Computer Names

Weasel War Dance · 02-20-2011, 10:10 AM

Just a fun thread for posting what you've named your computer (hostname), if you have.

Is there any reason you chose the name you did; does it have any significance to you? Personally, my computer just has one name which I will not change, regardless of the OS installed.

I named my laptop Dialect, and weirdly enough I think of it as a 'her' in much the same way a ship's owner would call the ship a 'she'.

Nylex · 02-20-2011, 10:15 AM

Mine are called vega and mira. I just like star names.

sycamorex · 02-20-2011, 10:17 AM

Mine are called: Penny, Sheldon and Mainframe.

Weasel War Dance · 02-20-2011, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by sycamorex

Mine are called: Penny, Sheldon and Mainframe.

Hah, are the first two references to The Big Bang Theory? If so, awesome. I tend to want to name my electronics more non-human names.

Edit: @gnashley, I thought that Slack's "darkstar" had a nicer ring to it for a default name than most. Others just tend to be "hostname" or something similar.

gnashley · 02-20-2011, 10:28 AM

darkstar?? Ha, just kidding!

sycamorex · 02-20-2011, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Weasel War Dance

Hah, are the first two references to The Big Bang Theory?

Yes, they are

MrCode · 02-20-2011, 10:45 AM

compy386 is my desktop, and lappy486 is, well, my lappy.

EDIT: BTW, compy386's ~/.bashrc has a few lines in it that produce this just before printing the prompt:

Code:

     ---   ---   ---     
    -  -- -  -- --       
      --   ---  ----     
    -  -- -  -- -- --    
     ---   ---   ---     
       version 1.5       

The 386: a spectacle of graphics and sound!

brianL · 02-20-2011, 11:04 AM

Mine are boring, unimaginative:
Desktop (dual-boot): SlackB & brisdeb
Laptop: slacklap
netbook: brisbuntu

rsciw · 02-20-2011, 11:06 AM

Debian machine at home: S9-1-of-3 (motd)
Vista machine at home: S9-2-of-3
XP laptop at home: S9-3-of-3

Workstation @ office: Warbird (motd)
VM @ workstation @ office: Bird-of-prey (motd)

My "virtual data center" at a cloud service provider: S9-VDC-1
First machine in that 'VDC': S9-1-of-VDC-1

S9 = Section 9, from Ghost in the Shell
x-of-y, naming scheme inspired from the Borg
Warbird -> Romulan D'Deridex
Bird of Prey -> Klingon B'rel or K'Vort

Weasel War Dance · 02-20-2011, 11:09 AM

Sometimes simple is good. A few years ago, my old desktop was named "XPPC" Predictably, it was a Windows XP system.

druuna · 02-20-2011, 11:30 AM

Hi,

3 pieces of hardware, double networked:

Host names: stasis, exile, inferno, flash, alarum and plains
Domain name part: wildfire and nemesis.

All based on Magic The Gathering

tacticalbread · 02-20-2011, 12:10 PM

Only got the one laptop now, and it's named 'staircase', and for no good reason. \o/

catkin · 02-20-2011, 12:20 PM

Personal computer (tower): CW8 (= Charles' workstation 8) with virtual machines CW8vWXP, CW8vCentOS etc.
Personal computer (netbook): CW9 (= Charles' workstation 9) with virtual machine CW9vWXP.

Servers:

87 (the last two digits of it's motherboard serial number; causes plenty of confusion; not recommended )
LS1 (L = organisation's initial, S = server, 1 = their first)
PS1 (same scheme as LS1. Couldn't resist it, the next one will be PS2 )

Alexvader · 02-20-2011, 12:25 PM

Hi,

My lappy is iskandhar ( persian name for Alexander the Great )
My Home PC is Dai_Nippon ( Japan )
Other Home pc is Yamato name of the oldest main ethnic group of Japan

Quote:

Yamato people (大和民族, Yamato-minzoku?) is a name for the dominant native ethnic group of Japan.

It is a term that came to be used around the late 19th century to distinguish the residents of the mainland Japan from other minority ethnic groups who have resided in the peripheral areas of Japan such as Ainu, Ryukyuans, Nivkhs, Ulta, as well as Koreans, Taiwanese, and Taiwanese aborigines who were incorporated into the Empire of Japan in the early 20th century.

The name "Yamato" comes from the Yamato Court that existed in Japan in the 4th century. It was originally the name of the region where the Yamato people first settled in Nara Prefecture.

In the 6th century, the Yamato people—one of many tribes, of various origins, who had colonized Japan in prehistory—founded a state modeled on ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_people

Weasel War Dance · 02-20-2011, 12:30 PM

@tacticalbread: I sort of have a reason for the name I gave my laptop. In the first month or two of owning it, I was talking to my mother about open source OS's, Linux in particular. She said; "Sorry, I don't understand your dialect."
Notably, I tend to hyper-articulate when talking about technology, and technobabble always runs rampant.

Edit: @Alexvader: Those are some pretty interesting names, nice.