Named Computers [Archive]

Billfred

02-10-2005, 22:26

Lessee...

Way back when, I had a slew of computers working in unison on a challenge from distributed.net (http://www.distributed.net). I had Lorraine (BillfredIndustries.com's ficticious secretary) Mark and Strom (after Sanford and Thurmond, since those two were state surplus), then a few others I can't remember.

My old Dell laptop was initially dubbed Dave (because, at the time, it was pimp), but I later dubbed it sold (on eBay).

For now, I'm working on "William Leverette's iBook G4" since I don't know how to change that.

(shrug)

Mike Schroeder

02-10-2005, 22:33

my Laptop was named WraithLeader and my Desktop is named RogueLeader... (bonus points if anyone can tell me who Wraith/Rogue Leader is)

Conor Ryan

02-10-2005, 22:35

Lappy: Henry Chamberlain (because its just that cool)
Back Up Comp: CDR (Cad Don't Run)
Gaming Rig: Crazy Craka (it's a Clan thing)

KyleGilbert45

02-10-2005, 22:48

I cannot repeat the names, on this forum, that I usually call my laptop. :D

sanddrag

02-10-2005, 22:57

Some of the old macintoshes had names like Elsie (for the LC)

mechanicalbrain

02-10-2005, 23:28

My precious..... :)

CraigHickman

03-10-2005, 00:14

currently I'm on Wuzza. My other comps are QuietHealer, and Tuxedo.

QuietHealer only puts out 2 dB, so the name fits
Tuxedo is Linux, so it fits.
No idea how Wuzza came about... I let my brother name it.

peaseonearth

03-10-2005, 08:56

Our team has named all our computers. There was Garfield, Taz, Dilbert, Brain, and now Dexter.

MissInformation

03-10-2005, 10:01

I'm afraid I'm like Kyle, I only call my computers names when they aren't working right. But if you really want to know what they are, I can post them on -www.curselikeasailor.grr.

Put I think I'll start calling my computer "Snoogy Woogy" just to be odd.

Heidi

Greg Needel

03-10-2005, 10:08

desktop: tarbell
old laptop: houdini
new old laptop: blackstone
new laptop: tigerbolt

Ashley Christine

03-10-2005, 12:57

Sometimes.. when I get mad at my computer... I call it bad names. LOL

Greg Marra

03-10-2005, 16:15

All computers need network names, right?

Old PC: Pikachu
New PC: Mewtwo
My laptop: Articuno
Old laptop: Moltres
Dad's laptop: Zapdos
Parent's PC: Slowpoke
Linux server: Charmander

:rolleyes:

Cpt_Dave_Lister

03-10-2005, 16:32

Deep blue or Ultima :)

MMMMmmm LEDSSSSSS

artdutra04

03-10-2005, 17:00

I don't know if graphing calculators count, but I named my TI-84 plus 'Hal 9000'. I don't really have any other names for any of the computers at my home, except when they decide to not coorperate. BTW, never let a computer know that you're in a hurry. Because once you do, they seem to do everything imaginable to make life even more difficult. http://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/images/smilies/30.gif

Ian Curtis

03-10-2005, 17:19

The computer that while not technically owned by me, no else uses but me is named Cecile in honor of my friends wicked cool guitar. Plus Cecile is just an awesome name.

Wetzel

03-10-2005, 18:06

My Desktop: Philip
My current laptop: Shorty
My old laptop: Fatty

Shorty because it looked short (widescreen), Fatty because it was fat and used FAT32, Philip is a Goats reference, best as I can remember.

Wetzel

Elgin Clock

03-10-2005, 18:22

Laptop = Lappy..

Who needs interesting names as long as people know what you are talking about when you tell them to hand you lappy.

:sigh: As for the team, our 2 new laptops are named Bill & Ted.

JoeXIII'007

03-10-2005, 19:06

An old Gateway 2000 that I was using for about 3 months, that's now trashed except for the box, was simply called R.A.G. or Rotten Apple G 0.33333 (complete with name 'sharpied' on side and logo of a rotten apple).

