Names of your systems

[Syngin]

Now, I think this can say a lot about the LAN owner hehe. Mine are named after swords in some of the fantasy series that I've read.

Anyone care to share?

Mine: Boreal (Tiger and Del - Jennifer Roberson), Stormbringer(Elric) and Samiel (see Boreal)

[pcghost]

My server is "God", my main desktop is "Saruman", my laptop is "Gandolf" and the next server (in process) is "Allah"

[KarrottoP]

My debian box is named WeaponXbox, my macs are just whatever model they are (ibook, imac)

[2damncommon]

thunder.whitney.mnt
marmot.whitney.mnt
outpost.whitney.mnt

[ehawk]

Here we normally have equal numbers of Windows and linux workstations, and normally get pairs of them at the same time, same hardware. We are a bit of a pessimistic lot, thus:

Fear and Loathing (linux)
Pain and Anguish (windows)
Dismay (windows) and Confusion (linux)

Our printer, by the way, is The_Horror

In the undergrad office, there is a South Park theme:

Kenny
Kyle
Stan
Cartman
Mrhat

Other pairs found in labs:

Odd and Even
Id and Ego

One student is thinking of naming all his lab computers after cartoon villians:

Cobracommander
Skeletor
Megatron
Destro

In more serious labs, they name the computers after the chief scientists of their field:

Fowler and Hoyle (nuclear astrophysics)

[MartinB]

Mine are called Elise, Ruri, Azusa and Sachiko.

[hermit00]

Main: Alice
Crummy black box: tweedle dum
Slightly less crummy black box: tweedle dee

[Gantrep]

susebox and lemonade on the truman domain.

[Saptech]

Well, my main box is called Sappy and my laptop is called Lappy! :D The truth.

[Silent Bob]

My machine is called theHouse

It's an obscure story...

[zmerlinz]

Here are all of mine in the Twister domain


laptop : Leunix
Server: Commadore
new box : nautilus

[endorphinjunkie]

Cyridwen, Sophie, Siobhan,.... just a few of the bimbos that I have known.:D

[Elijah]

Valkyrie, my hostname is Valhalla if anyone's interested

[wapcaplet]

I've always had trouble picking names for my boxes. It's like naming a pet - I'm worried that I'll influence their personality too much. Anyhow, the three machines on my LAN at the moment are tentatively named:

jedi (the Windows box that my wife uses)
dexter (Linux firewall)
pierce (our last name; was langley.gunmen.com, but is the start of hopefully a series of boxes in the pierce.com domain. Primary machine, Linux)

Names I've considered using include: Langley, Byers, Frohicke (from the Lone Gunmen); Dexter, Didi, Mandark, Monkey, etc. (from Dexter's Laboratory - regardless, I have Monkey and Dexter backgrounds on my main box :) ) and of course if we ever got a really huge network we could go through the Star Wars universe and use all those names... I'm thinking of using the characters from the TV series Firefly, in memorial since it was cancelled. So maybe Malcolm, Jayne, Simon, etc. and of course the classics from Star Trek: Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Picard, Data, Worf, Geordi... always make good computer names. (the network at a place I used to work had those)

[Uberclocker]

laptop - Trinity
desktop- Morpheous

[kaut]

evenflow... from the days when I used to watch ECW and I was a big fan of Raven... not a big Pearl Jam fan though.

[Any]

So far i have:
Optimus Prime
Megatron

[sasKuatch]

guerilla.zudoclan.org - for my laptop (mobile, hit and run, etc)

saskuach.zudoclan.org - my desktop, which used to be a gaming machine several years ago.

one of my friends also uses zudoclan.org, but I don't know his machine names.

[CMonster]

I must be boring -after replacing this box's SuSE 7.3 last night with SuSE 8.1 I renamed it "PrimaryDesk," the server closet houses "grafix-1" which is not being used as a server at the moment, and my laptop is "laplinux" --I don't know what all my son's boxes are called anymore since he plays musical OS on them so often.

[Wibble]

Homer: My PC
Bart: Kids PC
Krusty: Firewall/Router PC
Marge: Server

[sonictooth]

well since i don't have my laptop hooked up to anything right now (i'm in turkey away from home) its just lonely:
sonic.tooth, after sonic youth the band.

