What's your machine naming scheme?

[Starbuck3733T]

Inspired by zer0's what do you listen to thread, and having always liked list threads to a certain degree... I present the:

What scheme do you use to name your machines? thread.

At work, I name my boxen (as in non-production machines) after meats whose name is not the same as the animal they come from (how's that for obscure!) -
Beef - my work box
Pork - the student assistant deskto
Fugu - test bench machine
Veal - test server
Bacon - test server

work - production are the military alphabet
alpha - dc/fs
bravo - dc/fs
charlie - backup
delta - backup
echo - exchange
hotel - RIS/WSUS
india - RADIUS
oscar - RADIUS
papa - application
sierra - SQL
tango - sharepoint
whiskey - Web

home - my boxen are disney villians, wife/daughter are disney princesses, active directory (after very painful rename process) name is MAGICKINGDOM and MagicKingdom.local respectively

cinderella - daughter's machine
belle - wife's lappy
beast - project goliath
kaa - my laptop
scar - xp mce and storage server
malificent - vmware ESX host 1
theHornedKing - DC 1 w\in malificient
tiberius - exchange w\in malificient
chernabog - vmware ESX host 2
hook - SQL 2000/Vertias 9 backup w\in chernabog
hopper - DC 2/RIS/WSUS w\in chernabog
khan - workshop workstation and media player for backyard music system
jafar - previo workstation backup to disk server (weekly fulls to hook/veritas).

(and now for the network equipment that doesn't follow the convention)
pix505 - Cisco PIX 505 firewall
ap1 - netgear MR814v2 cable router w\ routing bit shut off, bottom floor and backyard ap
ap2 - Dlink DI-614 cable router w\ routing bit shut off, top floor and front of house AP
ap3 - Dlink DI-624 - sniffing
replaytv - the wife's replaytv
p334 - avaya 48 port 10/100 switch w\ gig uplinks
linksys-pap-voip-gateway - duhhhh

So yeah, i've got a lotta crap, not as much as some though! :eek:

[mrplow]

You have a lot of crap

My household machines are named Zim, Dib, Gaz and GIR. :cool:

[zer0]

my desktop is just named Dark Magic and my laptop is a named Crappy Lappy

i name them after the projects i use to make them (then again i didnt make my laptop but HP did and that kinda explains it self...)

[Arctirus]

At work I name my servers for their purpose; girls names at home. I'm posting from Natalia right now.

[dutchcedar]

BaDass_____

The B and D are for Bijleveld Designs.

Starbuck, I'm starstruck... :thumb: It begs the question of the week... which rig do you use to collate toilet paper? :wiz:

[Starbuck3733T]

At work I name my servers for their purpose; girls names at home. I'm posting from Natalia right now.

Now that's classy. Doesn't it bother the wifey?

BaDass_____

The B and D are for Bijleveld Designs.

Starbuck, I'm starstruck... :thumb: It begs the question of the week... which rig do you use to collate toilet paper? :wiz:

I didn't know they made a program to do that...

although if you look at the number of actual hardware machines in my house you can reduce the number by 4 - since I have 4 virtual machines running inside ESX.

[Fibbles]

My main/primary rig is Schminkle and my not yet running Voodoo2 based box is Schmunky. I call my laptop Pugstomp or Pugstool.

[zittware]

I'm boring.

Main rig: Zittware1
Linux router/firewall/server: Router
Wifes' Laptop: <don't remember>
Wifes' Desktop: MelissaZ
My Laptop: proably sumthing unclever like zitt'slap
PVR: XP-PVR

[fivecheebs]

lol ... i feel all inadequate now :o)

At home i have my a naming structure that only part implemented using the Young Ones Charachter names method ^_^

Server - Niel
Main rig - Viv
HTPC - currently HTPC, will be Rick
Laptop - currently Laptop, havent decided what it will be called yet, I dont think Mike is appropriate.

At work its all about user names or locations.

[Da_Rude_Baboon]

Mine are named after the Space ships in Aliens.

