What do you call your networked computers?

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:00

The names of my home network can mostly be seen below, and are taken from the "Bloody Roar" fighting games.
At work, we name them after disasters, so we can say "Hindenburg has crashed" or "Titanic has gone down again". We also have "Dory", the server that keeps forgetting things.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:04

Not having a network at home (yet) not had to think about it.

When I worked on teh Jobcentre project, we put in jobpoints, they were all named, depending on how many we put in.

7 could be the dwarfs... etc

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:05

"SKYNET", "WOPR", "ORAC" and "THE_GENERAL".

Nerdtastic.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:06

For some reason, all the computers at work were named after cats, so you have Garfield etc.

The servers we have are named after planets.

And my computer at home is named SAMSON, for some reason.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16611

Mine are thrillingly named AMD64 and 3000xp

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:07

Craster
Badger
Ginger
Wrongaboutninjas

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

I used Welsh mythology and history for a while (I had dewi, arawn, glyndwr, branwen). Now I've moved over to Simpsons characters (I have homer, moe, lovejoy, probably more I've forgotten on some dead OS install).

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

A simple descriptor for me. So XPDesk or 7Lap or VistaMCE.

At work it's 3 digit city descriptor, 3 digit business descriptor, 2 digit role descriptor, and then a 3 digit number.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Craster wrote:

At work it's 3 digit city descriptor, 3 digit business descriptor, 2 digit role descriptor, and then a 3 digit number.

Oh yeah. Most of our workstations in work are Star Wars planets. Servers are prefixed with svr-, vmw-, or hl2-, then a code for the OS family (e.g. w2k or rhl), then a code for the OS flavour (e.g. e for enteprise), then the last three digits of the IP in hex.

End of an Era · **Joined:** 25th Nov, 2008 **Posts:** 1041

I have two servers, Jupiter and Saturn; Jupiter is the domain controller and so all the workstations are named after Jupiter's moons, currently:

Io
Ganymede
Europa
Callisto
Elara

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

EoaE and Grim.... are winning so far.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38609

Optimus (main server, used be called 'Evil', but that was tempting fate)
PeeCee (laptop)
Shiny (netbook)
mediacenter (yawn)
Megatron (old, dying XP machine)

In college, the main servers were called 'Enterprise', 'Voyager' and 'DS9'. Now that's geeky

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Assuming Saturn is in the domain, it should also be a moon.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Craster wrote:

Assuming Saturn is in the domain, it should also be a moon.

Unless it's a BDC.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Cardiff Uni's CS department names its staff workstations after elements, where the last digit of the IP is the proton number. So my machine was on x.x.x.65 and it was terbium.cs.cf.ac.uk. In a pinch, you could use a Periodic Table as a DNS lookup.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Unless it's a BDC.

Sorry, I just slipped back into 1998 for a minute - what did you say?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Cardiff Uni's CS department names its staff workstations after elements, where the last digit of the IP is the proton number. So my machine was on x.x.x.65 and it was terbium.cs.cf.ac.uk. In a pinch, you could use a Periodic Table as a DNS lookup.

I like that.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12329

Orion for my main comp. Don't usually have a network.

A friend has StrongBad, StrongMad, and StrongSad. All connecting to Trogdor.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Craster wrote:

Sorry, I just slipped back into 1998 for a minute - what did you say?

Non-coincedentally, that was about when I last did anything practical involving configuring Windows domain servers. They are peers now, right?

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

The one I'm on at work is rather sexily named after me. It's slightly better than a bench, at least.

At home, my last few computers (well, the same one mostly, with different hard drives as I formatted/replaced) were Imlac, Rasselas, and Nekayah. I'm hoping I won't have to name a new one for a long time, because the only named character left is Pekuah, and she only existed to get kidnapped and then mourned (spoilers, omg).

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:21

The workstations in my office are all named after night-clubs. Three guesses who's influence that is

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

Peter Stringfellow. That dastard.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Craster wrote:

Sorry, I just slipped back into 1998 for a minute - what did you say?

Non-coincedentally, that was about when I last did anything practical involving configuring Windows domain servers. They are peers now, right?

Hehe yeah. So you'd need some sort of binary planet arrangement.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:22

The ones at work are boring W2(netid)02

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Craster wrote:

Hehe yeah. So you'd need some sort of binary planet arrangement.

