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What do you name your devices?

mentaluproar said:
Since I was in high school, I tried to keep a theme in naming my equipment. Until recently, their names were:

ipad 2: Dot Matrix
ipod touch: Enzo (retired, or is he?)
iphone 4s: Glitch
Vaio: Hex (renamed fracture after the screen started to bleed, but I'm ready to forgive and change the name back)
router: Phong
mac mini: Caanan (got bored at this point)

What names have you given your equipment? Bonus points to those who figure out the references.
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Siri.
 
NathanMuir said:
I've always found it rather odd that people name their electronics. It's rather off putting, IMO.
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I'm curious: why's that? Do you not understand the use behind naming resources on the network so that you can get to them remotely without remembering IP addresses?

jas
 
jasonvp said:
I'm curious: why's that? Do you not understand the use behind naming resources on the network so that you can get to them remotely without remembering IP addresses?
jas
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I thought it was pretty obvious what 'name' meant in this thread. I guess not. All my equipment is designated by room number and device type. Can you extrapolate from there or do I need to spell it out further for you?
 
mentaluproar said:
It's a nerd thing. Each computer needs a name to identify itself on a network.
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When you have multiple machines, it's always nice to know you are working on the one that you think you are working on! Individual names is a good way to do that.

I have:
Afterburner - 12" G4 Powerbook
Wall Street - G3 Wall Street Powerbook
Pitstop - Compaq Contura Aero Notebook
Statler/Waldorf - Airport Express/Extreme -
Deja Vu - Homebuilt PC that I have loaned or given away several times and keeps coming back.
Kermit - iMac
 
Car makes/models, and always six characters (to keep my hosts files neat)

Mac mini: cooper (what else?)
Linux box: toyota
nas box: accord
xbox: nissan
iPhone: veyron
iPad: diablo
apple TVs: tundra, xterra
router: router (it was already six characters!)

I think we named my wife's Macbook air "matrix" since she drives one.
 
We've got:

Clementine - a 1st-gen Mac Mini (PowerPC G4) that's now a Linux server (DNS, DHCP, etc). I'd watched 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' a lot back in 2005.

Minerva - my main laptop. Was a 2006 MacBook Pro, now a 2010 MacBook Pro.

Eris - an iMac G5 (with iSight). Named after the god of discord and chaos because the thing spent most of its 3rd year of life in and out of the Apple Store for repairs. Now just an XBMC client and music player for the study.

Frink - my girlfriend's 2007 MacBook Pro.

Holly - a Core2Duo mac mini under the TV running Plex. Named after the ship's computer on Red Dwarf.

Networking stuff's boring -- Apex01 and Apex02 for our two AirPort Extremes and Gigabit01 for our gigabit switch.

My gf's in charge of naming the hard drives hanging off of Holly containing our media library. There's a bunch of 1.5TB, 2TB and 3TB drives named Optimus, Megatron, Eddie, TMA-01, Maxwell, Burger, Wispa (for various 'it made sense at the time' reasons). There's also our two Time Machine drives named (appropriately) Tardis and DeLorean.
 
mentaluproar said:
What names have you given your equipment? Bonus points to those who figure out the references.
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REBOOT! Da-da-da-DAAAA, DAA DAAA DAAAAAA...

Anyway. My devices don't have very creative names. My MacBook Pro is named MacPooter, but I think that's the only creative naming going on. The NAS is called NAS, the rest don't have names, I just go by their IPs. My iDevices just go by standard "___'s iPhone/iPad" naming.

Hmm, now what did I call my Windows 7 netbook? I power that thing on maybe twice a year, so I don't even remember.
 
iPhone is named Alfred
iPad was named Peter
iMac is Oliver

Completely random names.
 
I once had an old Motorolla flip phone. It's best feature was the ability to assign the Asian Jingle ringer to my wife's phone number. I named it Frisbee and last saw it sailing toward the horizon.
 
Used to be aPhone and aPad ("a" being the first letter of my first and last name), but I recently switched to eyeFone and eyePad
 
I often call my Macbook Pro Mr. Macbook, but none of my other computers or devices have names. I used to swear at my old Windows laptop or call it a piece of crap (and that's the clean version :p)
 
I remember I restored a laptop for a friend. It was one of those old Dells that had the CMOS battery built into the actual battery pack. Of course, said battery pack was dead. So every time you unplugged it, the system would die, and then whine about having no clock set. We give it a very tasteful name.

Terri Schiavo
 
All related to computers in movies. (Except drforbin, who is a person in a movies about computers.)

Router - drforbin, drforbin-5ghz
Linux Server - colossus
Windows box (defunct) - guardian
Macbook - emerac-LAN, emerac-WIFI (from The Desk Set)
VMWare Windows 7 on Macbook - hal-9000-LAN, hal-9000-WIFI

It gets boring after that:

isy99, tv, bluray, avr-3311, iTach, dgs1616t, jons-iPad3G, jons-newiPad4G, jons-iPhone4S, jons-iPhone4, jons-iPhone3G (I develop apps...)
 
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iPhone 4S: touch it
iPhone 3G: bring it
iMac 1st Gen: babe
iMac 3rd Gen: watch it
iPad 4: turn it
iPod Classic: leave it
iPod U2 Edition: stop, format it
 
Apple TV 3. Her name is Tori Black.

My Grey Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is Lily Carter and the White is, Kayden Kross.


Three of my favourites.
 
Local device names are usually left as-is (ie Soandso's MacBook Pro), but anything that is connected to my network on a permanent or semi-permanent basis gets a DNS hostname. Wired devices use stars (ie mintaka, aldebaran, saiph, etc.), wireless devices use moons (ie ganymede, amalthea, calypso, etc.), and ESXi VMs get the greek alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma, etc).
 
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