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Name my new linux box
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:14 am
by phpdevuk
I need a name for my new linux box that I'm going to use as my test server, in my usual unimaginative way I have not got much past calling it fed or fedora for obvious reasons. I need something snappy and zany, any ideas?
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:27 am
by Grim...
'Grim...'
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:28 am
by phpdevuk
hehe I was expecting someone to do that
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:35 am
by pickle
Do you have a naming scheme for your computers? If not, I suggest "Spud".
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:37 am
by phpdevuk
no real naming scheme, my development one is called spacemonkey, another one is called larp, got 1 called ebenezer, one called charlie, and one called white loafers, so anything goes really

Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:37 am
by neophyte
xenu?
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:40 am
by John Cartwright
jcatraz
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:48 am
by phpdevuk
all good
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:01 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
MSNOTHOME
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:06 am
by onion2k
At my last company we used Top Gun fighter call signs for all the computer names. My PC was ICEMAN, the other developers were GOOSE, MAVERICK, SLIDER, and VIPER, the test server was JESTER, and the second server was MERLIN (I think).
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:09 am
by Grim...
My old office named boxes after disasters.
"HINDENBURG's gone down"
"SENNA's crashed again"
Etc. Etc.
My home network is all based on the Bloody Roar fighting game - I've got PC's called 'LONG, GADO, URIKO, YUGO and SHINA so far' (and yes, I need them all!)
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:37 am
by neophyte
That's funny I did that once too. I used to have a green imac g3 i named LymanKrash. OS9 totally tanked on me at the end of one of my school semesters

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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:42 am
by feyd
I've been in offices where the servers were planets, or galaxies (depending on their function). Biblical "characters" are somewhat popular from my experience too. The last office I was at all machines were "beautiful women" (the server's were just random names.) I've seen jazz musicians too.
I haven't really settled on a naming convention yet for business or personal. Although most of the personal machines relate to their function or who they are for.
Not much help, I was.
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:59 am
by RobertGonzalez
I like using Spanish names (with a few off-beat names in there with them)...
- Gregorio
- Josefina
- Octavio
- Guillermo
- Johnny
- Javier
- Helena
- Yitzak
That's just me though.
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:08 pm
by Roja
Grim... wrote:My old office named boxes after disasters. ... "HINDENBURG's gone down"
An ISP I worked at named everything after Star Wars.
You can imagine my joy at "Bringing Yoda back to life". Much fun.
Personally, I name my machines after characters/roles from Piers Anthony's Incarnation series. Nature, War (OpenBSD), Good, Evil.. quite a bit of variety.
My Linux gateway has been "Evil" for over 5 years now, and my Windows desktop has been "Good". Upon asking the obvious question of why they seemed backwards, I had to quote Dark Helmet from Spaceballs...
"Evil will always triumph over Good, because
Good is dumb". So true of Linux v. Windows.