance
workgroup name: eXPiereance
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my lappy:
Nick@Ubuntu
Workgroup name: Ubuntu

[Bachstelze]

A few additions since last time I posted here:

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/utilisateurs/hymntolife

[Sephoroth]

Hmm...

THE-LOVE-BOAT

THE-LOVE-BOAT-II-BACK-WITH-A-VENGEANCE

THE-LOVE-RAFT (small partition XD).

[gatos]

When i had XP on it, i used to call my laptop MSucks, but since I switched to Ubuntu, I start referr9ng to it as Babebuntu. lol

[Matthewthegreat]

I have a duel boot so Vista is named BRAD and ubuntu in named SARAH. I named it that because of the H.O.U.S.E. Rules episode of Eureka.

[Ms_Angel_D]

We have 3 computers

Computer 1: Hal-9000 it's the oldest
Computer 2: Hal-12000
Computer 2: Hal-15000 The Newest

[blackvd]

My desktop is named Lexx and my laptop is named Moth.

[Therion]

I'm currently running Obelisk II.

Previous Builds were Screaming Pig I & II.

[lazyart]

To update-

Calvin - Ubuntu desktop
Hobbes - Windows Domain Controller
Mintal - Laptop running Linux Mint
Laptop - Laptop running Windows
Bigbox - Desktop running Windows (it replaced "Toaster" a mini-PC)
Heather - Daughter's Windows Desktop
Compaq1200 - Other Daughter's Windows Desktop (yep, it's a Celeron 1200)
Client02 - Other Other Daughter's Windows Desktop

...yes, all of these machines are functioning!

Virtual Machines in Calvin:
Web - Debian (Apache) Webserver
Debian - Debian (Zimbra) Mailserver
Winbuntu - Windows XP VM

5 humans. 11 computers. Quite disturbing.

[AndyCee]

Mine is called "Moss", after the IT crowd character.

My wife's is "Candi" - she likes girly names.

My last one was "Elijah", for reasons relating to his death.

[RD1]

Bodhisattva

[KhaiJB]

Ceberus - main workstation (Hardy 64 / Windows Xp Pro)
Betrand - Wifes Computer (XP Pro)
Delenn - Backup Workstation / Jukebox (Hardy)
Merlin - File Server / WAMP Server (XP Pro)
Orion - Laptop (vista basic..oh the pain the pain!)

[god0fgod]

matt-desktop or something.

[karellen]

camil-pc

[pixelstuff]

Compi
The one before was Drahti (Draht = wire in german)

[uberdonkey5]

Now come folks , naming your computers, now thats crazy, naming your car yes naming your favourite shoes yes but your computer ???:-P:-\"

erm... yes, its strange. Do you mean this is the network name you have for it, or is it actually their names??? My laptop is called 'Dell Inspiron' and my super-portable 'Eee PC'. Do any of you actually buy them birthday presents as well :confused:

hmmm. Should get myself onto a forum with 'normal' people.:)

[Sephoroth]

erm... yes, its strange. Do you mean this is the network name you have for it, or is it actually their names??? My laptop is called 'Dell Inspiron' and my super-portable 'Eee PC'. Do any of you actually buy them birthday presents as well :confused:

hmmm. Should get myself onto a forum with 'normal' people.:)

Now don't be dissin' mah THE-LOVE-BOAT!

[minime80]

Okay, I'm definitely going to sound like a nerd now, but oh well. My naming convention stems around the astrotheological origins of ancient mythology.

The server is named Polaris after the star that many of the characters in mythology dance around.

Since I tend to gravitate toward a darker theme, I named my domain Hades.

Since my name is Nick, I named my main laptop Nyx, which also happens to be the greek character from their creation myth that represented the night.

My smartphone is named Erebus, who was Nyx's brother (both children of the god Chaos), and represented darkness.

The wifey's laptop is named after Nyx and Erebus's child Nemesis, which I found supremely appropriate (she didn't think so :lolflag:) because, as in Hesiod's Theogony "deady Nyx bore Nemesis to afflict mortal men."

PEACE!

[billgoldberg]

Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".

I like my computers, but they aren't alive. Thus not deserve a name.

I just call them "computer".

[lazyart]

I like my computers, but they aren't alive. Thus not deserve a name.

I just call them "computer".

poo-poo soil-sport.

No, they aren't alive, but they need a name to reference them on the network. So you have fun with it.

[billgoldberg]

poo-poo soil-sport.

No, they aren't alive, but they need a name to reference them on the network. So you have fun with it.

Oh.

The network name. lol

I was thinking a name like some name their car.

In the network my computers are called "legend" and "kaper".

[Athos101]

Mine are simple "Ubuntu Computer" and "Windows Computer"

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

At home, i got three. they are NEUROMANCER, SKINWALKER, and an old xperimental machine called HACKBOX, that runs BORON(scientific linux5.2) from CERN, Fermilab and others.

At work, thanx to the rules put forward by the network admin, they are called PC53, and LAPPIE08 :redface:

[ukripper]

COLOSSUS

and

ENIGMA

EDIT-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine


.

[imgkg]

user

[Ghliofris]

My main computer is Freightliner. My wife's computer is Mack. My laptop is Volvo. In case you can't tell, I'm a professional commercial products transportation specialist (truck driver).

[god0fgod]

I like the posh version of the job title.

[pherber12]

Ha. I always call them lame things.

Right now I have

1 - sadnessinc
2 - melancholy
3 - emptyplanet

[rat_poison]

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy theme
earthmk2 (main computer)
deepthought (old computer, used mostly as a media center at the bedroom)
digital-watch (the eeePC 1000 I'll buy for christmas)

[medic2000]

Iluvatar

[gnulinuxoss]

I've been using names from J.J.R. Tolkien's "The Silmarillion". I use .arda for a local domain name and, for instance, elu.arda is my firewall, the laptop I'm typing this on is ulmo, my main desktop is manwe etc. *I* find it easy to remember what box does what if I pick a name that fits with the work it does.

[Solicitous]

My names are;
Laptop - lappy
Desktop - mental
Old Desktop (K6-2/350) - Kacee
Server - scumbag

I used to (when working as a sys admin) name the servers after fancy cars ie; viper, corvette, mustang
Perhaps I should look at a naming convention for all my home PCs, at current time they're pretty random names.

[MonsterTrimble]

My naming convention (in general) follows large and/or predatory animals:

Desktop - 'Timberwolf' - Kubuntu 8.04
Server - 'Bison' - Win 2K
Wife's Laptop - 'Princess' - Win XP SP3
Wii - 'Sabretooth' - ???
Loaner P4 - 'Raptor' - Win XP SP2

I have in the past used 'Coyote', 'Frodo', 'Goliath' & 'Bronx' as well.

[KyleZOA]

Flashhawk for me

[ashmew2]

H4xX0r...When i was installing Ubuntu for the first time , it just clicked and i put it in :P Been the same since 2.5 years :)

[ashmew2]

My naming convention (in general) follows large and/or predatory animals:

Desktop - 'Timberwolf' - Kubuntu 8.04
Server - 'Bison' - Win 2K
Wife's Laptop - 'Princess' - Win XP SP3
Wii - 'Sabretooth' - ???
Loaner P4 - 'Raptor' - Win XP SP2

I have in the past used 'Coyote', 'Frodo', 'Goliath' & 'Bronx' as well.

Wii uses a Linux Based Operating System!! OMG!!

Have a look here : http://saruwatari-wii.blogspot.com/2006/07/software-in-wii.html

[johnmcel]

My Inspiron 1501 is Dylan for no reason other than I like the name...same goes for my iPod, Ralph. Since I (as of yet) have no children, my parenting urges tend to manifest themselves in odd ways. Although, like others on this thread, while dual booting in Vista (I simply cannot let go of iTunes) Dylan's name is often pronounced 'piece of s***', or worse.

[Frak]

Wii uses a Linux Based Operating System!! OMG!!

Have a look here : http://saruwatari-wii.blogspot.com/2006/07/software-in-wii.html
Just going to put it out there:

Wii doesn't use Linux, and if you know I am wrong, post the linux patch repository of theirs, because I would be very happy to see it.

[Ellipsis]

I name mine after ships on Star Trek (Yeah I know). My current desktop is named just Enterprise (You know before all the letters started being added), my little AA1 is named Voyager. When I upgrade my desktop I will probably rename it Enterprise D.

[atihimself]

My laptop is delenn (as minbari councellor from B5)
and new Dell box is calle Hal (space odyssey 2001)

[UrbanSlayer]

Oh dear, where to start..

Desktops -
Eclair - Main desktop, Ubuntu
Komugi - Gaming PC, XP Pro
Nemu - 2nd Gaming PC/Test box, Vista Business x64
Esther - MythTV, Ubuntu

Servers -
Lumiere - Fileserver, Win2k3
Yoko - AD Controller, 2k3 (Virtual)
Lacus - Mail/MPD, Debian
Sabre - DNS/DHCP, Debian (Virtual)
Hazuki - FTP/SSH, Debian (Virtual)
Akari - WWW, Debian (Virtual)
Belldandy - AD/WSUS/Backup Exec, Win2k3

[dedmonds]

coffee

[richg]

Computer. :roll:

Rich

[ponychaser]

Adding "-tron3000" at the end of anything makes it super-awesome and powerful. So it was Laptron 3000, then using the naming convention from Strongbad makes it Lappy 3000...

[danshepp]

hi mines is called the old banger because before i got it i had windows 3.1 on it and now i have linux installed and it runs it quite fast if you want to know the specs of my old banger just send me a message

[HockeyPlayer]

Can't say I've named them before, but this one's called 'Abhorsen' (from the books by Garth Nix).

Based on the fact the Abhorsen is a necromancer, and this box was resurrected from the attic for my introduction to Ubuntu...

[RATM_Owns]

Mine's comp.

How can I change it to say, Compy 386?

[jrothwell97]

My aging iMac DV is called Welchman (google for an explanation) and my Eee PC's name is Hammond (after Richard Hammond - guess why).

Machines I've had a hand in naming have included Istari, Bob, Blockbuster, Eric, Larry, Pineapple and Drake. (I didn't devise the last four.)

edit: and yes, I do address them by name when using speech recognition.)

[demios]

my classy black dell inspiron 1520 is known as The Handicaptain

[ZarathustraDK]

My old Medion is Lelouch, my little eee 901 is Benben.

[The_Hive_Collective]

I base my computers on the Star Trek theme.

Laptops

Defiant [Ubuntu & Vista], Stargazer [Ubuntu] & Voyger [Vista].

Desktop PCs

Enterprise [Ubuntu].

Holodeck "Home Entertainment System" [Vista, soon to be Linux MCE or Ubuntu MCE].

Servers

Command "As in Starfleet Command" [MS Server 2003] soon to be decommissioned or become Virtual under Ubuntu.

DS9 "As in Deep Space Nine Space Station" [Ubuntu].

As you can see I'm a Trekkie fan who doesn't get out much.:lolflag:



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All good things come to them who have a disciplined mind & patient.

What is Normal?
Normal is what everyone else is and your not.

[Dirty Ole]

She calls herslef 'Skywalker'.

[cl0ckwork]

HP pavillion dv9000 laptop.

stolen from strongbad

Lappy486

:)

[/usr/bin/hacked?]

Haxxor and lambchop

[jbu004]

IceMan

[arglborps]

My Ubuntu aspire one is called "diehard4", simply because when I watched Die Hard 4 I really got hooked onto the idea to get a very small, very light, very mobile computer and ended up buying the aspire one about a week later...

My MacBook Pro is called "kame2". "Kame" is the Japanese word for turtoise or turtle. My wife called it that, nobody knows why, and it's my second (actually third, but the case design of the last two was exactly the same) *Book, that's where the "2" comes from.

[kk0sse54]

Cloud-9

[73ckn797]

Let's see, there is my computer, my wife's computer and my son's computer and, oh yes, the laptop. Those are the names of mine. Makes it all simple.

[VietBob]

Hai, carried from Win-XP.

Alex, Brenda, and Carlos at work.

[crystallayden]

I have not given any name to my computer. But, your question give an idea to give my laptop a name...I think Silver Hawk is great. My laptop color is silver.

[rbudiharso]

I call my laptop gemini, first because it's my zodiak and second because it has dual boot (hardy and xp, tough I never use xp since it's somewhat broken), anyway I'm thinking of removing the xp partition so hardy can become the ultimate ruler in it... 8-)

[myusername]

i call my desktop Mufasa

[alwez_loner_TZ]

my computerz is LONER.. as that is what life is all about.....

[Tr4ck3r]

My server: Osiris
My MainDesktop: BlueBox
My Acer laptop: Isis
My netbook: T10

[TheSlipstream]

My laptop is called Shrapnel. When I finally make that epic desktop powerhouse, it'll be Artillery. If I get a server, it will be Shell. And a netbook will be christened Shard.

[SeanBlader]

They all get named after Star Wars planets in alphabetical order. Works well, I'm up to Hoth so far. One thing that really worked out well was that when I got my Nokia N95 I needed to name it too since it is a little linux computer, so I named it after one of Naboo's moons. The only letters in the alphabet I'll have to skip are L, X and Z. And when I get to a couple of them I'll have a few options for names depending on what role the system will take. Like Kashyyyk, or Kamino, or Kessel.

So over the years I've had Alderaan, Bespin, Corellia (ubuntu), Dathomir, Endor, Felucia (ubuntu), Geonosis, Hoth. All but the last three are retired. And there's a full list of the rest of the names at www.starwars.com/databank for me to look up later and decide what to name the next system.

[Sisteroot]

predator :)

[Dvorakis]

Radiohead...mainly because its a custom made desktop computer, and its got a kick *** radiohead sticker on the top.

[emecas]

mine is Fredy Santander!!!

[schauerlich]

My 3 computers are "macbook" "ubuntu" and "server"

Yeah, I'm creative.

[Sisteroot]

EDavidBurg, :lolflag:

[Liv3dN8as]

Well, my laptop's name is DemonBox and the wifes pc is Box of Kristeria, or Kristeria for short. Her name is Kristina, so you get the picture. I'm working on a media player box, not too sure what I'm going to name it yet.

[MunkyJunky]

All my computers get a Norse theme. My computer is Loki, laptop #1 is Baldr, laptop #2 is Fenrir, sisters lappy is Thor, mums lappy is Freyr, my Xbox 360 is Heimdall, and my pendrive is Mjolnir. Oh, and my NAS is Valhalla. The network workgroup is Aesir, and I had another workgroup elsewhere called Vanir.

[Viranh]

Sabriel- main laptop
Lyra- samba server
Siwan- ipod touch
Sjan- old HP
There's not really any pattern to my naming, but I like to be able to identify all my devices on a network.

[anaxolotl]

moomooix (it's a gateway)

[Sean4000]

"The Lappy" for my laptop

"The Scimitar" for my Desktop Workstation.

[x-na]

I call my workstation "Smack" and server "Rehab" (MySQL, PXE, irssi screen, amanda server). Got a second server, it's called "Sugar" (Apache2.2, gallery2, cacti, torrentflux).

[beercz]

wayne

[Elviswind]

My two computers are junta and lawnboy . . . names of Phish albums.

[favadi]

My two computers are junta and lawnboy . . . names of Phish albums.

My computer's name is favadi too.

[karlmp]

karlzt

[jfwiedmayer]

mine are all related - meet the please family

vodka.localhost {please!}
burbon. {please!}
whiskey. {please!}
absinthe. {please!}

[buck2825]

never thought of it like this.

right now mine are

Berlin - do all server (print, file, music, web)
workgroup - name of my workgroup
desktop - windows XP desktop
phils-laptop - my laptop
jesses-laptop - wifes laptop

the berlin thing is because in the windows training world all PC are named after citys. so why not name severs after city I wanted to visit.

I do need to come up with a better schem

[poetstorm]

I have had several names for my PCs in the last few years – Matrix, Middle Earth, Poetstorm, LIOddities after my website, The Abyss…Can’t think of the rest right now. :)

[Yownanymous]

It varies. When I'm in a good mood and it doesn't crash, I don't call it anything (mainly for lack of imagination).

When it does repeatedly crash, however (mainly when running Windows Paranoia, I mean Vista), a lot of four lettered words run from my mouth in the direction of the computer.

[Cyberponcho]

My desktop is called Gandalf, no need to explain the name, my laptop is called 'portrouble', mix of 'portable' and 'trouble'

[lswest]

My PC is called MONSTER, since it's the most powerful PC I own (not even a quad core PC though :P) and my laptop, boringly enough, is lswest-laptop.

[notwen]

server - notserv
desktop - notdesk
laptop - notnix
mini - notmini

win pc - notwin

easy enough, right? =]

[brainac0cult]

mine is called "hardwear" and it used to be called "teh_haxxor_computeh"

[nightstalker1976]

My PC iss called nightstalker. The servers Name iss druge.

[nitehawk777]

#1. "Scrapmetal"
#2. "Scrapmetal2"

(they both really ARE put together from pieces and parts!)

[Inxi]

Rivenhost. My old nickname + some dreamy idea I had 3 years ago.

[concorde106]

1999 computer with P3 450 MHz processor: Box-O-Junk:lolflag:

[rpainter]

Desktop - Mario
Laptop - Luigi
Server - Bowser

[Th3Professor]

Earth

j/k... uhm... it was "computer"... until I ended up with 4 computers... then they were 1, 2, 3, 4... the current one is presently and temporarily "delta" (4th) until someone comes up with a cool name for it... I generally let someone else name my nonhuman babies, including my music instruments.

:guitar:

[sqrooup]

My Linux machine is called HAL
My laptop (with ******* xp) is called DEEP THOUGHT

[Phospholipid]

PC: Dorfl
Laptop: Mr. Pump

If you can tell what they're named after, your cool.

[sunoccard]

mine was based off a game/show/book

hidden-forbidden-holyground

.//Hack anyone? or am i a lone otaku here?

