What is Your Computer Name

Audrey – I am a Hepburn fan, and my accompanying iPod is called Holly Golightly for obvious reasons… have I gone too far?

cloudkicker. After Kit Cloudkicker from TaleSpin. I always wanted that telescoping metal disc he had.

Putiker.

I have two little brothers, five and seven, and they pronounce the word computer, “putiker”.

Mac Mini = Templar
Dell = Knight
iBook = Druid

Not quite sure what I’ll call any future additions to the family though :-)

MattBook – My name is Matt and i use a MacBook(Pro now)

main pc: nuance
macbook: smallnuance
compaq notebook: commienuance
server: server

no girl names or pet names.. just names

Skynet – It’ll happen one of these days. :)

“elbarto” being a Simpsons fan, same as my wireless network…

The Great Wave, in honor to paint by Hokusai. I also have the gelaskin.

not too creative, but i’m calling it just “deck” like the machine of Hiroaki (Hiro) Protagonist

Road Bizzkit

Moonbeam = XP Box
Sparkles = Server
Darkness = Black MacBook
Lightness = 4G iPod
Voluptuous = 500 GB NAS
Cheese = XP Laptop

I used to own a company called Navitek and had named all the computers:

Weird
Girls
Psyche
Religion
Distortion
Kids
Society
Rumors
Protocol
Love
Infornography
Landscape
Ego

Bonus points for anyone who understands it.

I name my computers after famous mathematicians. I have an Euler, Leibniz, Cauchy, and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (Or KKT for short). My computer named Newton
died a few years ago.

My computers are MatBook and iMat.

Can you guess my name and the computers I use ?

While the other computers in my house are named fairly boring things, iMac, MacBook, and Mac Mini, my main MacBook Pro is named Utopia Planitia which is the place on Mars where the Viking 2 landed, but also where the Star Trek universe has a ship construction yard. All my hard drives have Star Trek ship related names and icons, so it’s a general theme.

For ages I named them after characters from the first testament whose names started with ‘E’, in honour of the character Enoch Root from Cryptonomicon. However, last year my laptop hard-drive died, and I when I reinstalled it, I just called it ‘Pure Logic’. I’m lucky my girlfriend likes computer nerds…

Ziggy
Saw a movie one time and it had a hot computer geeky chick by the name of Ziggy.

To go with my domain I have SingleWall for my server, SingleBook for my MacBook Pro and SingleWire for my network/workgroup. Nerdlinger.

sully

“Qwerty”

I just like that name. Its the first six letters at the top-left of the keyboard.

My computers are all named after dredg songs, my desktop is called “yatahaze”, my laptop “sanzen”, the fileserver “kayasuma”.

It’s abstract enough but still nice to pronounce.

Melba Toast

From when Matthew M. opens the hood of a car in Dazed and Confused and says “let me tell ya what Melba Toast is packin”

Luna. Resurrected the name when my old G4 tower finally died. Inspired by the pulsating white power circle on the tower when in sleep mode.

My iPhone though is named “mai ifone.”

* opiate (my first comp, now running as a server — named because I was clearly addicted).

* mononobe (Historical Japanese family who, amongst other things, made swords)

* beast (because my laptop is a frickin’ beast. my roommate calls it the hoverboard)

My little Dell laptop is named PocketRocket.

Painkiller.

That’s my gaming alias, and my computer is the best pain-killer device I have … Maybe I should rename it boredom killer.

Nikki, Jessica & Gina.
Named after Ali Larters personalities in Heroes :D

Samsung Q1 UMPC: Sammy
Samsung Q1P UMPC: Samantha (her Pentium M makes her more powerful than Sammy. ;) )
Asus Eee PC: Eeegor
Gateway Tablet PC: Gatesy

For me, the device name not only gives it a personable name, but also describes the device in some way. Serves a dual purpose.

Main pc: Fat Man
Backup: Little Boy
I know, I know, not that original really, but for some others in the past
Melchior
Germenganar
Harold (after my great grandfather)

Bête ; means ”Beast” in english.
Bidule: Computer dedicated to Experimental projects .
Poubelle: means Garbage basket
Microbe.. self-explanatory

But they all share the F… name when things don’t go as expected !

