Nah - never got THAT close to my machines

I… I have no words for how I feel about this.

I’ve also named my external hardware. The flash drive is called “Resonate” becaue I like the sound of the word. the first ipod was called “Life Support” since I was always plugged in from destination to destination. That one died, so I had to get another, which is aptly (I think) named “Returned to Life.”

Now, to be fair, it would appear to be the accumulation of machines which causes the need to differentiate between them. So, unless you’ve got two or more computers churning away at the house, there isn’t a lot of need to give them names.

Personally, I use the Creatures of Myth Paradigm: the OpenBSD firewall machine (eagle-eyed and fierce) is called ‘griffon’, my XP box (which I’m typing this on at the moment) is called ‘fae’. The Linux From Scratch machine is called ’sphinx’ - it runs a client which hunts for Mersenne Primes.

My Lovely Wife’s computer is called ‘dragon’; an apt name if there ever was one. Its XP Home operating system gives her fits and starts.

Thanks for reading!

Our naming conventions at home are a splattering of fantasy names. The two desktops are named after Miyazaki film characters - Kamaji and Kodama. Then there is the firewall called Mithril and some other server that I don’t recall what it does, Halfling. Then there is the all mighty file and web server, called Colossus.
I think the convention was, what were we “into” at the time of naming.

Okay, the fact that you have a named computer in your house whose purpose has been lost to the mists of history is nothing short of Supremely Geeky. Well done.

I appreciate the firewall named Mithril, too. When I was running a Smoothwall box, it was just called Smoothwall, which is not terribly exciting. Perhaps I should have named it Cerberus or Fluffy.

A name?!? My computer needs a name? Also, should I be taking my un named computer out of its box and putting it in another one? And adding fans?

I’ve just been coming home and switching it on. That way the internets appear.

Well, there’s nothing at all wrong with giving your computer a name (as you might have guessed from the excellent comments I’ve received so far), but the name itself does not require that you remove your computer from its box or add fans or anything of the sort.

Come home, switch it on, and join us on the internets. That will suffice.

… What is my theme? Mad Scientists whose predilections were their doom.

When Lisa got her laptop, she would have none of this, and chose the name “Lisa’s Laptop” which, while functional, isn’t at all fun. And lucky, because I was scraping the bottom of the name barrel with Moreau.

The Re-Animator would fit nicely in your theme, but he’s got a boring last name: West. Ditto with Jeffrey Combs’ character in Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy; his name was Dr. Preston King.

Perhaps Raines? Certainly The Invisible Man would work with your theme?

And suddenly I want to switch to The Jeff Goldblum Paradigm: Brundle, Malcolm, Raines…

My machines are named GregPC and Server. I should really be more interesting.

Oh, dear. Greg, you can’t see us doing it, but there are a number of geeks shaking their heads in sad disbelief right now.

I have taken Gerall’s Greek Pantheon Paradigm to a different level…

Thanks to attending a number of LAN gaming parties at blob’s house, I’m familiar his naming convention. However, I didn’t realize that he’d carried the paradigm to individual hard drives. Perhaps on Hannibal I should name drive containing the OS “Baracus”, the applications drive “Face” and the failing data drive “Murdoch”.

Blob also scores points for naming the machines at his workplace after explorers; I really like that idea.