Calculon - Workstation

Flexo - Gaming laptop

Bender - Intel Nuc/HTPC

Hmm my Synology NAS is called Syn, I need to find a more appropriate name for it.

I don’t name my computers, but usually name my OS drive Brain and the media drive Pinky.

• poweredge-t620-0
• poweredge-t620-1
• poweredge-r520-0
• macbook-2011
• pi-0 through pi-3

having read all these other comments, i’m now feeling like i should come up with a more creative naming scheme… for what it’s worth, my phone is named bob.

I once named a load of servers for a helicopter company in the UK with elements. The cluster nodes were copper, silicon, etc. The cluster itself was called iron. The volumes were labelled fe_function.

It worked - it was easy to read and the bits that implied “cluster” were grouped appropriately. All the other servers had random elemental names unless they were associated in some way, in which case the group would be used. The engineers (real engineers with oil or distressingly nasty lubricants in their veins) loved it - it made sense, without being too quirky. It was very legible.

When those systems were hoicked out and replaced, the usual nonsense was applied: 2 char country code + 2 char site code etc etc ad nauseam. Followed by my absolute pet hate: 01. Oh so you might need 99 domain controllers? Yes you might, but not on one site.

Let’s face it, it is mostly AD admins who don’t get hostnames. I blame MS - their docs and blogs strive to be … authoritative or at least look so. An entire generation (possibly two) of sysadmins have been sold up the river by MS and their wankery.

Desktop - thebox
Server - thecloud
Phone - thewand
Tablet - theportal
Home assistant - theoracle

Not too creative, but it works.

Servers and computers get Ankh-Morpork street names.

The robot vacuum cleaner is GLaDOS.

I feel like I can’t be the only immature one here…

My NAS is called AY-NAS.

I’ve got a bunch of Rpis named things like DANK-SBC, WONK-SBC and RAW-SBC.

Damnit, I’m boring af. Machines are named by their model for laptops/consumer devices and buy their CPU for home built stuff.

Except for Crimson-Binome.local 🏴‍☠️

Oh god.

Mine are:

• Livingroom
• Basement
• Bedroom

A five character name in the form of CVCVC that doesn’t show up as a common English word. The main reason is that I want my colmena and host names to be nicely lined up, there is a lot of space in there, and it happens to be the pattern of a race of telepaths in my fantasty world where telepathy is loosely based off of IPv6 addresses and REST and remote RPC calls.

Previously, my computer names were based on Lojban gismu based on their use, so names like fraxu (forgive), briju (office), etc.

On the other hand, my dad’s computer names are: bob, bob2, bob3, bob4, bob5, bob6, bob7, bob8, steve, bob9, bob10, bob11, bob12, bob13, bob14, bob15, and bob16.

My mother’s company were all named off of international currencies (we were doing a stock trading project), so dollar, mark, franc, pound, euro, etc.

My other dad’s computers are named after logical constructs: axiom, theory, etc. He was a scientist.

My personal PCs/VMs are named after fairies from Pixie Hollow. (Silvermist, Zarina, Rosetta)

I’ve got menus and stuff orange on Rosetta. :)

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My stationary devices are named after evil characters from middle earth, ungoliant, gothmog, morgoth etc. Mobile devices are named after good characters, illuvatar, gil-galad, elendil. My dad uses native American tribes for names.

All ~60,000 servers are given 32-bit UUID’s, plus a 3 word CNAME from 3 unique and distinct lists of nouns. i.e. a server would have an A record of 1b30fafd-0a28-4999-b51f-bfa2b8af68e5 and a CNAME of tiger-ball-hill. A few servers that I often SSH into will be given friendly cnames like “bastion1” or “ansible” or something like that.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie.