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OK, I suppose a list of common, easy-to-pronounce words is ok... I use Pokemon. What do you use?
by oddevan 12y ago
OK, I suppose a list of common, easy-to-pronounce words is ok...
I use Pokemon. What do you use?
- Crisco 12y agoI tend to use names from different mythologies, so I usually end up with names like "osiris," "lorien," "cernunnos," etc. Makes for easy to remember names, and I never expect to run out of them.
- couradical 12y agoI used to run a dual stack app, windows was Roman mythology, linux was Greek, that allowed us to keep roles straight across environments - apollo/hermes, athena/minerva, etc.
- DmitriRavinoff 12y agoYou...do know that Apollo and Hermes are two entirely different entities, right? Hermes is the counterpart of the Roman Mercury. Apollo has the same names in both pantheons.
- couradical 12y agoYeah, I remembered that wasn't the right pairing after I wrote that (and thankfully ours weren't paired like that, we had the right names); but that also goes to show you the downside of that particular naming scheme - it requires additional knowledge in a specific domain.
- tlrobinson 12y agoRelevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jx8Eay5fWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jx8Eay5fWQ
- emilecantin 12y agoI use famous computer scientists. My Macbook is named Woz, and I also have Kernighan, Ritchie, Torvalds, etc.
- yzzxy 12y agoNow all I have to do is become a famous computer scientist and accuse you of stealing my hardware!
- kijin 12y agoDo you also match the names with the technologies they're related with? It would be awkward to call a Windows server "Torvalds".
- emilecantin 12y agoYeah, I try to. For instance, my Magic Mouse is called Doug, after Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse.
- PLenz 12y agoThey are all named for the mountains of New York State in decreasing height order.
- simonw 12y agoI once used Cthulhu mythos monsters. It turned out to be a bad idea: those things are horribly hard to spell.
- gknoy 12y agoI'd be afraid to wake them from hibernation.
- ohitsdom 12y agoStar Trek: TNG characters. Excluding Data to avoid confusion, of course.
- pndmnm 12y agoTo this day, my favorite naming scheme I ever encountered was names of elements, everything CNAMEd to the elemental abbreviation, with the last octet of the IP address as the atomic number. It was for a geophysics group, which probably made it a little more discoverable/easily spellable.
- Groxx 12y agoNearby restaurants. Admittedly a shorter list than Pokemon :)
- Sir_Cmpwn 12y agoMy fairly modest home network uses characters from Madoka Magica.
- bottompair 12y agoPorn star names will usually do the "trick".
- tlrobinson 12y agoAt 280 North we used exit names along 280... woodside.280n.com, pagemill.280n.com, sandhill.280n.com, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_280_(California)#Exit_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_280_(California)#Ex...
- mehmetemre 12y agoI use a bunch of anime characters when naming the machines. Source of my inspiration is: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1467 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1467
- oddevan 12y agoExcellent. Somehow I've managed to call a side project server here "Toothless".
- thoughtpolice 12y agoWe use the names of Final Fantasy characters.
- Aqua_Geek 12y agoCharacters/references from Arrested Development: Gob, Buster, StairCar…
- krallja 12y agoDuring my final internship, the sysadmins gave every intern a Dell named after defunct air carriers. (Mine was PANAM.)