[mhh91]

i used to call my computer after my name


but now i'm calling my computer "terminator" :D

[DougieFresh4U]

Because of it's 'modest' hardware
"DougiesLeanMachine"

[magmon]

Nick-computer. Lol, not quite as exciting as you pplz, but I guess Im not as creative. (Next reformat, Ill call it Cortana xD)

[WaeV]

WinXP: Chad-Star
Ubuntu: Chad-Desktop

Ubuntu VM: Erebor
WinXP VM: Angband

[dannytatom]

anon

[Redache]

Desktop - Caliph
Laptop - Ummah

[avaralom]

My desktop is named Iluvatar, after Tolkien.

My laptop doesn't have a name, I don't think. I wasn't feeling very creative back then I guess.

[gnuvistawouldbecool]

Well in windows just to get a point across i have it called "XPreallysucks".

In Ubuntu it's currently called "BlackMamba" and my testing Mandriva install will, when I use it, get the hostname set to some other deadly snake. Or I might just call it "Canis Lupus" or so on. The name of any deadly animal will do.


Nick-computer. Lol, not quite as exciting as you pplz, but I guess Im not as creative. (Next reformat, Ill call it Cortana xD)

Well I would say something about that name, but then I see posts of people using obscure words from Tolkien, so....

(Not that I see anything wrong with that)

[Rokurosv]

I call it Machina, dunno when it started but I never stoped calling it like that.

[Th3Professor]

I call my old desktop computer that came with WinME "Timmy", after the South Park character, since the computer has a disability, yet has some spunk. "TIMMY!" j/k... it's not called that... ;) ...it isn't worth having any name other than "junk" or "spare parts" computer.

[arbosis]

Mine is called mercurius, before mercurius I had an apollo :)

[canoemoose]

I have a server called Kermit, a desktop called Gonzo and my laptop is called fozzy-bear. My wireless network is called Muppets. Nuff said!!

[jeremy]

my desktop is called bignoodle, then there is the laptop called noodle, the eeepc netbook is littlenoodle (after my fiancèe's teddy bear), and my phones bluetooth ID is tinynoodle.

Silly innit?

[-grubby]

What are your computer(s)' name(s)? If you don't know, type this at the terminal:


hostname

My Desktop's name: Linda
My Server name: Betty

[Grant A.]

Monster
grant-laptop (was what dapper originally called it, so I have kept the name all the way up to my current hardy and arch installations)

[Lord DarkPat]

Desktop: SUPREMUS
Laptop(now gone): PORTUS
Server(virtual): SERVUS


P.S. You still are boring, nathangrubb

[xpod]

home1 etc.

[Dr Small]

[drsmall@darkghost ~]$ hostname
darkghost

drsmall@mycroft:~$ hostname
mycroft

[Bachstelze]

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/utilisateurs/hymntolife#mes_machines

But seriously, it's like the 20th thread about that...

[-grubby]

But seriously, it's like the 20th thread about that...

I couldn't find anything searching before I made this thread.

EDIT: I see this one: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=284229 . Merge?

[Eisenwinter]

mine is v0id

[notwen]

main machine's hostname is 'notnix'

[Metallion]

I haven't read the other 19 yet. :)

My comps are all named after food.

Work laptop: frietjes (= chips)
Private laptop: stoofvlees (= a beef stew)

And my desktop isn't part of the dish since I'm away from home for a long time and just set it up with windows. Currently its sole purpose in life is allowing my sister to play Oblivion.

Edit: Oh... and my hard drives are named after sauces. ;)

[eragon100]

ichigo-soul-reaper@soul-society:~$

So, it's soul-society :wink:

[ajcham]

chipmunk

[aaaantoine]

aspire-5050

Not very imaginative, I know. If it's any consolation, my router's name is El_Burrito.

[Metallion]

my router's name is El_Burrito.

Mine is Potatoesalad. They could get along great :D

[Nevon]

My laptop is called loltop, and my desktop is called lolbox.

[billgoldberg]

What are your computer(s)' name(s)? If you don't know, type this at the terminal:


hostname

My Desktop's name: Linda
My Server name: Betty

Destkop: legend
Laptop: kaper
Netbook: asus

[urukrama]

yantra
loka
mitra
grantha

[bonzodog]

My Desktop is Dwarfstar, and my lappy is whitestar

[namegame]

Laptop: arch (Very creative I know)
Desktop: box

[laurielegit]

Desktop: Edgar
Desktopx2: Alfred
Laptop: Fredrick
Netbook: Kerouac

The router (Henry) is a chauvinistic pig, and refuses to connect to anything female.

[beercz]

wayne

Can anyone guess why?

[ajcham]

I've now changed mine so that my desktop is chip and my router is dale. Now all I need is a laptop called monty and a smartphone called gadget.

[koffeinöverdos]

My desktop is treehouse. When I get my laptop, I've randomly decided to name it Dennis Murray, Esq.

[fredbird67]

I believe in no-nonsense naming schemes, so I named my desktop, on which I'm running Ubuntu, "linux", and our laptop is just simply "laptop", on which we've got a dual-boot via Wubi of Windows XP and Xubuntu.

My wife insisted on Windows on the laptop when we bought it in 2005. To make matters worse, I was NEVER able to get it to boot to ANY live CD. But I downloaded and tried Wubi here while back, and it works well. At first, I tried the Ubuntu version, but it suffocated under the weight of GNOME and even froze up a few times, so I scrapped it and redid it as a Xubuntu (Xfce) installation, and that has gone quite well indeed. :-)

[lukjad]

StationX at home
StationY at school

[conundrumx]

Macbook: Adam
Thinkpad: Lelouch
Desktop: Turk
N810: Rolo

Work machines:
DC: Nathan
Server: Peter
Server: Patty
Server: Hutz

My systems get their names from shows I'm into when I get them typically. I should probably just choose one theme! (Heroes, Code Geass, Scrubs, Code Geass [R2], Heroes, Heroes, Simpsons, Simpsons) The Simpsons servers are inherited.

[Occasionally Correct]

evil-ruppi.

It was a one-shot collaboration between my brother and I. We wrote two songs.

[jenkinbr]

My hostname is relatively bland.

jenkinbr

[smartboyathome]

My (newer) laptop: arch
My ubuntu install on my (newer) laptop: ubuntu
My older laptop: puppy

Pretty plain, but easy for me to remember so I can just type in, ie, arch.local to get to its local web server.

[emshains]

My host name= power-granny!!!
Because I got the comp from my granny, and it is 3x more powerful than my old 500mhz celeron.

[Capt. Mac]

I named my computer lc-bman last time I saw one of these topics.

lc because my computer is from Linux Certified (http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2100sn.html), and bman because that's my nickname (my last name is Baalman).

[spupy]

I use gentoo and my laptop is named zentoo.

[cardinals_fan]

echo

[an2ni]

1. memphis - eepc
2. morpheus - nas
3. invictus - old desktop


=)

[RaZoR1394]

Aquaria - Router Linux
Aerilon - Router Linux
Canceron - Router Linux
Caprica - Router Linux
Gemenon - Desktop Linux
Leonis - Desktop Linux
Libran - Laptop Linux
Picon - Tablet PC Linux
Sagittaron - Tablet PC Linux
Scorpia - Pocket PC Windows mobile 6.1
Tauron - Pocket PC phone Windows mobile 6.1
Virgon - Android Phone Linux

Which means I have run out of names if you know what I'm talking about. Maybe I can use "Kobol"?

[bapoumba]

Threads merged.

[trelirodia]

My laptop is called Mitsi. Me and my sis named our first computer ever Mitsos (a male greek name, short for Dimitris). It's like calling your friend James, Jimbo. Mitsi is the female version of that name.

At work I was given a machine called giggle, which I thought was karma, since I tend to be quite a bubbly personality anyway :-)

Happy holidays!

[theozzlives]

ozzie-laptop, ozzie-desktop, ubuntu-server

Boring, I know!

[achilleas.k]

Zelda - my ZD8000 laptop (the ZD part was the inspiration)
Fryni - my newest gaming desktop for personal reasons
Thelma - my older desktop, since Thelma is one of those names that remind me of old people (no offence to any Thelmas out there :) )

My router is called Kostakis for no reason whatsoever. It's just a common Greek name.

[Swagman]

Guess what Mine is called !!

http://www.upload3r.com/serve/221208/1229966792.jpeg

[coxy]

impulse - File server
dancer - Web server
mythtv - MythTV Box

computer - Desktop
laptop - Laptop

[Messyhair42]

My new desktop, since it's a dual core machine is called Deep Thought, after the second most powerful computer of time and space, taken from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. my old laptop is Eddy, from the same series.

[ChanServ]

lucky is my laptop
and nika is my desktop

[gnomeuser]

I name mine after skeptics and atheists.

Desktop - Harris after author Sam Harris (though it died the other day)
Laptop - Dawkins after Richard Dawkins
Zonbu - DeAngelis after Perry DeAngelis
Router - Randi after James Randi

[eagle416]

My last name is Peach, so I just called my laptop PEACH, and all the various computers I administer PEACH2, PEACH3, etc.

[jleewach]

personal life void filler. :(

[nitehawk777]

1. WhizBang
2. Tower
3. Old Smokey
4. Scrapmetal

[modmadmike]

1. The Beast-slayer! (the one in my comments)
2. the little one (my eee pc 901)
3. "Windowless laptop" (toshiba 13.3inch)
ALL RUN UBUNTU (although i am compiling Gentoo on #1)

[powell]

Ok lets see:

My Vista: Tera
My XP/Ubuntu (dual boot): Jessica
My 98: Paul
My Vista (nootbook): Katy

All named after my friends for their personalities

[Askualution]

Saya. :)

[Ntacman]

mmmm...generic names.
matthew-HPlaptop.
512 MB ram, 60gig hd, and cant remember the speed of the CPU

[Xanatos Craven]

Desktop : shinkirou
Laptop : starexploder

[Junk_head]

Nerf (laptop) and Gnarf (desktop)

[monomalvado]

My Desktop/Server is TeuFel (On both M$ and Linux)
My Bedroom computer is named Bedroom (Aptly, on both OSs)
My Roommate's Macbook is MacAttack Jr (He had a 20-Inch iMac he called MacAttack)
My Other roommate's laptop is called Pimpmeister.
iPod touch was BuuPod Touch.
And to complete the routing table, the PS3 is BuuStation3.

I use to have a general theme but it has eroded into whatever is easiest.

[b3n0]

Computers...
-Fruit Loops
-Nutrigrain
-WheetBix
-Cornflakes
Network name
Breakfast

[sparda8969]

Named mine Kenpachi from the anime Bleach seeing as my laptop is just as baddass as that mother trucker

[LateNiteTV]

webservers are: webserver1 and webserver2 (lol original i know!!!)
nameserver is: ns
my other computers are named: 1 - 16

[Nott32]

My main server: servdog
Storage Server: GigaServer
MacBook Laptop: NottBook
Main PC (Vista Mode): winblows
Main PC (Ubuntu Desktop): dividebyzero
Mac Mini Server: miniserv

:KS:KS

[Redache]

Desktop = Caliph
Laptop = Ummah

I felt like using some interesting names for them.

Caliph is a shortening of Caliphate.

[Cope57]

My desktop: joshua
My laptop: linux-6v3e

Other PC's in home network

desktop: Firefly
desktop: Spartan117
desktop: home-785E2338D
laptop: bettyboop2

[nlz]

comuputer names derived from greek alphabet:
alfa, labda, gamma, omega

the usernames are russian revolutionairies (in the broadest sense):
kropotkin, nabokov, brezjnev, trotski

[tuskenraider]

all mine have a hal themed name.....
i have hal_server, linuxhal(laptop), hal_9000(desktop), virtualhal(vbox)and the newest addtion halwhs. (i know i know its a winows home server but i got a good deal...lol :P)

why hal? because i have a sneeking suspicion that they are gonna be the death of me. lol


tusken

[tuskenraider]

Threads merged.

thats an odd name for a computer..... :lolflag:

[khr1z]

Mines are very original my laptop is laptop, desktop is desktop and the server is server.

:lolflag:

[RPG Master]

My laptop is "(my name)-laptop"

I am boring :|

[bigbrovar]

My personal laptop is called foss-box, while my work laptop which i use to testing other linux distros (ccurrently runs fedora 10) is called bleeding-edge

[flytripper]

netbox / ubuntubox / for my xp: limpos

[Grant A.]

I changed the names.

Desktop: La-Puerta
Laptop: Yo-voy

If you speak Spanish, you get the reasoning behind the names. As I get Internet access through the desktop from my laptop.

[Firestem4]

Desktop - Diamondback
Laptop - Icarus
Laptop #2 - icarus-linux (not very original but it keeps it organized on my network)

[mamamia88]

i have no creativity so i named my laptop "my laptop"

[Joshuwa]

I name all of my computers and drives after places from Middle Earth :)

My desktop is Lothlorien (with drive Minas Tirith), and my laptop is Mirkwood.

[jfwiedmayer]

I name all of my computers and drives after places from Middle Earth :)

My desktop is Lothlorien (with drive Minas Tirith), and my laptop is Mirkwood.

Randal Graves: All right, look, there's only one "Return," okay, and it ain't "of the King," it's "of the Jedi."
Hobbit Lover: Oh, Star Wars geek.
Randal Graves: Oh, I'm the geek? Look at you two whipping out your preciouses.
Elias: You'll have to excuse him, he's not "down" with the trilogy.
Randal Graves: Oh, what the F*** happened to this world? There's only one trilogy, you F***ing morons.
Hobbit Lover: You know what, maybe we should start calling your friend Padme, because he loves Manakin Skywalker so much, right?
[in robot voice]
Hobbit Lover: Danger danger, my name is Anakin. My shi*ty acting is ruining saga.
Elias: [chucking] Yea-Yeah, you're crazy, Jar-Jar.
Randal Graves: Oh, I'm crazy? Those f***in' hobbit movies were boring as hell. All it was, was a bunch of people walking, three movies of people walking to a f***ing volcano.

[jfwiedmayer]

comuputer names derived from greek alphabet:
alfa, labda, gamma, omega

the usernames are russian revolutionairies (in the broadest sense):
kropotkin, nabokov, brezjnev, trotski

good luck finding those names in a dictionary for anyone looking to brute force in...

[fissionmailed]

I'm boring in naming my computers. I created a name for my old laptop when I first put linux on it. So from there on I my computers' names are ____x where 0 < x <= computers I own.

[hatten]

My desktop is named Digimon 8-) It's short for digital monster, although it could be upgraded very much :P
When i get a laptop I'll call it Pokemon, short for pocket monster. (I bet it's not very smart to have

If i get an Ipod running Linux or anything very small it'll be called monster in my pocket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_in_My_Pocket)

I haven't found anymore childish/nerdy *mons, is there more? Preferable in the digi-/pokemon format

[joshh88]

Well for network purposes, usually five computers on my network, I have it as Josh. But personally before linux I would refer to it as stupid piece of crap; after linux though it is now referred to as my baby

[bdwill]

I work for a group of gastroenterologists (http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Agastroenterologist&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a). So I have names like:

colitis
sigmoid
crohns
colon

[BrandonBan6]

I have an ole Dell Dimension 8400, and it has survived many upgrades and expirements, and it has given me all the wisdom I have, so call it:

Odin's Lost Eye

[buck2825]

because of this thread I desided to rename all my computer at there next upgrade.

Server running desktop 8.04.2 - Berlin which will become Bugs-Bunny at the next LTS
Xbox mod - running XDLS - road-runner (always finding ways around traps)
my laptop desktop 8.10 - Taz (my personal favorite)
my wife's laptop desktop 8.10 - Yosemite-Sam (she picked)

as soon as i find a way to get rid of itunes (required to sync iphone) i will git rid of my last windows desktop

[Dr Small]

I need to find a new name for my system (darkghost) and my sister's (she never changed it, and it's still just plain ole firefoxwiz).

[Sorivenul]

Main machine - aeon
Laptop (Testing machine) - ephemeral
Wife's laptop - pink

[snowbalance]

LILITH4

Before her was LILITH3 and so on :D


Lilith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith) is a Storm demon, sucker of souls, etc, eheheh.

[ivaarsen]

I have a list, so give me some space!

My older machines are named the family of my AD&D character Ivaarsen, when I played years ago.

Ivaarsen
- Old Dell desktop, now running XFCE and folding.
Janel
- (his wife) Custom desktop running Ubuntu / XP Pro. Built it for gaming a few years back, nothing special.
(their children)
Cyrus
- Old Gateway laptop, miraculously brought back to life. Kubuntu 8.04
Alexis
- Another custom machine, about the age of the Dell desktop. XFCE / Windows 2000.
Ian -
A newer machine, from work. A server for testing purposes. Server 2003 / Server 2008.
Everyn
- A SystemMax (yuck), got it running Kubuntu 8.04 as well.
Gerrard
- A small form factor HP, also a work machine. Ubuntu 8.10.
Samus
- My server. Ubuntu Server 8.04. DHCP, DNS, SSH, FTP, SMB.

More machines 'not part of the family'

Xaeno
- Vaio desktop, Windows XP MCE. Media center.
Aeon
- PowerMac G5
Terra
- MacBook White

[BrokenKingpin]

king-desktop
king-laptop
king-slaptop
king-server
shitbox

[pshagnus]

I have 3 systems at the present time:


ShanePedia - My Vista Laptop. The name was given to me by my sister as I am know to have a brain full of "useless information".
Norma_Jean - A Vista Desktop named after my late mother.
peewee - My Ubuntu 8.10 desktop. Peewee is a nickname my father got from his siblings as a kid. The nickname is ironic now that he is over 6 feet tall.


I am looking to acquire more used systems in the future for testing purposes. I will have to think up more names then. :-k

[tom66]

Pluto now.

Since all my previous computers have been named after some kind of god or famous figure, I decided this time, for a change, to name my computer after a cartoon dog.

[lotharjade]

I usually go with metals. Silver, copper, brass, steel, etc...