[The Elf]

Router - Augustine
Desktop - Trillian
Laptop - Deedlit

[bs_texas]

my 6 system names all start with 'bs'
;)

[ShieldWolf]

I tend to use descriptive names, and since I also tend to paint my computers, I have bluebox, redbox, purplebox, greyboy, etc. It makes it incredibly easy to remember which is which, and my wife and kids know right away which machine I'm talking about too.

I used to have them set up as objects in our solar system, with sol being the main server, and the other machines named after the planets, but I kept forgeting which was which.

[phil_patnude]

this one's a slackware 8.1 box called "slack" for now, and the more powerful windows machine (i know, that's an oxymoron) is called "Athlon" after its processor. I was gonna name this one after it's processor too, but "Celeron" sucks. Some of the names on here inspire me to change though

[quietguy47]

Hal from 2001: A Space Odessy

[2damncommon]

Hal from 2001: A Space Odessy

My nickname for my homebuilt is Half-pint HAL (HAL 4500), but since it multiboots, each OS gets it's own name and IP.

[Sonuby]

Being a true newbie I usually just "Stupid Box" or "Oohhh you peice of cr@p"

[Palin]

Hex - after the computer in the terry prachet novels :)

[AntiWindows]

Main PC-Hercules
Spare pc-Spider(linux box)

[thread_killer]

Damn.....I must be wierd. Mine are all named after what they do.

eg. CORT is Central Office RooT

My gateway routers are all GW_XXXX with the variable being the four letter designation for their location.

My snort boxes are NIDS_XXXX again with the same four letter designation for their location.

I do have a Master_Log, which- you guessed it- holds all the logs from my Syslog_XXXX servers, which log the activities off my PIXes.

My home network is Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.......

I must have no imagination.

[vbp6us]

My Suse box: Big Tymer

My Windows boxes: **** ...lol j/k no names.

[NotQuiteSane]

I'm a big fan of Robert Heinlein. I'm typing this from Miverna, I'm expecting a laptop that will be named Dora, and a old box I'll use for a firewall. I was gonna name it Mike, but I think I'll go with Teena instead, as Mike should be reserved if I ever setup a beowolf cluster (after all, buth are super computers)

I'm hesitant to name a handheld, when I get one, gay deciever, although that would be the most appropriate. it could easily be interpeted the wrong way, and I already get too much S:N in life

NQS

[NotQuiteSane]

Originally posted by vbp6us
My Suse box: Big Tymer

My Windows boxes: **** ...lol j/k no names.

Back when I was a brand new noob to linux, and was dual booting, I named my lose 2K system "worthless peice of crap"

it seemed fitting

NQS

[Hayl]

Debian server: homesrvlinux01
Gentoo Workstation: linuxbox
Windows Workstatio (not mine): windowsbox

(very unimaginative)

[retoon]

I named my tower King Arthur (k_arthur) and my laptop excalibur. My win box is called scabbord (It's excalibur's *****;) :D ) All true

[trc]

main - nightengale
2nd - sazabi
laptop - eva
router - zero

[Icarus]

Nothing like digging up 3+ month old threads :D

I use locations, names and things from Frank Herberts Dune books
The Glossery at the end is a great resource :)

Seitch_Tabr - My main workstation
Arrakeen - Test system
CHOAM - Router/Firewall
SandTrout - Old Acer Notelight laptop
Shai-Hulud - New Dell Inspiron laptop
Frodo - Old Gateway2000 laptop
Luny2ny - Wife's workstation


The non-Dune exceptions...
Frodo was fitting for the Gateway, it is small, underpowered and was expected to do great tasks :p

Luny2ny is an old joke of ours, I tried to get it on my license plate, but Illinois doesn't allow numbers in the middle :rolleyes:
And it's pronounced "Looney Tooney" We're big fans :D

[NotQuiteSane]

Originally posted by mahdi
Nothing like digging up 3+ month old threads :D

Well, I was going to start a new thread, but I figured, since I'm allways telling people to STFW, I should do it too :D

NQS

[ColeSlaw]

My boxes are very uncreative...

My Linux Box is named PenGuin, because it is modded to look like a penguin (and it has Linux installed... seemed fitting) And my other box is named watercooler, cause, it is water cooled...

Helps me remember which one is which.

[bwkaz]

alpha -- gateway/firewall
beta -- main box

Imagination? What's that? :p

[lazy13]

'ColonelAngus' - it's Walken inspired.

