Computer Name

[JavaCowboy]

I'm interested in hearing what you people have set your computer names to. Hopefully, you all know how to change it from "{First Name} {Last Name}'s Computer"

Being a Star Wars geek, I called my MacMini Revan (KOTOR I). My old PC is named Maul and my Linux server is called Sidious.

Anybody else have a cool computer name?

[wgauvin]

My brand new PB is called Eccentrica (as in Eccentrica Gallumbits from Eroticon 6). My old laptop was called Marvin. And my Linux box is called Deepthought. Hmmm... a theme perhaps?

[Placebo]

Mine is Jane, from Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (sequel to Ender's Game)

[1337_5L4Xx0R]

Interesting so many of you (us?) run linux. Kewl.

My TiBook 867mhz is Romulus and my old Wallstreet G3 292mhz laptop was called Remus before it was put to rest.

Romulus and Remus are the mythical founders of Rome. I have some seriously long-term plans AFA fine art on computers, and 'all Rome was not built in a day' if you get my drift.

[dylanw23]

My old G4 was called Urizen and my iBook was called Albion, both from William Blake. My iMac G5 is called Norton, after Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Marathon.

[fieldy]

My PowerBook is called Domokun.




My iBook is called DoughBoy




My work G4 is just my name so it allows people to find me easily on the network.

[KingOfSomewhereHot]

Originally posted by wgauvin
My brand new PB is called Eccentrica (as in Eccentrica Gallumbits from Eroticon 6). My old laptop was called Marvin. And my Linux box is called Deepthought. Hmmm... a theme perhaps?

So the OLD laptop was rather depressing, eh ?

[eAi]

Originally posted by KingOfSomewhereHot
So the OLD laptop was rather depressing, eh ?

Not depressing, depressed.

[ragingloogie]

My Imac's name is vicki. namely from th voice that is used to talk to me is named vicki, so i thought, what a better name, as for my PB, i havnt figured out a good name at least.. its labled lilith which is unique to me in its own way and thought, perfect name so ill also prolly leave it w/ that.

[Jwink3101]

GOD


I set my mac's name to God for two reaosons. The biggest reason is if i lock a computer screen with ARD, it will say, " Screen Locked by 'God'"

The other reason is, it is funny for people (including other admins) to be browsing the network and see God listed

[slyinthedam]

I went with a Deep theme. iMac is Deep-Thought, PB is Deep-Trouble, Airport Deep-Purple, Airport Express is Deep-South, iPod Deep-Shit etc...

[Endymion]

Multiverse, from Isaac Asimov.

[iPoster]

My Sunflower iMac is known as 'Lampy'.

[ragingloogie]

Originally posted by slyinthedam
I went with a Deep theme. iMac is Deep-Thought, PB is Deep-Trouble, Airport Deep-Purple, Airport Express is Deep-South, iPod Deep-Shit etc...

i like that.. ipod deep-shit... nice going....

[curiousuburb]

Several of the computer labs or multi-machine networks I've worked on drew their names in part based on how many machines were in the network.

Common cultural references helped, but often actors or musicians from ensembles contributed easy mnemonic triggers. Mythological names seemed much more popular on campuses than in most web cafes.

Four machines often went old school with John/Paul/George/Ringo.
Seven machine networks were almost always Dwarves.
Eight might get Snow White, but might also choose Reindeer names.
Nine or more machines were likely to get Brady Bunch names. Or add Rudolph.
*you get the picture, I'm sure*

Apple's internal codenames were used when only one of each unique type was present in an office or lab...
I've had PC's named HAL (complete with system sounds from 2001 as error messages)

Haven't decided on a moniker for my Mini yet.

[wgauvin]

Originally posted by KingOfSomewhereHot
So the OLD laptop was rather depressing, eh ?

Yeah it was really. Especially in it's dying days, the power connector gave up the ghost. Just a little too early for my liking as I didn't quite have the money ready for this PB, but still it's worth it ;-)

[wgauvin]

Originally posted by eAi
Not depressing, depressed.

You're right on this one to... It was a Gateway, so in a way it was depressed.

