My main server is named Postulate (an idea that you assume for the sake of argument), my desktop is named Axiom (a proved postulate), and my backup server is named Corollary (an idea that follows from an axiom).
What are your computers named, and why?
Albatross and Nautilus. Not really sure why, just like the sound of the words and the nautical theme. I still have 2 or 3 laying around unnamed because I haven’t thought of any good words that fit the theme
Maybe “Leviathan”? From Subnautica. :P
I started naming all of my devices based on their number mk1-mk6, then I realized it’s hard to differentiate desktop from phone off a list. Now I’ve got: Mkr1 - rack server Mkp6 - phone 6 And desktops/laptops are just mkX depending on age. Then set static IPs based on their number
@JuxtaposedJaguar Animals that I find cute or funny:
Rabbit, Seagull, Turtle, Mola-mola, …
All ~60,000 servers are given 32-bit UUID’s, plus a 3 word CNAME from 3 unique and distinct lists of nouns. i.e. a server would have an A record of 1b30fafd-0a28-4999-b51f-bfa2b8af68e5 and a CNAME of tiger-ball-hill. A few servers that I often SSH into will be given friendly cnames like “bastion1” or “ansible” or something like that.
Servers and computers get Ankh-Morpork street names.
The robot vacuum cleaner is GLaDOS.
@[email protected] @[email protected] some version of cat sounds: meowmeow, purrpurr, naunau, etc.
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 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)
Desktop: Cerberus (triple monitors)
Media server: Alexandria
Firewall: HadrianSaeki(from less than friends) cause its an unruly bitch that does what it wants
A self built PC called “The Thing” and “The Beast”, which is a raspberry pi.
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
My laptops and RPis aren’t named anything interesting. My server is named Lyla though. I let my youngest kid pick the name.
I use famous computer scientists. Torvalds, Kernighan, Ritchie, Woz (for the MacBook). My most recent one was bought in Hampton VA, so I named it kjohnson after Katherine Johnson (as seen in the movie Hidden Figures, she used to work at the NASA facility in Hampton).
I think it’s a good system, and I don’t think I’ll ever run out!
