Computer naming

[johnridley]

I'll be building the basement server tonight, and I need a name. Given that its purpose is to sit unseen in the basement and provide storage, logging and other such necessary but unglamorous services, I was thinking "pump19".

All the other machines in the house are mostly named for cartoon characters, but I couldn't think of a suitable one. Other machine names are Daggett, Penfold, Gir, Zim and mythbox.

Comments

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

If you already have Daggett, why not Norbert and complete the set? Or Shego, if you want to stick with cartoon characters.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

There's a Norbert, it's just semi-retired. I still plug it in once in a while. Shego...not a fan really.

I'm not married to a naming scheme really, this is the first time I've really thought about it, usually I think up a name on the spot.

Actually I forgot an Angry Beaver based one. My little netbook is called Bing (it's little and annoying). The network SSID here is moria, and Kate's notebook is Mirkwood.

I suppose I could stick with Angry Beavers and call it Stump.

I still haven't thought of anything that's more *appropriate* than pump19 though.

[whl.livejournal.com]

Hex or Pex, perhaps? Unfortunately, Hex doesn't make the scheme clear, and you probably can't get its DNS to be hex.uu.edu. (What's the two letter code for Ankh-Morpork, anyway?)

I've long thought we should have a top level domain for mythical places, but the internet is too serious a business for whimsy anymore.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Hex isn't really appropriate for this thing's job. In fact I can't think of a computer that would be appropriately named Hex, unless someone somewhere is doing pretty good AI.