My old laptop, when its screen became no longer functional, the primary hardware was ripped out, and then put into a shoe box, was named C.R.A.P. or Cripppled Rotten Apple Pod (no G number of any sort was assigned, nor was there a logo for it).

Now, I have a newer Gateway and a slightly newer laptop. None of them have a name, but I would like to give them one. I'll have to think about it.

-Joe

Eugenia Gabrielov

03-10-2005, 19:21

This Desktop: Zeppelin
Other desktop: Cheesecake
Backup Laptop: Stalin
Newer Laptop: Glomp
Gaming desktop: DDR Ninja

Pat McCarthy

03-10-2005, 19:34

My desktop: Pat's Baby

Our team computers: HOT Right and Left :ahh:

RogerR

03-10-2005, 23:42

my Laptop was named WraithLeader and my Desktop is named RogueLeader... (bonus points if anyone can tell me who Wraith/Rogue Leader is)

wedge antilles, i believe

...not that i'm into star wars, or what-ever-its-called. i'm too cool for that.

my laptop's network name is HAL 9000.

Madison

04-10-2005, 00:36

Laptop = Lappy..

Who needs interesting names as long as people know what you are talking about when you tell them to hand you lappy.

Aww, I totally thought it was a StrongBad reference. You should go with that.

I do not get to name my computer at work since it's on a corporate LAN and they'd probably be upset if I broke something. Our servers have pretty cool names, though, including Mystery Machine, Cobain, Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin. Those are all internal machines, as best as I can tell. Externally, our customers' data resides on machines named after elements of the periodic table.

At home, our LAN computers use "kaiju" names -- Godzilla, Mothra, Orga and King Ghidorah, if I recall correctly. The laptop I use every day is Microsoft Asset # such and such.

I'm pretty sure my XBox has a name, too, but I have no idea how to get to it without plugging it into a LAN with another XBox.

Lisa Rodriguez

04-10-2005, 00:47

laptop - Chaos
old desktop - family room (oh how descriptive)

wireless network for my room (that i set up) - West Side (we're in the west lodge of sigma, an "island" on campus, that's temporary housing)

my favorite has to be my brother's name for our network at home - Megatron
naming computers is fun, it's like naming a baby, but you can change your computer's name a lot easier than a baby's name

Elgin Clock

04-10-2005, 00:53

Aww, I totally thought it was a StrongBad reference. You should go with that.

It's a bit more powerful than a 386 though. lol
It possibly could be from that, I don't remember which came first. me calling mine lappy, and laughing when StrongBad got lappy, or seeing StrongBad get lappy and laughing and naming mine that.

KenWittlief

04-10-2005, 11:17

the network at my home, we named the computers after Simpsons characters (mine was Homer)

most places Ive worked the computers on networks had names, at one place we had Dopey, Sneezy, Doc...

Star trek characters,

Star wars characters...

just make sure you have enough names to go around.

Travis Hoffman

04-10-2005, 14:20

I named my desktop PC "Jesus". That would be the "Gee'-zus" Jesus, not the "Hey-soos'" alternative. Amen.

My work laptop has the tres sexy moniker "CP3J0CFK68839Z". Delphi IT people aren't known for their creativity.

sure_smile

04-10-2005, 21:42

well....

my PC is milton (after the guy who was in love with the red stapler in office space)

my laptop is 'meep' (after we had some fun imitating its many random noises)

and lastly, my TI-84 Plus is Jorge...yes, as in 'hor-hay', not the 'george' alternative :D

Denman

05-10-2005, 05:53

my pc : Burt, brothers pc : Kermit, shared pc : harry , print server: gromit
some random reasons apparently

Rombus

05-10-2005, 21:34

BlueFusion:
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rkosbab/BlueFusion1.jpg
Named because it was the name of the project, and because part of the theme was a nuclear.

my TabletPC is named Ub3rNote since its a Uber Notebook :D

Koko Ed

05-10-2005, 21:37

Technically an I-pod is a computer and I named mine Songbird.

scitobor 617

05-10-2005, 22:43

My server is named nullagent
Mom's laptop is mothership
My school issued laptop was nullagentMobile, while I had Linux on it. When I run XP on its called "Argg you stupid laptop!"

