What are your computer names?

[jajmon]

Just curious as to how everyone names their computers.
Do you have a theme? I name all my comps after trees on my home net (willow,spruce,oak, etc) and at work I name them after Italian cities using the Italian spelling (roma = rome etc)

[PAWO]

Mine are: tgl_file (the server), pawo (mine), tgl-1 (dad's pc), pawotop1 (my better laptop), pentop (my historical pen pc), editing (video editing pc), tglserv (mail server), laptop2 (mom's laptop), and "testbed" (my pile of parts that works pc) Yeah....lots of them here....lol

[MorGoth]

my computer names are "Kaminsky", "Dead", and "Computer"

[Bios24]

I usually name my pc after myself, and others as descriptive as possible. ( ie- K62 or downstairs) Never really thought about being creative with them though, I'll have to try it some time.

[engjohn]

Mine are Disco (xp), pdc (2k3 server), Novell (novell 6), Bart (xp), Suse (Duh!), Those are all that are up right now...

[Fightingpiper]

mine are mostly named after the motherboard manufactures,,,,Abit, Epox, Chaintech, Server.....(I bet you couldnt guess the last one is my server)

[Enigma422]

I try to give be creative with the names of my computer depending on what I have in them or what I do. My old Athlon box on air was called Fire for obvious reasons while my old WCed P4 box was called Ice. Currently my main box is called Power and my laptop is called Mobility.

[seadave77]

My laptops name is Lacresha.

Clint

[CheeseMan]

mine is named minne

[SimGuy]

Corona (my workstation)
Nautilus (dually backup station/file server) - Under Construction!
Bismark (backup workstation/dedicated cruncher)
ServerPDC (Win2K Adv. Svr. Domain Controller)
ServerBDC (Win2K Adv. Svr. Domain Controller)
Defender (Firewall Box)
Intrigue (backup workstation/dedicated cruncher)
Inspire (backup workstation)
Laptop (old laptop)

//Edit: I name them according to either what I was doing at the time, or with reference to the PC's purpose.

For those visual learners:

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[Sophisticated]

i wus kinda bein sarcastic when i named my PC...its named SPEEDY..simple isnt it??

[Section8]

Named after my alter ego----> Section8 <----- Means Crazy, although it isn't. It runs very well even without the straight jacket.

[hkgonra]

Dopey, grumpy, sleepy, sneezy, .............

[jajmon]

Dopey, grumpy, sleepy, sneezy, .............

ah - nice theme
:)

[hkgonra]

Sorry , I couldn't resist.

[Turd Furguson]

Main PC is a$$monkey. Laptop is FUBAR. Linux box is CROTCHSTAIN.

[Doc_Skurlock]

Main, lanmachine, wardriver. You guys can figure out which machine is what, hehehhee.

That reminds me, I haven't told you guys about my new shuttle box. I'll post it later.

[Leviathan41]

Mine are Monster (My gaming rig), Epicenter (the family PC), VAIO (my VAIO laptop), Gateway (My parents Gateway laptop), and Junker (an old P2 system).

My workgroup is called Radeon

[electromagnetic]

nin, neworder, curve, orbital, band names are easier to remember. At work i see a lot of interesting naming themes. Such as a LOTR name server farm, a fish name server farm, and a vegetable name server farm...

[buckbadly]

Speedster....simple and to the point....I even managed to find a wallpaper while browsing on Themexp of a Maclaren F1 with "SPEEDSTER" across the top...thought it was kinda funny :cool:

[Mr.Guvernment]

holy-****-bomb

the **** are usually like

Work
Game
HTTP
DNS

etc :D

[Permanoob]

Mine is called "mine" my wife's is called "hers", the computer upstairs is called "theirs" and my laptop is called "that". The network is built and maintained from my perspective so it all works out.

[JigPu]

Goddess - My computer [the one everybody drools over ;)]
Footnduji - Family computer [a concatenation of parents' nicnames]
Retardo - Younger sister's Pentium 1 [rather appropriate given it's speed I think...]
Sakana - Older sister's laptop ["Sakana" is japanese for "fish", by which we usually refer to the comp]

JigPu

[Leviathan41]

This thread made be get to thinking, I could be more creative with my names. So. . I just renamed the 5 computers on my network to the 5 allied landing beaches on D-Day: Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold, and Juno. :D

[Smokeys]

Server: Casper (not the friendly ghost)
Main Machine: Heavyweight
Laptop: Lightweight

[mbentley]

mine are named by using initials and numbers. all of my boxes are mbb1, mbb2, mbb3. then my dad has wgb1. however, i did break this trend by calling my server "server", but that only makes sense to me :)

[SniperXX]

Well my theme just kinda evolved over time lol. First my brother and I just used our nicknames we use for gaming and online like my SniperXX. Then my friend and I started X-Treme PC TECH and we call the site XPC TECH for short. So then my friend and I switched our comps to xpc-___. Like mine went from SniperXX to XPC-SniperXX.