[captainhydrollama]

I named mine Frisbee don't know why

[kencoe]

A-names are by role as compared to Greek mythology:

--pandora (the "all-gifted" of pandora's box) - Laptop used for web-dev ;)
--nyx (goddess of night, the great and principle parent) - Desktop, my principle system
--aether (goddess of the upper air) - JNOS, or packet data over HAM Radio
--mnemosyne (goddess of memory)- Webserver, Database server
--athena (goddess of wisdom, justice, and skill) - email server
--calliope (muse of eloquence) - phone
...
OK, I'll stop blabbering on!

C-names are, of course mail, www, voip...

You get the idea.

[kencoe]

Pluto now.

Since all my previous computers have been named after some kind of god or famous figure, I decided this time, for a change, to name my computer after a cartoon dog.

"Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld and the judge of the dead. Pluto was the son of Saturn."

And you thought you had deviated...

[dannytatom]

Just changed mine to Norbert(work computer) and Daggett(fun/testing computer). :D

[avaralom]

I named all mine off ships on BSG.

My desktop is Galactica, my laptop is Solaria, server Atlantia.

And then I named my portable hard drives.. Pegasus, Valkyrie, Triton and Columbia.

I'm running out of names.. XD

[Kopachris]

My PowerBook's name is Sheila (from RvB). My Dinosaur PC's name is... well, it's just the "Dinosaur" to me.

[Maheriano]

I just set up a server on an old Pentium 3 machine so I called it Jurassic because it's ooooooooold.

[JordyD]

Wow, mine are really boring.

They're usually really descriptive. For example, this one is called "jordy-desktop."

[tazz4vr]

Badbadputer

[SentientFluid]

My desktop is Podfather becaue it controls what music goes to my iPod... which is PodAlmighty. My fiancee's computer is PortaPodEe, of course.

[Joeb454]

I changed mine the other day to be named after star wars planets. It makes it easier when new computers get added.

Server: Coruscant
Desktop: Kashyyyk
Laptop: Dagobah
Other Desktop: Tatooine

\\:D/

[ArtF10]

Talk about "comparatively mundane": user123

[Hutom]

Earlier they used to take default names. But now-
Desktop: Zero
Laptop: Titash

I think they feel better with these names.

[Sorivenul]

I changed mine the other day to be named after star wars planets. It makes it easier when new computers get added.
I think you're my new hero. I'm a bit miffed that I've never thought of this... :s

[Miles_Prower]

the upstairs computer is tornado, tails is the user
the server is lava_reef , knux and tails are users, hidden_palace is the samba share.
The wind0z3$ze(when-doze...ehs...ihs) computer's always death-egg or something, the laptop was the egg-carrier. User's usually some derivative of robotnik.

see,cause it's like that mario game....

[Wv0wvw88wvw0vW]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.


Lol! +1

[Rokurosv]

Changed the name to: LaPece, if you understand spanish it's kinda funny

[directhex]

I recently decommissioned my desktop machine (named Mortos) waiting for its replacement.

New PC will be named "desire".
Laptop is named "destiny"
Server is named "despair"
Wifey's desktop is named "death"
Wifey's netbook is named "delirium"

[Incense]

Mine are all named after Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy characters.

Trillian
Marvin
Zaphod

[Immolatus]

lappy #1: Nomad
lappy #2 (rebuilt): Kurgan
desktop(custom build): Magnus

[VorDesigns]

Working as a consultant; the names I've dealt with have been many and varied.
On my network; all the servers are named after women because women are tougher and more resilient but, when they want to hurt you, it can be a permanent thing.
So, while I won't give out the current productions names, here are past servers
Tessera
Dulcinea
Aldonsa
Ophelia

Windows Workstations on the other hand are all guys and I like noire detective's names. The reason for guy names is easy; while sometimes reliable, they screw up all the time.
Marlow (Raymond Chandler)
Cervantes (Bruce Cook)
Mallory (Raymond Chandler)
Deckard (Philip K. ****)
etc.,

Linux workstations on the other hand usually get names of men from south of the border in homage to Microsoft's active dislike of competition.
Pablo
Pedro
Sanchez
Sanch

Linux servers are still women
Galatea
Sorsha
Amelia

On client sites I've run across everything from the Three Musketteers to names of Italian citys and couple creepy ones like names of mass murderers and the mundane like Server1, Server2.

If I had any big iron or when systems start providing 99.999% up time, I might start naming them after BOLO tanks from Keith Laumer but, there isn't much chance of that happening unless I feel like buying a main frame or old HP/UX system.

[Faolan84]

Generally I name my computers after characters from the manga / anime series Inuyasha.

tower: Sesshomaru
first laptop: Naraku (originally Shippou until it became evil due to hardware issues)
second laptop: Inuyasha

Before I switched to Linux I would call my computers by other names that I can't use here :P

[Thirtysixway]

I name my computers after characters from kingdom hearts/ff/disney

Server - Sora
w2k vm - Riku
PC - Roxas
xp vm - Kairi
xp vm(2) - Donald (donald duck haha :p)

[Stalker72]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.
I called my mom's Windows "*******SHiT!" :lolflag:

Stalker72

[RaZoR1394]

I named all mine off ships on BSG.

My desktop is Galactica, my laptop is Solaria, server Atlantia.

And then I named my portable hard drives.. Pegasus, Valkyrie, Triton and Columbia.

I'm running out of names.. XD

Nice names :). I'm using the colonies however and I'm out :(.

[sanemanmad]

Hmmm... Some very interesting naming conventions. I used to use my favorite cars, sscamaroz28, 745beamer, and then i just use "server" and "printer" for my distinct devices. I have been contemplating a different naming scheme, I am thinking of using Underworld's names.... Markus, Celine... etc but IDK yet.

----- I would need to change my DHCP/Bind/Postfix configuration's and I am not ready.... I am starting to enjoy my hard work and long hours of staring at forums, I don't want to break em yet -----

[calrogman]

"Linx", a cross between lynx (big cat, not the text only browser) and Linux.

Back when it ran Vista it was simply called Callum_PC.

[Fenris_rising]

Main PC 8.04 = Lair (mine)
EEE PC 8.04.1 = Macra (mine)
Retired backup Laptop XP = Virus (mine)
GF Vista laptop = Virus 2
Daughters XP PC = Virus 3
Sons netbook = Virus 4

[shrubs]

Workgroup - Simpsons
Mine - Homer
WinXP VM - Barney
Wife's - Marge
Son's - Bart
Laptop - Maggie
Spare XP Test Box - Lisa

[Keyper7]

The name of my laptop is...

*drumroll*

...laptop!

What? I'm not in a network. =P

[zakany]

Pandora, Toybox, Geraldo, Letterbox, Cereal.

[roelpeeters]

Main Linux Laptop - Mandelay Bay
Family Laptop - Bellagio
PocketPC - Luxor
HTPC - Mirage

What is the link between the names? All are Casinos in Las Vegas!

[piousp]

Work: Gantz (After the anime/manga)

My own computers are named in caps, trying to imitate LATIN and using a matter particles names:
eeePC: QVARK
Home: QVANTVM
Home2: PHERMION

[canoemoose]

I have a server called Kermit, a desktop called Gonzo and my laptop is called fozzy-bear. My wireless network is called Muppets. Nuff said!!

Just to update, I've just built a media centre - Zoot.

[tuxsheadache]

Currently it is called Vinnie, named after Vinnie Jones. My PC is well hard, but there are harder ones than it.
My old one used to be called Bruce after Bruce Willis, because like in the Die Hard films, he was not awesomely powerful, but he kept going!

[giannisfs]

the name of my desktop computer is "dusty mess" :)

and the name of my laptop is "portable"

[avaralom]

Nice names :). I'm using the colonies however and I'm out :(.

Oh! Good idea for future computers! :)

I was thinking about branching into different ships in the fleet (like Colonial One and Astral Queen, only two that come to mind) after this point.

[_Leprince]

fileserver/cacti server - filthywhore
primary workstation - eugene
gf's workstation - albert

[Faolan84]

fileserver/cacti server - filthywhore

Because she gives out, clever. LMAO.

[pol666]

Raul (?) nop, it hasn't name, but when I install the system I usually called it "perez", because it's my last name. or "666" because it's my nick name (user: pol, computer:666)

[wolfen69]

.

[S0m3th1ngw13rd]

Malygos - Intrepid Ibex 64 - Mine
Alexstrasza - WIN XP Pro - Wifey's PC
Neltharion - Intrepid Ibex 64 - My sons PC

[rootie]

Laptop's name is Lappy. I'm uncreative.

oh, but its network name is Gogo-an (http://www.hermitary.com/articles/ryokan.html).

My external memory sticks all have names though. Nirvana (1GB flash), Crispin and Basilio (two 1GB microSDs).

[dichtbijzee]

I use Isaac Asimov robot/computer names.

thinkpad R61 (main workstation) - jenny (jn-5 - female intuition)
compaq armada e500 (old laptop) - andrew (bicentenial man)
old p4 desktop (server) - multivac (the last question)
homebrew htpc - mediavac (I know, lame)

I have used Daneel, giskard, nestor among others.

[pol666]

old p4 desktop (server) - multivac (the last question)

it's for Isaac Asimov really? It's a good idea

[bigbrovar]

my dell m1330 is called g33k-p0rn

[sp0nge]

Mine are all named after Constellations..
Andromeda
Boötes
Caelum
Delphinus
Equuleus

[Stalker72]

mats-desktop

(Mats is my name)

Stalker72

[dichtbijzee]

it's for Isaac Asimov really? It's a good idea

"The last question" might be the best Asimov story i know.

from wikipedia: (paraphrased)

Multivac is the name of a fictional supercomputer in many stories by Isaac Asimov from 1955 to 1979.

In possibly the most famous Multivac story, "The Last Question", two slightly drunken technicians ask Multivac if humanity can reverse the decrease of entropy. Multivac fails, displaying the error message "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER". The story continues through many iterations of computer technology, each more powerful and ethereal than the last. Each of these computers is asked the question, and each returns the same response until finally consuming all of the energy of the universe, whereupon an answer is found.

[corpseslayer]

Mine are named after Norse Gods, my domain name is valhalla realted and my wireless cloud is Valhalla.

I have Odin (webserver/ftp etc)
Thor (laptop, with winblows)
Vili (HDMI Media Center with Windows Vista)
Freya (Ubuntu Acer ASpire One Laptot)
Carcass (A currently un named, collation of components with no OS)

[Roasted]

Mine are pretty standard.

jason-intrepid = my desktop and samba backup server.
I'm Jason, and I always name the server according to its OS name. aka, it was previously jason-hardy

curtdesktop = curtis' desktop
tylerdesktop = tyler's desktop
maindesktop = parent's desktop
jason-xplt = jason's XP laptop
jason-book = jason's POS iBook


OOOOO. Ahhhh. Interesting, isn't it? Ha... it does the job though!

[jou770d]

I got three devices:
A old Toshiba laptop: Shiva (XP as it's for my parents' use now, used to run Ubuntu and an XP VM when I was still using it).
An Asus laptop: Zeus (dualing Vista and 8.10. I need windows for .Net development for university).
And a desktop: Temple (8.10 only).

[khelben1979]

My stationary PC is called Jupiter (but I don't think of it much, to be honest). For me, computers is personal. PC:s have always felt more unpersonal than what I have felt about Amigas in the past and at the present.

[gnomeuser]

Since my desktop died I now only have my laptop which I aptly renamed to dnielsen since my name is David Nielsen and my Fedora developer account is dnielsen.

Inventive, I know.

[Vanadaar]

panthro - work
snarfer - home
debuntu - wife's compy
lion-o - ubu server
thundera - wireless ssid

[black_glowsticks]

It does not have a name. I also do not talk to it. It is a machine that I use to communicate with, watch movies with, listen to music, and lots of reading. I also use it to play games, and waste time with.

If I ever was to consider a name, I suppose HAL (like 2001 movie) would be it.

my computer seems to respond better if sweet talked and if I cares the broken usb plug ever so gently....

My computer's name is papa smurf running Intrepid Ibex connected to a router named starbucks

[kidux]

My server is Unimatrix01 and my laptop is 7of9.

[brandonsh]

I Usually Call Mine "Computabox"

[maxpoweron]

I name my desktop PC starbase-32, and the notebook PCs I named after the Runabouts from Star Trek DS9.

Danube Class Starship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_class_starship)

[Dread Knight]

I have a tablet pc called "Freezing Moon" and my old PC called "Machine".

[Maghik]

I named my pc and laptop after the necroscope series by Brain Lumley.
PC=Faethor
Laptop=Thibor

[Ben Crisford]

I called my old windows pc "Merlin". But I haven't named it after installing ubuntu... :eek: "SHOCK-HORROR!".

[Orlsend]

My current one is a toshiba and I called it Silverado, cuz its silvery.

I am upgrading to a eeepc and I am going to call it Tiny-Sancho-Lopez.

[dto]

Mine are:

moe
larry
shemp
curly
audrey (hepburn)
ingrid (bergman)

:)

[Name change]

On Kubuntu I kept the default name: primoz-desktop
On Arch it's named Abacus, I also used the same name for some of my Windows "computers". Mind you that's more or less the same computer, or a computer that I used before current one. But usually I didn't even name them or I gave something like computer...
But I'm certain that I named at least one other Abacus or Abak or something similar...

[fleton]

You are all CRAZY for naming ur computers...

Desktops name: Fleton Laptops name: Zagar

:P

[MikeBrown]

Vordhosbn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drukqs) for my laptop, Ziggomatic (Same link) for a USB Drive and I believe I called my PC Monolith at one time, but it has no name at the time.

[xpod]

I`m sure i posted in here before but nothing much has changed i dont think,bar the hardware...
home1(me)
home2(girls)
home3(son)
home4(younger girls)
laptop(whoever)

[ArtF10]

EagleOne

My terminal prompt looks like this:


Foxconn@EagleOne:

It sounds very sexy.

[Mombie]

My box is named "Sir Schmoopy of Awesometon"

[moopet]

In no particular order,

Sweetie
Arcade
Shoshone
Mera
Korolev
Lepton
Ursamajor
Yökel
Bramble

Sweetie, arcade and shoshone are named after computers from films. Lepton's really small. Arcade is for gaming. There used to be an ursorminor, but it is no more. Yökel's a macbook and yes, some software has problems with the umlaut. Linux doesn't.

[dragos240]

if you mean naming your pc, then yes thats crazy, but if you want my hostname it's just (myname)'s-desktop

[hatten]

if you mean naming your pc, then yes thats crazy, but if you want my hostname it's just (myname)'s-desktop
that's pretty much the same thing for me!

My main is named Tukumon (http://www.alcedea.net/wiki/Aki), my other one is named tuskmon. They are Digimons, digital monsters!
I think it is pretty nerdy...=P

[Na$$im]

My Desktop Name is named "Sanctuary"
My laptop name refer to the brand.

[icp]

biagio-laptop

[icp]

the name of my pc is biagio-laptop

[sanderella]

Linux Box. What else?;)

[PurposeOfReason]

My two are are black diamonds and stripe. BD is my server/media box/seedbox. Names comes from the case being white with a few black touches. Stripe is my main box. Just a black cube with a white stripe.

[amitabhishek]

My Acer 4520 is one 'hot' laptop. You just cannot have her on your lap. I call her Keira. ;)

[sharon.gmc]

Mine is Pandora. Like Pandora's box.

[SacValleyDweller]

My 8 year old desktop I call "The Dinosaur"

My Laptop has no name

[Sublime Porte]

baghdad, samarqand, medina & andalus

[RainKap]

My ******* desktop id DeepThought, my Linux desktop is Arthur, my fileserver is Ford, my wife's laptop is Zaphod, my laptop is Marvin and my Aspire One netbook is Trillian - any more Douglas Adams fans out there?

Ian

[TideMan]

Augustus was replaced by Tiberius who was replaced by Caligula and the laptop we got at the same time was Drusilla (his sister). Then Claudius, who was replaced by Nero. Augustus is 10 years old and still going.

[White Rasta]

Crappy Old k6-2 Compaq: Cedella [2k]
Dell 1525 lappy: Rita [ubuntu]
Rebuilt Dell Dimension 3000: Rosetta [xp pro sp3]
Wifes Dell 1501 lappy: Oprah [xp pro sp3]

[Maheriano]

I just bought a Dell with an orange lid.
I like the movie "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind."
The girl in that movie had orange hair and was named Clementine.
I named my laptop Clementine.

[Crowder]

I actually really need a name for my Thinkpad T61p. I'll include the sysinfo, if it's important.

I'm sure it would be better if I thought of the name myself. I thought of GigaHurtz. That's it. So please help me out if you can do better.

If anybody thinks of something awesome, I guess PM or ICQ me because this thread is way too huge for me to keep an eye on. Thanks!


IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T61, type 6459-CTO
Intel C2D T7500 CPU @ 2.2 GHz
NVidia Quadro NVS 140m GPU
3 GB RAM (upgraded, faster than the stock ram)
15.4" SWXGA+ screen
100 GB HDD @ 7500 rpm

[hatten]

I actually really need a name for my Thinkpad T61p. I'll include the sysinfo, if it's important.

I'm sure it would be better if I thought of the name myself. I thought of GigaHurtz. That's it. So please help me out if you can do better.

If anybody thinks of something awesome, I guess PM or ICQ me because this thread is way too huge for me to keep an eye on. Thanks!


IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T61, type 6459-CTO
Intel C2D T7500 CPU @ 2.2 GHz
NVidia Quadro NVS 140m GPU
3 GB RAM (upgraded, faster than the stock ram)
15.4" SWXGA+ screen
100 GB HDD @ 7500 rpm

lars, works all the time.

[jsheeren]

zaphod

dualboot laptop with Jaunty and Vista


... any more Douglas Adams fans out there?

Ian

check, Douglas Adams is great!!

[dark_phantom]

8500 -> aztec
8400 -> tlacatl
xps -> chilango

[lisati]

I had a rethink on my machines' names (previously based on the word "aspie") and came up with the unimaginative m200-laptop, a100-laptop, compaq-desktop and win98-desktop.