GateRunner

07-10-2005, 08:40

Desktop is Epoch
Laptop is Mini-Epoch
(im soooo original)

Goobergunch

07-10-2005, 15:06

Laptop: Jagaroth
Palm Pilot: Zarbi
Desktop (currently 3000 miles away from me): Argolis

Bonus points for anybody that figures out my naming scheme.

Aburame Shino

07-10-2005, 15:16

I named my desktop Spark, and my Palm Pilot Glitch.

Enterprize

09-10-2005, 02:53

desktop: Aki
flashdrive: Chiyo

Zero-Bee

09-10-2005, 17:29

Well, I named my laptop Alfred, and I have named my TI-83 Plus "Ghoti"

BTW: Ghoti is pronounced "fish".

JulieB

11-10-2005, 17:42

laptop: don't mess up plz
nah JK its called pearlhp

Jeff Rodriguez

11-10-2005, 18:28

Desktop: Colossal
Laptop: Sidekick
Parent's Desktop: Samson

TheShadow

11-10-2005, 23:03

my desktop's name is Bubba.......don't ask.

ebmonon36

12-10-2005, 00:52

Mine is named Porkchop. My parents is Porkroast.

Andy A.

12-10-2005, 15:05

After I received the many parts my most recent computer came in, I noticed that the boxes the various parts had come in were severely messed up. Fed-ex had not been kind, and a family member didn't know any better but to sign with out checking the state of the boxes. So I had a bunch of computer parts that had been subjected to more trauma then they should have been.

I figured there was a 50/50 chance that something would die on startup, or with in the first day of running.

So I named it Schrodinger (http://www.phobe.com/s_cat/s_cat.html).

As it happens, the power supply did die.

-Andy A.

Enterprize

13-10-2005, 19:59

I figured there was a 50/50 chance that something would die on startup, or with in the first day of running.

So I named it Schrodinger (http://www.phobe.com/s_cat/s_cat.html).

That's the greatest story ever XD. Sucks about the power supply though >_X

Adam Richards

03-06-2006, 01:18

Heretic121

03-06-2006, 01:39

1st pc - MrAmerica
2nd PC - Heretic
Current PC - TheHeretic

oh so original =D

the first being one of my backyard wrestling names as a masked luchador =P hahah...

lukevanoort

03-06-2006, 09:36

(Preface: This isn't the worst resurrection I've done...)

I've got a pretty standard naming scheme at my house. I wonder if anyone can guess what it's centered around? Hmm...

Desktop: Zeus
Laptop: Hermes
iPod: Apollo

I'll probably change it around to another mythology eventually, such as Japanese or Norse, though the idea of changing it to Aztec mythology doesn't appeal very much to me, as I would likely kill myself trying to remember how to properly type Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli for a computer.
Although it isn't quite as bad as Aztec mythology, all of our computers at work are named after body parts, drugs, or other random science names. (usually they have to do with brains) It isn't that bad with the Neurons (our laptops), but some of the desktop names I can't remember, for example one is named after some complex brain chemical, the one I usually use is named acetaminophen. My computers don't have much in the way of names, my first flash drive was named ShutUp for a while, but when I got my second, I decided to go to a semi-alphabetical system. #1 is now named Aleph and #2 is Baker.

Katie Hans

03-06-2006, 09:56

Recently I decided Fredrick would make a good name for my computer. My iPod is dubbed "Joe" and my DVD player is David. :cool:

Bill_Hancoc

03-06-2006, 11:28

I usally try to name my computer by their model but recently i renamed them all engine01 (02) (03) etc...
DOes anybody have and good names or suggestion as it appears mine are pretty boring.

I did have a friend who named all his computers days of the week. ie Monday Tuesday Wensday etc.

JaneYoung

03-06-2006, 11:48

Is naming your computer, IPod, hard drive, lap top - like naming your car or motorcycle or guitar?

