Does your computer have a name?

[mux]

Taken a bit from Rob Peppertree's computer violence post...

UNIX geeks have known for years that computers are more than the sum of their parts - something happens when you build a machine, and if you've spent enough time staring at the screen at 5 in the morning, eventually you realize that something inside is staring back at you...

All servers have names. Sure, sometimes they're stuff like "mailserver" or "NTPDC1", but often they get really funky names - and when you have a lot of servers, that's when you get to have a "naming convention", in which every name relates to the others. Some naming conventions in networks I've worked in include:

• "Muppets" - Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Animal, Gonzo, etc
• "Drugs" - Ritalin, Dexedrine, Novocaine, etc
• "Parts of the body that start with the letter 'C'" - Clavical, collarbone, clitoris, etc
• "Mythical creatures that fly" - roc, phoenix, dragon, hippogriff, etc
• "Synthesizers" - juno, jupiter, wasp, schaltwerk, virus, etc

In our house here, our current naming convention is simply "Sex". The mediaserver box is "sub", my laptop is "slut", Erin's laptop is "fetish", my desktop is "trode", the spare devel laptop is "pony", the webserver is "kink"... yeah, we've got a lot, we're geeks for a living. :)

So anyway - how many of you have named your computers? What is your computer's name?

[Gusto]

Er, SVLAPTOP999. Exciting!!!111~

[wundergirl]

my laptops name is freda. and i love her.

[Sykonee]

I never named mine, but a buddy of mine named his Blaine.






If you've ever read Stephen King's Dark Tower books, you'll understand.

[iluvtechno]

NO I DONT HAVE A COMPUTER NAME!!! tha'ts because i am not a computer geek!!!

[Rhianna]

No........I can't say it does.

[charly]

on the network, my comp is simply known as "p4" since it's the only p4 in the house.
it's no fun :(
my dad named them so he could remember which each one was.

i want to rename it.

[neoh]

yeah,

primary workstation is ariel, router is niobe, linux workstation is lynia, then I have bean, tom & jerry are identical clusters, momma and pappa.

[sidekick]

my iPod is named 'billy'

[hardstylin]

piece of shit is what i normally call it.

[mux]

Originally Posted by neoh

primary workstation is ariel, router is niobe, linux workstation is lynia, then I have bean, tom & jerry are identical clusters, momma and pappa.

WORD. That's what I'm talking about!

A bit of obscure geek humour: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2100.html

[Tux]

desktop: hubert
laptop: fux0r

[Silverwinged]

Mines called FRED.

Fucking Retarded Electronic Device.

[charly]

Originally Posted by Sidekick

my iPod is named 'billy'

mine is named spoon.

edit: i also named my digi cam spork. hah

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by charly

mine is named spoon.

maybe they can be friends!

spoon and billy!

[neoh]

Originally Posted by mux

WORD. That's what I'm talking about!

A bit of obscure geek humour: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2100.html

haha, I remember comming across that not too long ago while searching for an rfc on ipv4, amusing to say the least. ;)

there's a couple goofs in rfcs, I can't think of any off the top of my head.

[mapleleaf4ever]

Name? I don't name my Computer... I only connect on dial-up and I've got the only decent Computer in the House so it's not Networked. But when I ran the School Network we used Pasta for the Drafting Lab and we used Carnivoires for the IT lab.

[charly]

we should introduce them someday.
they can exchange some files.. or something like that.

[rawb]

at work my personal boxes are 'dunks' 'vandal' 'terminator' all after shoes.

laptop is 'ohsnap'. home is 'pinkshirt'.

our naming scheme here has a theme that changes focus every time someone new starts making servers. blame thing. original servers done by one guy were all named after beer(molson, labatts). internal engineering is all fine wine grapes (pugnet, muscat). the other internals are named after jiggy drinks (hennessey, alize).

very fitting how the names match the quality.

[Rytalin]

my computer's name is "FUCKYOUWINDOWS_CRASHONMEAGAINANDIWILLKI LLYOU"

I think I need a reinstall and/or linux :)

[rawb]

unless its a server i dont really associate it with a name though. my laptop, my work box and my home boxes are extensions of myself and cant be personified. anything that does what i tell it without me being there can be thought of as a seperate being.

[MindFlayer]

"-subjective"

[DJDeeb]

home PC = Tiesto
home Laptop = piccoto

At my work we used to have the servers named after inventors ( Franklin,Edison,Davinci,etc ). But now we just have boring VAN-FS1,VAN-FS2,etc:( ( no fun )

If I was going to set up a network with named servers i'd name them after Simpsons characters:y:

[Crazy Dave]

Well I name my net works by color. I've used green, and red before, But at home I ended up using Blue.

Old:
Ocean i-P233 64MB 40gig (Was my Linux Box till the hard drive crashed)
Sky i-C400 128MB 10gig HD (moms computer, untill the power suply burnt)
Ice Cyrix-166, 32megs, 2gig (the fan stopped working and the chip melted)

New:
Dimmond, AMD-A1700 768MB 80gig/160gig (took out the 40) (mine)
Sapphire, AMD-A3200 512MB 160gig (moms, or at lest she likes to think so)

Oh and the best thing Is the moniter we share between friends for gigs is Hugo!!! People get confused when we start to talk about it. Or if some one asks where hugo is.

[neoh]

Originally Posted by Crazy Dave

Well I name my net works by color. I've used green, and red before, But at home I ended up using Blue.


Ice Cyrix-166, 32megs, 2gig (the fan stopped working and the chip melted)

I have a Cyrix-166 MMX WITHOUT a fan, has been running for years - funny that happened to you. Shitty luck I guess.