What do you call your machine(s)

[GNEP]

Pratially inspired by dZeus and wulfman in IRC, but also I have been wondering for a while what themes for computer names (if any...) people use.

I have:

-an old laptop called Sisyphus ('cos when I got it expected it to crash everytime I had nearly finished a section of my university thesis, but in the end it was fine though...)

-my main rig is Neptune (big, powerful (well, it was...), and a very default-blue win2k desktop)

-my "spare" box is called Hermes in anticipation of it one day being turned into a fileserver or whatever.

A friend uses Russian polititians from the first half of the twentieth century, & communist thinkers.

What about you?

[dZeus]

Mephistopheles
Server:
if you're good or neutral, you become evil

Raiders
Workstation:
place all your gold and objects on the oasis space

Poltergeist
HTPC:
the Poltergeist becomes your follower. While you have the Poltergeist as your follower, you can only move one step a turn. When you cross water you may ditch the poltergeist card to the discard pile

Theme? Sure, but you may figure out where from

[Wulfman]

igor - debian linux @ epia: router
ivan - gaming rig

the laptop will soon be baptised to:

vlad

why? short names, easy to type & remember.
but I ran out of (male, russian souding) names by now. suggestions?

mfg
wulfman

[Technoid]

My main Rig:

Quasar

The Vidcap/Fileserver:

Quantum

My laptop:

BlackBird

I'll think that I'll going to rename them : Visar, Jevex, Zorac

[treilanin]

Hmm...

Pooh - My Desktop PC running WinXP/Gentoo Linux

Piglet - My wife's Desktop PC running Win2K

Roo - My Fujitsu P2046 Laptop

Owl - Our RedHat 9(Yuck huh?) and Oracle 9i server.

If you couldn't guess it yet... my wife is a big Winnie the Pooh fan

[Jammrock]

The Beast - Gaming rig/workstation

Mainly because it's so damn big and heavy.

My laptop has no name since I technically don't own it.

Jammrock

[The PIT]

Expensive Bastard.

[Tjalfe]

Cheetah is my main machine.. originally had a Seagate Cheetah drive in it.
Sunbox is my server, it had solaris on it at one point, and I nicked a Sun Ultra 10 name plate from a university workstation and put on the front .. now mainly running W2K server, untill I get around to installing W2K3 server or something on it.. maybe soon

[Byock]

Poultry- Main Machine
IBM- Thinkpad Laptop
Server- Server

[GNEP]

"Poultry" I expected nothing less Byock.

[Gurm]

"You ****ing piece of shit."

Gurm_

[gt40]

they are just ' boxes'

[Dr Mordrid]

System1
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System8

Not exciting, but effective.

Dr. Mordrid

[GT98]

Originally posted by Gurm
"You ****ing piece of shit."

Gurm_

Yep esp when they dont work right

[High_Jumbllama]

I use to name my home machine "Beast_Machine" after the transformer series and that it use to have many, many extra pieces of hardware and heavy weight and could do everything when it was first built. It had eleven drive letters without partitioning and without SCSI. Add to that dual VoodooIIs a Marvel G400, and an original SBLive with daughterboard. Now I just call it "Here".

My network domains/workgroups are based off of something in the matrix.