Chile peppers for me. Ancho, jalapeno, aji, etc. The hotter the machine the hotter the pepper.

I have picked out a few favourite words in the past but that is a bit of a task. I have a server called homebase for no particular reason. My torrent box is resurgam which means something like "I will rise again" and reflected my state of mind after losing my job. I quite liked fruitbat which was named to celebrate the beast which used to hang off a tree outside our house and squawk at me when I walked into the house. That tree is now gone as is that PC

I moved onto movies I like - metropolis is pretty much a constant now. I liked the film "The Comedians" so my latest F25 install is comedian. I'll be refreshing that in 6 months depending on what I have been watching. "Our Man in Havana" last week so Havana is looming up as an early favourite.

i name my hosts: artemis, ajax, telemachus, athena, zeus, thales, hermes, apollo, anaximander, hades...

My network is TheSwamp; the hosts are all named after characters in Walt Kelly's "Pogo" comic strip. I've been doing this for 15 years and have yet to re-use a name. Great comic strip. Lot's o' characters!

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Hi,

I like to use 'Norse mythology' for my servers and clients. My main server is Odin others in order are Thor, Loki and Frigg when I am wanting to keep people guessing. As a kid I read a lot of mythology and enjoyed the stories.

For support client's machines I will relate to their name, position and address location to form a reference unless the primary party has a desired name assignment that can be schemed to identify the equipment.

Have fun & enjoy!

I use sci-fi computer names for my main systems, LFSHolly, LFSHal, and ships for peripherals like routers,So, Tardis, Starbug, Skynet

Before we were forced to use the naming standards at work, we named them after trees - pine, sequoia, mahogany, etc. After we had to rename them, I did end up creating some lesser known servers Larry, Moe, Curly and Shemp.
It was much more interesting than throwing "l" for linux somewhere in the name.
My home computers are Kaylee, River, Mal and Serenity.

The host names I've given computers I use or have used are almost all names of places I've recently visited or linked to books I recently read or those books' author's names.

In one of the most fun jobs I have had and also the one in which I first started learning about networking, IS gave my department a dedicated file server named "Orca."

Since then, I've named all my computers after sea creatures, and there is always at least one named "Orca." When I had a netbook, it was, natch, named "Minnow."

I've used a single naming scheme for DOS/Windows, Netware and Linux hosts since about 1994. A group of machines with similar hardware get related names:
386 33MHz Cephalopods: GiantSquid, Octopus, Cuttlefish
486 33MHz Fruit: Lemon, Orange, Mango, Pear, Plum
486 66MHz Crustaceans: Lobster, Prawn, Crab, Hermitcrab, Shrimp
K5 100MHz Root vegetables: Potato, Turnip, Onion, Shallot, Leek
Pentium 166MHz Fish: Salmon, Shark, Haddock, Garoupa
K6 266MHz Snakes: Cobra, Viper, Boa, Python
Celeron 366MHz: Gecko, Komodo, Iguana
Celeron 633MHz Canids: Fox, Wolf, Jackal, Dingo, Dhole, Coyote
P4 2 - 3 GHz Cetaceans: Minkewhale, Porpoise, Beluga, Finwhale, Orca, Bottlenose, Baiji
i7 2.5 - 3.6 GHz Felids: Tiger, Leopard, Panther

Oh, and Apples are named after varieties of apple: Pippin, Ambrosia, Bramley, RoyalGala
Printers are named after butterflies

To my odd mind the names are fitting, like blur (not an actual choice on my system) for the HP printer that used to smudge pictures. So odd that even some one who knows me very well would never guess. Paranoid? Just a little.

I name bare metal installations after jupiter moons, and virtual machine guests after saturn moons.

At work normally use a two character abbreviation of the project name followed by either host or virt depending on whether it is a physical server or virtual server and then the last octet of the ipaddress.

For non-work related have used Caribbean island names, candy bar names, rock groups, etc.

I used to use the model name. For example my Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic was called scenic. But when I got my first laptop, I called it littleboy and so my desktop machine naturally became bigboy. I'm currently thinking of getting the old 32-bit machine that I use as an offline print server back on line using a wi-fi dongle. If this succeeds, I shall call it oldboy.

I use references from books, movies, or tv shows. My favorite is from a saying in John Laroquette's office on the John Laroquette Show, "Life is a dark ride," leading to variations on "darkride". Names at work are much less interesting.