[AussieJohn]

My Desktop is named DETHERMY after my two daughters Debbie and Heather and grand-daughter Tammy. in earlier years I named my home built 20ft Cabin Cruiser Jet boat as DETHER. Even though I haven´t had the boat for years I have continued the concept.

[ashibaka]

This is a pretty cool thread! Some of the names I use are anime-related, so read no further if that sounds worrying.

My old Red Hat 6.0 install was called jusenkyo. I had bad experiences with Red Hat, especially Red Hat 6.0. Thus, when I installed Debian Sid on it, I changed the name to clowbook.

After I resized my family's broken Windows2000 computer to put Linux on it, I decided to call it twilight (not a reference to anything, just a pleasant-sounding name).

There are a few Windows computers in my house-- but none of them have names, true to Windows form.

I plan to buy a new computer over the summer. I'll probably call it menchi or something silly like that, unless if anyone has any suggestions. :)

[Darksamurai]

AMD: Liquid Light (watercooled and modded all over the place)

P4: Silencer (Every fan is PCpowerandcooling "Silencers" and runs off a Rheobus to reduce volume while providing maximum cooling).

Laptop: Project "Need one for Cisco classes"! :D

[kapong]

Everyone seems to give their computers fancy and cool sounding names. mine are just stupid.

Fridge: My main computer
Fridge_jr: My laptop
Teeth_The_Hamster: My Tv/samba computer
Poopypete: Firewall/router
I_Like_Pie: The computer my mom and sister use
Monky_Tank: My mail/web server

[serz]

Mine is serzb0x.

[fatTrav]

main machine: grendel
spare: megatron, yeti
and soon to be resurrected: yoda

at my uni's linux lab we have: kirk, sisko, janeway, crusher, gulducat, archer, and picard (collectively known as the 'captains')

[Kaligraphic]

desktop (xp): Hamish
laptop (debian): Uilliam

[ghostwalker]

Desktop box -- Gumby.
Laptop -- Pokey.
:cool:

[drummerboy195]

hehehehehe
laptop - localhost.localdomain
desktop - localhost.localdomain

creative huh. i havent really used either of them enough to warrant giving them names.

all this pending network setup, when i can make my changes sitting in front of one box, and then things may get interesting.

[unixtool]

Ok, to start, my home boxen are as follows:
tuxbase: linux print/file server (sun blade)
tuxmobile: linux laptop (micronpc)
tuxracer: linux laptop (ibm -work)

for my "community" boxen:

gangrel
nosfrateu (linux)
gangrel (linux)
vampire (linux with windows 2k server --don't ask)

As for my old job, they had a cool poster with all the AKC registered dog breeds, thus:
coyote (unregistered, get it :) linux box)
dachhound - bosses windows laptop
collie - developer windows box
pug - windows laptop
etc, etc, etc
some notes though, the big sun boxen were ridgeback, newfoundland, bernard, dane, and rottweiller for the firewall.

please excuse the spelling as i am replying to this with a few beers in me and i don't feel like checking the spelling. :D

[gschimek]

WindowsXP - Enterprise
RH9/Libranet/Distro of the week - Stargazer
Family Windows 2000 machine - Defiant
RH8 Server - Voyager

(I'm a big Trekkie)

[Icarus]

Originally posted by drummerboy195
hehehehehe
laptop - localhost.localdomain
desktop - localhost.localdomain
That's the best one yet! Put some underscores in them and then it would be perfect :D

local_host.local_domain :cool:

[Parcival]

Morpheus - what else? :D

[mhc2001]

All of my machines are named after characters and places from the movie 'The 5th Element'.

Fhloston (router)
Mondoshawa (WAP)
Korben (WinXP workstation)
Leeloo (Mandrake box)
Munro (Redhat box)
Plavalaguna (Laptop)
Aziz (Win98 - Used for home automation)
Ruby (Audrey touchscreen)
Cornelius (Audrey touchscreen)
Aknot (Audrey touchscreen)
Zorg (my ISP)
Lindberg (DNS)
Mangalore (ISP's mail server)

-Mike

[plattypus1]

While my current home network has unimaginatively logical names, I'm moving out soon and will be taking some of my boxes with me. I'm planning on names from the anime "Cowboy Bebop" just because I'm a fan and bored.