I can't find any binary star systems with interesting planet names unfortunately.

nickachu · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:25

the one at home is called "the three musketeers"

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:28

I'm boring:

PC-01 (PC = windows, not technically correct I know but never mind)
MB-01 (MB = mobile, for laptops)
MB-02
MC-01 (MC = mac)
SV-01 (SV = server)

End of an Era · **Joined:** 25th Nov, 2008 **Posts:** 1041

Craster wrote:

Assuming Saturn is in the domain, it should also be a moon.

It lives in it's own little world, on it's own public (static) IP address separate from all my "important" stuff - I use it for testing various bits and bobs.

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

End of an Era wrote:

I have two servers, Jupiter and Saturn; Jupiter is the domain controller and so all the workstations are named after Jupiter's moons, currently:

Io
Ganymede
Europa
Callisto
Elara

That's the scheme I picked for my parents' house. Jupiter's the router & the computers etc are named after the moons.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:34

Good Lord.

This thread stinks of BO.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38609

Zardoz wrote:

Good Lord.

This thread stinks of BO.

It was fine until you walked in

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:36

ZING!

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Sick burn, dude.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:38

I just can't wash your mum off.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:53

Err... "Laptop" and "Desktop"

metalangel · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:20

'Aurora' - iBook G4
'Aleste' - Inspiron 8200
'Lissie' - ancient Advent PII-400
'Allie' - equally ancient Celeron 433
'macuser' - currently out-of-action G4 Quicksilver (never got around to renaming it)

I used to name the two old PCs after where they were (as the PII was mine and the Celeron my parents'). Lissie is named for Lisvane Street (where my house was) while Allie is named for St Albans (where my parents live). They were Cassie (for Cardiff) and Rosie (for Rosslyn Park, where my parents lived before) originally. This was mostly to help when I came home and networked them up.

Everything else on my network (laser printer, 360, Xbox) doesn't have a name.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

My computers are named Bruno and XANTOR.

parm · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:51

Mine are all named after penguins, so I've got Pingu, Perci and Pokey as laptops, Emperor as a desktop, and I've had an Otto in the past, too.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

I wonder what OS parm uses.

metalangel · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:54

AppleDOS?

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12329

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I wonder what OS parm uses.

Puffin?

devilman · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 13:37

At home -

jp - Main Desktop
jpnew - Spare PC
laptop - Umm.. laptop

Current job has bland server names. Last job had slightly better ones, mainly in pairs -

Liam & Noel (one ran the production environment Oasis and the other a development system called Mirage)
Newton & Ridley
Japan & Korea (World Cup related)
Stella & Grolsch
Lots of car ones like Ferrari and Maserati
We had some huge backup machine that looked like a tardis so we had a few like Baker, Pertwee etc

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 13:40

My PC is DunkyMcPondscum
My Laptop is RamptonThundergush

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4756

The big PC is Terra, and the wife's (mostly unused) laptop is Luna.

parm · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 15:04

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I wonder what OS parm uses.

I bet it's not the one you think it is.

Zio · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6093

On our home network, my Dad's PC is rather boringly called 'DAD-PC', so I decided to make up for that by calling mine 'SUPERCOMBOBULATOR-3000'.

End of an Era · **Joined:** 25th Nov, 2008 **Posts:** 1041

parm wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I wonder what OS parm uses.

I bet it's not the one you think it is.

Surely... you don't mean... we have in our midsts the last WindowsME user in existence?

parm · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 17:16

End of an Era wrote:

parm wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I wonder what OS parm uses.

I bet it's not the one you think it is.

Surely... you don't mean... we have in our midsts the last WindowsME user in existence?

Oh, great, all that time in therapy trying to get rid of the memories and you have to go and bloody mention it. Fucksakes. I spent an unpleasant amount of time debugging the PC port of Virtua Tennis on a Japanese install of Windows ME. I don't want to ever have to go there again

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

I really wish microsoft had simply continued to name widnows variants after years instead. I fucking hate it when companies do that. Numbers exist for a reason, you bastards.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 17:26

It's still not as bad as Snow Leopard and Rock Hopper Penguin.

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