Names for ​computers/d​evices

What kind of original names do you guys give to computers and devices? I mean the name you assign to a computer in a network. When I was in college, the servers were given names of scientists, like Einstein and Newton.

My computers at work right now have unimaginative serial-number names, unfortunately. At home I have Infidel and Apostate, while at my old job we had a somewhat celestial theme - W2K-Supernova, W2k-Stardust (that was mine) and W2k-Kpax (on the claims that he was an alien, and thus related to the stars, or whatever. I never approved. ).

I generally assign a location and type in the network name

location_type

example

office_pc

or

bedroom_mediacenter

our school uses a purely number based system , e.g. PC159, and have a big map of where all the PC's are.

My computer name is HH8R9EOZE0A1C3H ... now, the next Noble award winning scientist will be called HH8R9EOZE0A1C3H !

Shreyas Zare

Well, at home I usually use the name of the room the computer is in + "COMPUTER" or a slight variation on that.

When I worked in the local university they had a naming system which was like this:

DEPARTMENT + "PC" + NUMBER

e.g.

GEOPC123

Would be:

Computer 123 in the Geography department.

At my school they have a slightly more elaborate system which is like this:

ROOM + "-" + MAKE + "-PC" + NUMBER

e.g.

M4-DELL-PC12

Would be:

Computer 12 sold as a Dell, in the room M4.

I prefer the way the university does it.

Angus Higgins

Whales. 

Our architect is a marine biologist by trade, so he names them after whales.

I prefer connecting by IP address since I can never remember the correct spelling of Delphinidae.

I really only have a unique name for my home network, which is "BigBekly"...I'm using Belkin technology with a rather quick internet connection - hence the name, BigBelky:)

Matrix, Exorcist, Omen, Poltergiest, Stand, Hostel, Saw.

My router/firewall is of course "Seraph"

I use Microsoft codenames for mine

I use names of animals like: rabbit, armadillo, squirrel, aardvark...

I use the names of space missions.

I use the processor name, machine model, or primary application as the name for the machine.

My desktop's name is xeon for the processor, server is hercules since I primarily use it to run the Hercules mainframe emulator, laptop is called x60 since it's a ThinkPad X60, AlphaStation is called alpha, RS/6000 is called aix (slightly breaking the rules).

\\server
\\c9
\\tory
\\laptop

shorter the better


edit - Norm my friend where the paintings got printed used to call his network shares curly,larry, moe, harpo etc... it was the 3 stooges trying to no what machine was what.

so he swithed it to p3   p4  p42  and it was just as confusing

Cartoon or comic book characters for the office.

For home I just make up whatever, things that resonate well with me are video game characters, Norse mythology, or whatever.

So I have Rexorg (made up evil sounding name), Mjolnir (the hammer of Thor I believe), Deimos and Phobos (the moons of Mars, a reference to Doom video games), Denton, etc etc.

At work.. we name them after sports cars... (yeah original i know)...

At home... I name it usually with the owners nic and its purpose...

Ang3lFir3_Server
Ang3lFir3_HTPC
Ang3lFir3_Main
Ang3lFir3_Vista (that one's special or summin)

Same goes for the gf's machines.....

my webserver is named SPIDERMAN and one other server is is HAL-9000