[pat23_2007]

Andromeda, Because I loved that show

[meeples]

my desktop is called - dasexbox

and my netbook is called - netbookie :D

[calvinps]

InterCity-125

Yes. I like trains. ;)

[zippy_uk_2001]

We used to have two production servers called Beavis and Butthead, one was master and one was slave.

All very funny until we had to cut-over to the slave and had to tell a big group of important people that their very important application was now running on the Butthead server :-)

[lethalfang]

Once upon a time, I named all my computers the same name. Then, I started SSH and quickly realized I've no idea which computer I am on.
Now, I simply name 3 computers: HOME, OFFICE, and GOBEARS (the laptop).

[Brian_the_King]

haha i went with 'baby' for Vista and Ubuntu, since my laptop's screen size = 12.1"

[Jay Jay]

I like the movie "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind."
The girl in that movie had orange hair and was named Clementine.
I named my laptop Clementine.

Ah, the lovely Kate Winslet - I love that film too (and the lead actress hehe).

[Roasted]

Main Desktop - Area51
Spare Desktop - SkyNet

Wireless SSID - HackerzInc.

[dragos240]

Homebrew is my home computer. Modified just the way I like it. The netbook is the name of well..... my netbook. The heap, is the laptop that has been broken every/which/way and still has windows on it, I refuse to use it. And mom's desktop is well.... my mom's slow desktop computer, although when she's not playing backgammon on it, she's sleeping, thats when I use my usb linux, so I have a good hardwire connection to the net. And finally those two. I call my two laptops (really old 98s) 'those two', and usually ponder on how to put linux on them. No bootable cd drives, no bootable usb support, floppy support (how will THAT help?) and one of them has a broken monitor that works when you smack it.

[nu2this]

My 32bit=Emma
My 64bit-Gaby

[RazVayne]

Mine's COMPUTOR...because its old and it sucks

[Dy1anW]

Main computer is called Coruscant, others are Eriadu and Korriban. My lapbomb is Eclipse (being a bit more mobile).

[N_Nick]

I named my laptop apollo and my desktop zeus only to find my university has 2 machines with the same names :(

[xeddog]

For a while I was naming my computers after the cars that I had, so
Intrepid, DBCoupe (a 1925 Dodge Brothers coupe), and Stealth. But then I put together another computer to do odd sorts of odd jobs so I called it Oddball. Then there is my wife's computer. It is simply called "moms". I think I need to get out more.

xeddog

[hatten]

Homebrew is my home computer. Modified just the way I like it. The netbook is the name of well..... my netbook. The heap, is the laptop that has been broken every/which/way and still has windows on it, I refuse to use it. And mom's desktop is well.... my mom's slow desktop computer, although when she's not playing backgammon on it, she's sleeping, thats when I use my usb linux, so I have a good hardwire connection to the net. And finally those two. I call my two laptops (really old 98s) 'those two', and usually ponder on how to put linux on them. No bootable cd drives, no bootable usb support, floppy support (how will THAT help?) and one of them has a broken monitor that works when you smack it.
toms utbt? An arch ftp install? download an iso, get it to the harddrive and somehow boot from that? Install from within windows?

[0per4t0r]

meow mix 1

[Mehall]

Homebrew is my home computer. Modified just the way I like it. The netbook is the name of well..... my netbook. The heap, is the laptop that has been broken every/which/way and still has windows on it, I refuse to use it. And mom's desktop is well.... my mom's slow desktop computer, although when she's not playing backgammon on it, she's sleeping, thats when I use my usb linux, so I have a good hardwire connection to the net. And finally those two. I call my two laptops (really old 98s) 'those two', and usually ponder on how to put linux on them. No bootable cd drives, no bootable usb support, floppy support (how will THAT help?) and one of them has a broken monitor that works when you smack it.

There's ways of making a floppy boot a CD for you.

Also, Debian (and others) have floppies which allow you to start netowrking and get everything else needed from the net so you can net-install.

You need 3 floppy discs: boot, root and network.

[0per4t0r]

my desktop running windows 2000 is nicknamed "piece of crap," and it doesn't have much space or memory for ubuntu, so it stays at "piece of crap" for now.

[skillllllz]

I wanted an original, bad-a55 name for my Ubuntu workstation so I came up with "crushbone"

[AaronMT]

Primary and Secondary

I know, amazing aint it?

[Screwdriver0815]

the Desktop is called "Ziva". Named after the Mossad Agent in Navy CIS

the Laptop is called "Jorja". Named after actress Jorja Fox who plays Sarah Sidle in CSI-Las Vegas.

:confused:

:D

[drjonze]

'Desktop' and 'Laptop'. I am very creative.

[Dark Aspect]

I just name them after the motherboard, thus I call my PC the Asus A8N-E. I might just call it A8N for short, my other Asus (see sig) I call oldtimer since most newer OSes won't run at all on it, Ubuntu inculed. Still I think the idea of naming a PC is kind of strange.

[Screwdriver0815]

Still I think the idea of naming a PC is kind of strange.

yes, it may be strange but when you open a Terminal and there is the cursor waiting for input at "User@user-desktop" or "User@localhost"... how do you get something like a "personal relation" to the machine, when you must read stuff like this? :D

"User@Zeus", "User@Ziva"... and so on... looks much more cool doesn't it? :guitar: :D

[billgoldberg]

Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".

WOPR

The user name is called:

GTW (Global Thermonuclear War)

--

Just kidding:

rw@legend

[Wes7]

Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".

I can't remember lol

[Funnnny]

When I was running MS: Fu4ny's Computer.
Now I called it Fu4ny.Laptop, Fu4ny.PC, and Fu4ny.N78 for my cell phone :)

[MysticGold04]

I use names from the Peanuts gang. (Snoopy, Charlie, Woodstock, etc.) I've been a fan of Peanuts since I was a little kid.

[Marko723]

In the order I assembled them....

Wraith
Junkboy
Raptor
Viper
BadBoy

and the latest one I built last week, my first Ubuntu machine...

Lucian

[DenysT]

Zeus
Prometheus
Poseidon
and being built Athena

Then workgroup name is MtOlympus of course. :)

[rotwang888]

Zeus
Prometheus
Poseidon
and being built Athena

Then workgroup name is MtOlympus of course. :)

Cool. As soon as my eee shows up I'm naming it Hermes.

[DenysT]

I use names from the Peanuts gang. (Snoopy, Charlie, Woodstock, etc.) I've been a fan of Peanuts since I was a little kid.

The first network I configured in the late '80s used characters from the Wizard of Oz for workstation names, the server was OZ.

[BoneSaw]

so far i have two dells both named after lyrics from the song "Angel of Death" by Slayer:

Monarch
Butcher

im planning on changing this scheme with the next computer, due to not liking slayer as much, and the fact that i will be building it.

[kahunamahalo]

Hal9000

[DenysT]

Hal9000

So have you changed the start up sound to Also Sprach Zarathusa or Bicycle Built for Two?

[kahunamahalo]

Har

[Roasted]

Main desktop - Area51
Spare desktop - Area52
Wireless SSID - HackerzInc.

[drumfire420]

my main computer is 'here' my second is 'there' my laptop is 'one' and my work is 'iwannagohome'

[webchimp]

Main PC: Hex (W7)
Lounge PC: Larry (Ubuntu)
Laptop: Dunecat (http://people.tribe.net/bugwitch/photos/97a9ac72-62c4-40e1-ba35-ea0e9c99bdf3) (W7 RC1/Ubuntu)
Bedroom PC: Box (XP) <<< big Kudos if you can get that one
Server: Stuffbox (Ubuntu) not very imaginative that one
Also used to have a PDA called Disorganiser

[Ambly]

before running linux, when i was running m$, i called it a piece of sh**.

Now i call it lazarus

lol

[Deamos]

Im not very creative on names so I name them based on a INITIALS-OS style

[chellrose]

Mine was "Snail", for a while, because it was running _extremely_ slowly.

Eventually I got smart and put in more memory, and it's much faster now. But I haven't come up with a good new name since then.

[Neheb]

My gaming/main computers have both been called "Damien", since that was the nick I used when playing at the local lan's. (Actually got the name from the Iced Earth song, before I knew where it came from)

Both laptops have been called "Herman" after the main character in a swedish/scandinavian comic.

[Ambly]

My ppc ps3 - ps3/ubuntu
My server pc - Omeupc
My router - Estombar

[BslBryan]

My laptop's name changes every so often.

They usually reference computers that are movie stars. :P

So, a couple of months ago, my computer was named JOSHUA, referencing WarGames. :-)

Now, I call it HAL_9000, obviously from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I rather like that, because on the top of my Compiz cube is a picture of good 'ol Hal. :-) Also, one of my favorite commands is

echo "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
This mission is far too important for me to
allow you to jeopardize it." | festival --tts

[CyanideSyntax]

Apocalypse - Main Laptop
Paranoia - Main Desktop
Doom - File / Print server
Extinction - "JukeBox" of sorts

Suicide - Network

[Seaco]

Dthekid and bugsy

[PseudoRasta]

mine is named ElectricChurch

my naming convention has always been, put on the music player on random , then derive a name from the third song played.

thats a jimi hendrix song.

[Manigoldo]

Named mine Berial... why? Sounds good and its keeps my room warm in winter :)

[SLEEPER_V]

obama

[Seishuku]

My pink Aspire One's name is Rosalinde. I kept the default name for my desktop because it's a PoS that doesn't deserve a name. :P

[fatality_uk]

I have renamed my PC Ralph now that he dual boots!!
My NC10 is called, well my NC10.

[wirepuller134]

Three laptops I use, boat-anchor, psycolaptop, and ccc-stuff. Desktop is simply Workstation-22.

[Dr.Vista]

My computer name is Symbios.

[Salute]

live on backtrack + g:micro, it's "iberia@ease"
but on the lappy disk I keep it short'n'sweet "st8@dsk"

[ruru]

I started naming mine alphabetically, like hurricanes. Mac installs get male names, Linux ones female. So my dual booting laptop shows up on the network as 'Darius' or 'Daria' depending on which OS is running. It started off when 'The Brain' (my old PPC bioinformatics workstation) got spelled wrong during setup and ended up as 'Brian'. 'Ariadne' is/was an experiment with building a cluster (she controls the threads in the labyrinth of CPUs?). My current workstation is called 'Grendel' because the only thing that is more powerful is a Beowulf cluster! (To be pedantic, I am aware that this breaks my naming scheme as Grendel is considered to be male although this is an Ubuntu install. I just like the name - and no-one else on the network has it!)

Hmmm...I guess I could just call them "My_PC" or "Computer1" etc.
But that would be boring.

[lisati]

Currently my laptops are a100-laptop and m200-laptop, my old Win98 machine is win98-desktop, and my other desktop is usually compaq-desktop (currently putting XP back on it to check out a "cheat" for remastering my recovery CDs as DVDs, as I type it's not in a "named" state)

For a while the theme of the names was "aspie", e.g. "portable-aspie" and "studio-aspie" for the laptops, "old-aspie" and "compaq-aspie" for the desktops.

[SinrG202]

Workgroup: FidoNet
PC: FidoPC
EeePC: FidoEeePC
Laptop 1: FidoLaptop
Laptop 2: UbuntuLT
MediaPC: FidoMPC


I know boring eh.. And I don't even have a dog... But after reading some of yours I may just have to change the convention.. :p

[SanityKills]

Edit: Double-post.

[SanityKills]

Ever since I can remember I've always used stars, planets, or constellations since my first handle ever on the internet was "Stargazer". My local network has always been called "Stargate". My hosts are currently:

Stargazer
Mars
Electra
Orion
Sirius
Aries
Zeus
Cancer
Neptune
Mercury

Now, about 13 years later, I'm rethinking my configuration.

At work we use a naming convention with the first two letters stating the city abbreviation, the second two letters state the device type (WS, LP for workstation or laptop, etc.), then the inventory code, then the user's first initials and last name up to 15 characters.

It's organized so I'm thinking of the following naming convention for mine as follows:

[2 Digit Device Type][4 Digit Brand][8 Digit Model/Number][Sequence Number]. For custom PC's the motherboard brand/model replaces the computer brand/model.

So "Stargazer", my main PC, would equate to the following:

WSASUSM2NESLI001

Although it'll never happen, my logic states that I could eventually have up to 999 workstations utilizing an Asus M2N-E SLI motherboard so I have to allocate for the possibility that all 999 of those should have a unique ID. ;-)

My new network name will be named "MATRIX" because that's pretty much what a network is.

[mellowd]

My server name is unchanged with the name simba. My netbook's name is netbook, how original

[Spencer Caplan]

This is just a fun idea I thought of. If you were to give a name to your computer (laptop, desktop, even server!), what would it be? Names for any other computer hardware are good also.

[alindgr1]

I am sure most guys will give their puters girls names. Just like that tend to do with cars/trucks. I would say Lena would be a good name for mine. It sounds like "lean", and Lena the Laptop is better then something like Wendy the laptop.

[bapoumba]

Threads merged.

[Spencer Caplan]

I jokingly call my computer HAL 9000!

(My computer is old and cruddy.)

[tjwoosta]

are we talking about hostnames?

If we are, my arch box is called arch, my debian box is called debian, and my ubuntu box is called ubuntu. I do the same for every distro I install, its simple and easy to remember.

If we are not talking about hostnames, then *** is the point of giving your computer a name? Thats just lame.

[credobyte]

I'm not yet that geeky to name my computer Dazy, but .. hostname is ubuntu.

[#11u-max]

i haven't named mine, but everyone that i show it to says "ooohhh, SHINY!!!" [it's got the holographic case

http://www.magmareport.com/uploads/pics/main/files/Chip/Year%202008/March/Reviews/Acer%20Aspire%205920G/Acer%20Aspire%205920G%20%284%29.jpg

[Gorgoth]

Before my last format, all my systems were named after galaxies...

Desktops were "Andromedan" and "Triangulumean"

The laptop was "CarinaDwarf".


Nowadays, desktop two has moved on to bigger and better things as someone else's problem.

Desktop one is the SoulGuardian, hinting at it's content.

The laptop is unnamed, as it's been sitting aside doing nothing for 3 or 4 months now.

[themarker0]

Mine is called stickers, because i have like 200 CPU and power supply stickers on it :P

[NightHawk877]

I named my desktop Big Bertha because of how heavy the darn thing weighs. My laptop is called Lappy.

[Anxious Nut]

my main pc is called AnxiousBox Running ubuntu 9.04, soon dualbooting with karmic Alpha 5

and my second pc is called AncientGramps (Pentium 2 128mb) running ArchLinux on it, working almost as fast as my main one but didnt install Alsa, flash, OO.o, and the rest, cuz if i want to use thes programs I SSH into my main one using X forwarding to use apps, WORKING GREAT

I also have 2 OSs installed on my USB flashdive (i was testing)
-Ubuntu 9.04 named LeapingUbuntu
-Xubuntu 9.04 named JumpingDisk
Previously:
-Linux Ment 7 gloria named mybad
After couple of hours:
Lubuntu (first release) will be named DoubleEls (Leaping Lubuntu)

[Vince N]

My old computer was named "Ping" after a MegaTokyo character I like.

The new desktop is now called Pong.

I had a laptop (an Acer Aspire 5315) and her name was Lappy before she died :'-(

[black_shadow]

Mine are all called after character from Diskworld, i.e. we have :-

Weatherwax this PC good old ******* Vista 64Bit boot in less than 2 mins,
Servers Carrot, Weatherwax, Vimes, Deutrius and Nobby all running in VMWare on Weatherwax Ubuntu 9.04.

NAS Ubuntu 9.04,
Gatekeeper Mini-ITX soon to be renamed Patrician running Ubuntu 9.04,

Gateway Router customised Buffalo Router with SD Card and Optware,

Finally Laptop called Prachett,

And soon to arrive IPAQ 4350 going to call it NannyOgg.

Regards Mike

[marchwarden]

I have named mine after places in Dunfries & Galloway.

Dumfries: An old Dell desktop converted into a small server/toy
Annandale: My main PC

Unfortunatly the wife's netbook isn't named, she doesn't let me tinker with it, which is probably a good thing.

[Stan_1936]

- EagleOne2
- Eagle2three...formerly known as FoxConn

[Frak]

I named my computer OICWUTUDIDTHAR so it would catch itself in a loop.

[Roasted]

Area51 - Main Ubuntu Computer + Samba File Server
Area52 - Spare Ubuntu Computer used to image Windows computers using FOG.

Network name - HackerzInc., since I'm hardcore.

[ve4cib]

My fist laptop was initially called HAL-9000, but after continued problems with the AE-35 Unit (and Torchwood season 1 airing, and the computer being a Toshiba) it was renamed to Tosh (after Toshiko Sato, Torchwood's computer wiz).

My second laptop is called Ubik. It is 100% safe when used exactly as directed.

The family desktop that I dual-booted is Marvin. It's a little depressed that it still has XP on it, but it has Eddie, the external HD, to cheer it up.

The tablet that I've ordered, but won't receive until October or November, will most likely be called PADD (after the Star Trek tablet-like devices).

Finally, at work I've got a VM/Server running Ubuntu that I've named LCARS (another Star Trek reference).

[D10]

I usually name mine after a Anime.

I re-watched Cowboy Bebop a few months ago so mine are named:

Desktop (Ubuntu 9.04) = Spike
Laptop (Xubuntu 9.04) = Jet
XBMC (Ubuntu 9.10) = Faye
VOIP box (Wyse then client XP embedded) = Ed
XP Desktop = Ein

And if I ever finish my FreeNAS setup that will be Bebop, but I ain't holding my breath on that one.

[Hogosha]

desktop = Dynames
laptop = stirke
roomates desktop = Freedom
roomates tablet = Meteor
Server = Stargazer
Network = Celestial Being

its all from different Gundam series

[ctrlmd]

my pc :BinaryEngine

[~unknown]

The computer I am posting on is Fluffbox, because... I dunno.
The family computer is called... Fujitsu-Siemens. Wow, what an original name!
Then there are Compaq Scrap Iron 98, IBM Antique 3.1 and Express Spare Parts 95.

