I read comics so you don't have to

[andrewducker]

From OurValuedCustomers, which I read mostly so I can despair.


From PhD Comics, which is so realistic that Julie can't read it at the moment.

Comments

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Never mind computers, the latter looks awfully like it should be headed "How SF Fans Name Their Cats"

[fiona-kitty.livejournal.com]

Greek gods. We had three customer machines called Apollo and two called Zeus in the same rack at one point.

At Mythic Beasts we name them after Mythical Beasts (unsurprisingly) and attempt to categorise the Beast by purpose of machine - e.g. ankou is our monitoring server (Ankou is a french spirit that watches over the dead).

[andrewducker]

When I was at Stirling University they names servers after Scottish Lochs. My current company has a nondescript string/number system, sadly.

[zz]

scottish organisations go for lochs or islands depressingly often.
the cluster from my pre-merger work uses scottish foods.
the rest of the organisation has no overall scheme and lots of nondescripts, but there are some Names in there though. E.g. Telecoms servers named after messenger gods, a big disaster recovery server was called Grond, and I'm putting in some cache servers for whom the naming scheme will be scottish coins. (cache/cash...)

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

Of course this works better if I log in as myself...

[ckd]

Schemes I've used in the past include characters from skzbrust's Dragaera books, locations from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga books, and chemical elements (though it was for a bioinformatics research institute and not chemistry/physics work so it doesn't quite hit the "related to your field" pie slice).

Yeah, nerdy.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Why adding some mythology to daily life is both good and normal.

[andrewducker]

I completely agree. Myths are our meanings, writ large.

I keep meaning to read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms too.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

The thing is, the label for the blue section in the second cartoon is a general attack on fannish personal incorporation of myth.

[zz]

http://namingschemes.com/

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

My computers have been Holly and You Bastard. I think I've called this one Stormclouds but I honestly can't remember. I think Mark's is Area 51 and his other drives are Area 52 and 53.

[skington.livejournal.com]

Far too many shops use planets, then reach 8 or 9 and then think "shit, now what?"

Glasgow University Computing Services used railway stations in the SPT network, which is reasonable as they're a) easily-spellable, and b) numerous.

At $WORK, we have a bunch of reseller machines which needed to have generic names, so Greek Gods it is. (Appropriately, the machine named Hades crashed and burned spectacularly and the sysadmins refuse to re-use the name for another machine.) For other machines, we've named them after curries, given that our office is in Brick Lane.

[soon_lee]

Some unknown wag named our new lab "Bletchley Park". We still haven't got round to removing the tag on the lab door.

[dreema.livejournal.com]

Certainly beats the dead porn stars theme that they had going on in the england office at the previous place. The current house theme has names ending in 'o' (so cryo, odo, echo, etc). Before we moved to the new system at work, i used types of tea for my server names.

[camies.livejournal.com]

At my last job where we had an actual network the servers were named after members of the Addams Family. If anyone had a brace or three Cray servers might they not be named RONNIE, REGGIE and possibly CHARLIE and VI?

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

The Met Office used to do exactly that - their two Cray YMPs were called Ronnie and Reggie.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

First I used demons from 2nd edition Dragonquest - I think they come from the Key of Solomon.

Then I used characters from Buffy, with the network being called Scoobygang

Now they just have boring functional names.

[chess]

I just give my computers names, often the names of RPG characters I've played or from books I've read. Alas, work has mostly gone for a straightforwards meaningful naming scheme, although there are still some legacy servers named after Big Lurking Things or other cute naming schemes.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

I use Sandman characters - I'm typing this on destruction, for instance. Go me.