What do you name your computers?

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Freddy and I were talking about computer names in the Software forum and I thought it would be an interesting topic...like sharing our desktop pictures.

My laptop is named Hal (yes...after the computer in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". I got the idea when I was watching the movie "Independence Day". When the character David is on board the alien shuttle and opens up his laptop, you can see the red HAL "eye" on the screen and it says in a very familiar voice: "Good Morning, Dave".

My lab machine is named Abraham and the family machine is named Tevye. Most of my VMs have pretty unimaginative names but I did name my Windows 2000 Server VM Mitzs. One of the guys here at work once named a server Fat B@st@rd but the boss made him change the name.

What about the rest of you?

 

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Mine are all named after federation starship classes, bar my primary workstation which is named after a perticular ship


Workstation: Enterprise
Linux Server: Soverign
DC: Excelsior
ISA: Intrepid
Exchange: Ambassador
Laptop1: Akira
Laptop2: Defiant
Secondary Desktop: Cheyenne

VMs and other less used systems dont really follow this naming convention, but i have enough scope for several more rigs to follow the scheme

 

I think that I must just be boring!

My workstation is called NX9005 (it's a HP NX9005 Laptop)

My test kit is called......wait for it.....

Server1
Server2
Client1
Unbutu.
Fedora.

Yep, it's official........................I'm Boring!

 

My main three are called Valhalla, Ragnarok and Fenris. Any others that I create also follow the Nordic god schema, such as Loki, Thor and Jotunheim etc.

 

Well, there's one solution for that. Get an avatar that hasn't been shot full of holes and has let all the fizz out. Get yourself a full can of Dr. Pepper.

 

Oh heck, Freddy. We can do better than that.

 

now now Trip...

my machine was called LJA3200xp (LJA being the initials of my ex-fiancee, 3200 being the AMD core (well infact its a 2500 overclocked to 3200) and xp being...yes u guessed it Win XP) but now its just plain 3200xp...not much to get excited about...but the desktop, splash and login screens all make up for that...hehe...

 

No real theme to mine, I choose the name as I add a machine (only 3 at the mo).

My PC: Dominator - basically cause I say what goes on my "network"

Daughters: Pink-room - 7-yr-old, 'nuff said !

File server: Matrix - recently added, and the name chose itself for a (crappy) server that may be used for many different testing uses.

So nothing really exciting in my names.

 

Aren't they the three stooges?

 

i'm with nugget on this one, also following a nordic theme:

local domain: asgard
w2k3 domain controller: odin
w2k3 file/print server: yggdrasill
w2k3 exch2k3 mail server: hermod
wxp pro workstation (desktop): thor
wxp pro workstation (laptop): loki
slackware linux mysql server: mimir

dmz: midgard
freebsd webserver: freya

astaro linux firewall: heimdall

auditor linux remote exploit laptop: ulle

 

Ha Trip my SBS Server is called Hal too

My Lappy is called lappy
My Simply Mepis box is called Mepis
My XP box is called StudioXP because I record music on it.

A tad boring I know

 

My computer is really important to modern day seocity as i am the protector of the of protectors the defender of the defenders ... OH JUST CUT THE CRAP my computer name is CTU.

This stands for Counter Terrisom Unit.

 

My comp is just at the default name given at setup..

c64zx81acorn or something like that, but during the course of a day, it's mostly B*******d.Y.now,

If I reallly want it to work properly, it gets called pleezemate, but it rarely helps

For Jackbauer:

I REPEAT My comp is just at the default name given ....

 

local network: thegeek.local
my machine: thegeek1
wife's machine: thegeek2
laptop: thegeek3
wireless Xbox adaptor: thegeek4
printer: thegeekprinter


My VM machines follow the same name schema, but it depends on that the VM is. For example:

my VM exchange server: thegeekexchange2003
my VM ISA server: thegeekisa2004
my VM Web server: thegeekweb2003
my VM XP machine: thegeekxp1

etc., etc.

 

My 2 are named after mine and my girlfriend's,

Pete
Katie

I don't mess with hers (unless it's playing up) and she doesn't mess with mine.. it's a beautiful thang.

Luckily for her she's chosen to share her life with a computer enthusiast so she gets one all to herself- on the broadband connection and everything!

 

Phoenix, that is way cool and also way geeky!
Love it.
Mine are named after the registry numbers of heavy cruisers;

Main PC - NCC1701 (Enterprise)
Application Server - NCC1705 (Excalibur)
Client PC - NCC1709 (Yorktown)
Laptop - NCC1703 (Lexington)

See, we're all normal really!

 

haha nice spin on it jonny
wonder if anyones got a network of romulan warbirds, we can run nmap for some border clashes!

 

I have one desktop computer only.
I have decided to name mine " dusty".
It is never cleaned as often as it should be.