Server: wintermute
iBook: dixie
Old Server: neuromancer
Old Laptop: idoru

Macintosh Classic: XO
Macintosh Classic: XO2
Performa 6320: koSamui2 (for the os 8 desktop picture)
PowerMac G4: CoR (for Church of Realities, (hed)pe album)
MacBook: Dr Jekyll (when in OS X) Mr Hyde (when in Windows)
eMate 300: Clarus (for the DogCow)
DataRover (MagicCap device): MoneyPenny
PowerMac 7600: Aldus (already had that name when I bought it)
Linux box (Pentium III): Killah
Linux box (AMD 1.67 GHz): Kaori (for the SSX game character)
Dead linux box: Blugu (read it on Apple Confidential code names section I think)

My domain is MrFusion (after Back to the Future). I have three servers; Erika, Rebecca, and Kaylee (the last named after the character in Firefly). One PC named Dont_Panic, one mini named L33t Box, and another called Living Room.

Someday I’ll probably rename the servers (as they get replaced or I add new ones) to Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar (after the three wise men and Evangelion).

TwoHorses (dual-core mac pro)

ah come on… nobody named their machine HAL ??

What a bunch of light weights!

My computer is named Eric the Macbook. All my pets are called Eric.

I love Monty Python.

My Mac’s named Starseeker. I know someone who named his computer Understand and his backup drive Southern Cross.

Shalmanezer
From the all-knowing super computer in John Brunner’s book Stand on Zanzibar

using BSG character names ATM, i know its the bare minimum of creativity, sue me :)

(written on Athena :) )

MacBook Pro = Chadwick’s FileFantasia (this is a running joke because of the ability to change the harddrive name on Macs… I named my buddies cum dumpster one day… he named mine that… and I never changed it)

Vaio (black tower) = Blackie

Vaio (grey tower) = Whitey

Ipod Shuffle = Lil Guy

Work Comp = Frankenstein (long story)

pretty unoriginal… but fairly easy to remember :D

.sacred.

.arent they all?.

Server: Dexter
Desk Machine: Gandalf
Laptop: Aoife
eeePC: Kaylee

not expactly creative, eh?

Desktop: vista-15, 15 because i have reinstalled windows (xp & vista) 15 times since 2006, should be more but i start counting since i bought my 120gb disk…
Laptop: My First Love… :P (seriously)

My current computer’s name is too boring to mention, but back when I was in film school, my machine had three drives: Zoetrope, Kinetoscope, and Black Maria.

Mostly named after ski resorts in Utah

Ex.
File Server: Skiutah
Old Gaming Comp: Canyons
Mac Pro: Deervalley
Laptop: Alta

iPod: Gunter
MacBook: Wolfgang (“Gunter Wolfgang” is what I keep telling my wife I’d like to name a child. A good, strong, German name! I’m 95% kidding.)
DVR: PVR, formerly Myth3 because it was my 3rd Myth box…’til hardware issues irritated me into switch to GB-PVR.
iPhone: was Floyd (after Pink Floyd) but it “lost” it’s name during a recent restore. Haven’t decided if a new name is in order or if it’s back to Floyd.

Porn Stars… On my office everyone named their Apple Laptops as a recognized porn actress. The ritual finished just when i came to work here. Damn, i would have name mine “Sasha”…

Anything that has to do with the number seven:

PowerBook G4 15″: seven
PowerBook G4 15″: sju (seven in Swedish)
PowerBook G4 17″ : vii
Xserve Dual G5: sevence (the name of the company)
Xserve Quad: hepta
Xserve Quad: kutzeddi (seven in Apache)
Mac mini: 111 (seven in… well you know)
iPod 3G: 7Pod
T-Mobile Dash: 7Dash

Desktop: PhreakyBlue (because it glows blue, and belongs to Phreakiness workgroup, and there used to be PhreakyBlack)

Laptop: LapDance

iPod Touch: Cassette

Originally my desktops used to be named after models, but that got weird when I wasn’t 16 anymore.

PC: Pyrus
Macbook: Maciavelli
iPhone: kaiPhone
ipod: Feste the Fool

well…. ive had a few set ups and they’ve always had some sort of theme…. heh

my current set up:

Server: Jah
Desk Machine: Buddha
Laptop: Peon (old laptop bought on ebay, didn’t think it’d be right to give it a cool name :-))

My wife said that my computer was my other wife, and named it Jezebel. