What are your computers named?
 

This is something I've always been curious about, and I don't recall seeing a thread about it.

I'll start off:
Home Desktop #1: Phobia
Home Desktop #2:Tsunami
Home Laptop: Dementia

Here at work we use Xmen characters for the servers, and Star Wars characters for the routers and switches and shit.

"So Rogue is on Lando which is tied through Leia to get to Havok."
"Sounds like they're having a good time."
"Yuk yuk yuk."

Router: Nora
WindowsDesktop: Freda
FreeBSDDesktop: Margaret
Mac: Ruth

I had a friend with computer named fred and eric - And I have a couple of uncles named fred and eric - so I named my computer after their wives

Strange I know but it works for me

My main is wraithhibn, makes it easier to pick out on the network.
Others named after my bro and dad, Brett and Jack.

your not suppose to give your comp a mans name :p

my main comp is nikki, i call my other computer 'the 500'. it doesnt have a name so i just say what it is (AMD 500mhz)

my motorcycles name is kelsey

almost all colours, not very creative but it gets difficult to name them after a while. ones called wilma coz its a wilmatte prototype.

HC-0001 (standart PC)
HC-0002 m (first laptop)
HC-0003 m (second laptop :D)
HC-0004 S (network Server)
HC-0005 S (FTP Server)
HC-0006 B (Backup Server)

I hope someday i get as much PCs to putt another Zero in front of them :D:D:D

My computers' name is Kerrigan. Since I recently started using two monitors, I don't know if I should name them both separately, or treat them as her two breasts. (Hey I stare at them all day)

My Bass's name is TALENA.

My computers' name is Euclid.

A character in one of my favorite films had a computer of the same name...

Thought it sounded cool...

bob
my old case with new guts is Frankinbob

http://www.chillypc.com/pics/erron/rustbucket-pic1.jpg

The RustBucket

http://www.aquaticcomputers.com/modprofile.jpg

Blue Penguin (aka my linux machine)

My old desktop's name was Multivac, as a nod to Asimov. So when I got my laptop, I named it Microvac. In "The Last Question," the next, smaller evolution of Multivac was Microvac, so it seemed fitting.

At work I had to set up 6 computers all at once so I just declined a Latin verb for them: doceo, doces, docet, docemus, docetis, docent.

my machine is called heccubus but the plastic u fell off the case so its called heccbus now

Sorry, but I haven't given mine a name. I see no purpose in that.

I call mine "Mr Piece Of Crap F*Wit Machine That Pisses Me Off At Every Oppurtunity".

Not sure if it has a pet name for me yet.

Mine are all named after cosmic objects. They are: puck (main workstation), altair (gateway), europa (SMP crashbox/dev box), io (DEC Alpha PWS 433au), oberon (Sun Blade 100), & callisto (SGI Indy). I also had a laptop named ganymede (Sony Vaio R505), but I'll be replacing that soon. I think I have a few more coming as well.

They all run FreeBSD except the Indy. Ganymede used to dual boot XP as well.

I guess people can figure out who I really am now...

mine is Deimos and my dad's is Phobos, two of Mars moons, and my workgroup is the Milky Way

I have a Network of 3 PCs in my House.

Main PC: "Alita"
Downloads: "Zapan"
Backup: "Ido"

Can anyone guess where I get my names from?

I call mine Wrigley and mt other machine Heinz, as in the fields my 2 favorite teams play on.

i call mine "chiabutt"

i will take a guess.. Ancient Japanese names?

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My computers are named as follows:

Main : Kali
Laptop: Hecate

Router : The router (not very orig)

looking for another goddess name for my soon to be new server. I am trying to think of a goddess that rises from the dead in a cylic pattern (similar to the Phoenix), since it has been through many transformations.

I named mine "Dejesus."

You don't fuck with Dejesus.

I do believe I'll let dns answer this for me :)

$ host -t a -l universe
centauri.universe. A 192.168.0.16
ceres.universe. A 192.168.0.12
charon.universe. A 192.168.0.14
classic.universe. A 192.168.0.4
deimos.universe. A 192.168.0.17
earth.universe. A 192.168.0.1
hup.universe. A 192.168.0.100
jupiter.universe. A 192.168.0.3
mars.universe. A 192.168.0.5
mercury.universe. A 192.168.0.10
moon.universe. A 192.168.0.2
neptune.universe. A 192.168.0.8
phobos.universe. A 192.168.0.15
php.universe. A 192.168.0.203
printer.universe. A 192.168.0.190
saturn.universe. A 192.168.0.7
scanner.universe. A 192.168.0.191
space.universe. A 192.168.0.103
sun.universe. A 192.168.0.102
titan.universe. A 192.168.0.18
triton.universe. A 192.168.0.13
uranus.universe. A 192.168.0.9
venus.universe. A 192.168.0.11
x.universe. A 192.168.0.6

I guess that explains why it is that I use dns for this rather than just a simple /etc/hosts.

