i'm not good with names.
my server's name is... server
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Calculon - Workstation
Flexo - Gaming laptop
Bender - Intel Nuc/HTPC
Hmm my Synology NAS is called Syn, I need to find a more appropriate name for it.
Mine are also Futurama;
poweredge-t620-0
poweredge-t620-1
poweredge-r520-0
macbook-2011
pi-0
through pi-3
having read all these other comments, i'm now feeling like i should come up with a more creative naming scheme... for what it's worth, my phone is named bob
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Servers and computers get Ankh-Morpork street names.
The robot vacuum cleaner is GLaDOS.
I name mine after Futurama characters because there's a lot of them and I found a cool icon set to use.
Desktop: Cerberus (triple monitors)
Media server: Alexandria
Firewall: Hadrian
Damnit, I'm boring af. Machines are named by their model for laptops/consumer devices and buy their CPU for home built stuff.
Except for Crimson-Binome.local 🏴☠️
My PC is named Shai'tan, and my laptop Astraea. As for why, it's because I am into fantasy.
Are you crazy, naming the Dark One like that?!
I once named a load of servers for a helicopter company in the UK with elements. The cluster nodes were copper, silicon, etc. The cluster itself was called iron. The volumes were labelled fe_function.
It worked - it was easy to read and the bits that implied "cluster" were grouped appropriately. All the other servers had random elemental names unless they were associated in some way, in which case the group would be used. The engineers (real engineers with oil or distressingly nasty lubricants in their veins) loved it - it made sense, without being too quirky. It was very legible.
When those systems were hoicked out and replaced, the usual nonsense was applied: 2 char country code + 2 char site code etc etc ad nauseam. Followed by my absolute pet hate: 01. Oh so you might need 99 domain controllers? Yes you might, but not on one site.
Let's face it, it is mostly AD admins who don't get hostnames. I blame MS - their docs and blogs strive to be ... authoritative or at least look so. An entire generation (possibly two) of sysadmins have been sold up the river by MS and their wankery.
All my servers are named after colors
Then my vms are ingredients to an omelette
Desktop - thebox
Server - thecloud
Phone - thewand
Tablet - theportal
Home assistant - theoracle
Not too creative, but it works.
My personal use computers are named after characters from the manga Tearmoon Empire Story, MiaLuna (storage server) - Anne (home desktop) - Ludwig (laptop).
My phones were named after JJBA characters (Jonathan Joestar - Joseph Joestar - Speedwagon)
Small form factor computers for automation are typically named after their purpose, without anything creative (PiMirrorDNS, PineKodi, PiPocket)
My Nas is named Optimus my Mac Plex server is named Macsimus
Oh god.
Mine are:
I feel like I can't be the only immature one here...
My NAS is called AY-NAS.
I've got a bunch of Rpis named things like DANK-SBC, WONK-SBC and RAW-SBC.
I used fictional locations:
Users are named after movies or tv shows characters when I'm not using my name
My stationary devices are named after evil characters from middle earth, ungoliant, gothmog, morgoth etc. Mobile devices are named after good characters, illuvatar, gil-galad, elendil. My dad uses native American tribes for names.
Everything starts with rum, like my username, for some reason. My phone is "rumpixel" and my desktop is called "rumtower".
But your username starts with rut not rum.
Look, @[email protected] was a little drunk when they chose their username, ok?
My Proxmox server is named Atlas, as the titan holding up my network.
My VMs on the proxmox server are named:
I also have a raspberry pi running for testing out some stuff. It's named Eileithyia after the greek goddess of birth.
Nobody has said it... so I have to say it
Cattle not pets!
All my machines are named 'localhost', welcome to 127.0.0.1 farms
Some farmers name their cattle
I currently only have a craptop, but I've settled on naming them after elements, vaguely based on the power of the machine. My craptop is called hydrogen. I also have a full installation on a USB drive called quark, being less than a full machine/element.
Really uncreative, but: $myInitials-desktop $myInitials-server $myInitials-laptop
With my username being…. $myInitials. Surprising, really. Boring, but consistent. :)
framepuncher for the desktop
smolmac for the macmini running all the things that would be more at home on an rpi if the mac hadn't been 50 bucks when pi's were in three digits
the nas is Steve, formerly Ralph. Ralph became the router.
I name my machines after planets in the Dune universe.
A five character name in the form of CVCVC that doesn't show up as a common English word. The main reason is that I want my colmena and host names to be nicely lined up, there is a lot of space in there, and it happens to be the pattern of a race of telepaths in my fantasty world where telepathy is loosely based off of IPv6 addresses and REST and remote RPC calls.
Previously, my computer names were based on Lojban gismu based on their use, so names like fraxu (forgive), briju (office), etc.
On the other hand, my dad's computer names are: bob, bob2, bob3, bob4, bob5, bob6, bob7, bob8, steve, bob9, bob10, bob11, bob12, bob13, bob14, bob15, and bob16.
My mother's company were all named off of international currencies (we were doing a stock trading project), so dollar, mark, franc, pound, euro, etc.
My other dad's computers are named after logical constructs: axiom, theory, etc. He was a scientist.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
My PC is called "Powderkeg" because it keeps blowing up on me.
My personal PCs/VMs are named after fairies from Pixie Hollow. (Silvermist, Zarina, Rosetta)
I've got menus and stuff orange on Rosetta. :)
hydrogen, helium, lithium and beryllium
I like to have different naming schemes for different device classes.
Desktop computers: Greek gods
Laptops: Elements of the periodic table
Cloud servers: Norse gods
Home servers: Planets of the solar system
Raspberry Pis: Greek titans
My main PC is all white (by coincidence) so I named it Minas Tirith
My servers have names of Spanish words humorist El Risitas says in his mythical video where he laughs with no real reason.
The biggest server is named "cocinero", because I can (jokingly) easily imagine a very fat cook.
Then there is plancha, a lenovo thinkcentre which has the size of a plank.
My raspberry pi's have names of tapas: chorizo, keso etc.
London Underground themed. Where possible the station name somewhat reflects the purpose of the machine. Some names are shortened.
Wireless access points named as DLR stations.
Network hardware named as Underground lines.
Station names can be chosen based on their zone to indicate physical location. Zone 1 in the house etc.
Punt speedchunk (MST3K reference)
I like swords
Odachi - Server
Katana - Desktop
Wakizashi - Laptop
Tanto - Phone
the names with no special meaning are generally older while the game references are generally newer :P
My laptops and RPis aren't named anything interesting. My server is named Lyla though. I let my youngest kid pick the name.
A self built PC called "The Thing" and "The Beast", which is a raspberry pi.
I've gone for a Neon Genesis Evangelion theme, so my router is SEELE, my Pi server is TheMagi, Thinkpad is Unit-00, Laptop is Unit-02, work device is Unit-03 (waiting to build my gaming PC for Unit-01). Then my SimpleLogin aliases are weapons like the sonic knife or lance of longinus.