So my systems are:
XPC-SniperXX (mine)
XPC-Paintball (my bros nickname was Paintball KraZy but was too long)
XPC-Dell-P4 (Dad's comp, game server for lan parties cuz sucky graphics but fast specs)
XPC-PIII-Server (P3 Server)

And any new systems just follow the XPC-____, blank usually is the cpu name and speed (ex. PIII-500, VIA-800) or the users nickname (ex. SniperXX).

I know my way may not be the most interesting but I kept it to the KISS theory. :)

At one time my Windows 2000 Advanced Server was called Pandoras Box but that system is currently offline, mobo failure. :(

[kenkun]

I'm not really creative when it comes to name but here are mine:
noname, nonamo and unknown

[bigdaddyTank]

Stan, Kyle, Kenny, Cartman, Chef, Butters, and Timmaay
Can you guess what my workgroup is called???? :eek:

[kraig.*]

my workgroup is called NeverEx
and i just name my computers, names of girls i havnt dated

atm the one im on now is Claire
my laptops are Jessica and Monica
and my 2 brothers are using my older pentium 3 and a athlon 2000+ the pentium is Lynn and the athlon is Megan

i think its a funny system becuase i like to explain it to my mates they ask

who the f is megan, and i just say oh my athlon lol

[su root]

Name: Osaka
Role: Main Desktop
Name Origin: From Azumanga Daioh, she's not very bright ;)
Specs: 1.33Gig T-Bird, 512mb RAM
OS: Windows 2000 Professional

Name: Maya
Role: Main Server
Name Origin: Also from Azumanga Daioh, the mountain cat
Specs: P3 733, 512mb RAM
OS: Gentoo Linux 2.6.6

Name: Ayu
Role: 2nd Site Server
Name Origin: From Kanon, the hyperactive teriyaki girl
Specs: K6-2 200mhz, 384mb RAM
OS: Gentoo Linux, 2.4.x

Name: Brominator
Role: Old Server (soon to be retired)
Name Origin: Long story, name given from the server's donator
Specs: K6-2 200mhz, 384mb RAM
OS: Gentoo Linux, 2.4.x

Name: Noir
Role: Soon to become a PVR
Name Origin: From Noir, dual processor=dual assassins?
Specs: Dual P3 800, 512mb RAM
OS: Gentoo Linux, 2.6.6

[johan851]

"My Computer"

That's what I call it, anyway. I could call it MC.

Wait a second...if I got an A64...would it be "MC Clawhammer?"

*Edit* Oh, THAT kind of name. I usually just call it "nForce2."

[daba]

Zeitgeist 2004.6 : "The trend of the era."

[ZachM]

Mishkin: Main PC. Mishkin is my game handle. So at LANs everybody can guess my computer name.

Lebowski: Game Server/Random LAN box. It's in a full tower so it is often referred to as Big Lebowski. Hardeharr.

[Randyman...]

"Old XP" for my old Dell POS, and "NEWP4EPC" for my "P4E" 2.8E new box... :cool:

[jajmon]

To expand on mine a bit more,,,,

Home net-
workgroup=ottawa - the street I live on
maple = my pc xp2200
willow = wifes xp2400
elm = son's athlon 1.1
oak = daughter's xp2200
hickory = voicemail p3-400
spruce = mp3 server via samba, squid, ssh, web, ftp - duron 1.3
aspen = sandbox p3-450 (currently suse 9.0)
burner1 = dedicated dvd burner p3-866
laptop = celeron 300 (hooked to stereo system to play mp3's)

Work - workstations/test servers
domain= (left blank intentionally)
bolzano = main pc, xp pro p3-667
verona = 2k, dual p3-500
padova = 2k p3-350
venezia = linux flavor of the day (currently MDK 10) p3-866
roma = suse 8.2 p2-450 (monitors sendmail hubs)
genova = suse 8.2 p2-300 (systems monitor)
salerno = suse 8.2 p2-350 (systems monitor)
milano = 2k p3-450 (test mail server)
firenze = rh adv srv 2.0 (test mail server)

[Sentential]

Named mine "Banshee". Not only does she scream like a banshee in decibles :p , but she screams in OCing speed. <in sig> :burn:

[Cerberus2k7]

Revan(From KOTOR), Sukie, and Urek

[Goodberry]

My single computer (only one because of space issues) is called GREAT-CTHULHU.