For the explaining of what most of the systems are, I also have text records:

$ host -t txt -l universe
centauri.universe. TXT "DEC Multia"
ceres.universe. TXT "Personal DecStation 5000/20"
charon.universe. TXT "VaxStation 4000/VLC"
classic.universe. TXT "SparcStation Classic SunOS 4.1.4"
deimos.universe. TXT "AlphaServer 4100 5/300 Debian"
earth.universe. TXT "Celeron 466 Debian unstable"
hup.universe. TXT "HP Envizex series A i960@28MHz"
jupiter.universe. TXT "P133 Debian Unstable, webserver"
mars.universe. TXT "SGI Indy Irix 5.3"
mercury.universe. TXT "SparcPlug Solo HyperSparc 100 Debian testing"
moon.universe. TXT "P200MMX Debian testing, firewall"
neptune.universe. TXT "PPro180 FreeBSD 5.0DP1, Bridge"
phobos.universe. TXT "Data General Aviion 530"
php.universe. TXT "round robin DNS for the php mirror"
printer.universe. TXT "Lexmark Optra S1855"
saturn.universe. TXT "HP9000/G30 HPUX-11.00"
scanner.universe. TXT "HP ScanJet 3C"
space.universe. TXT "SparcStation ELC Sun4C@36MHz NetBSD 1.4.1"
sun.universe. TXT "Sparc Xterminal 1 NetBSD 1.4.1"
triton.universe. TXT "SparcStation LX"
uranus.universe. TXT "DecStation 5000/150"
venus.universe. TXT "iBook G3/600 MacOSX, Workstation"
x.universe. TXT "SparcStation 10 Solaris 9"

It's a little excessive, isn't it? Now, if only I had enough power points to power them all up at once. :)

main box : logikbox
gentoo box : neuron
old FBSD box : Demona

My old one was named Mr. Computer. With this new one I decided to give it a girl's name, so I went with Mom.

Desktop: 'Baraka'
Laptop: 'Valhalla'
Hub: 'My Hub'

Router: Routie
Server: Caziserv
Workstation: Cazipc
Laptop: Cazilt
Workgroup: Cazinet

domain: antarctica
linux laptop: chilly
linux laptop: tuxx
linux pc/router: ice_box
main workstation: main

My brother named his servers after cars for a while (i.e. Spider, Corvette). After accumulating so many, they are just numbers now.

As far as mine: Computer (when it acts like it's supposed to), Fucking Piece of Shit (when it decides to lockup for no reason).

I believe one of my SCSI hard drives are about to die.

Hmm, don't really have a name, but if it answered to what it was most often called, it's probably named "Stupid piece of shit!"

i call it... 'slow', or sometimes even 'out-dated'.

Desktop: Obelisk (because it's black and plain and all-powerful)
Laptop: Asterix
Linux partition: Dogmatix

Network name: Gaul

Anyone read those comics when they were younger?

general linux box: crappy
XP/gentoo dualbooter: mustafa
printer: pr (very creative)

Just plain old 'ock' for me

My first was called Brianna. Never got around to naming the ones after that.

Mine is named Big Brother. It's a full two feet tall and deep and towers over my previous case.

http://www.boomspeed.com/sixate/pc30.jpg

Old one: Windsor
Current one: Everest

New comp: Station 1
Old comp: Station 2

My computer is Ulrich. My name is Erik and my friend Joe started calling me "Ulrich the Dragon Slayer" one day, so that's about it.

Server: Deathscythe
Main workstation: WingZero
Wife's machine: Epyon

I know, really nerdy...or geeky. Maybe the next set will be named after Macross/Robotech stuff...

Desktop - Deep-Black
Laptop - Dire-Laptop

I know very boring names but it works :D

<B> BoCo </B> Nice Lian Li... If I had a camera I would take a picture of mine and post it here

My computer's name is Foot-Rest, because that's its other job.

My linux box is stryker.

Apartment computer: Grandson of Frankenstein. Man is it ugly, and by it's name you can tell it's not the first I've had like this.
Friend's basement: Chadsux. A bunch of us have spare computers in Chad's basement, since we hang out there a lot, and there's always mad LAN gaming going on. The whole Chadsux thing is like a logo we assign to everything, because Chad does indeed suck.

