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At my first job/internship it was fish names (they were dev/qa servers so wiped almost daily): Crappie, Bluegill, Walleye, Marlin, etc.
Current job is medical so it's all professional (i.e gr01sec02, gr02sccm01)
At home I've got a couple of naming schemes for different device types.:
Phones: i-telleuwat(last 4 of the number)
PCs and Media centers: playon(last octet of the IP)
Servers:gimme(service thats hosted)
Russian spacecraft and rockets.
Currently I have N1 as my home server and my desktop is Energia. I've previously had Proton and Soyuz etc.
I recently switched to using the periodic table. I made myself a nice little spreadsheet to keep track of it all. I used to name hosts after random stuff like cereal, snacks, or just plain old [my first name]-desktop.
I give them weird syntax names so if someone was to hack in the names wouldn't give away what they are immediately. I don't reuse numbers so that if I rebuild something it gets a new num.
Location-Ordinal-NetworkNum-Counter Eg AU-01-01-01
Containers are just their application name except where I have more than 1 then its Application01,02,etc.
Star Trek ships at home. And Game of Thrones characters at work.
Sounds like you could start using the names of moons. But a pantheon does sound like a good system too, should also include the titans.
We did reindeer; Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, etc.
After starting with X-Men characters and quickly running out I moved to Star Wars planets as there are a lot more of them
I've changed my naming scheme so many times that its practically a set-of-sets at this point. But, "board games" is a good long one if you have a lot of machines.
Greek gods.
Zeus, ares, hera, dionysus, etc etc
Meta machines on my system offer data. Infra machines on my system run the network (infrastructure). But my favourite is naming all my HDD’s platters; Media Platters, Service Platters, etc.
pi
pi3
pi3v2
space
fusion
magnet
qdivision
I've not played for years but I still have a YuGiOh cards naming scheme.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IoT | Internet of Things for device controllers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.
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Royal-Cat-(Computer type)
for example, Royal-Cat-PC or Royal-Cat-iPhone
My personal domain name is AZK.Ware (azkware.net) so it follows that my machines are called azkware-desktop, azkware-server and azkware-laptop
I do robots from video games, movies, TV shows, etc.
My dad used to name each machine after a different character from Transformers.
urmom = main pc
fbi = rpi 4 with docker + pihole + 2x unbound
I do models for laptops and case names for my built desktop. So Dell-3590 or my desktop is NR400.
I know who has what so its easy to manage if i want to cut off network access or transfer files.
2nd ww navy vessels (inspired by kancolle)
personal machines - destroyers
servers - battleships
I tried thematic names but I kept adding devices until it all fell apart.
Now I'm using generic nouns like: plaza, highway, bazaar, stadium, minefield, church...
i use all the naming schemes. douglas adams, astronomy, greek letters, star trek ...
have to come up with a new concept every other machine.
*bble. Rabble Ribble Pebble Pibble Tribble Rebble Jibble Jabble Etc...
I use harry potter characters
My Synology is named Atlas because it’s my main file storage box (and has a most of my services running on it).
My VPS is called Aurora after the atmospheric phenomenon because cloud server.
And my little laptop I installed a server Linux distro on is called Challenger because I find it challenging to work with Fedora Server sometimes
I used names of fictional robots, androids and self-aware computers (though I avoided HAL for obvious reasons) for a long time. These days my wife and I usually go with an indirect reference to the function or hardware - Ex. a device named Anathema, or a Raspberry Pi server named Marie (as in Marie Callendar, a former local pie/restaurant chain). I had an expendable frankenputer for tinkering that I called RedShirt.
Currently trying to come up with a name other than Chris for the PineTab 2.
Edit to add: Places I've worked have used Roman emperors, drink brands, Simpsons characters, and of course basics like "IIS1" "MAIL4" "QA-3" and so on. Some would add numbers to the names sequentially, others would use the last octet of the IP address.
For work - No need to divulge. It's work/corporate standards likely similar to some folks that have listed here give or take some characters.
For home, Venture Brothers characters.
Solar system. My gaming machine is called Titan, my Pihole is called Asteriods, my Lemmy machine Callisto and on it goes. 😀
My server is named Yggdrasil and my devices are named after the 9 realms.
Used to use characters from Madagascar, swapping over to dankpods references. Dingus, Frank, Sexy Speaker, Old Mate Senny.
looks like I'm one of the many that use Star Trek ships for my naming scheme:
Enterprise - My gaming PC
Kumari (Gen. Shran's ship) - my debian laptop
Defiant - another debian laptop (a two-in-one ultraportable)
Mine are named after mythical Asian creatures.
Phoenix, Kirin, Yuki-onna, Dragon, Kodama, etc etc
Mine machines are all named after Final Fantasy Summons/Espers/Eidolons/Aeons/Primals.
My main proxmox node is Bahamut. I try to pick a suitable summon that matches the host but that doesn't always work.
Futurama characters: Farnsworth, Calculon, Nibbler, Wernstrom, Clamps
I name my machines after my cats.
I name mine after fictional planets.
In college, they were all the secret identity for versions of the Flash. Since then, I've expanded to other comic book super heroes.
My NAS that holds all my data is Farnsworth. My file server is Hermes. My Linux VM that does all the scut-work is Kif. My beefy gaming PC is Bender. My beefy gaming laptop is Flexo. And so on.
I use futhark runes for my machines and set an ASCII representation of the rune symbol as the /etc/{issue,motd}
I started with Die Hard characters (Hansgruber, NakatomiVault for Nas, John McClane, etc) but lately have been doing Back to the Future. I've got a Marty McFly, DocBrown (old server), and BiffTannen.