So I was pondering last night, when I was setting up my new gaming machine (more on that later), about what people name their computers, and how they come up with the themes.
When I worked at Mindspring, way back in the day, the web hosting servers were named after Roman emperors. My website was hosted on nero, though I wanted them to move me to caligula just for the “geek cred” factor.
Some people I know name their systems after Star Trek/Navy ships (enterprise, arizona, etc), others use cartoon characters (notably using Simpsons or Futurama references), while others name theirs after planets, Greek gods and goddesses, or other things like flowers, animals and what have you.
I personally have taken a different tactic. I name mine after more…ephemeral…subject matter. My workstation at the office is named serenity, while my laptop is named virtue, and the server this site is hosted on is named epiphany. The new box is named inspiration and the Mac Mini I previously mentioned is named creativity. The “workgroup” all of my machines are attached to is named “ephemera”, though I’m trying to think of something better.
My question is… what do YOU name your machines, and how did you come up with your schema, if any?
June 1st, 2008 at 1:48 am
For clients, it’s all about their business.
At one of the dental offices, servers are named ‘enamel’ and ‘cavity’.
At a Fire/EMS client, they are named ‘arson’, ‘avpu’, ‘code3′, and ’signalzero’.
The company I work for uses biblical names like ‘urim’ and ‘jericho’.
For my home network, I’m currently doing the Star Wars/Star Trek scheme with ‘cabal’, ‘hoth’, ‘riogrande’, and ‘tiefighter’. The next batch of machines or reformats probably going to be astronomical names or terms like ’sol’, ‘aldebaran’, ’solstice’, etc…
BTW–when’s the chat server going to be back up?
It died unexpectedly and I haven’t heard from you in a while… ;)
June 1st, 2008 at 8:08 am
Oh yeah, that… I ran out of space on the root partition of the server, so the jabber machine may not be coming back.
You can always hit me up on other IM networks, just shoot me a mail with your preferred network and your ID.
July 5th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Mine are words I like with illegal ASCII characters to make them a bit harder for a novice to “track” over an open wireless connection.
I have:
Syzygy (Old Desktop)
Æri (New Desktop, the WoW monstrosity)
Hëroine (Laptop, also my original WoW toon’s name)
Ëgo (Laptop #2)
Bläsphemy (Laptop #3)