I’ve ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi’s quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I’ve broadened it somewhat to include any Greek/Roman mythological figure, but the system is definitely not as clean as it used to be.

Do you have a coordinated naming theme for your machines?

  • PyroEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I tend to name mine after their physical appearance, though I’m leaning towards space-related names now.

    I’ll copy a Discord message I sent someone while explaining my naming scheme:

    in chronological order: my very old laptop was black and grey so it was Batman my first build had orange/gold fans so it was Aurum my next build was black and white so it was Mono my current build had lots of RGB so it was Nova (like supernova) my home server has the BitFenix wings logo so it was Flight my laptop is sleek and pretty speedy so it was Comet

    • snrklEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      First macbook air was ethereal, nas was bitbucket, first macbook pros deathstar then dreadnaught, second bigger nas was abyss…

      More recently I’ve been using Neal Stevenson characters and themes.

      Mobile wass “primer”, high spec laptop was “reason”, workhorse laptop was “chevaline”…

      Work servers I’ve always liked two themes:

      Chaos or medications:

      Anarchy, bedlam, disturbed, chaos, mayhem, futility, entropy, maelstrom,

      Sudafed, NyQuil, Tylenol, advil, codeine, morphine, panadol, Valium,

      • PyroEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I like the name of the 2nd NAS because you can say “I’m just gonna chuck these files into the abyss”