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Professionally:
I once visited a server room where they were all named after chocolate bars. I think Snickers was the DC, Kit Kat was the exchange server and Mars was the ISA.
The first company I worked for was a tiny place but the MD had big dreams so the naming convention would start with a country code, an office code and then the individual workstation id. There was only ever the one office so it would always be UK-KIN-xxxx
I probably came across more nicknames for servers such as Hamsters the ISA server needing to be fed so it'd go faster in its imaginary wheel.
Geekier because it's home use warning:
I personally like naming home use (read, gaming) laptops after legendary swords as it's an excuse for a nice desktop background of sword porn. Over the years I've had Excalibur, Hrunting, currently on Durandal, the next might be Masamune or Muramasa.
I made a jury-rigged media server setup using lots of old tech I had lying around including a netbook, an external USB HDD and a really random cooling system. Originally called the Mediazord, as I upgrade the individual bits, I've had to wiki to see what the next one was called in series.
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If entirely fictive names are ok, then you should also use Stormbringer.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Of course! There's such a plethora of swords out there, I'll run out of laptops before running out of names 
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Stormbringer just is not one of the nice ones. No wonder if it's really the physical shape of the demon with the name 'Shaitan'.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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A long time ago (1997), my then-company had a contest to name a new server. The name had to be something significant from central India. The name "Vindhya" (name of a mountain range)* suggested by me bagged the prize.
* Today, also the name of an actress.
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How does it help to name them after stars? I'd never remember if the server I wanted was NGC-1701 (HYPERLEDA-I), the USS Enterprise, or NGC-1662 (an open star cluster in Orion)...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd never remember if the server I wanted was NGC-1701 (HYPERLEDA-I), the USS Enterprise, or NGC-1662 (an open star cluster in Orion)...
My Laptop for example is named Electra (Not Carmen[^]).
Another Computer is named Gemini. We're a small company, so remembering the names is easy.
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In all seriousness, I'm really boring.
GRIFFPC
MICHELLPC
CCGRIFF (Chromecast)
LNAS (Linksys NAS, superceded after the stupid thing bricked itself for the second time)
ANAS (Acer NAS, up for sale soon)
SGNAS (Seagate NAS)
BX305 (Printer, no guesses which model)
and so on...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: ANAS (Acer NAS, up for sale soon)
You missed a great chance not naming it AnaNAS.
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I have my testing data that consists of three users and their emails:
Eustace Bagg whatsyeroffer@returntheslab.si
Muriel Bagg onlythreeandahalfyearsold@whoareyou.si
Courage CowardlyDog thingsidofor@love.si
My favorite cartoon when I was little.
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At my first job, I named the servers after planets
But the boss made me change them as he use to put the path to the files on reports he gave to clients and he complained when 2 server names were uranus and pluto.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Discworld..
A few of the managers were Terry Prachett fans and found it very amusing. For the rest of us, it was meaningless 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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This post is the best social engeenering attack ever!  Next can be: What is your favorite password 
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CzimerA wrote: What is your favorite password
A GUID...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah, but which GUID? Personally I like ones that end with a number followed by a triple letter, but that's just me...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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CzimerA wrote: What is your favorite password
A super awesome rocket idea for discussion, I must say
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One place we named all the servers after porn stars. The dev server was Jenna.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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In a small place where I worked we gave 4-letters female names (and my PC was Lamù, which is the name of Lum [Urusei Yatsura] in Italina  ).
In another I was the BOFH and we gave LOTR names, so we had Boromir (it died 3 days later, in nomen omen), Gandalf, Galadriel, Gimli...
At the university we had Disney names as Paperino (Donald duck), Goofy and so on...
Now we have corporate given names as Surname## where ## is a totally irrelevant number.
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
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All computers are given names containing uppercase, lowercase, digits, and other allowable symbols.
Nice try...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Marco Bertschi wrote: What's the most creative naming scheme you came along in your career?
Workplace has a boring naming scheme. But at home, not sure how creative or not but all my computers get Aliens franchise spaceship names: Sulaco, Acheron, Nostromo, Auriga, Derelict, Betty, Narcissus... ran out of names just recently when I incorporated to the network a recently rescued EeePC701 - poor thing became Hobbit 
-- RP
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Last one was called Hal9000 and my current is called Glados.
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When I worked at Kellogg Canada in the late '80s and early '90s, the VAX/VMS systems were named after Kellogg characters: Tony, Toucan, Diggem, Pop, Snap
Now, servers are named differently depending on the controlling organization:
corporate - more likely to have some site significance
(MARPI - Marshall, BUCKCTPI - Buck CT, ALLENPI - Allen)
infrastructure - more likely to have general area significance
(CIN6AWTPIP1 - Cincy, Room 6A, CLTTVDPIP1 - Charlotte - Toddville area)
Desktops and laptops? The serial number... 2441CQ7R9Y...
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I have it easy... I name all of my computers (And some other devices too) after characters and places in my novels. Plenty of source material, as I have way too many characters.
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At my previous job, we used Norse mythological figures. Heimdall, Loki, Thor, etc...
At my current job, we have a rather unimaginative scheme: aaa-bbb-ccc-xxx-vm (dashes added so you can see the various parts), where aaa is the first 3 letters of the domain, bbb is a 3 letter code indicating the facility the server is housed at, ccc is a 2 or 3 letter code indicating what type of server it is (ad, sql, tfs, web, etc...) xxx is the current server number, zero-padded, new servers get the next number in sequence. The vm part means virutal, we used to have ph (physical) servers as well, but those are all gone now.
At home I use Caesar names. Current gaming rig/desktop is Titus, NAS is Augustus. VM that houses dev servers is Julius.
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Alll my personal PCs, laptops, and tablets are named after characters in the POGO comics:
POGO, ALBERT, HOWLAND, HEPZIBA, CHURCHY, etc
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