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.

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[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...