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, WTF, 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.