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Home servers, laptops and equipment all get girls names.

 

Work servers all boring...

 

We did in the old days name the work servers after planets.

 

the Sims Server was Uranus, Oh the fun.

 

We often got a Tape stuck in Uranus, and logging out of uranus always caused a wry smile.

 

We then ran out of planets, fortunatly it was a natural leap to GODS and other Classical entities. Our two Currciuclum servers were an identical pair of PE2800's Romulus and Remus, Cerberus was the main internet Filter/Firewall...

 

Rob

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making a new home server and need ideas on what to call it

 

I run multiple virtual machines on my home servers, so I tend to stick to a simple naming/numbering system to avoid having to remember names for everything - DHXEN001 / DHXEN002 for the physical servers, DHROUTER001, DHFILES001, etc for the virtual machines.

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Monolith is my home machine, because of the black aluminium thermaltake case I used on it.

 

Had logins with thunderbirds names where I worked previously for one of the customers servers, I was Virgil for some reason that I cant remember now.

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How very systematic of you, David :)

 

Our servers at school used to be named after the legend of King Arthur:

 

Arthur was the DC

Merlin was the apps and file server

 

It then got tricky as spelling errors in Guinevere, Lancelot, Tristan, Percivale etc. when trying to script things in a hurry was a big source of frustration. So it got shelved for something a little simpler/boring. The staff used to like it though.

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My mum's husband uses Morpheus for his home server. I'd probably go with a nerd game/movie reference. Maybe I'd go with 'Emmett' ('Doc' from BTtF). Maybe 'Freeman'. Maybe 'Doctor'. I'm sure I can think of others, but not first-thing on a Monday morning.

 

I personally don't havea home server, though, just standalone machines.

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Work server have functional names, school initals and role, then number. So Domain Controllers are SCHDC01, SCHDC02, etc. Home machines used to be called after precious gems, i.e. Diamond, Ruby, Crystal, etc, but now they are [owner name]-[type]-[role] so tb-svr-fs or tb-vmsvr-apps, for physical file server and virtual applications server respectively.
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We have four to be honest, but I dont think the LA would be impressed if I renamed their server to Pikachu! :p

 

Ah, if it's their server, best to leave it be.

 

I've always named computers/servers/APs after psychotic robots.

 

Skynet, HAL-9000, TX-1000 [and over terminators], GLaDOS...

 

 

I also, unsucessfully, tried to get every error message on HAL-9000 to read "I'm sorry, $username. I can't let you do that."

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Work ones are Mercury & Venus - we're cutting down to one 'big' server however, that's been conveniently named Jupiter :). I've already decided that if I ever get to deal with a servers on my own, I'll be using Star Wars references!

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