[Cam42]

We named my friend's computer "Super-incredible-awesome-man" on his recent Linux Mint install.
We call his windows partition "Crap-that-only-stays-there-for-games"

[Tristam Green]

Desktop1: Castor
Desktop2: Pollux
Desktop3: Gemini
Laptop: 1501-ibex
Netbook: Janus
Network: lorien

[Bachstelze]

Some changes since last time I think

Server (Xen dom0): Nomo
Server (Xen domU): Wakaba
Server (Xen domU): Aoba
Desktop: Momiji
Router: Ichiyoh
Laptop 1 (an old Asus): Ana
Laptop 2 (MacBook): Tsukino
Laptop(-ish) 3 (EeePC 701): Hatchin
Test machine: Miu

Plus several VMWare virtual machines that I name according to inspiration. :p Currently I have 3, called Erin, Karen and Cindy.

[The Real Dave]

I seriously lack inspiration when it comes to naming my PC's,

Main Ubuntu desktop - TwoFace (runs Jaunty and XP)
Bedroom PC - SlowPoke (compared to the main desktop)
Media PC - Ripper (used for copying DVDs - 3 DVD-RW drives =])
Main Server - An_Lar (Means centre in Irish)
Backup Server - Rock (Stability ;))
Testing Server - PIII (Pentium III CPU)
Laptop - Stranger (Only totally windows computer in the house)

VMs are all just named after what they are, XP VM, Mint VM etc etc :D

[Hells_Dark]

greenlime & limeade.

[neo_1in]

QuestWorld.

[cartman640]

My desktops and laptop are pretty boring, they just use my own name, my servers are a little more creative, and are a play on words based on the names of servers we used in a networking paper I did at uni:
DNS: Dennis
Web: Spider
File Server: Earth (as in where on earth are my files)
Torrent: River
Mail: Pat (based on the cartoon 'Postman Pat')

[hoppipolla]

Mine is called "lilnoisy" as it makes a fair bit of noise for such a small pc and I can't be bothered to improve the fan set-up lol

[5circles]

All single malt whiskies. There used to be some reason to the names, such as a whisky that I wasn't particularly fond of for a Windows machine. But Springbank (a lovely whisky) is the name for my oldest laptop that runs windows XP and only gets started when I need a different machine. Right now I have Ardmore, Edradour, Lagavulin and Talisker in use.

[keplerspeed]

laptop - Kepler (seems to 'periodically' have hardware failures)
desktop - Meissner (superconductor guy, my desktop is water cooled....)
netbook - Neumann (the great mathemagician lol, netbooks not quite as fast as him though)

[Hosmion]

The name of my laptop is Lunar.. After my forum name..

Idk.. I came up of something out of thin air....

Kinda stupid, but cool at the same time :D

[Exodist]

My PC is Stardust, my emac is Nova.

[xuCGC002]

Main Desktop - My computer
Secondary Desktop - Piece of Crap
Laptop - Crap on the go

[falconindy]

Current desktop is called 'panic'. Previous build was called 'oblivion'. Why? Who knows.

I've named my extra hard drives with similarly random names: Destruction, Entropy, and Fallacy.

[tiggsy]

My computer has 2 names: The Beast, because it's a big mofo - and is a term of affection, and Chrome Shovel, because it goes like spit off a...

[Nozze]

Russia - gamingcomputer
USSR - server
mir - laptop
sputnik - my old laptop (retired)

[geekygirl]

My Mac is called The Tardis as within I have Ubuntu on Virtualbox and its called The Doctor and Puppy on Virtualbox and its called...wait for it...K9....

[lenswipe]

my fileserver and domain controller i called "samba" for obvious reasons, my squid proxy is called gateway for also obvious reasons, my laptop is called C01 for reasons that are only obvious to me and my dads laptop is called "studio" for reasons that are obvious to nobody (even though i named it).

-Lenswipe

[openfly]

desktop - barad-dur
laptop - carnagetron

systems at nycresistor are all named after handles from the movie hackers. ala
cereal-killer ( linux server )
mrtheplage (obsd box )
boymeetsworld ( wifi )
razor ( managed switch )
blade ( managed switch )

I'll need to name 3 dl585s soon...

probably gonna call the first one gibson.

[credobyte]

linux-m3s7: OpenSUSE wanted so :D

[natgab]

I'm a Mac guy so...

Main computer: Lisa III (3rd main computer named after
Macintosh big sister)

PC box: Bebox (failed Be OS attempt)

Linux box: iMac ('cause its an iMac)

Pismo laptop: Newton (cause it portable)

External HD: Twiggy (maybe I should get professional help?)

[schauerlich]

Laptop: river
BSD box: zoe

[magmon]

I've probly posted in this forum before, but I don't remember for sure xD.

All of my computers are named Cortana.

[goodvikings]

I'm still deciding actually, as I just bought a new desktop. The two themes I'm kicking around are mosters and The divine comedy (or more recently, the devil may cry games...) As such, the possibilities are:

Desktop - Leviathan (epic massive sea monster) or Dante
Laptop - Hydra (multi headed sea serpent) or Vergil

On a side note, would anyone think it bad luck to name them after computer viruses?

[millstone]

Well, my pc is just names Mr-Computer.Very original. (sarcasm) However my family has an ubuntu server that as 2,000 GB(2 TB) and we call it "Big Gig" for obvious reasons.

[sjw21]

It does not have a name. I also do not talk to it. It is a machine that I use to communicate with, watch movies with, listen to music, and lots of reading. I also use it to play games, and waste time with.

If I ever was to consider a name, I suppose HAL (like 2001 movie) would be it.

Heheh, yeah, I've been using various HAL names to designate my systems over the years. My old desktop was HAL-9000, my current desktop is HAL 10k, and my laptop is HAL-666. HAL was a very misunderstood guy...he meant well, but he had conflicting programming and went schizo...not really his fault. :)

But no, I don't actually talk to the computer, or address it by name. I guess I have shouted obscenities at it though...

[fuzzyk.k]

Mine is Talon

[MFGorilla]

Zeus and Hera. A place I used to work at years ago had greek goddess names for all of its servers, and now I'm shamelessly stealing that concept (though I'm sure it isn't as original as i thought it was at the time)

[madhi19]

My desktop is NewRig2
My server is Alter1

[Grifulkin]

My netbook: Lappy
My old laptop: Crunch running #!Crunchbang seemed appropriate
My Desktop running XP: Beast 2.0
My Desktop running Ubuntu: Ubuntu

[Machnikowski]

Laptop is "Bender", tower is "Homer", computers at work have assorted human names.

[PurposeOfReason]

I go through phases. I used to do half life characters but now I'm on greek letters.

[JDShu]

the ubuntu default: *my name*-laptop

[mocoloco]

Fun thread.

Green Dell laptop (Ubuntu): Yoda
MacBook Pro (OS X): R2-D2
Work Desktop1 (Ubuntu): Fisto (as in Kit Fisto)
Work Desktop2 (XP): Tyranus
Wife's Desktop (Win7 RC): Amidala
XP file server mostly used by wife: C-3PO
Wife's Laptop (Ubuntu): Aayla
Son's Desktop (Dual, Ubuntu/XP): Anakin/Vader
Half-Done Mythbuntu box: Jocasta (The Jedi Librarian, keeps the archives)
Other half-done system to connect to piano via midi (Ubuntu): Max (as in Rebo)
Android phone: IG-88
Wife's samsung phone: BD-3000
Nintendo Wii: Taun We
Fat old workstation I use for mucking about on: Jabba

[tibil]

Here are some names I have used:

1. Kalikytria- I made up this word
2. Golemnist
3. Pleroma
4. The Lemegeton
5. Digital Seraphim
6. Ophanim
7. Bibliomancy

[hellmitre]

My laptop (Ubuntu 8.10) is named titan/leviathan, though it was once named cradle. Any of those three is something I may at random switch it to.

I have a fileserver/torrentbox/webserver/backup system called minus22. It's running 32bit Ubuntu 8.10 on an AMD64 processor; I didn't like the sound of 'minus32' (the relation between the processor bus and the bus the OS was written for) so I named it minus22. I guess I like the alliteration.
I have four terabytes of storage in it; the first terabyte drive was named 'terror' in a play on words, the second 'tee two' and the third is 't3'. Yep, alliteration.

[robbieo11]

******
root
usr
ncc1701-b
me
blackbox
atlantis
orbiter
Hale
think that is it

[CRAY-4]

CRAY4-uber

[oobuntoo]

What? Nobody's named their PC "one-eyed willy"? :lol:

[Nozze]

Laptop: river
BSD box: zoe

From the Firefly series (or Serenity movie)? :)

[psychoelf]

Old desktop: Herkimer (from Mystery Men)
Old laptop: MineNotYours (broadcasted wireless signal)
Current laptop: HAL3000 (because its not quite a 9000)

[CharlesA]

Neptune
Osiris
Thor
Zeus
Atlas
Loki

[zaksworld]

I call mine ZaksWorld ZaksiPhone UbuntuPS3

I call my USB sticks different Storms: Tropical Storm, Hurricane, Tornado

:D

[Groucho Marxist]

I name my main computer The Bat Computer, with my (potential) work computer going by the name of JLA Watchtower. My Windows XP Pro partition is named HAL 9000 in honor of my mom's old work computers.

[e.m.fields]

If I ever get this craptacular pc running win 3.11 to talk to my router Im gonna have to come up with a good name :D
Craptacular sounds like a good name. =D

[starcannon]

Default that comes up when installing the system is what my computers names end up being.

[renkinjutsu]

Navi
:p

[iTheBadGuy]

My user name - iTheBadGuy
Computers name - iTheBadPc.

lol, even my wired connection has its name - iTheBadConnection.

[slakkie]

laptop: eniac
server: papia (to talk/speak)
server: slacker/slakkie (my nickname)
OSX laptop: poopy
Windows laptop: apollo13

[gktaylor]

lemon

I build this system from components myself and was joking with my wife about stability. I decided to name my computer after a bad used car, hence the name.

[cascade9]

My laptop (Ubuntu 8.10) is named titan/leviathan, though it was once named cradle. Any of those three is something I may at random switch it to.


LOL, leviathan is what I called my old water-cooled computer.

[alphaniner]

eriswerks, wiwimaru, and system6

[Squonk07]

I call my laptop Argyris, which means "silver" in Greek.

I call my main production desktop Leviathan because its case weighs a ton. It actually came from a previous computer which mysteriously died. I loved the case so much I transplanted my latest desktop's guts into it, so the new Frankensteinian creation inherits the name Leviathan, too.


My laptop (Ubuntu 8.10) is named titan/leviathan, though it was once named cradle. Any of those three is something I may at random switch it to.

I just noticed this. And I thought I was original. :(

[GeorgeVita]

I call my laptop Argyris, which means "silver" in Greek.

I hope your next PC will be "hryso" (golden)!

My computers have names from the 'daily-live' done the installation, now:

g@KKsep22:~$

[andymorton]

Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".

I've called mine Oscar!

And I'm very proud to have started a trend at university of people naming their laptops.

I've also named my MP3 player, my mobile phone and my TV.

I've always been a bit strange.

:P

[tibil]

Navi
:p

Lain reference!:D

[jrrader]

catpost - main computer's Ubuntu name. Renamed when my office became the cat room.
sh**d**k - main computer's Windows 7 name. First thing that came to mind while I was installing
I have several other OS on my main computer but I usually just name them something like "fedora" for fedora 11. I put them on, try them out for a while, then remove them.
crunchbook - 1st gen macbook now running only crunchbang.
[wifesname]-laptop - my wife's laptop.

[SteveHillier]

Boring I know but my server is called server.

However....
My main computer at home is called BIGBOX, The other half's is called MAMABOX, my laptop called BABYBOX and my tablet machine is called TABBOX.
Get the idea....
At work my machine is called WEBBOX, the development machine DEVBOX, the Ubuntu machine is called UBUBOX, the vista machine is called VISTABOX, the test machine is called WIN7BOX, and the accounts machine is called MONEYBOX.
Oh how sad!!

[fromthehill]

laptop: laptop-peter-arch
server: celeron-server
computer: corei7

windows vm(without antivirus): AIDS :P

[RiceMonster]

Desktop: monster. I named my account rice so I get rice@monster in my PS1. Lame, I know
Laptop: fedora. Couldn't think of anything, and didn't want to name it laptop.

[Zoot7]

sh**d**k - main computer's Windows 7 name. First thing that came to mind while I was installing
:lolflag:

as for me:
Laptop - marks-xps
Desktop - marks-rig

[Marvin666]

I just call mine "Local Machine".
A dignified, professional name.

[kyuubi777]

yukin

I want to use yuki_N> but those characters aren't supported in that process
It's from Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

[Berk]

eeemus for my netbook I think, and musculus for my laptop.
My desktop has xp and hasn't been fired up for a year so I have no idea what it is called or if it still works.

[hidinginthemountains]

ubuntu-stoke (http://ubuntu-stoke.blogspot.com/) ...pretty much the same as my blog

[LinuxFanBoi]

My Desktop's name is Nebuchadnezzar,
my Notebook's name is Icarus,
my wife's Desktop's name is Succubus.

[shadow of the locust]

my only computer with a name is my netbook.

he is called weeman. (nothing to do with jackass, its just because its so small).

[thenailedone]

The desktop is called Vector Sigma (Transformer lore :)) and the lappy is a bit less original, Sputnik (a Toshiba Satellite)... my wifes lappy is Spike for reasons only she will ever know...

[madnessjack]

Mine is wartorle, my bro's is bulbasaur

for security reasons, i wont let you in on my server, but i bet you can guess what it's called? :P

[hellion0]

Updated list:

Primary desktop (specs in sig): gardevoir
Common area desktop: gallade
Windows box: camerupt
Server: deoxys
Laptop 1: flygon
Laptop 2: latios
Laptop 3: altaria
iBook: latias

[memilanuk]

I tend to name mine after characters from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series... specifically the Forsaken/Chosen:

rahvin
asmodean
demandred
lanfear
mesaana
graendel
moridin
sammael
etc. etc.

Thirteen in total, before they started getting recycled (you'd have to follow the series to understand)

[delectate]

ubuntuforums.orgubuntuforums.org/newreply.php
before i use linux,i used us xp

so i named it m$-os-laptop

now,i linux-only

so ,i named it freedom-laptop:P

[aldld]

My computer is called Virus.

[Crunchy the Headcrab]

Currently I think it is called Shire as in The Shire from LotR.

[mmix]

Microsoft
FBI
NSA
TPM
Palladium
Trusted_computer
OPRA
MPAA

ofcourse not. :)

[Marvin666]

I've acquired an old laptop (shipped with 98 ) so names are now as follows:
Good laptop: Local_Machine0
Old laptop: Local_Machine1

[Exodist]

Currently my main system is named 'Stardust.'

[The Real Dave]

Main Server - An Lar (Means The Centre in Irish)
Secondary Server - Karmic (Runs Ubuntu Server 9.10)
Backup Server - Knox (Fortress ;) Kinda ironic that its currently out of action with a bad heatsink fan)
Main Desktop - Two Face (Runs XP and Ubuntu ;))
Secondary Desktop - Crunch (Runs Crunchbang 9.04)
Sisters Laptop - Elaine-PC. (Imaginative eh? :))

[RabbitWho]

This one I'm on now is called "ibmrabbit" (the windows half calls itself ibmvol) and my laptop is called penguincounter.

rabbit@ibmrabbit:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 181 153 27 0 2 26
-/+ buffers/cache: 125 56
Swap: 280 82 198

(running on Spri)

Jelous, aren't you? It's a little bit less depressing when one leaves out "-m"

[jayze]

I leave it blank when i feel like being low profile...or sometimes PC (lol)...otherwise "cyberballisticnonprimate"...now I'm on ubuntu I dont know what its called as I havent yet learned all the settings...but at the moment I call her "sweetie" as in "come on sweetie you can do it!" and its healthier to talk to your PC than yourself I figure! lol:popcorn:

[Redache]

Desktop: Caliphate
Laptop: Ummah

Ummah is used as a word to describe the whole Muslim nation.
Caliphate is a form of Muslim government(the first iirc).

My MP3 player is called Mamluke. Mamlukes were soliders that had converted to Islam and served the Caliphs.

This happened because I played Medieval II for far too long and I was in an arab world mood when I chose the names.

[baltadt]

Laptop is Vyris
Server is Vyris Vault
Wifes laptop is Ariel (Little mermaid...go figure)lol

[infestor]

pandemonium

[glnerd]

well ive got one desktop named hazard, cuz its side panel is the hazard symbol, with red lights behind it. a laptop, i call the hundred dollar man. cuz its got great OS(bt3) just looks like crap. and my sisters laptop, sincei use more than her its pretty much mine, call it rhino, cuz its a reall power house

[Greg]

Desktop: Terminus
Laptop: Tel'aran'rhiod

[this is new york not l.a.]

My desktop is named Elizabeth.

[Isengrin]

My notebook is Luna.
I'm still thinking about how to name my desktop when I get it. Maybe...

[arx-lupus]

Currently mine are named after a mix of characters from the second branch of the Mabinogion and welsh mythology.

Bran - Main PC dual boot Win7 and Ubuntu (gaming PC)
Pryderi - 9.10 with a dual boot to 10.4
Manawydan - Laptop used by wife (WinXP/Crunchbang)
Fychan - Nice shiny new Dell laptop
Oriel - Mythtv backend server
Ogma - Fileserver
Annwn - webserver
Pont - Wireless accesspoint

Sadly the router breaks the pattern by just being called M0n0wall :o(

Way too many computers involved, all legacy PC's that I couldn't bring myself to get rid of. Over next few months Oriel (which is a VERY decent PC) will become the Virtual home for most of the others with the physical boxes donated else where. My carbon footprint should look far better after that!

