what do you name your computers ?

LuckyBenski · 17 Jul 2019 at 11:39

This reminds me, we use a lot of 5-port network switches for port mirroring and debug. They're all network configurable for mirrors, rate limiting etc so we've named them mostly after political figures. We have an Ivanka, a Donald, but I'm pretty sure I called mine Derek!

Vince · 17 Jul 2019 at 11:46

wow I'm proper boring. Mine get names like PC19-02 (second PC in 2019), laptops get names like NB19-01 (first new laptop of 2019) and so on. The one exception to this was when I built my TR system which is simply called TRipper and my surrounding stuff also gets the moniker as well so the NAS I use for NFS storage is TRNas, my Firewall (Fortigate) is called Cerberus and that's about as exciting as it gets.

scubes · 17 Jul 2019 at 12:31

My bitch lol.

TangoEchoAlpha · 17 Jul 2019 at 13:15

scubes said:
My bitch lol.

Greboth · 17 Jul 2019 at 16:35

My PC's are named after Discworld characters; Carrot, Vimes, Lu-Tze, Rincewind, Errol etc. PC's I've built for other people are named after them just for ease.

An old NAS was called Snazzy Jeff and the current one is simply call Warehouse as it's a backup of important but rarely opened documents.

Space Monkey · 18 Jul 2019 at 04:08

Engelbert Humperdinck

labcoattech · 18 Jul 2019 at 09:58

Kept my PC names simple, Desktop 01, Laptop 01, Laptop 02. Named my NAS after fruits.

chroniclard · 18 Jul 2019 at 10:07

Terminal_Boy said:
Same here. Was going to pick one of the ship names from Iain M. Banks Culture novels, but had an attack of CBA when the time came.

Steve is occasionally called something else, usually when the AMD driver update process has failed for the umpteenth time in row.

Hah, those would be good, though not sure a lot of the ship names would fit.

Hades · 19 Jul 2019 at 13:28

I use planets and moons from the solar system, with my main router being the sun (because everything revolves around it).