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Roalith

Roalith

Roalith

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With home networks being pretty much everyday things these days (especially, I imagine, with the members of forums such as these), there are probably countless conventions for naming machines on a network - so, what are yours?

I've seen various things like computers named after gods of the greek/norse/roman pantheons, Star Trek ship names, different breeds of hamster (I kid you not).

Personally I have an HTPC, a laptop running as a print/backup server, a desktop and two laptops (my own and partner's). Our naming system is pretty boring really, having a somewhat IT illiterate partner they've got cutesy names which at least give her a rough idea of what computer I'm talking about - so the desktop is "Desky", my laptop is "Latty" (Dell Latitude D620), her laptop is "Tabby" (Lenovo X60 Tablet), HTPC is "Mousey" cos it squeaks while booting, so on and so forth :D

Over to you - interested to hear as I may be changing the server name convention at work soon :)
 
I've gone with a planets/space theme here.

Sun (was main server)
Mercury (my workstation)
Mars (new uber server)
Jupiter (big NAS)
Neptune (netbook)
Pluto (was a Smoothwall many years ago)
Endeavour (old workstation built on a Shuttle...)

It's all well and good having slightly obscure names for systems if there's only really one person that needs to know what they are/do. But at work they've named them after Red Dwarf characters, Bond villains and Star Trek references, which means when the IT guy is off and someone needs to get access to something we don't know where to look! We've got three SQL instances for dev called Kira, Dax and something else, for SQL2005, 2008 and 2008R2. I haven't got a clue which one is which :rolleyes:
 
Hard drives after east african countries. Except for externals which are forms of transport.

PC's I give names.
Laptop - Bert
Netbook - Kevin
PC - Raymond
Familys PC - Arnold

If I get that HTPC I've been eyeing up it'll probably be Stan or Chris.
 
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