[MaxCarnage]

Everything in my house is zombie-themed:

ZombieDesktop
ZombieLaptop1 & 2
ZombieWindows (dual-boot on ZL1)

My network is called ZombieAcres (I live on a 5-acre piece of land).

I love zombies. :p

[Ginsu543]

I call mine ZaksWorld ZaksiPhone UbuntuPS3

I call my USB sticks different Storms: Tropical Storm, Hurricane, Tornado

:D
My computer names tend to be plain/descriptive:

Main rig: Ginsubuntu (Karmic) / GinsuXP (Windows XP) / VirtualXP (Windows XP guest in VirtualBox)
Portable: Minibuntu (Dell Mini 9)
File server: Miniserver (Dell Vostro A90)

Funny thing, I name my hard drive partitions after storms/natural disasters starting with "T": Tsunami, Torrent, Typhoon, Tornado. Ironically, the 1.5TB external backup drive connected to my file server is a WD Elements, aptly named "Elements."

[ukripper]

TW@T-1 and TW@T-2

[Nemain]

My laptop has two names; lapdog in Ubuntu-mode and doktorglas in Windows.

Our desktop was named älskling (darling) when we bought it six or seven years ago, now we just call it the corpse...

[FinalCoyote]

Yeah, never felt the need to name my PS3, or any of my electronic hardware for that matter...

>_>

[blueie]

My server/htpc is called servcat and my laptops are called bluecat and blackcat

[SeattleOtaku]

With tvtropes links for the fun of it...

Back when the laptop had Vista with Cygwin: "BEAST" (X/1999's Mailer Daemon (http://http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MailerDaemon) / Hacker Cave (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HackerCave); Japanese kana transliteration made it a moral imperative: "Biista" was a "Biisto").

Ubuntu Karmic turned it into "Zen" (Blake's 7's Everything Sensor (http://http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EverythingSensor))
virtual XP is "Xelloss" (Slayers' Lovable Traitor (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LovableTraitor) / wannabe Omnicidal Maniac (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OmnicidalManiac))
virtual Win7 is "Sephiroth" (Final Fantasy VII's Big Bad (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad))

I'll leave the explanation of Windows Villains and Linux Allies as an exercise to the reader. :)

[Dr Belka]

I call mine the Jeffery686 which came after Lappy486 which came after Compy486

[Sicadastra]

My very first laptop is called Bisyo. It's Filipino for 'vice'; aptly named considering tons of stories I had wrote during those years.

My new laptop is called Gitano named after one of my favourite players in Real Madrid, Sergio Ramos. That's his unofficial moniker.

And just to share, my friend named her laptop Piolo; one of the country's leading actors.

[jontramos]

Bender = laptop
Mediawhore = HTPC
ID10T = Work PC (windows)

[magmon]

Cortana. Always cortana.

[Mornedhel]

My current laptop's name is vega-laptop.

My computers are named $starname-$computer_type, where $starname is the name of a bright star, and $computer_type is "laptop", "desktop" or "server" (haven't had any netbooks or nettops to christen -- yet). Vega is the fifth brightest star in the sky (not counting the Sun), so the next one should be rigel-desktop.

My wireless networks have ESSIDs named after galaxies, so right now I'm connected to "andromeda".

Yeah, I like naming schemes.

[The Real Dave]

I recently changed the name of one of my computers, which used run Crunchbang, but now runs Xubuntu, from Crunch, to Mouse

[ElSlunko]

Machina...spanish for machine, :P

Well the correct spelling is different.

[tuahaa]

You guys are weird. Anyway, if I was ever to name my computer, I would call it 'a/the laptop'. Which I already do. I am using 'a laptop', or 'the laptop'...

[greebothecat]

mine's NAVI (no, not Avatar Na'vi, it's NAVI from Serial Experiments Lain) :P

[nmsmith]

Here they are, in order of acquisition:

cruithne - the first PC I named, Athlon 800, now deceased
thrymr - old work laptop
cloanthus - mythtv box *
gaspra - very old phone
praixidike - old second-hand hacking PC
epimetheus - old phone
ananke - current work laptop *
ithaca chasma - old wlan
thebe - usb drive *
himalia - usb drive *
adrastea - netbook *
ogygia chasma - wlan *
nereid - phone *
elara - current fast desktop *

Each is a body in the solar system, chosen by the rigorous method of 'what sounds nice'. The exception is the naming scheme for the wireless ssids, which is surface features on solar system bodies, namely valleys.

I have begun appending "7" to the computer names if they dual boot windows.

[sudoer541]

you dont wanna know mine...trust me:D:D:D:D

[HangukMiguk]

147issuck - fileserver
147ismobile - laptop

[sp00ner]

I like to use names from Star Wars....currently I have Dooku, Sith, and Vader. I guess I'm partial to the dark side =)

[Jekshadow]

Laptop: <FirstName><MiddleName><LastName>-Laptop
Server 0: serv0 (as part of its FQDN)
Server 1: serv1 (as part of its FQDN)

[Primefalcon]

Blackbeard

[TyrantWave]

Sir Ulrich Von Lichtenstein

[burneverything]

8.04 main personal desktop: scorpio (box brand)
8.04 main radio streaming desktop: streamer (that's what it does)
8.04 single show desktop: poison (show title)
8.04 main laptop: wemakeyousoundbad (work trading name)
******* desktop: sinbox (one of my online identities)
GFs desktop: erroneous (one of her online identities)
The rest will be named on install
:popcorn:

[wesg]

The only computer I have named is my Ubuntu Server, named Nimitz, after the aircraft carrier. I wanted to convey sheer size (3.25TB :D). I think all future computers will be named for American military equipment (Canada doesn't really have any original names).

[lisati]

Laptop: m200-laptop (when running Ubuntu) & vista-laptop (when running ....)
Old desktop: backup
Newer desktop: lisati :)

edit (a day or so later): Noticed today that a spam email had a message id in its headers that referred to m200-laptop. Quickly changed, keeping an eye on things here!

[shababhsiddique]

apocalypse@dooms-desk:~$

[danastasio]

Abraham Sapien (Server)

Red (laptop)

Both from the movie Hellboy :D

[Berk]

pipmus - server
eeemus - eeepc
musculus - laptop

[k64]

kenny-desktop. If you want to see a screenshot, here it is:

[The Toxic Mite]

the-toxic-mite :p

[KiwiNZ]

I spent days deciding the following

desktop1
desktop2
testtop1
testtop2
testtop3
laptop1
laptop2
Macbook1
imac1
Server1
Server2

[The Toxic Mite]

I spent days deciding the following

desktop1
desktop2
testtop1
testtop2
testtop3
laptop1
laptop2
Macbook1
imac1
Server1
Server2

Bo-ring!

[k64]

I tried to upload a screencast (.ogg file) but the Uploader wouldn't let me.

[schauerlich]

eric@river

Firefly for the win.

[llawwehttam]

For anyone used to the AnitBacterialChemical Warriors comic books or A.B.C warriors:

Desktop 1: Deadlock
Desktop 2:Blackblood
Laptop: Joe-Pineapples
Router: Ro-Jaws
FreeNAS: Mek-Quake
Gaming Desktop: Hammerstein
Media Centre: Mongrol

[S2UIRR3L]

I've named my lap top "Inu Yasha" as in the "Half Demon" Japanese anime.
Two demons: Half "bad" demon (XP). Half "kicks butt" demon (Ubuntu). ^_^

[47of74]

For my netbook which ran UNR 9.04 followed by 9.10 I gave it the name Akronas - which is the name of the "old wise man" character from the movie Cave Dwellers. That movie was one of the grade z movies that got taken apart on MST3K.

My main MacBook is named Crooow. I named it after the MST3K character, but I left an o out of its name by mistake. But I decided just to stick with that.

[beastrace91]

I name my computers something that lets me remember easily what they are when I see them on the network. I use "eeetop" and "sager-lintop"

Regards,
~Jeff

[Enigmapond]

Gazon...Russian for "Grass" but also a metafore for "Life"...:P

[terrapin893]

My desktop is Linux-Desktop and my server is Champion1

[samh785]

Hal

[kuritsubaji]

I've always used references to The Firesign Theatre's album, "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus"

Desktop: DoctorMemory
Laptop: ClemClone

[DouglasAdams]

Univac

i've still got the sign i took off a Univac 1108 when it became less valuable to the people who it had served for many years.
unfortunately it's way too big to stick on the side of my desktop.
those were the days ...

[kieran_uk]

When running ubuntu - Monty64

When running win7 pro - Bedroom (i thinks)

Quite simple really ;)

Mums PC downstairs (technically still mine lol) (running Win XP Pro SP3) - Kitchen

Regards, K..

[Tikkyca]

Lol my name of the pc is Ja,which means Me on english :lolflag:

[kaivalagi]

Not very inventive me, mine are called towerpc1, htpc1 and tabletpc1, not sure if I'll ever get to 2...

[zeroseven0183]

2tdk: Tooth Fairy's greatest villain

[Странник]

My laptop is now renamed to "Propylaia"

[TheNessus]

jeff@BadMotherF***er:~$ hello, ubuntuforums!
No command 'hello,' found, did you mean:
Command 'hello' from package 'hello-debhelper' (main)
Command 'hello' from package 'hello' (main)
hello,: command not found
jeff@BadMotherF***er:~$ ^C

[~unknown]

Well, the official name is ASUS M4A78 PRO SCALEO, but I just call it "machine".

[Magellan]

My network:
Newton
Gallileo
Copernicus
Tesla

[halovivek]

GuruDheva

[swoll1980]

bigman, lilman, oldman, newman, and theman

[steelcap]

Finally consolidated my home network:

cable modem - rome
smoothwall firewall - outremer
wrt54g/ssid - acre
powermac g5 - jerusalem
ubuntu 9.10 desktop - antioch
win7 multimedia box - tripoli
macbook - edessa

hp 4550 printer - omne datum optimum
hp7330 printer - pastoralis praeeminentiae

wap on dmz/ssid - damascus

[wolfyking2]

Mine is a called a "insewt deek heer, pleash"

[beetleman64]

Well officially my PCs are named by the operating system then a number (e.g. ubuntu-01) but informally I call it "Work you useless pile of cr*p!"

[ThePinkWitch]

Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".

I'm new to Ubuntu and when I was in the terminal trying to do something on my first install ( I've installed Ubuntu six times since lol ) a message came up saying something like "This ....has Supercow Powers" It cracked me up so now my computer is SuperCow :D

[MooPi]

My computer doesn't like it when I discuss her with others let alone give up her name. So she will remain nameless.:wink:

[steindor2]

i call mine ipad

[indiana_crook]

I suppose I'd have to call mine "ACE"... Because it's an Acer!

[dragos240]

Depends on what OS I'm using at the time. If it's my gentoo OS, then it's localhost. If it's my FreeBSD OS then it's simply bsd. My server is gentoo.kicks-@$$.org (hostname). I usually just use my computers, I don't really name them.

[earthpigg]

first name dash computer type

chris-desktop
chris-server
chris-netbook
chris-laptop

(i dont throw things away if they still work... anyone in the SF Bay Area in need of a computer case or three with functional psus?)

[WorldTripping]

Mine tend to go /type/manufacuter/model

eg:
laptop-dell-???
laptop-toshiba-???
desktop-built-???

But my router where they all congregate is called 'WOPR'

WorldTripping.

[oobuntoo]

sexbomb:biggrin:

[d_e_monat]

There are some very imaginative ppl out there! Kudos.

Me? Not so much...

My desktop: Ubuntubox
Wife's desktop: Betsysbox :-\"

Haven't named the router yet.

Found this article on naming wifi at slash-dot

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/02/25/1348241/Passive-Aggressive-Wi-Fi-Hotspots?art_pos=1

[gcndavidmn]

Well as a general rule I name the physical devices after things from The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, and then naming with OS generally is random like this is ubuntu-laptop.

[elianthony]

Desktop: en-sabah-nur

Server: batman

En Sabah Nur is the given name of Apocalypse, the Marvel Comics character

[ctrlmd]

at the moment 910 - and it will become 104 soon ......

[coldfire2122]

I named mine cyberfire.

[gcndavidmn]

I named mine cyberfire.

Nice, I like it.

[itreius]

heimdalr, forseti, wodanaz

[Berk]

My laptop has gone from either lapmus or musculus (it has been both recently) to gooseberry.

[Barrucadu]

My new computer will be named Azathoth.

I use a Lovecraftian naming scheme.

[Ceiber Boy]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.

Now I call it Lazarus
THANK YOU, reading the quoted post made me laugh harder than i have done in a long time. :D

However my computer is called 'computer'! is that wrong?

[Shpongle]

default ,

[Squarc]

Ive called my desktop Extermintux, and my Laptop is called Lapromitux.

[gnupipe]

My desktop is called Decius. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decius

[gogadan]

my desktop is called aerith and my lappy is called tifa :)

[sandyd]

hmm... let see...

Main computers
Laptop - carlee-mobile
Desktop - carlee-desktop

and heres where it gets interesting....

Servers (6)
1: ashleytisdale
2: dreamflight
3: tiffany (named after my deceasaed dog, (american eskimo), RIP 2008
4: demilovato
5: slowpoke (name serves it right, this only acts as the fileserver, so it has like 512mb ram and a athlon single core)
6: carleedolphinaura-gateway

[gcndavidmn]

2: dreamflight

I like that one.

[Dell Inspiron 1501]

My laptop is called Novus, latin for new. It was a new year, I had a new girlfriend, and it was a fresh install, so it seemed appropriate.

[phibxr]

Was just wondering..
For example I use the name of Characters from a series of Novels by Glen Cook called "The Black Company".
My main desktop is "one-eye" my G/F's PC is "white-rose" the server is "bigbucket" and my little laptop is "goblin".

Back in the days, I used to give my computers fancy names, like 'crepusculum', 'cassandra', 'nebulae'.

I'm not a sure if it's a sign of getting older and increasingly boring, but nowadays I just call them <distribution>-desktop, currently ubuntu-desktop.

My netbook is *gasp* named 'eeepc'.

[HansKisaragi]

Enigma \\:D/

Named after a WC3 DotA hero.

[Khakilang]

At first when my computer was running Windows, I call it Reign Of Chaos and now with Ubuntu I would like to call it Ferrari.

[flukeairwalker]

Not only do I name my computers, I name all my portable media! Makes it real easy to identify who/what is on the network and the network USB hub.
1) Holocron- My laptop, a System76 Pangolin Performance.
2) Holovid- My media center PC, a System76 Meerkat Ion.
3) Holonet- My wife's netbook, a System76 Starling.
4) Holopod- My 80 GB iPod video.
5) Holodrive- My thumb drive.
6) Holocard- My SD card.
7) Holopad- U/I tablet computer (coming soon)

[BlueWolf_]

Our network's called "Saturnus" (Saturn in Dutch), so everything it called after a moon of Saturn, regardless of their function in the network. Pretty easy when you add a new device while you still get unique names :)


Mimas
Titan
Methone
Skathi
Calypso
Tarvos
Telesto


And old names we already used for computers/VM's we don't use anymore:

Dione
Skoll
Pan
Atlas
Pandora
Janus
Dione
Helene
Rhea
Narvi

[stew2222]

skeletor!

[undecim]

I have a chemistry theme with my computers.

I have a laptop with hostname "caffeine", because It keeps me from getting any sleep.

My Virtual Machines tend to be named after nonmetals. (Oxygen, Carbon, etc.)

Then I have a couple servers that I named after noble gasses Argon and Krypton, with the last byte of their static IPs and their forwarded SSH ports corresponding to their atomic numbers.

[seth elohim]

I always name my computer on the network "black box", like the one they put in planes. This is a joke based on the fact that back when I used windows it was always crashing. When I had my home recording studio set up I dubbed it "black box studios" because i thought that it sounded cool.

[corney91]

So I got bored and decided to name my computers for once and I'd just watched Lord Of The Rings...
Desktop: Aragorn-Son-Of-Arathorn
Netbook: Gimli-Son-Of-Gloin
:p

[Tom.Gee]

My File Server and host to my OS and data file backups, \\Khaless, named for Star Trek's "Khaless the unforgettable." My development system is \\K8 (pronounced Kate), 'cause she's got an AMD K8. Getting my feet wet in Ubuntu on smb://Ubu. The rest of the machines are named for their owners + their vendors, like SandraHPaq, TomJet, and JamesPaq.

For the most part, they don't come when they are called. Khaless did for a while, when I had a toy remote control wired into his parallel port, and wireless webcam mounted on the remote vehicle.

My car had a name as well. Behold Peppy: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=38725&l=8439c75c7b&id=100000714252666 A 1968 Plymouth Valiant and beloved neighborhood mobile hangout, many years ago...

[Laxman_prodigy]

Cray-Jaguar.

Take that.:popcorn:

[sucafe]

my cafe name is su (mean: water) my computer name is subuntu:p

[sinhanikhil.5]

My computer is called "Musician", I am using this name since back old days, don't know why but I always call my comp Musician, prolly i wanted to become 1, which I never became.



.

[tilixibr]

I never named my computer, I guess I'll call it Pingus :P

[47of74]

I just got a new netbook and this time decided to name it Mitchell. That's after the lead character in the film Mitchell - which was also riffed by MST3K.

[Dessicus]

I went with a Norse Mythology theme:

Home network: Yggdrasil
Desktop: Asgard
Server: Bifrost
Laptop: Midgard
Netbook: Niflheim
Test PC: Muspelheim

[Wamiduku]

There was a suggestion at a certain polytechnic inst to name computers after dictators. The sysops loved the idea of being able to say things like "I was just moving files from Pol-Pot to Stalin when Napoleon got bombarded with requests from Mussolini". No, the suggestion was never approved...

[Frogs Hair]

First home build : Quazmo Ripper
Last one : Gateway and it is now recycled thank god !

