How do you name your computers

[High_Jumbllama]

Terminator characters: Cameron, Sarah, John, Cromartie

Based on a name my father gave a dog of his: Inge, Terra, Von, Blitz

Firefly Characters (Printers): Wash, Zoe

Names I've Given my cousin's family's computers, (Jack) Bauer, Cakemaker (She made towel cakes.), CTU, DeskCrasher (She broke her desk)

[High_Jumbllama]

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PS. Related question: how do you name hard disks? First thing which occured to me, also a decade ago, was "die hard", "die harder", "with a vengeance". Also stuck

People bother naming hard drives?

[Elie]

Tracy, Cindy, Candy, Jessica and Star hehe!

[Mehen]

My hard drives in this computer are Local Disk, XP32 (which never actually go installed on it, I liked Vista too much), and Voluminous.

[VJ]

my thinkpad is called 'surname-thinkpad'. Lack of imagination? I hope not
my cellphone is called surname-nokia3109. I guess there's the logic, based on differentiation between owner and device

Lack of imagination? Depends on your surname...

I personally prefer not to use names by which I can be identified (same for my wifi network). Maybe I'm being overly paranoid though... (where is that shifty-eyes-smiley)


Jörg

[Nowhere]

People bother naming hard drives?

Letters are so meh, better have descriptions (ok, ok, mine tell anything only to me, but that's enough; drive letters can change/be absent on other OSes)

[MultimediaMan]

I've named my systems for:

Egyptian Gods and Heroes
Greek Gods and Heroes
Norse Gods and Heroes

Named for all the spacecraft in the various Alien movies: Nostromo, Narcissus, Sulacco, etc...

My current Virtual Domain is named for the "Planet of the Apes".

ETA: I do edit my drive names to reflect what kind of a drive it is; single, RAID, what RAID Level and which partition it is on.

[Mehen]

I'm an Egyptian God.
Well, "Mehen" is.

[Jessterw]

Mine are random and don't follow any regular pattern.

My PC is named Jetplane now because the fan sounds like a jet's engines coming online when it kicks-in. My iBook G4 is named Shinjubook since it came from Japan and is sort of a pearly-white color (and not related at all to "double suicide" or breasts/bondage).

The wife's iBook is named Rainbook after her usual username of "rainsngr".

Our son's PC - well, the kids overall - is named Bumblebox after his favorite Transformer.