What did you name your computer(s) Vol. II

Whoa There Chief! · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 9 Location: New Zealand

my server is named "Reginald" dont remember the why or how of that name.
laptop is called "Derek", after one of the main characters in Peter Jacksons movie 'bad taste'

Continued from What did you name your computer(s) Vol. I. --pjp

basvdijk · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Netherlands

Server is called Yaaru and my laptop Osiris (Egyptian Mythology)
You can find all names from different Mythology at http://www.pantheon.org

Lisandro · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 11:38 pm Post subject:

Right now my box is called "gentoo" (hey, had to do it quickly!

). I'm think i'm naming it "Shoshone", after a crappy sci-fi TV movie (alien cargo). The ship's computer was named that way.

scoy · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:26 am Post subject: The big labowski

i like the movie the big labowski

my pc = thedude
brothers = donny
router/nis/nfs = walter

AFCommando · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 58

workstation = lain (Serial Experiments Lain)
fileserver = jima (Chobits)
1U server = macross (Macross)

yeah yeah i kno i'm an anime freak

djprotoss · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 37

PC: Him (and when in windows regged to Him, company Them)
XBox (also running gentoo!): XHim

BeaTtheMeaT666 · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 50

my machines have names from american muscle cars:

chevelle -> desktop
charger -> router
galaxie -> my sgi indigo2 workstation
cuda -> laptop
impala -> server

bobo

R-Type · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 62

Call me a loser, but I named mine after MK characters. haha
I had a domain with 'outworld' in it way back and so it felt natural to do so. :P

mmessano · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 8

Sci-Fi authors and prominent characters thereof:

daneel (486- dead and buried, but my first linux box w/ slackware)
philip (B+W G3, OS X)
niven (1.8 Athlon, gentoo 1.4)
gaskard (Dual 800EB PIII, dual boot gentoo 1.4, Win2k(work made me do it))
lazarus (resurrected DEC Personal Workstation 500a- soon to run gentoo, currently RedHat6.2+a_bunch_of_other_stuff)

PrairieGeek · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 14 Location: South Dakota

my recently used machine names:
kaga (I think we all know who that is)
majel (roddenberry's wife)
brain (a la pinky and the...)
mika (i suppose that would be lain's sister)
chubby (why not?)

Vidar · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 5:02 am Post subject:

My main rig here is called: Locutus

I'm really into Next Generation.

boemba · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 54 Location: Dendermonde

I called mine BAATOR. It's from AD&D

dantrevino · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:18 pm Post subject: simple

laptop - chaos
server - void
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Das Damen · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:52 pm Post subject:

Lobotomy

christsong84 · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 6:16 pm Post subject:

Genesis (main server), Exodus (mom's laptop, her name starts with an e), Levi (as in Leviticus, dad's laptop, his name starts with an L), Psalms (my laptop, I'm a musical person), Revelation (firewall 'cause I thought it's be funny to name something that's supposed to hide something revelation...revealing no?)

Yes, I'm a Christian and thought it's be fun to try that kind of naming scheme.

zrajm · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:23 am Post subject:

I think computers should be given female names (like ships). Most of us give them quite a lot of attention, too, which make the female name scheme even more fitting.

My main machine is called "Lal" (which means "love" in hindi) after Data's daughter (Star Trek Next Generation episode "The Offspring"). Love is the one thing Data is incapable of giving her.

My laptop is called Arisu (which is the japanese version of Alice) after a character in "Serial Experiments: Lain". I kind of fell in love with the name when I heard it and realized where it was from. The connection to wonderous adventures in wonderland seems fitting, as well as the fact that it is the name of a small girl (and a laptop is a small computer).

Another name I'm going to use someday is Elektra. I've always liked the name, and it does sound as if it had something to do with electricity (I think).
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soebbi · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:32 pm Post subject:

I named mine after the mascots of the main systems they're running:

Server: tux (Guess what OS :wink:

)
Laptop: hexley (It's an iBook, running MacOS X)

But I like the idea of the female names... =)

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PhosphoricX · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Rhode Island

After the X-files 3 lone gunman:
Langly
Byers
Frohike

And my OSX machine is a Titanium Powerbook G4, Silver Surfer.

guero61 · l33t Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 811 Location: Behind you

PC: syn
server: ack

jt42 · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 2:55 am Post subject:

home boxes (stars): altair, aldebaran, arcturus

work boxes (wading birds): egret, coot, heron, grebe, bittern

jimlynch11 · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 3:24 am Post subject:

lyncjp0

boring i know, but my school named my winXP side so i thought id keep it consistent........

sms · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 1:18 pm Post subject:

At home: uecht0

Not very imaginative, because I live in a place called Uecht... At least the numbering allows for more boxes

At work: numbered boxes, mine is 36815 - hey, there are too many to name each individually...

At the university we had servers called after storms: hurricane for the mail server, tornado for the file server etc.

Orange · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 47

Willemina

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Raymond R · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 4:16 pm Post subject:

Cobalt - K62-400MHz Windows 2000 Server (soon to be linux something)
Carbon - Athlon XP 1800+ Gentoo Linux (almost finished installing)
Iron - K6-200MHz Windows 98 (would like to do LFS system here)
Titanium - Athlon XP 1800+ Windows XP Pro
Tungsten - Athlon 750MHz SuSE Linux 8.0

Soon to be returned to me:
Sulphur - Pentium 200MHz SuSE Linux 8.0

I also named my router:
Anvil - Netgear RO318

All computers are part of the FORGE workgroup.

Yann · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 12:05 pm Post subject:

1Ghz - Apache (my old nickname, long time before the popular webserver appear)
200Mhz - Pluvite (old comp)