[Mike1056]

Hookay...here it goes....
My Desktop 1 (Running XP Home and Ubuntu 9.1 32-bit) is KITT
Desktop 2 (Dedicated Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit machine) is KITT 2.0 (although I also call it KITT, too).
My Laptop (Running Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit) is KITT Portable.

Now I just need an actual KITT theme!! lol

[gcndavidmn]

I got bored and renamed everything:
iMac (OSX) = Ganymede
Macbook Pro (OSX) = Io
iPhone = Europa
PS3 = Titan

[Doctor Mike]

The Big Ubuntu and Hal...

[vnc]

Has anyone stealing wifi been id'd through this thread yet?

[gcndavidmn]

Has anyone stealing wifi been id'd through this thread yet?

How on earth would they do that? See who is stealing it then cross reference that with this list? I'd give that a very low probability of happening.

[Jay Car]

My office/studio/work computers are Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe. My non-work computers are Mutt & Jeff. My new Netbook is Olive Oyl.

I call the lone, remaining, never-allowed-online, sits-in-a-corner-by-itself, Windows machine, Shallbee (because it shallbee the last one). :D

[Visarex]

Well, my main laptop is Virus (dunno why, I really liked the name)
The netbook is Iubi (how my wife calls me)
The desktop that I'll get next week will be Host (I know, completely unoriginal but these are my computer names...they really are :P)
Oh, and the work computer is Packer (because I'm a packager...pretty logical)

[vnc]

How on earth would they do that? See who is stealing it then cross reference that with this list? I'd give that a very low probability of happening.

Avahi/Bonjour+google. For computers with rare names I don't see what is so unlikely about it!

[gcndavidmn]

Avahi/Bonjour+google. For computers with rare names I don't see what is so unlikely about it!

I suppose if they were rare then it could work.

[MIJ-VI]

When it works I don't call it anything. :D

[Nisal]

Nisal

what eles :P

[HybridZero]

My windows machine is just named "MyName-PC", however my linux machine is named "atlantis".

[dgray_from_dc]

As a big fan of the Alien Sci-Fi/Horror movie franchise, I've named my computers in the following manner:

Xubuntu 9.10 Server: LV-426 (Aliens planet of origin)

Kubuntu 9.10 Desktop: Fury-161 (Prison Planet from Alien3)

Kubuntu 9.10 Laptop: Sulaco (Colonial Marine Cruiser)

Xubuntu 9.04 Laptop: Nostromo (Freighter from the original Alien)

(Even use Weyland-Yutani as my SMB workgroup name)

[Austin25]

My computers' name on the server or just what I call them?

[gcndavidmn]

My computers' name on the server or just what I call them?

Either.

[covert]

I named mine after arcade games I played as a kid.

Bomberman
Trog
Snowbros
Raiden

and some not so clever names...
AppleTV
Laptop
Xbox
iphone
dd-wrt
...

[Method X]

Thinkpad

[98cwitr]

Now come folks , naming your computers, now thats crazy, naming your car yes naming your favourite shoes yes but your computer ???:-P:-\"

this...*** names their freakin computer? My machines are: brett & ubuntu-media

[Bachstelze]

this...*** names their freakin computer? My machines are: brett & ubuntu-media

Another one broke his sarcasm detector...

[98cwitr]

Another one broke his sarcasm detector...

No sarcasm detected on page 1 :?

[CliffLee]

Mine is "Big Ben," named after our much-loved Steeler QB (who has been a bad boy lately)

[tilixibr]

I had replied to this thread before, and I said that I was going to name mine Pingus (kinda childish). Now that i revived my old laptop, I called it Tau :P

[Gopher88]

My laptop is called The-Tardis and my desktop is called The-Mule

[paradiddle]

Flubuntu

[chessnerd]

Well, there's "My Laptop" which is my current laptop. "My Old Laptop" which is the laptop I had before my current one. "The Linux Computer" which is an old desktop that was the first computer I ever installed and used Linux on. And then there's "The Downstairs Computer" which is the Dell Dimension in my sig at the moment. It is located, suprise-suprise, downstairs. The Linux Computer is also downstairs, and The Downstairs Computer runs Linux as well, but everyone knows the difference.

This is how I refer to them, so those are their names.

The only device I have ever given a "name" to is my external hard drive. A Seagate that I named "Gary" because the serial number on the back ends with GARY. So, I figured his name is obviously Gary...

[Kingorgg]

I named mine Fenrir, a giant wolf that slays Odin. ^_^

[c_plus_plus]

My desktop is named Hactar after the computer in HHGTTG, and my netbook is named wEee.

[teward]

I got 3. Unfortunately, they're all the names of the swords from Inuyasha.

Laptop is called Tetsusaiga... (Sword of Earth / Protector of Man)

Netbook is called Tenseiga... (Sword of Heaven)

Desktop/Server is called Sounga. (Sword of Hell)


I was bored... so they're named that xD

[rottentree]

My netbook has 2 names:
-The Windows XP part is called: TalibanSurprise
-The Ubuntu part is called: BalaclavaMogul (when I used Crunchbang its name was EnemyOfCheese)

[Stancel]

Acer Aspire 7520
it's a piece of crap.

[jerenept]

ubuntu desktop:file-server (guess what it is)

[gemmakaru]

Mines called "Ubuntu-laptop". I need to think of something better.

[egeezer]

Oldest: Mr-Data
Next: Mr-Barclay (both from Star Trek, Next Generation)
Newest(Compaq, very shiny black): Solo (from the novel)

[teward]

Oldest: Mr-Data
Next: Mr-Barclay (both from Star Trek, Next Generation)
Newest(Compaq, very shiny black): Solo (from the novel)

your names of your computers are pretty good for the oldest and next oldest.

[bunburya]

My laptop is a very boring bunburya-laptop. My desktop back home is called Deepthought.

[Superkoop]

The desktop is called Home-dupedu (pronounced dewp duh dew), because it's the desktop at home.
The laptop is called Paradise, so that when I would turn it on, the login-screen would say "Walcome to @HOSTNAME" so it would say Welcome to Paradise.

[proggy]

I havent got name for my computer but my g/f names hers "precious"

[bigsmitty64]

FRANKENPUTER:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/roccoscirocco/nocase2.jpg

[Redache]

I recently changed the naming scheme of my Computers to British Logicians.

So,

Desktop: Bertrand
Laptop: Venn
Hero: Boole

I get bored periodically and change their names :D

[upokers]

Mine is Marta :) she is an old lady.

[phantom-overide]

I call my pc Epzil0n

[carl_pr]

my desktop have my name carlos-desktop, boring...

[Norwal]

Every computer I've build has been named after a Flintstone character. Mine is Fred.

[markbahnman]

Desktop is loltop, macbook pro running 9.10 is hipster box.

[Rasa1111]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.



haha!
I did the same.

but now the 'computers name' is 'ubuntu spaceship'
because I use it allot for astronomy... and it runs soo smooth and fast.. just like my real spaceship! lol :p

[McRat]

Our cars are:

Casper
Wendy
Spooky

But the computers are:

POS!
%$#@!!!
BoatAnchor
Molasses
Crash
etc.

[sprinda]

my desktop (still windows vista) is called Chaos because it crashed as soon as I turned it on.

my laptop was called (every bad word in every language under the sun) while it was windows xp. I switch to ubuntu 8.10 and runs so much better and faster.

I called it Cosmos. I name my computers stuff by characters of final fantasy.

flash drives names
yuna
rikku
paine
lulu
tifa
yunalesica
red XIII

hard drives

Cloud
squall


lol I love FF

[sprinda]

I named mine Fenrir, a giant wolf that slays Odin. ^_^

though you were going to say Cloud Striff's bike from FF7 lol

[julio_cortez]

I named myself Nero, both after the Roman emperor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero) and because "nero" in Italian is actually its colour (http://www.inserzionavy.com/images/534plus.jpg) (black).

I'm thinking about something alternative though as I'm going to format and I'd like to have an alternative..

[mom2twinzz]

On my network I have Savage and Hyneman. Hyneman is my WinXP box that my husband uses because he is a bit stuffy like Jamie Hyneman. I, on the other hand, am a bit more maverick and creative so I have Savage. The kids' old netbook was Barsky because it was a dirty job trying to get the darn thing to work and Rowe didn't sound as good.

[Phrea]

I am logical, but very boring...
They are called Pb1, Pb2 and Pb3 [stands for Phrea box Number].

When I talk about them tho, I name them differently, Pb1 is 'the big computer', Pb2 is the 'vensterbak' [windowsill box] and Pb3 is 'the sandbox' or 'the server'.

[strangeintp]

I use last names of folks who have contributed significantly to electrical engineering and computer science:

Gauss
Heaviside
Maxwell
Fourier
Turing
Hopper

p.s. I keep the same name on all the OSes installed on the same machine with dual-/multiple-boot

[ubunterooster]

"ubunterooster-server"; It sounds geeky

[Chame_Wizard]

Still JMW5 for my desktop usage,Chronus_Phenix for my server.

Going to change it within 2 months.
:lolflag:

[phantom-overide]

I got a new netbook so i renamed my main desktop nero star sabre and my netbook nero pneuma

[fr0styfr0st]

i call my laptop speedy because its REALY slow

[Jaecyn42]

All of my computers are "pArAnOiD-aNdRoId"s, with some numerical variation.

Desktop - pArAnOiD-aNdRoId-84
Laptop - pArAnOiD-aNdRoId-42

Too...much...Radiohead...

[cgroza]

I call mine the MKGR653-A.

[wkhasintha]

I asked but It didn't respond. :P one rude MF I have :P

[pitiburi]

Doña Florinda
Profesor Jirafales

my laptop is, of course, Rondamon.

My next laptop will be La Chilindrina.

[PaulW2U]

I call mine "DELL" because it's the only one that I (still) have that was made by DELL. ;)

[mr clark25]

whenever i do a mass install on several computers, i name them HAL-Desktop. ;)

[jodonald]

My ubuntu netbook is rhymnocerous, my win7 notebook is paulrus, and my xp desktop is dildotron because it's pretty old and very crappy.

[Spice Weasel]

My previous computer names:

P5Q-SE2 (Motherboard. ;D)
AwesomeBox
Steam-Powered
Pile-of-Fscking-Crap (School computer.)
HELP-WINDOWS-98 (School computer.)
Bob
Jerry

Mostly it's just jordan-desktop or jordan-laptop, since I install a new distro once a week and can't be bothered changing the default.

[VastOne]

Gilmour
Wright
Mason
Barrett
F*k-Waters

[KdotJ]

Laptop: carbon
Server: steel
Netbook: zinc

I see a pattern here lol

[TNT1]

Asterix
Obelix
chikkin
Getafix

[kahlil88]

My old Acer laptop is acertron and my desktop is gentoobox. Yeah...I'm not very creative.

[pricetech]

These days I just name them according to service tag / model number / asset tag / whatever is convenient.

I change around too much for any other naming scheme.

[JustinR]

On Ubuntu 'justin-laptop'
On Windows Vista 'JustinReno-PC'

[Bachstelze]

Gave away my two old laptops yesterday, which broke one of my naming schemes, so I had to rethink it all. As much as it pains me, I only have room for 4 names for my regular computers now, so Ichigo Mashimaro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichigo_Mashimaro) is out and I go with Cross Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Game) and the Tsukishima sisters. Namely, the old PIII 500 is Ichiyoh, the small laptop is Momiji, the main desktop is Wakaba and the backup/experiment desktop is Aoba. My remote servers are unchanged, still Itsuki and Iori from I"s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%22s). My Soekris boxes are now Elise (from Sky Girls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Girls)) and Allison (from Allison & Lillia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_&_Lillia)).

[mickeelm]

Ktulu. After one of my favourite songs by Metallica.

[gcndavidmn]

I am still sticking with naming them after moons. My main machine (this one) is called io.

[RiceMonster]

Desktop: Kobato
Laptop: Eureka

Old laptop: fbsd

[Oxwivi]

Busted-DT

[Nullexe]

Zuul: Firewall, named from Ghostbusters
Ark: Fileserver
Kite: Laptop tablet
Brain: Main desktop, VM server, everything!
Slim: AOpen box used for media atm

[Famicube64]

My main machine with Arch is "arch". Secondary one with Ubuntu is "ubuntu". Har har.

[jfreak_]

Mine is named after me 'jFreak' . It's actually derived from a famous song by DC Talk.

[darsu]

My main computer's name is still the same as it was three years ago when I last posted in this thread. My laptop's name, Failinburgh, was inspired by my expectations for the trip abroad for which I bought it.

[julio_cortez]

I've been through a "revamping" process of my machine, which name has changed from Nero (I think I've said it before but "nero" in Italian means "black", which is the colour of my case/mouse/keyboard/monitor) to Alice.

So, now in both my OSs the system is named Alice.

[WalmartSniperLX]

coco

[ilovelinux33467]

Well my desktop is called andrew-desktop and my laptop is called andrew-laptop and my netbook is called andrew-netbook.

My servers for virtual machines are called host1 and host2

I'm not very imaginative lol but someday i'll give them good creative names

[soapytheclown]

laptop - lappington-topworth
desktop - dr-deskworth

seriously.

[jp351]

in my main OS (ubuntu 9.10) my machine's name, as well as user name, is chaos.
in my secondary os ( windows xp pro :/ ) my machine's referred to as pandora.

...just in case anyone was wondering, i have to use windows to play a game i like since they implemented a new patch in the game recently that refuses to work properly on seemingly ALL linux based distros..... :'(
but until they fix it, i play under windows, but ubuntu is still my main os :)

[Austin25]

Just "austin-laptop0"

As for the Name of the model, HP touchsmart tx2-1275dx.

[CharlesA]

I name my virtual machines after planets...

[sixstorm]

My work/guinea pig laptop (Linux and Win7) is called "donkeykong". I also have my gaming PC named "blackbox" and my HTPC named "bigfoot".

[cprofitt]

For home / personal use they are variants of Tardis.

For work I have been am using the following names from Finnish Mythology.
----
Mielikki
Ilmatar
Kuu
Otso
Tursas
Tonttu
Tapio
Pellervo
Pekko
Ahti

I also named one Cerebus recently, but that is not from Finnish Mythology

[Arnold Martin]

The name of my Rig is Clitoral. period.

[mendhak]

Clitoral. period.

http://forum.i3d.net/attachments/offtopic-english/943182047d1249721477-happy-birthday-frank-facepalm.jpg

[Campitor]

My laptop gets too hot (Acer Aspire), so I called it> Persephone, queen of the underworld...

My work laptop is called: Azrael

[V for Vincent]

One Sokrates, one Plato.

[clipt]

well since i am from Illinois and a Illini fan, my netbook is now known as:

Illiniwek

[Dustin2128]

slacktop for the laptop, dustin-linux for my desktop (first computer I ever installed linux to). The others I haven't used recently enough to remember offhand.

[mr clark25]

right now, i am working for someone that is loading ubuntu computers to sell locally, and i have been naming them all "HAL-Desktop". :) ;)

[charonn0]

One named "Colossus" and the other named "Guardian." From the two super computers that team up to (successfully) take over the world in the movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/)"

[foxxxy]

foxxx-desktop :)

[ehlodex]

hmm, mine all have lojban-based names:

ckafe ( [coffee] personal -coffee colored- netbook)
bijcmacmasam ( [tiny office computer] office netbook)
x-skami01 ( [computer 01] personal desktop)
trosam01 ( [controlling computer 01] home server)

all but the server dual-boot windows/ubuntu

[Karpah]

All my computers have been named after some sort of precious metal/gem/element.

My desktop is jade, my laptops are amethyst and mercury, my last computer was garnet, and my partner's desktop is sapphire.

It extends to my phone as well - my phone is called amber.

Already decided my next computer will be called emerald.

[crl0901]

My main PC running Windows 7: HAL
My server running WHS: Sithis
My laptop running Ubuntu 10.04: ubuntu-laptop
My HTPC running Windows 7: media-PC

[InphekD]

backup: Chronos
main: Zeus

[VinDSL]

Don't ask me why (I don't know), but...

I've always named my machines after Ghost Busters characters.


Gatekeeper (proxy server)
Keymaster (wife's computer)
Slimer (laptop)
Gozer (netbook)
Vigo (Puppy Linux doorstop)


I'm on Zuul (desktop) right now. LoL! :D

[TNT1]

My 10.10 box is now Getafix

[nlsthzn]

Desktop: Sigma (formerly known as Vector Sigma)
Laptop: Spike (wife named her, don't know myself)
Netbook: SAM (Samsung N150, imagination drought)

[Spice Weasel]

Started naming my PCs after characters in "The Matrix". :P

Server - morpheus
Desktop - neo

[mainerror]

I only name my servers with "special" names.

One server is called "Alice" (no not the Alice of Resident Evil but the one of Alice in wonderland). Another server is called "Jarvis" (yes the one of Ironman).

[Spr0k3t]

I themed my network around Futurama.

domain: planet.express
firewall: hermes.conrad
main pc: farnsworth
main laptop: hubert
test laptop: qubert
mythbox: zoidberg
kid's computer: bender
carputer: hypnotoad
file server: brannigan
android phone: calculon

[julio_cortez]

One server is called "Alice" (no not the Alice of Resident Evil but the one of Alice in wonderland).Yay, perfect choice :)

I thought I already said it, but also my PC is named Alice. Sometimes I miss my old desktop which was named Luciano (after Ligabue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Ligabue)). :P

[dwolf]

My desktop: KITT
Wife's desktop: Neko
Nas Server: Nassie

:smile:

[cgroza]

My PC: Alfa PRIME.
Other PC: Lucidator.

[Verbeck]

Vector-Sigma
:D

[fontis]

I really dont bother with names when using win I guess.
But my linux laptop is called deathstar.
Why? dont know, I like the ring to it, plus I've always had a feeling that it might blow up any time soon... it being from HP and all :D:)

[Sean Moran]

I've got two desktops back in Australia, the Compaq Deskpro PII is #1 and named Lennon because it still has the original 16 bit soundblaster card from 1994. The MSI PIV is named Calista after the ship that my ancestors sailed from Plymouth to the Swan River Colony in 1829, but Lennon is a smoother way to access just as much online as a PIV can manage.

