What did you name your Mac Pro?

[LeKiD]

Whenever I get it... it will be Thunderbird!

 

[Ol!ver]

Mac n00b here: how do you change the name of the machine?

Cheers

 

[firestarter]

Should be called "Narcoleptic", as in, it tends to not want to wake from sleep..... Or maybe "Ras", as in Reboot After Sleep

I was thinking of calling mine Snow White for the same reason.

My three drives are called Clean, Crunch and Overdrive

 

[smirking]

My mac has always been named "Magic8" as in Magic 8-ball. My upcoming Mac Pro will be Magic8 VI.

 

[sourcery]

Cthulhu

 

[obilix]

Mac n00b here: how do you change the name of the machine?

Ah, tis a pain in the butt to find that info!

First, the easy part: You change your share name:
System_Preferences->Sharing
Enter your the name in the "Computer Name:" box.

Second, from the command line (open Terminal)
sudo scutil --set HostName <FULL NAME OF SYSTEM>

eg:
sudo scutil --set myComputer.MyDomain.COM

hope that helps

 

[obilix]

Oh ya, my MP's name is: Destiny

My MBP is Schmirnov (named from one of Zelazny's Dragons)
And my old PowerBook is called Mouse

 

[Ol!ver]

Ah, tis a pain in the butt to find that info!

First, the easy part: You change your share name:
System_Preferences->Sharing
Enter your the name in the "Computer Name:" box.

Second, from the command line (open Terminal)
sudo scutil --set HostName <FULL NAME OF SYSTEM>

eg:
sudo scutil --set myComputer.MyDomain.COM

hope that helps

Got another example? It's early here and for some reason I'm not following the Terminal part.

 

[darkpaw]

PM G5 Dual 2.5GHz: Chaotica - I think it's from a cr*p episode of ST:Voyager. Something like "Bride of Chaotica"?
iMac G3 Blue Dalmation: Serenity - I watched the film while I was installing Tiger on there.
iPod touch 16GB: Monty - Python
iPod nano 2G 8GB black: Katzenjammer - named after Fran from Black Books (UK comedy series, very funny).
MBP 17" C2D 2.6GHz: Firefish - Erm... I really don't know why I called it that.

New Mac Pro will be: Woz, an homage.

Hard drives are all named something functional, like "Data", "Projects", "Games" etc. (I can remember pi to 100dp but I couldn't remember if "Bart" had my pictures on it, or if "Maggie" had them!)

 

[Topper]

It's called:
Big Mac
and
Mac 1
Mac 2
Mac 3
Mac 4
Mac 5
and Mac 6

 

[Ol!ver]

It's called:
Mac 1
Mac 2
Mac 3
Mac 4
Mac 5
and Mac 6

What are you going to call the next one?

 

[Topper]

What are you going to call the next one?

I can go all the way to Mac 21 if I have to.

 

[kakace]

Mac Pro : whisper
G4 MDD : blower
PB G4 : turbine

The reasons are obvious

 

[Play4keeps]

The Silver Surfer

 

[obilix]

Got another example? It's early here and for some reason I'm not following the Terminal part.

Ol!ver,

Bring up the terminal program from Applications->Utilities
The shell should look like:

Last login: Sat Feb 16 18:45:16 on ttys003
destiny:~ luis$

From there just enter:

Last login: Sat Feb 16 18:45:16 on ttys003
destiny:~ luis$ sudo scutil --set HostName  grannysmith.MyDomain.Dyndns.NET

when you start another terminal (CMD-N), the hostname should have changed

Last login: Sat Feb 16 22:51:42 on ttys005
grannysmith:~ luis$

If you don't have a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) then just use your computer name in the command above.

Last login: Sat Feb 16 18:45:16 on ttys003
destiny:~ luis$ sudo scutil --set HostName  grannysmith

 

[Charzipan]

Marvin for my future MBP. After the depressed robot in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

 

[Jaymz]

I used to name all my PCs with names from Greek and Roman history/mythology. However, I decided to stop doing this after:

• A system named "Prometheus" had the retaining clips for its heatsink break, and slowly cooked itself to death.
• A system named "Heracles" became so ridiculously unstable, that it'd crash if you looked at it funny.

And so on, and so forth. It seemed that I was either cursed with having a system that either lived up to it's name far too well, or would ironically be completely opposite to what it's name would suggest. Fate has a horrible sense of humour, in my case.

So I decided to take a different route, and started naming my machines after anime characters.

The iMac is Kagami (Lucky Star).
The Mac Pro is Isako (Dennou Coil).
The MacBook is Sakura (Card Captor Sakura).
The Mac mini/HTPC is Arturia mini (aka Saber, Fate/stay Night).
And finally, the fileserver - which is mostly used for storing anime, is Konata (Lucky Star).