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?
My laptop’s hostname is
xontros-gatos
(which in Greek means fat cat)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 🏴☠️
Nice try, fed. :P
My main PC is all white (by coincidence) so I named it Minas Tirith
Oh god.
Mine are:
- Livingroom
- Basement
- Bedroom
I used fictional locations:
- Server 1: valinor
- Server 2: terminus
- Main pc: isla-nublar
Users are named after movies or tv shows characters when I’m not using my name
Welcome to Cybertron:
Inferno - firewall
OmegaSupreme - hypervisor host
Cliffjumper - ssh jumpbox
Daytrader - webserver
Metroplex - Plex server
WheelJack - my PC
Not the most famous Transformers, but I try to keep the names relevant.
(There’s more, but that’s all I can think of off hand)
- Desktop - Eldritch Mythos
- Laptop - Elder Thing
- Phone - Shoggoth
As for why, I don’t know why I originally went this route. The phone is a Pixel 7, so it’s name was inspired by the meme.
My servers all are named after their purpose, no theme for them lol.
@JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml @selfhost@lemmy.ml some version of cat sounds: meowmeow, purrpurr, naunau, etc.
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, @rutrum@lm.paradisus.day was a little drunk when they chose their username, ok?
It was my first character in world of warcraft. I was trying to be exotic lol.
I name them after their case or purpose. My truenas is just called truenas, its plex jail is just called plex, my laptops are yoga and starlite because those are their product line names. Desktop is frame because it uses a masterframe 700.
I am not very imaginative with naming things. And when I do get imaginative I just appear to have a mental disorder. My BG3 characters are Scrimpus, Scrompus, and Screeper.
Atomic barbie and my phone is jabrone
“The Cool Side of the Pillow”
(I only have the one)
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.
I completely agree with the “01” problem, it should be “001”.
Single digit is great but then one service needs more than ten, or you keep rolling them over into new ones (one of our production server is 13 because it’s the thirteen generation). But then I want all the numbers of have consistent patterns, so if one has two digits, they all have to have it.
But I’m not allowed to name servers anymore.
Servers and computers get Ankh-Morpork street names.
The robot vacuum cleaner is GLaDOS.