[bergz]

Also had to name a lab with 7 computers. I brainstormed and came up with

The Chicago Seven: dellinger hayden rubin davis froines hoffman weiner.
The Seattle Seven (sans Jeffrey Lebowski): Jeff Dowd, Joe Kelly, Susan Stern, Michael Abeles, Michael Lerner, Chip Marshall, Roger Lippman.
Seven USSR Commies: lenin stalin kruschev brezhnev chernenko andropov gorbachev.
The Seven Samurai: Gorobei Kyuzo Heihachi Kambei Kikuchiyo Shichiroji Katsushiro.
Seven Types of Quark as of that Week: down, bottom, strange, up, top, charmed, "strange quark matter"
My Favorite: Number One, Number Two, The New Number Two, Number Three, Number Four, Number Five, I Am Not A Number--I'M A FREE MAN!!!
Six States in New England: (CT VT RI MA NH ME). Make One Up.
Seven Continents. (Look em up yourself.)
The Seven Sins: lust, anger, sloth, pride, gluttony, envy, and covetousness.

On my PB I've got PV. As in Paul Valéry. See my new-fangled sig.

--B

[dylanw23]

Originally posted by bergz
Seven Types of Quark as of that Week: down, bottom, strange, up, top, charmed, "strange quark matter"
[/B]

I have a friend who was the systems administrator at a university physics department. He used this scheme for his servers because it allowed him to announce that "Up is down, but Down is up." Not that any of his servers ever went down much.

[mattjohndrow]

mine's named "ßlackshadow." i thought it was badass at the time.

[Jared]

My PowerBook is named Curie and my PowerMac (Juke Box) is named Feynman.

[Carson O'Genic]

G5 powermac = Aluminatron
Powerbook = Borgomobile
Powerbook 2 = Alixtron
old mac = Borgasmatron
External Hardrive: Encephalotron

[Gon]

When I last thought up a nice naming scheme, I came up with the dawn of industrial age.

My old Powerbook was named jenny, because I see hardcore geeks giving their computers female names all the time, and I thought it would be funny to copycat them. In my scheme, the name stood for "spinning jenny" though.

My server was steamengine.

My Bluetooth phone was telegraph.

At my school they have a huge number of machines. Every type (Solaris, SGI, x86 Linux, ...) have an unique naming scheme. We got adjectives, Finnish presidents, natural disasters, spices. There are so many machines of the disaster type that they have had to come up with creative names. I prefer blizzard because it's my favorite game company also, but there are draught, ice-age, alien-invasion etc.

[drsuse]

mini is called "idoru" (from the william gibson book of the same name)

[Henriok]

The name for my main computer, a dual 2 GHx G4, is "Morannon" witch is Black Tongue for the Black Gates into Mordor. I have several Macs on the same theme, Barad-dûr, Orodruin and Minas Morgul.

[JavaCowboy]

For some reason, whenever I connect to the internet and I open a command prompt the computer name displayed in my shell becomes a series of numbers:


Last login: Sat May 7 13:13:31 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
119-178:~ me$


but whenever I'm offline, I get my proper computer name:


Last login: Sat May 7 13:13:31 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Revan:~ me$


This has only happened since I upgraded to Tiger.

Any ideas?

[kwsanders]

I think I will call my new Power Mac system T-X when I set it up. This was Kristanna Loken's character in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

[Gene Clean]

I'm gonna call my new computer Kunta Kinta. My old one was Komakino, and my current one is Perestroika.

[reg]

Lots of names. Laptops have had Marvel comics characters
Wall Street - Black Panther
Ti 500 - Silver Surfer
17 pb - Thing
Desktops all had Shakespearean names. The most recent, dual 2.0 is Pip

reg

[MacCrazy]

Mine's my name and computer.

[Vox Barbara]

plain and simple
Boss

[ulmo]

My 17" Powerbook is called Dr. Evil
My 12" Powerbook is called mini me
My old iMac G3 is called Retired

My machine in work is called shitbox
My Windows machine at home is called WinXP64
My Linux machine is called Tux