Hiteak

03-06-2006, 14:17

Old Mac-Rosebud

New pc-still need to name it

hoorayforpink

03-06-2006, 14:30

john wayne :D

Madison

03-06-2006, 15:10

My new laptop is named Buzz Lightyear because, when I took it out of the box, all of the other computers were really jealous.

Capt.ArD

03-06-2006, 15:42

I have a machine called penguin. It does not run linux.

my folks have poindexter and penelope.

the animation team's laptop was named locutus.

edit: o yeah, my flash drive is named "73h pwn571ck".

yeah naming my computer is alot like naming a car to me. only a car has to be a girl. my computer has just a fun nickname, like i would give a good friend.

Rohith Surampudi

03-06-2006, 16:22

I have a laptop with only 40 gig memory...all of it is filled with autodesk software :rolleyes: so my friends have coined it "sir LowMem"

Desktop:Hutch(the table/set up looks like a hutch)

Ipod:God(...obvious reasons)

Pat Fairbank

04-06-2006, 00:31

My laptop is named "sundial", back from the days when I was developping and testing the Sundial system. I've been too lazy to think of a better name to change it to.

On another note, has anyone noticed that FIRST seems to name dozens of their computers after scientists? If you do reverse DNS lookups on IP addresses in the 199.125.100.x subnet (the entirety of which FIRST seems to own), you get names like "newton", "bacon", "bell", "franklin", "bohr", "chandrasekhar", "copernicus" and "goddard", to name just a few.

Jay Trzaskos

04-06-2006, 18:07

My desktop's name is Marvin, because it's not an especially awesome machine and I get all depressed thinking about it. :p

My iPod's name is Don't Panic, because it has anything i ever need to know on a trip on it. Including all teh Hitchiker entry's from iTunes.

JT
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Mike AA

04-06-2006, 18:26

Rick TYler

04-06-2006, 19:15

I don't name my computers, but the best names I've heard were a Vax cluster at AARP with machines named Bartles, James, Wine, and Cooler. (Ask your parents if you don't understand this.)

As I said, I don't name my computers, but I do have a special set of hand gestures I use only on them.

Francis-134

04-06-2006, 19:30

I have this system with naming my computers after Star Trek ships (keeps things interesting at the least).

Desktop: Enterprise (Changed to Enterprise-A after a hard drive crash)
Laptops: Voyager and Defiant

MChapman

06-06-2006, 17:41

At our shop we have Dexter and Brain..sadly Brain is actually dead now..but Dexter is good. :D

Michelle Celio

06-06-2006, 17:50

I have a laptop with only 40 gig memory
Err...I'm hoping that you mean hard drive space :)

---
Desktop: The Dell
Laptop 1: Michelle owns
Laptop 2: (will be named) Yeah I'm 1337
School Computer 1: Lovely
School Computer 2: Nimrod (after the green day CD)
iPod: I pwn your (so when it comes up in iTunes it's I pwn your iPod)
Flash Drive 1: Sushi Fish
Flash Drive 2: I dont work anymore. (it doesnt =[)

Bill_Hancoc

27-06-2006, 20:55

Ok so i finally thought up a good name for my couputer and i now have a theme for my whole families computers too....
My Dell 6K... Tony Soprano
My moms thinkpad...soon to be-Luca Brasi
My dads R15---soon to be--Don Vito Corleone

Theme...Italian Mobsters

Electr0k1dd

27-06-2006, 21:01

I call My laptop Speedy cause its so slow.
And I'm replying using Spaz cause it likes to resart ranbomly...

Morgan Gillespie

28-06-2006, 00:05

My desktop has been recently renamed to Frankenstein. Compared to the original computer the power supply, mother board, ram, graphics card, network card and CDRW drive have all been changed

Hiteak

28-06-2006, 10:24

I just renamed my computer to HAL because of all the problems it has be giving me.

Jeremiah Johnson

28-06-2006, 12:34

My desktop... Old Fart - It's a 1998 HP Pavilion and it still runs
My laptop... Former Greatness - It was good until I got it
Dad's laptop... Star Jones - It's pretty heavy

RoboMadi

28-06-2006, 13:05

Desktop: Control
Laptop 1: Alt
Laptop 2: Delete

if they ever get to be a problem, i'll just hit them all twice.
Problem solved.