Home machine: Barth
Work machine: Pynchon
Wife's machine: Computer
My Laptop: Dell_Laptop

I started out on a good Post-Modernist American Novelists theme, and then got lazy.

Our servers at work are named after ancent cities. Athens, Rhodos, Jericho, Carthage, etc. At first we were naming them in alphabetical order, but then a couple of customers rented dedicated boxes and we matched the first letter to the first letter of their company, and then the order was all hosed up, so now we're just shotgun-patterning the alphabet with ancient city names.

um, I don't actually name my computer as in calling it something other than "my computer" but if you mean what name I give the system, Windows is called "SecretMethod70" and in Linux it is secret.method.com, this way, when I'm using console, I see "brian@secret / $"

Cosmos and Eclipse. Then I got lazy with Encoder and MacG4.

Our network changes domain everytime tehr is a major upgrade/ reformat..
Now
Workgroup:Azumanga
My pc: Osaka
Peutetre's pc: Chiyo

in the past they have been W:chobits PC's:Chi &Sumomo and W:Pirates PC's:Chomp&MonkeyDLuffy

yes..we're an Otaku household

My Windows PC is called samsara (a Buddhist term for the endless cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth ... which, if you replace 'birth' with 'booting' and 'death' with 'crashing', describes my experience with Windows to a T. :p)

My Linux box is called arianne, after a friend of mine. It's actually the third machine to have that name and probably the sixth or seventh OS installation that that name has carried through (I've run a few different Linux distros as well as Free and OpenBSD). The first was a 386 running Slackware... I needed a hostname for it, and I asked my friends on IRC, and a friend of mine suggested that I name it after her. So I did. :D

Truly unoriginal: abit1000, pcchips1800, FIC550 (mobo+CPU speed). From reading this post I now have some better ideas though!

I dont use fancy names. Dont see the point.

1st=p4workstation (my main rig, XP-Pro and Debian)
2nd=p3fileserver (various files and movies, Windows 2003)
3rd=amdmp3box (all my mp3s, Linux box)
4th=lanserver (for games, Linux box)

my computer is called "hercules".


hercules! hercules! hercules! :-)

My workstation: windy (4 case fans, but nice and quiet)
My PDA: zaurus (It's a zaurus SL-5500 with 802.11b)
My Primary AP: spork
My Den AP: denap
My firewall/router: gnat
My TiVo: tivo (Phillips HDR212, 302 hours or recording space, TiVo web, Turbonet ethernet access)
My DVD/DivX Box: media
Kitchen termnial: fnord

mine is called computer.

the old one was simply ," piece of crap ".the new one ,is now and will be forever know as" that fucking piece of crap that i spent good money for ".[the other one was free].although i will admit any problems so far can be directly traced back to me .i love fucking with it.

desktop - Daedalus
laptop - Icarus
SGI workstation 1 (Indigo2) - Helios
SGI workstation 2 (Indy) - ChickenHead

(yes, i play Deus Ex far too much for my own good)

Main PC: DonnChadh (for easy id at LANs)
Server PC: DarkIndustries

G3, iMac, iBook, 7200, MacPlus, HALO14, DELL

5 mac, 2 pc. i hate throwing them out :)

Green
Office
Playroom
Gold
Purple
You know, I never even considered giving them cool names. But, I will next time. I get geekier all the time. A geek wannabe?

I named it "Lee Harvey Oswald" at a LAN once, cause I was using it as my CounterStrike name at the time, and never changed it.

My 16-port switch is labeled as "The Switch of Doom."

the iMac 700 combo is Bansai, which is short for electronic bansai. the PC is FrankenMac or FrankenBob or even OldBob, depending on which name we're using, and, of course, THAT FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT is common as well.

I call it the POS. When it's not working. :D

Main PC: Bhikkhu
Sun Ultra5: Pizzabox
Sun Sparc5: Pizzabox2
Proliant: Error (running W2K)

computer 1= pc-cola
computer 2=le2isomethingsomethingsomething.

I should rename that one. i guess the entire reason for giving them a name is to remember what their name is.

My comps name is Kick, Kick the computer

My old computer was named USER
after I toasted the power supply,prossesor, and motherboard
I got a new one whiched I named afterburn.
now whats left of USER is laying on the floor next to a pile of other computer parts awaiting rebirth.

my hp is "HAL", and my Compaq is named "KRYTEN." If you know who Kryten is, you truly have good taste.