Here in Thailand, all I have is my Little Lucy Laptop, who is also a Compaq, but with a nice BENQ USB keyboard and good loud speakers to keep me from getting lonely. Lucy is a Compaq Presario CQ60, so the name is about as rudimentary as anyone who ever tried to walk on two legs requires.


---o0o---

Lucy is the second ever brand-new computer I have ever owned. The first new computer I ever bought was a Vic20 in 1982, and I was only 14, so I wasn't old enough to know how to give names to all the animals back then, but Lucy is my second ever brand-new computer, so she got the name of the first ever primate to apparently leave only one pair of footprints in the mud.

[manzdagratiano]

cybertron

[manzdagratiano]

Also, the other one is called "chaar" - this one is for old fans

[czr114]

I have a fairly boring "desktop" and a "laptop."

I'm also user@desktop and user@laptop.

This has made it simple to move transfer scripts from one incarnation to the next.

[tad1073]

nunya.....nunya business

social engineering run amuck!!!!!

[dgray_from_dc]

I went with an AvP movie/game theme:

Server:
LV-426 (Planet from Alien/Aliens movies)

Desktop/Server/Media Center PC:
Fury-161 (Planet from Alien 3)

MCPC:
BG-386 (Planet from latest AvP Console Game)

Laptop/Tablet:
Nostromo (Ship from Alien)

Laptop /w Dock:
Sulaco (Ship from Aliens)

Netbook:
Marlow (Ship from latest AvP Console Game)

[gnomeuser]

Main machine: Sagan
Netbook: Galileo
ARM netbook: Stallman (good idea, poor execution and somewhat hairy if you attempt to play with it)

[leviathan8]

My desktop is nubuntu and my laptop is mono. These are actually the names of the users of computer, but I hope it's fine with the thread's discussion topic.

[P1C0]

The OpenBSD 4.9 based music server we just set up today in the office on our free time using a 7 year old machine -and which we are really proud of- is called: hive

work desktop: chaos
home desktop: oblivion
laptop: acid

[Antarctica32]

most of the time I name them things from star trek, star wars, doctor who,... you get the point

[hhh]

Now come folks , naming your computers, now thats crazy, naming your car yes naming your favourite shoes yes but your computer ???:-P:-\"
Absolutely in agreeme... wait, what? Shoes???!!?

[eentonig]

Usually it's cigarette brands:

Camel
Bastos
Tigra
...

[P1C0]

I will also present the hive:
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/7931/hive.th.jpg (http://img819.imageshack.us/i/hive.jpg/)

[Timmer1240]

When I was running Windows XP the names I called it werent so nice now I actually am Quite Fond of The machine with Debian Mint Installed!I Just call it my Rig now.

[Shmantiv_Radio]

Bob.

[reyfer]

Pre-Linux, it was called "Piece Of ****"...since I have Linux on it I call it "Beauty"

[jerenept]

media-server

it runs pure-ftpd, opentracker, ircd, samba, and xbmc (sometimes)

[elianthony]

Desktop = en-sabah-nur

Server = batcave

Server = knowhere

[rich52x]

CHANGEME

How it was when I got it, how it stays :P

[gnomeuser]

Server - Llama

I have to ask, does it appear to have been subjected to whipping?

[fesmitty77]

Before running linux, when I was running M$, I called it a piece of sh**.

Now I call it Lazarus


Fantastic. I call my Mactel 2,1 Ebony, because of her black beauty.

[TacticalApe]

Mine's called mothership. I'm not very creative...

[cgroza]

I never thought about doing this before. I guess I call her 'ole grey skin. I lost the screws to the case and banged it up a bit over the years. A couple layers of duct tape keeps 'her' together for me.
Give us a photo!

[rf.bennett1]

The Beast :P

[jcris]

"This damn thing"

[_outlawed_]

Desktop - Aurora
Laptop - Celestia

[rbishop]

Laptop - Lazerus
Desktop - Virus Haven (Mostly due to Facebook crap)
Server - Gibson
HTPC - HAL

[DoFlooterMoose]

My Desktop would be called "Juggernaut" and 3 of my 4 laptops are called "Larry""Moe" and "Curly" :P. The other 1 is 'Onslaught'.

[RiceMonster]

Desktop - Kobato
Laptop - Eureka

[JDShu]

Desktop - Raynor
Netbook - Artanis
Laptop - Zeratul

[pissedoffdude]

Awesome-O

[krapp]

debian-laptop

[halovivek]

my computer name is GuruDheva :D

[cybermanic]

Does smartphones count ? O;)

Helbent 6 - from old SF novel,
Nostromo - from Alien, UIQ3 OS
cYberdRome 8 - main desktop, server, Ubuntu 10.10
raZor - os/2 4.52 / eCS 2.00 machine
velvet - eeebuntu
Fukushima - Aspire 1350, AMD 2GHz, it can be very hot... Ubuntu 10.10/ EvilOS XP SP2.

I also seek name for desktop machine wich replace stupid normal DVD. Mainly is for movies, Ubuntu 10.10 on it.

[NovaAesa]

Main desktop - Pris
Backup desktop - Zhora
Netbook - Leon

[reiki]

Mine is Bigbird, my wife has Zoe, my son has Zoot. I use Muppet character names :)

Except for the old network printer. The first one I bought was connected network AND USB. It backfed power through the USB and destroyed my motherboard (green flash, then smoke) so the new one was named DOOMSDAY. The manufacturer of the printer actually paid for the replacement motherboard after I sent them my toasted one.

[Nerotriple6]

Desktop - Svart (Norwegian for Black)
Android - Svart Mini
Eee PC - That little **** :tongue:

The latter is not operative and I doubt I will resurrect it. It is under my sofa in case I will fix it. I don't like the Atom so I doubt it...

[jamesjenner]

I'm most prob pretty boring. I call my network Sol and as such call my systems Sol.I, Sol.II, etc.

[Sun_Coaster]

"Marco", "Gina", and "Curtis", after my favorite Miyazaki movie, Porco Rosso.

"htpc", "asus" - from a deficit of imagination in the early hours, I should rename them,
maybe "Fio", after the girl mechanic, and whatever the name of the Milanese mechanic in the movie was.

"your-A4sf873ff4" - an XP netbook (used the default),
and previously, "Sikander", from the Sean Connery/Michael Caine movie, "The Man who would be King." Sikander is a version of the name of Alexander The Great.

.

[Chrisn02]

Mine was boring until the last year or so
Current system names:
Desktop - Fenrir
Laptop - Ember
Netbook - Ifrit
Android Phone - Carbuncle
PS3 - Leviathan

[Forseti]

Hi,

Mine, like MacGyver2's, are called with names from norse mythology:
- mine netbook: forseti (it's personal computer after all)
- my girlfriend's: freya (Ubuntu 10.10 like in my netbook)
- desktop: idunn (norse Idunn served apples of youth, mine serves mainly files, Ubuntu 10.10, doomed to die)
- server (in staging - for now it's only external HDD booting on idunn, soon he will overtake her, openSuSE 11.4): magni (after son of Odin that was to survive Ragnarok and rule the rebuilt world)
- networked TV I'm avaiting: hlidskjalf (Odin's throne that enabled him to view the whole world)
- my cellular's Bluetooth name: ratatosk (squirrel running up and down the Yggdrasil carrying messages between its inhabitants)
- the Samba's group is of course ASGARD

BR,
Forseti

[Gremlinzzz]

Never though it had a name but now that i think of it. when i have a question that needs answering i call it [The Brain].

[smd0665]

Well, a friend dubbed my very first computer "Frankenputer," because it was made up of parts that other people discarded: the motherboard (a 486), video card and case from one person, the soundcard from another person, the memory and hard drive were new. The computer I currently use is made up of newer parts that I bought, but I still like the name "Frankenputer."

[Youfan]

Desktop (running Microsoft Windows XP): ARCHANGEL
Desktop (running Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx): LUCIFER

My brother's Desktop (because it has 1 TB storage, running Microsoft Windows XP): BEHEMOTH

Laptop (running Microsoft Windows 7): SERAPHIM
Laptop (running Linux Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal): CHERUBIM

USB Flash Drive: OPHANIM
USB Flash Drive (with bootable Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx): CHERUBIM

Mobilephone: THRONE
PS2: SHIVA

Almost all are angel-related or biblical/mythical-origins.

[Nyromith]

computer

[Hwæt]

ABJAD (Desktop), RUNIC (Laptop), LATIN (Netbook), and CYRILLIC (Old Desktop)

Kudos if you catch the theme.

[galacticaboy]

Her name is Glenda and she is old, I am about to put her in a rest home...

[rigel4]

U-box

[teranex]

Andoria - laptop (ubuntu 11.04)
Delta Vega - (work) laptop (ubuntu 10.10)
Qo'noS - N900 (maemo)
Risa - wifes laptop (ubuntu 10.10)
Rinax - VM (ubuntu server 10.04)
Talax - VM (ubuntu server 10.04)
Korma - VM (ubuntu server 10.10)
Lunia - HD

Star Trek planets/moons/etc :)

[rountrey]

floodgate is my pfsesne router
vicarious is my debian 6 media server
trenchant is my usenet/torrent downloader and media encoder ubuntu 10.04
paltry is my eeePC backtrack5
mammoth is my laptop dual boot ubuntu 10.04/win7
catharsis is the desktop for the family ubuntu 10.04
memento is the htpc win7 with media center & xbmc (i did try really hard to get mythtv working).

[babakott]

My Desktop =Serenity (Firefly)
My Laptop =TAX1 (Vaders' Tie in a New Hope was a TIE Advanced X1)

[medic2000]

My Laptop = Sword Coast

[hakermania]

alex@MaD-pc:~$ cat /etc/hostname
MaD-pc
alex@MaD-pc:~$

[cprofitt]

newest to the fleet (already posted my old ones) is:

tardis-w520

[Bapun007]

mine is Darkstar

[IWantFroyo]

I named my laptop "Akamaru," and my desktop "WorkBox."

I'm getting a HP TouchPad soon. Maybe I'll name it "Senbonsakura" or something...

[TheJackal12]

thinkpad-x200t

[Barrucadu]

I have been considering changing my naming scheme of Lovecraftian characters to 19th century authors.

[Linuxratty]

Dragon....


(\ /)
(O.o)
(> <)

[zealibib slaughter]

Since mine is located at my evil lair called the motherbrain center for world conquest then I call it the Motherbrain.:)

[scheibenlosen]

LOL! I did the same... :smile:

I think everybody called their Windows machine that. :P I call mine paneless. :)

[_f_0_c_u_s_]

My computer's name is Colossus. Unsurprisingly, I named it soon after watching The Forbin Project. However, for those who have seen that film, I must say my computer seems a bit too inferior for world domination as it is five years old and can't deal with high-definition video files.

[hakermania]

I used to call my windows machine alex-pc (boring :P)

[trinux_bc]

I took some eastern religion courses back in undergrad, so I name all my computers after Hindu gods.

[Copper Bezel]

Ooh, I love that. It's a nice play on the tradition of using names from Greek myth to name servers.

[silent_shade]

Quickwitted (desktop, 3 years ago) and WHITE (laptop, present, because, well, it is white = )

[sujoy]

Matrix - because that's where I live in :P

[el_koraco]

1. crunchbang - obvious
2. frenki - as in Frankie, as in Frankenstein, cuz it's a hacked up ancient beast that shouldn't really be allowed to live anymore.

[Pengi-FlyGirl26]

Pooja & her little brother Wubi.

[ilovelinux33467]

my laptop - andrew-laptop
my desktop - andrew-desktop
my old laptop - paperweight

[Famicube64]

Main OS is Tyler-PC. My VMs are all Linux and are named by distro. Arch is just "arch", for example.

[dpny]

Mac Pro is named Mac Pro.
G5 is named G5.
XP laptop is named XP.
Ubuntu VM is named Ubuntu.
Mint VM is named Mint.
Windows 7 VM is named Windows 7.

Interesting? No. But makes it easy to navigate the network.

[Hugh971]

After spending ages trying to think of a good naming scheme I decided to name all my computers after South Park characters.

[ninjaaron]

Large laptop is called CQ61. It's a Compaq Presario CQ61.
Netvertible is duo. It's a Dell Inspiron duo.

Don't act like your not impressed by the creativity.

[Copper Bezel]

Do you guys at least have affectionate nicknames for them - CQ and Dually, or something? = )

[wolfen69]

I would tell you, but then I would have to kill you. ;)

[trmentry]

I was naming things after planets in the Star Wars Universe.

kashyyyk - gaming rig
corellia - file server
endor - kid's laptop
geonosis - pfSense firewall
tatooine - wife's laptop
kessel - my laptop
hoth - vmware esxi server.

but have gotten away from it with the latest additions.

yin - xbmc box
yang - xbmc box
sundevil - pc wife uses for school as lappy is starting to die. and she's going to ASU.

The above 3 are itty bitty Atom based boxen.

[IWantFroyo]

Laptop is named "T235D".
Kid's computer is named "Ariana's Box".
Desktop is named Pandora, for really no apparent reason. Maybe to warn people to not open the box?
Phone is named "You stupid thing!!!"
PSP is named "really0934808long340823serial3942number834790"

[papibe]

vaughan my desktop/htpc/XBMC
reinhardt home server
vanhalen my laptop
tedeschi wife's old laptop
crow wife's new laptop
hendrix test laptop server
page old laptop connected to stereo for music.

[dmoconnell]

Lots of interesting names. My computer's name is DECA. (If you don't get the reference, you will in a minute) and my next computer will be Alpha 5 (yes you guessed it Mighty Morpin Power Rangers)
Dm

[kimda]

athena - main home system
artemis - laptop
apollo - hp server
zeus - work server

[yabbadabbadont]

Almost four years (and no one knows how many different distros) since I last posted in this thread, and it has been yoiks.and.away all that time.

Daffy Duck as Robin Hood is one of my favorite cartoons. :D

[MG&TL]

Mine's still called "Thealmightypenguin" from when I first installed Ubuntu. I can't even remember why now.

[sffvba[e0rt]

My wife was using the laptop I know mostly work on... I asked her to name it, she decided on spike... I have no idea?!

As for the gaming rig, it is called Vector Sigma (VS for short) - Transformers inspired (before the latest movies came out)...



404

[pjd99]

This machine: pjd99-work (linux), Penguin (Win 7)
Server: wormhole
Media (former) PC: pjd99 (linux), pjd99-windows (XP)

Some of the faculty servers have interesting names:
wumpus
banshee
mordor
ghost
nimrod

to name a few... Anyone played Hunt the Wumpus?

[Copper Bezel]

My wife was using the laptop I know mostly work on... I asked her to name it, she decided on spike... I have no idea?!

As for the gaming rig, it is called Vector Sigma (VS for short) - Transformers inspired (before the latest movies came out)...



404

Nice! I had a "Teletraan 1" once for the same reason. = )

Should we assume Spike is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference, or just a puppy name?

[sffvba[e0rt]

Should we assume Spike is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference, or just a puppy name?

I have no idea (and she ain't talking) :D


404

[nothingspecial]

Due to a slip of the tongue, my wifes netbook is known as her computu

[ninjaaron]

Brilliant. Mistakes are seriously a great source of inspiration.

[Desktop_n00b]

My Desktop is the Prototype Fat-Man

named after one of the atom bombs from WWII

[Alwimo]

I called my old Toshiba laptop 'Tosh', after its brand name and the Torchwood character.

[Desktop_n00b]

My wife's pc is named "Pipboy 3000" I wanted to name it after a nuke too, but she didn't like it.

[gopherofdoom]

Oldish laptop: tzadkiel
New netbook: triskele

Google will tell you one of my favourite authors. ;)

If/when I get myself a desktop, it'll be autarch.

[Copper Bezel]

Excellent. And now I'm curious to read some of Wolfe's stuff. = )

[gopherofdoom]

Those are references to the Book of the New Sun (and the 'coda' to the tetralogy, the Urth of the New Sun). I'm halfway through the Book of the Long Sun now... thoroughly recommend!

[PayPaul]

My contribution if no one minds. I never really thought there would be an interest in this kind of thing but...

Mine is Sestak, When is was a Windows7 machine I was thinking of Sleestaks at that time and the crystal matrix they used to to travel from Pylon to Pylon. Prior to that one it was TARDIS and I've one machine called Homer. That's because it always makes one want to go DOH!@

I have a Laptop I call "Littleboy". Well, it's smaller and it's da bomb that I finally got a laptop after all these years of waiting.

[Tinker Tantrum]

I named it after what I'm doing and how it makes me feel. Tinker Tantrum.

[Amanda HazLaPaz]

This is an IBM "ThinkCentre". When the fan starts it sounds like a helicopter taking off, hence the computer name:

WhirrMachine

[nipunshakya]

Sometimes my laptop does things i don' t even understand... and sometimes, it doesn't do what i expect... so i named it MagicBox
:P

[ExSuSEusr]

I name mine after old school games:

Quake
Half Life
Unreal
Doom

[Bandit]

Wow this thread is still kicking..

[Brimwylf]

My main desktop used to be named "Crypt", then "Graveyard" for a few years, and now it's "akunobasho" (悪の場所).

[eentonig]

Cigarette brands:

gauloises
Camel
Bastos
Tigra
Marlboro
...

[zombifier25]

My main desktop used to be named "Crypt", then "Graveyard" for a few years, and now it's "akunobasho" (悪の場所).

with a lowercase g

(hey, what do you expect from someone with this username?) :lolflag:

[click4851]

bob, musashi, janus (for my dual boot machine)

[Max Blyss]

2 Frankenboxed Desktops, 1 Laptop

Desktop 1 - DaChoppa
Desktop 2 - Frank
Laptop - DaToppa

As you can see, I'm reeeeal imaginative over here.;)

[Elfy]

back to sleep ...