Router- Ein
Server (p133 desktop drafted into the job)- Jet
Old 166 workstation- Ed
Shiny new P4 laptop- Spike

In case you're interested, my current names are below-
momanddad (My parent's WinXP box)
boyscomp (An AMD 500Mhz Linux box that myself and my brother "share")
venomserv (server)
scrapshack (workstation in my mum's scrapbooking shed)

And, if you've noticed, not all the machines in the top are in the bottom and vice versa.

[mage492]

Mine are (currently) Foxicle, Sabin, Cid, Celes, Mog, and Edgar. Those are the ones I know well enough to give names to, anyway.

Only Foxicle has a real reason to it, though. It's always as bright and friendly as a fox, even giving a welcoming "beep" when I turn on the power. If it had the body of one, I'm sure it would curl up next to me and go to sleep.

It's also as cold as an icicle. Think "cold and calculating," not "cold shoulder," or "freezing." It has an unbelievably devious side to it, when you play against it in chess! Yes, the name is a contradiction, but it seems to fit amazingly well.

The others are simply names from Final Fantasy (though I found fitting characters, in each case).

[Suramya]

At our main server room in my college the machines are named after food: crust, pizza, leftover, pie etc. Other Unix machines at school are named after elements in the perodic table.

The machines in my home lan are named as following:

My main system (Linux): StarKnight
My Secondary system (Win98, LFS and Debian): StarFlight
3rd Box (Sun OS): Marrow.
My roommates computer(XP): calvin
His laptop is called (XP): Laptop

- Sur

[n00bie]

zi0n :cool:

[nerrollus]

I've got 3 computers all running different OS's, so I just name them according to the OS they're running. ;)


linux, 2k, and ME..

Wish I could get that stupid ME to 2k, but my wife won't let me rebuild her PC.. ;) It's been about a year or so since I put ME on it, so it shouldn't be too much longer before it goes tits up. :D

[ookami01]

i like to use various names no real theme going on

ie.

elder - server
craptop - old laptop
deadpool - printer
zimzum - linux box

[NotQuiteSane]

Originally posted by fatTrav
at my uni's linux lab we have: kirk, sisko, janeway, crusher, gulducat, archer, and picard (collectively known as the 'captains')

You're missing April and Pike.

How could you forget the first two captains of the enterprise?

Also, don't forget Spock, Sulu, Scott.

I'm trying to remember who it was that CO'd the B & C

NQS

[madcompnerd]

I name by processor. I have an XP box, a k6-2 box, and a cyrix box. Oh yea, an athlon box, and a pentium classic box.
I generally never end up with two computers with the same processor.

[brockmasterflex]

Main Machine : havoc
Old PII: wolverine
Older PI : cancer <--- Its almost dead

This is a very interesting thread....

[godhead]

Main-Akira
old computer-POS(and i shall kill it soon!)

[MighMos]

Windoze (linux in a few months :) )=Mallory
Linux=Percy

[hard candy]

I just installed Gentoo- so I named it several times in the last two days- the most common being "%!$@#(*&)%$##". Now that I've settled down-it's "UM" (short for unamed machine".

[joesbox]

i feel simple now. seeing all of those creative names and all.
here are mine:

MDK9 box = joesbox.home.lan
Winxp box = WINXP-BOX
wifes WinXP laptop = WINXP-LAPTOP.

[BootsC5]

Main (win32) -- Loki
Laptop (win32) -- Thokk (Loki in disguise)
Fiancee's (win32) -- Brodel
Old RH7 box (dead) -- Hades
RH8 box -- Gehenna

[hop-frog]

Where do you name your computer? I've never installed a distro that asked me, "What did you name your computer?"

[sharth]

The hostname. and in windows, its whatever you are referred to in samba.

/etc/hostname
network neighboorhood -> properties -> somewhere in there.

[mhc2001]

Where do you name your computer? I've never installed a distro that asked me, "What did you name your computer?"

Besides what Sharth said; if you have multiple computers on a network, you'll also want to add the names and IP's to your /etc/hosts file, or your DNS.

If you use the hosts file, make sure it have the same info on all of your computers (works on WinXX and Mac's too!). Then all the computers on the LAN will know each other by name.

