My main server is named Postulate (an idea that you assume for the sake of argument), my desktop is named Axiom (a proved postulate), and my backup server is named Corollary (an idea that follows from an axiom).
What are your computers named, and why?
Calculon - Workstation
Flexo - Gaming laptop
Bender - Intel Nuc/HTPC
Hmm my Synology NAS is called Syn, I need to find a more appropriate name for it.
Clamps
You might be onto something
Mine are also Futurama;
- Hypnotoad - Server
- Morbo - Desktop
- Nibbler - Laptop
Huh. 3 different people here using Futurama names.
i’m not good with names.
my server’s name is… server
Currently running
server3
after some mishaps including a torched OS drive 🫠
I name mine after Futurama characters because there’s a lot of them and I found a cool icon set to use.
I once named a load of servers for a helicopter company in the UK with elements. The cluster nodes were copper, silicon, etc. The cluster itself was called iron. The volumes were labelled fe_. It worked - it was easy to read and the bits that implied “cluster” were grouped appropriately. All the other servers had random elemental names unless they were associated in some way, in which case the group would be used. The engineers (real engineers with oil or distressingly nasty lubricants in their veins) loved it - it made sense, without being too quirky. It was very legible.
When those systems were hoicked out and replaced, the usual nonsense was applied: 2 char country code + 2 char site code etc etc ad nauseam. Followed by my absolute pet hate: 01. Oh so you might need 99 domain controllers? Yes you might, but not on one site.
Let’s face it, it is mostly AD admins who don’t get hostnames. I blame MS - their docs and blogs strive to be … authoritative or at least look so. An entire generation (possibly two) of sysadmins have been sold up the river by MS and their wankery.
I completely agree with the “01” problem, it should be “001”.
Single digit is great but then one service needs more than ten, or you keep rolling them over into new ones (one of our production server is 13 because it’s the thirteen generation). But then I want all the numbers of have consistent patterns, so if one has two digits, they all have to have it.
But I’m not allowed to name servers anymore.
Servers and computers get Ankh-Morpork street names.
The robot vacuum cleaner is GLaDOS.
Desktop - thebox
Server - thecloud
Phone - thewand
Tablet - theportal
Home assistant - theoracleNot too creative, but it works.
Game console/system/computer. The DM.
Haha, I like it
My PC is named Shai’tan, and my laptop Astraea. As for why, it’s because I am into fantasy.
Are you crazy, naming the Dark One like that?!
poweredge-t620-0
poweredge-t620-1
poweredge-r520-0
macbook-2011
pi-0
throughpi-3
having read all these other comments, i’m now feeling like i should come up with a more creative naming scheme… for what it’s worth, my phone is named
bob
.I recommend flavours of popcorn: Caramel, Cheesy, Buttery, etc. And Bob.
Damnit, I’m boring af. Machines are named by their model for laptops/consumer devices and buy their CPU for home built stuff.
Except for Crimson-Binome.local 🏴☠️
Nobody has said it… so I have to say it
Cattle not pets!
All my machines are named ‘localhost’, welcome to 127.0.0.1 farms
Some farmers name their cattle
My Nas is named Optimus my Mac Plex server is named Macsimus
I currently only have a craptop, but I’ve settled on naming them after elements, vaguely based on the power of the machine. My craptop is called hydrogen. I also have a full installation on a USB drive called quark, being less than a full machine/element.
My PC is called “Powderkeg” because it keeps blowing up on me.
A five character name in the form of CVCVC that doesn’t show up as a common English word. The main reason is that I want my colmena and host names to be nicely lined up, there is a lot of space in there, and it happens to be the pattern of a race of telepaths in my fantasty world where telepathy is loosely based off of IPv6 addresses and REST and remote RPC calls.
Previously, my computer names were based on Lojban gismu based on their use, so names like fraxu (forgive), briju (office), etc.
On the other hand, my dad’s computer names are: bob, bob2, bob3, bob4, bob5, bob6, bob7, bob8, steve, bob9, bob10, bob11, bob12, bob13, bob14, bob15, and bob16.
My mother’s company were all named off of international currencies (we were doing a stock trading project), so dollar, mark, franc, pound, euro, etc.
My other dad’s computers are named after logical constructs: axiom, theory, etc. He was a scientist.
I like your other dad! I’m also a scientist.
framepuncher for the desktop
smolmac for the macmini running all the things that would be more at home on an rpi if the mac hadn’t been 50 bucks when pi’s were in three digits
the nas is Steve, formerly Ralph. Ralph became the router.