Desktop - Nostromo (Mothership)
Laptop - Halcyon (The drop ship in Aliens)

[furious trout]

Work boxs all named after members of the the current England Test team

Harmison
Hoggard
Stauss
Flintoff
etc etc

At home i just left them as default....i've only got my desktop and laptop so not too hard to distinguish between them.

[Olly]

Thor (server), Odin, Freyja and Loki

Wireless network is Valhalla

[Knipex]

My first watercooled PC was called Uisce (Irish for water) After that they were called Uisce 1, Uisce 2.

All the rest of the machines on the network are either named after their owner or Matrix charachters.

[Psykotik]

I just name mine after the theme of the rig:

Black Widow: Phase cooled uber gaming rig, which is adorned in black black and more black and sits in a modified CoolerMaster Black Widow complete with matching compressor chassis

Ice: Passively cooled radiator, AMD mobile rig running at 2700 Mhz with a 9800 AIW SE running at XT speeds. Again in a modified Black Widow, but I really do want to get it painted white (but Black Widow stylee)

Fire: P4 Prescott on air, runs hotter than a chicken & magma vindaloo under a blowtorch in a furnace in hell on a hot day, sitting in an un modded Back Widow

Yes, I do have an obssession with Black Widows

[ỒĊBłůē]

Fire: P4 Prescott on air, runs hotter than a chicken & magma vindaloo under a blowtorch in a furnace in hell on a hot day, sitting in an un modded Back WidowQuite aptly named then ^_^

The PCs in this house are numbered ATM* :mellow:
Names will be given when my ass gets around to making them into something worth naming :dremel: :wiz:

* other than my Dell - unimaginatively called Latty after reading about her - The ghost who walks (http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/laptops/dell-latitude-c400/384633/)

[BigBen2k]

...
What scheme do you use to name your machines? thread.
...

work - production are the military alphabet
alpha - dc/fs
bravo - dc/fs
charlie - backup
delta - backup
echo - exchange
hotel - RIS/WSUS
india - RADIUS
oscar - RADIUS
papa - application
sierra - SQL
tango - sharepoint
whiskey - Web

...
AARGH! Get out of my head!!!http://wizdforums.co.uk/images/smilies/cool.gif

[GodsUnicorn]

Only got two....

Mine is called 'Master', and the wife's is called 'Slave':cool:

[zer0]

Only got two....

Mine is called 'Master', and the wife's is called 'Slave':cool:
LOL very funny

[fivecheebs]

haha brilliant GU ... have you told her?

[Starbuck3733T]

hahah - sorry bb2k. blame the other IT guy, he didn't like my ideas (which was naming them after songs from one particular artist... apocolyptica!). he's lame.

[jaguarking11]

MY pc-serverrig
Sisters pc-kpc
fathers pc-dadpc
When I had a second machine under my desk- pccrap
laptop-marauder (gave it away) old p1 233mmxthing
old server-remotepc p1 233mmx also
Htpc-htpcserver used to be 1.4tualatin celeron, now probly will be a p4.

My scheme. Man I need a second machine, miss having two workhorses under one desk.

[Starbuck3733T]

new addition to the family as of today, at work: "calamari", my new T43/2GB ram/2.0 dothan lappy!

[walkitiki]

I was hoping your next one would be venison :thumb:

[Da_Rude_Baboon]

What kind of meat is fugu?

Oh and you should call your next meat based computer 'longpig' :D

[fivecheebs]

Fugu (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fugu)

Any of various poisonous fish related to the puffers that are used as food, especially in Japan, after the poisonous skin and organs have been removed.

I seem to remember fugu mentioned in the simpsons once with hilarious consequences

[Pug]

Machine names... generally a play on words of the chip inside and clock speed (Coppermine, Palomino, Thoroughbred, etc.).
In speaking about them though, I tend to theme them by the case (HexaDragon, ClearPC, Alien-Li, etc.).

The kids' machine has the description "2 Litre Celeron" (as in engine size, not coolant volume... ;-)).

The closest I came to a naming convention like most use was back when I had my cutting edge PII400 and 450MHz C300A - I used 'Titan' and another of Jupiter's moons. Figured that with 16 of 'em (4 major), I'd be good to go for a while. :D