:D

Astronouth7303

28-06-2006, 15:47

My desktop - "Astro73"
My tablet - "AstroTablet"
Team's desktop - "technogremlin"
Team's laptop - "tglappy"
Team's router - "frc1227" :p

(I did pick the names for all of these.)

Faith

29-06-2006, 14:51

My desktop my dad named "Sputnik"

Fuzzy

29-06-2006, 15:43

I haven't named my computer, but I named my C drive "I CEE YOU" >_>

Matt Krass

29-06-2006, 16:08

...At home, our LAN computers use "kaiju" names -- Godzilla, Mothra, Orga and King Ghidorah, if I recall correctly...
...I'm pretty sure my XBox has a name...

Close Mads, very close.

Godzilla - My Primary Desktop, she's a powerhouse so it fits.
Mothra - Living room machine, got some kick but it's subpar compared to 'zilla
Megalon - Dell Axim X30H Pocket PC
Ghidorah - Madison's (defunct) Toshiba
King Ghidorah - Madison's yet unnamed new laptop ;)
Destoroyah - My Dell Inspiron 6000
Godzooky - My Compaq Presario 1700 (Does anyone get that?)
Orga - I think that's the old XBOX actually...
Rodan - The Xbox 360
Godzilla 2000 - Win2k domain server (under contruction)

The domain will be 'MONSTER-ISLAND' and the wifi SSID is 'monster'.

In the lab at school our servers were:

1337-CNT-GAME - CounterStrike server (yeah.. teacher never saw that one)
1337-CNT-FILE - Linux Samba server
1337-CNT-NIDS - Snort test box
1337-CNT-CDT1 - CD Tower Number 1
1337-CNT-CDT2 - CD Tower Number 2
1337-CNT-CDT3 - CD Tower Number 3
1337-CNT-CDT4 - CD Tower Number 4
1337-CNT-BDC1 - Backup Domain Controller 1
1337-CNT-MGMT - Primary Domain Controller
1337-CNT-MGT1 - Primary ScanTEK Server
1337-CNT-MGT2 - Backup ScanTEK Server

CNT is the class name, 1337 is well...1337 :) and we agreed on the four letter naming convention for simplicity.

I love naming computers.

Pat Fairbank

29-06-2006, 21:55

I haven't named my computer, but I named my C drive "I CEE YOU" >_>My C drive is named "Vitamin". Come to think of it, all my drives are named "Vitamin".

Nate Smith

03-07-2006, 19:14

we go with the names of people in the family usually, with a few exceptions...

Desktop: nate
Laptop: jeanettelaptop
W2K Server (MSSQL): caleb
File Server (HP dual processor P2 w/Compaq RAID 5 External Array): warehouse
Basement Media PC: mythbox (Was trying to set up MythTV, but gave me too many problems, so I'm working on setting up FreeVo now...)
Router: di524 (just the model name)
Phone Server: mp1000 (same here)

My router and phone server wouldn't even have names, but I had to give something to my DNS server...

cfriedenbach

04-07-2006, 15:07

My dad named them while he was building the network. We have 5 people in the family, but have 6 computers. But he refuses to get wifi so we only have 4 internet hook ups.

Desktop #1: Tommy (dad listens to The Who a little too often)
Desktop #2: Willma (not sure where it came from)
Desktop #3: Old Bessie (its old and slow)
Laptop #1 (mine): Roberto (i named it after my saxophone)
Laptop #2 (dads): Speedy Deamon (dad got a new one from work)
Laptop #3 (my older sisters): Ferdinand (she is very obbsesed with the story Ferdinand the bull)

Just wondering but does anyone else know that story? Most people give us blank stares when we mention it.

Astronouth7303

04-07-2006, 16:12

Laptop #1 (mine): Roberto (i named it after my saxophone)

Your saxophone has a name?

Laptop #3 (my older sisters): Ferdinand (she is very obbsesed with the story Ferdinand the bull)

Just wondering but does anyone else know that story? Most people give us blank stares when we mention it.

I think it's some Disney thing...

Ah. Once again, Wikipedia shows to be knowledgable. Wikipedia:The Story of Ferdinand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Ferdinand). A strange obsession indeed.

Cuog

04-07-2006, 21:53

My families computers all have very boring names:
mine-CUOG-64(its the first and only 64 cpu in our house)
parents - The Dell(i know real original)
my moms work computer- That other computer(because i see it sitting there but never used

Robotics laptop1: Smoky(i286 laptop that was run over but still works)
Robotics laptop 2: Son of Smoky(i386 running win3.11)
Robotics laptop3: hottie(because it overheats really easily)

Billfred

04-07-2006, 23:15

Well, I don't name any of my computers, but I manage a few at USC that are:

The Prestonia Group (named for people, items, and concepts in Preston College (http://www.prestoncollege.org) at USC)
Ken (1 GHz PIII)
Zelda (733 MHz PIII)
Gatsby (450 MHz PIII) (retired)

The Towers (Four near-identical towers I got from inventory, which were named for the four near-identical towers that served as freshman dorms at USC until they closed at the end of this past year)
Douglas (retired--though I might keep it around in case)
Snowden
Moore (retired)
Laborde

The Professional Wrestlers (I rounded up some new hardware, and I just couldn't come up with another group of names.)

Hogan
Rey
RVD

Tristan Lall

04-07-2006, 23:46

The Prestonia Group (named for people, items, and concepts in Preston College (http://www.prestoncollege.org) at USC)
Ken (1 GHz PIII)
Zelda (733 MHz PIII)
Gatsby (450 MHz PIII) (retired)Confusingly enough, none of them are based on Intel's Prestonia architecture (130 nm P4 Xeon).

Cuog

05-07-2006, 16:44

Bilfred if u get rid of computers as long as they aren't antient i will take them and put them to use.

Billfred

05-07-2006, 17:26

Confusingly enough, none of them are based on Intel's Prestonia architecture (130 nm P4 Xeon).
Well, if the University ever bought any such items, I've sure never seen them in inventory.

Bilfred if u get rid of computers as long as they aren't antient i will take them and put them to use.
I wouldn't mind some of these myself--but alas, they're not mine. They belong to the University; all I can do with them is either use them, give them a good use in the building, or send them back to inventory.

(Hmm...I wonder how hard it'd be to convert those to some basic web surfing terminals running DSL or something like it--seems like that'd free up some of our computer lab with their decent P4s for those of us whose computing requirements are more complex than Facebook. ;))

Jay W.

13-07-2006, 00:34

my Laptop was named WraithLeader and my Desktop is named RogueLeader... (bonus points if anyone can tell me who Wraith/Rogue Leader is)

Someone else already said it, but thats Wedge Antilles, who is amongst the greatest of Corellians.

My laptop is R2-GT, even had "Internet Explorer" renamed Holonet for a while.

Squirrelrock

13-07-2006, 23:46

current comp (intel manbook) - Squirrel
old flashdrive - Da_Squirrel
MP3 player - Squirrel
new flashdrive - Squirrel2

Booger

14-07-2006, 08:52

Mine-MacMini
My Dads-King Kong
my sisters laptop-DellLT

Josh Goodman

14-07-2006, 12:49

Current CPU- "Obiwan 3"

KelliV

14-07-2006, 14:34

my Desktop PC: Biggie
my iMac: Cutie
my macbook pro: Tinkerbelle

FourPenguins

14-09-2006, 20:02

Posting in this thread isn't grave robbing yet, is it?

Anyway, after I upgraded my computer, it was renamed from "The Blue-Glowy S--tbox" to Cortana. The old motherboard was posthumously named Guilty Spark.
My thumbdrive is Gravemind and my external hard drive is The Ark.
Alas, I have no laptop, but when I get one for college, I will probably dub it Deja.

My Dell DJ is "The Brick." (nope, no halo reference) Any Dell MP3 owners would know why.