Was especially pleased to see that Lovecraftian reference in Ground Control 2 recently...

[MiNdWaRp]

This slug I'm running right now is called Merry Xmas 01 (guess when I got it)

I refer to my new computer (yet to be built) as Zakal or Project Zakal (comes from something stupid I said on a clan forum)

[john240sx]

mine are all named after cars. they don't really reflect performance but it works for me.

Firehawk (mine)
63vette (moms)
Mach5 (dads)
Neon (brothers)

my next computer (64bit and dual PCI-X videocards hopefully) will be named Superbird

[HaTE]

lets see:
Cheetor (mine)
Borg (older brothers)
Patches (moms)
dont know my little brothers computers name

[AMD Phreak]

Mine are Mickey, AMDPhreak, LinuxBox, POSServer, and POSServer2, and the notebook is portaphreak.

[Gautam]

Named after their mobo manufacturers, Abit, Asus, Gigabyte, IBM.

[Leviathan41]

I'm not really creative when it comes to name but here are mine:
noname, nonamo and unknown
It's pretty creative to come up with something so un-creative, lol j/k :p

[Mull]

She is called Samatha, of course

[dyefade]

My machine: "Alison" (an old girlfriend named it that, I remember it was funny, but I don't remember why/what the joke was)

Parents old machines: "tiny1" and "tiny2" (both made by Tiny, took me a while to explain the benefit of having useful names on the network, so they were REALLY creative after that)

Sister's laptop: "alexlaptop". yeah, we're not that creative 'round here...

[Blimpie]

lol, i guess i went for a trend also, not sure where i got the names. Usually, its late at night when i finally get comps on the network, and just make something up......

Alpha-sentium- main box, in sig
Alpha-phantom - P-pro 180 (@233) File server
Alpha-linitum - P-pro 180 (@233) internet gateway/firewall
Alpha-roster - P3 500, folding machine
Alpha-trend- PI 133 file server
Alpha-medial - PII 300 laptop

[Jason]

Anshar and Apsu are the servers. Workstations are: Tiamat, Anu, Antu, Kishar, Qingu, Enlil, Anunaki, Shamash, and Marduk

[Annoyingrob]

My computers are mostly named after their colors. There's redbox, and bluebox, and the late blackbox. My server is server1, but will be sooned renamed whitebox, or maybe tronbox, as my friends want me to do a tron theme to it. There was also POSbox, which was mostly a pile of parts that worked, no case involved, but it was a POS. Then there's my parent's comouters, with normal names like Gerald, and Linda, Gerald's Laptop, or Linda's Laptop.

I kind of liked that fruit idea though. Maybe I'l rename the computers to fruits that match their colors. Imagine, SuperBlueberry, and AmazingRaspberry. Oooh, MintyGreenbox.

[Mr B]

mine are mostly named after the motherboard manufactures,,,,Abit, Epox, Chaintech, Server.....(I bet you couldnt guess the last one is my server)

I've done that myself... :p

The H20 rig is usually named "Water", the rig with the MSI K7D Master-L is "Duallie"...

When I'm building a rig to evaluate hardware that requireds a fresh install of the OS, it usually gets named "Test".

Boring? Perhaps....but sure is easy to remember. :p

I kind of liked that fruit idea though. Maybe I'l rename the computers to fruits that match their colors. Imagine, SuperBlueberry, and AmazingRaspberry. Oooh, MintyGreenbox.

What if you had a brushed aluminum SilverStone or a CoolerMaster? I can't think of any "silver/aluminum" coloured fruits... :p

[PCGUY112887]

I named her "SUPERPUDER"

[don256us]

My last job named them after Star Wars. (E.G. Deathstar, Hoth, etc.)

I'm less creative. I use the name of the user themselves. Nick, Gretch, Main. I don't know why mine is called Main. I did it and I can't explain it. My dual boot rig is call WinME_Linux. My laptop is called laptop. My server is called server. See it all works out except for mine. After seeing all of yours, I'm gonna rename them for fun.

For a client I called his new laptop Joes_lappy. He thought that was funny.

edit: maybe a greek mythology theme or something.