My Dell is my Dell, my Win2K Server is my Server, my Linux box is my Linux box, my wife's computer is my wife's computer, and the rest are the bone yard.
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My Dell is my Dell, my Win2K Server is my Server, my Linux box is my Linux box, my wife's computer is my wife's computer, and the rest are the bone yard.
A while back I had a computer that was top of the line. When I was installing Win95 on it, it asked me for a name and company. So I named the computer WhoopA$$ and the company WhoopA$$ Inc.
Later, when it asked for my name, I was at a loss so I said "God of WhoopA$$."
Those names have kind of stuck and now I have a WhoopA$$ domain with my server as, you guessed it....WhoopA$$.
I named my 4 according to those who use them.
Mine is 'Brian'
My Girls is 'Jennie'
The other two aren't good enough for formalitys so I named the 'Gateway'(333Mhz) and 'Laptop'(266Mhz)
My main machine (aka The Beast) is and a full tower case, what other name than steves-big-one?
I think this was brought up before but since my computer has a new name other than Frankenputer it is now called
Mojo Maker!!
I just named mine after the processors in them; but I was playing about with a piece of junk at work, installed Novell 5.1, did'nt realist the cat5 was in, named it BOB, and then got called away for a couple of hours. Our netadmin went mental trying to find a server called BOB that was broadcasting to the network (I think the timesync was screwed !!!).
When I found out, I took it down and hid the machine for a while - to this day he still doesnt know it was me. Was really funny at the time - he was running round like a headless chicked shouting "Bob??? Bob??? Who the hell is Bob???" :D
Makes it easier whenever your transferring files if they have a meaning full name rather than some number
Drizzt, Raistlin, and Loki (home systems)
CIA, Elminster, KGB, Bruenor, Odin, Zeus (work)
It really helps to have meaningful names when your doing admin tasks and it is more fun than dealing with accounting1, salesMGR, etc. It's really great when someone new tries to show their stuff on your network and notes the names <eg>
lol, i prefer Fat Boy for some reason
At home -- Da'Beast (It'll take whatever I throw at it - even runs Windoze without crashing)
At Work - Taz, Sis, Radio (all servers). The workstations are named after their slaves. <GRIN>
Loki,Thor,Freya,Odin. and CDRW all in the God domain or norse.unikey.co.uk at home work machines are all boring numbers..not my choice
Simon
My Athlon machine is called Bad A$$, my P3 is called Taipan and my home server is called Bomber.
At work we call all our servers after snakes - Python, Cobra, KingCobra, Anaconda and Mamba. Whenever we buy a new server is takes longer to think of a snake name than to install the damn thing.
Don't have a name, per se, but I regularly call it.."Your mother was a overglorified toaster."
Speaking of computers named after planets..One of the companies I worked for had a server cluster, named after the Planet. Just so happened that the SQL Server was "Uranus", and the confidential info was stored on "Mars".
Nothing like data coming for "Uranus", they would say... :cool:
Pretty cool naming convention, I'll help with the names : Fer de Lance, Diamondback, Rattlesnake, Asp, Viper, Sidewinder, Death Adder, Copperhead, Black Racer, and Cottonmouth. Wish I had thought of that, instead of European/Asian conquerors.Quote:
Originally posted by Geek #1:
At work we call all our servers after snakes - Python, Cobra, KingCobra, Anaconda and Mamba. Whenever we buy a new server is takes longer to think of a snake name than to install the damn thing.
Ooooohhhh, me like! Might have to change my display name...Quote:
Originally posted by Kymera:
Death Adder