-Mike

[tucolino]

"stella" for my box and "tucoserv" for the file server

tuco :)

[root.veg]

my computer = scram
gateway/router = pilecap

... after nuclear engineering jargon (well it's my job!). Considered naming them chernobyl, threemileisland, windscale, tokaimura etc... but thought that may be in bad taste :)

[AlexPlank]

Im naming mine right now.
RH9P41.6ghz: Morpheus
Ibook: Frank loyd Wright
Performa: Einstein
NEC p1: Lennon

[myshkin]

for my desktop, ADA.echounltd.
ADA was something that came from a ps2 game called Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner i played this year, she was and AI. echounltd, was an internet handle i used long time ago when i was still skateboarding. yeah ecko clothings, it used to be called echo though.

[Exodus2001]

Everything is named after my Battlebot Exodus2001. Computer / E-mail address / Total Fark account / and any other forum I use. I'm working on my own personal LFS distro called Exodus Linux. Say that 10 times really fast. God I'm stupid.

[AndrewBeaton]

Mine are :

::ExoServer::
Gateway/Firewall/Mail Server
FreeBSD

::Catbert::
Web Server/FTP Server/MP3 Server
Redhat 7.3

::Dogbert::
Workstation
Redhat 7.3

::Dilbert::
Workstation
Windows XP pro

[zdude255]

Heres my schools three comps, all won at programming competitions:

2001:
Python
2002:
Tweedledee
Tweedledum

---
Heres mine:

Desktop - Fenrir
Laptop - Alexander

[JeffBarge]

mine's Hubert...

[serz]

I changed mine. It was "serzb0x", now it's "zion". Yea.. I love The Matrix :D

[zoniguana]

Odin - file/print server (BSD)
Freya - my wife's workstation (W2K)
Loki - my workstation (Mandrake)
Heimdall - my scanning and imaging station (W98)

[NotQuiteSane]

Originally posted by NotQuiteSane
I'm a big fan of Robert Heinlein. I'm typing this from Miverna, I'm expecting a laptop that will be named Dora, and a old box I'll use for a firewall. I was gonna name it Mike, but I think I'll go with Teena instead, as Mike should be reserved if I ever setup a beowolf cluster (after all, buth are super computers)
NQS

Quoting myself.

I have found Mike. he's a compaq proliant 2000 server.

NQS

[Trawlerman]

My machines are usually called Warp ??? and numbered after their processor speed. The network is called Warpspeed.


Recently things have changed. My new(ish) Linux box is just called Samba Server (version Number), my Winxp box is called Arctic Corsair and the laptop is just plain old Compaq. The network is MDK91.

[raw_kn33]

Magnus - my PC (Slack 9)
T-Rex - my sister's PC (RH 8)

[deuterium]

I'm a little perturbed that someone has already posted a Simpsons theme :rolleyes: but here's mine anyhow:

Main box: ProfFrink
Family box: Jubjub
Mum's laptop: Marge (Puh, she had to go and ruin the obscure, or relitivly so, characters thing i had going didn't she)
Get in one week:
Firewall/router will be: PhoneyMcRingring
Server will be: Herman

[phil_patnude]

i don't remember if i posted earlier but my linux machine is phantom as its invisible to my other computer (although it provides internet access & uses network shares)

i'll give it a new name as soon as i think of something good
or maybe the next time i upgrade it

[gretchen]

My Desktop: Violet
My Windows laptop: plum
My very old Linux laptop: forgetmenot
My shared hard drive on windows machine: lavendar
My Zaurus: lilac

anyone guess my favorite color?

Other machines on my home network, which I am not allowed to name
computer by the tv: TV
fiance's computer: Gomer (no I have no idea)
fiance's laptop: Gateway 580 (it is a gateway laptop but the number isn't the processor or the model number)
His shared hard drives: Bernie and Stanley (after greatgrandfathers) and 80_GB and Silver60_GB (silver referring to the color of the external case it's in)

[oubipaws]

:: Oubipaws ::
Dell P4/1.5ghz [Desktop]

:: Neo ::
Dell P2/233mhz [Laptop]

:: Trinity ::
AST 133mhz [Server]

[dlausevic]

Main box: slowpoke
Experimental box: spankmonkey
Mom's box: doze

[dlausevic]

Oh, and my sister's box: stanley

[blackbelt_jones]

My Debian Box: Tom-Servo
My Windows box: Crow

[terribleRobbo]

At Uni we have rooms of computers, each room getting a letter, eg. 'b', so we end up with:

bream
bullrout
bristletooth

fusilier

alchemist

I think they ran out of names, though, when the got to:

adult

(What sort of a name is that?!)

[dprice1221]

server: stability
laptop: mobility
XP box: linear_infinity