The firewall is C-sik. My main box is Trinity. Our <a href="http://www.irlp.net/">IRLP</a> node is Dexter. My Zaurus SL-5500 is Dino, and my Zaurus SL-5000D is Mite.

Not much of a standard naming scheme there.

Desktop: Frohikie
Laptop: Fruitbat
S55 phone(Bluetooth indentifier): Frogger

I was going to have a fro* nameing scheme, but couldn't thing of any good after nameing the desktop and the phone :P

me + my bf's puters are all named after Star Fleet vessels (his idea ;) )

my pc - aurora
his - equinox
server - stargazer

:)

Mine isn't very original.
It's named RavinsBox.
My old one was named Abbie.
Since it was cobbled together from a number of different computers I had thought about naming it Frankenstein but that is the doctors namd not the the monsters.
So I used a line from Young Frankenstein.
"Who's brain was this?"
"Abbie something."

i call mine "Yves"

PC: MooCow
Mac Laptop: Spaceclam
Mac Desktop: Graph

desktop - ewonk
ipaq - mipaq

Fucking Dickhead! is what mine is most often called by me.

And late at night, I sometimes hear my daughter calling it the SAME!! LMAO!!





PS- She's 20, it's OK. ;)

Never really given my computer a name, but it's workgroup name is Spanky!

Main puter... Greymere

wife's leBell's (or my loving way.. a peice of shit) HP nuff said..


I have a sound file that says... "You don't know the power of the darkside" every time a blue screen error of death pops up on hers..

Main Desktop :: Dragon
Linux (Slackware) :: Hydra
Gateway :: Phoenix
Other Desktop :: Gryphon

Main workstation is named Timmah. Server is named Drunkbitch.

Home Desktop: Merk
Family's Home Puter: Dragon
Dad's Puter: Shop
My old gateway pIII: Backup
My laptop: Vaio
I try to keep the names simple :)

All mine have redneck type names

bubba
buster (although that's what my mother always used to call me "If you think I'm gonna let you do that, you've got another think coming buster.")
bocephus
joe-bob

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Computer: POS

Been meaning on posting this for awhile:

Work computers:
Biatch
Shuttle (it's a Shuttle PC)

Home:
Krychecks
Kidscomp
Darkangel ( laptop )

Mine is simply "The Giger" and I have another that is named "It's all about the Gigahertz"

greenie

Main comp...Micght Max
Test Machine...Bench
Server....TSS1 (The company I work for is named is TechSupport Services)
Store Display....Display1
Boss's Comp...Bill
Sec/Accountants comp....Redhead
Laptop 1.....Benchy
Laptop 2.....LilAbner


I built every last one of them, so I consider tham mine.......

Workstation = WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Laptop = WOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

and that's all I have... kinda lame huh?

i have 2.5 computers (the .5 works half the time ^^)

but, with them all being windows machines, i named them to truly represent this:

The old one (fully functional) : Havoc
Other old one (partially functional): Chaos
New one (fully functional) : Entropy

... and the workgroup is called WORKGROUP =)

Puck (fast laptop), Cobweb (decent desktop), and Bottom (ancient desktop). It's all about the culture.

My main desktop comp= Gandalf
My Server= HAL 9000
My wifes laptop= Flora

Valhalla

Mine are named after goldfish.

Current boxen include:

Ackbar, Shiva, Verdigris

Work PC: slag

Home:
Server: scoop
Backup: squat
main system: tbird
downstairs system: crimson
hometheater: HTPC
webcam: spy

Bloom County
 

The Windoze box is named Bill (the Cat), the linux box is named Opus, and the router is Oliver (Wendel Jones).

i feel kinda dumb now with all these names.

mine is called "basement" and my family's is called "upstairs". for obvious reasons.

My Desktop PC: Randal (Window sticker of him from Clerks/Animated on the window on the side of my case)

Mac Laptop: TecnoBook

PocketPC: TecnoPPC

Pent 4 = Bellagio = My PC
Pent 3 = Monte Carlo My Wife's PC
Thinkpad = MGM = Laptop for both of us
G4 Cube = Caesars = Freelance artwork machine
G4 Powerbook = Aladdin = Mobile Freelance artwork machine
Compaq Server = Las Vegas = Our file server, Print serve, and MP3 storage

Home (mine) - Python
Home (mrs. platy's) - Monty
Home (daughter's) - Nikki
Work - Spam

My system has a split personality: 2 hard drives with separate boots. Drive 1: "We Are Family" Drive 2: "All I Could Afford"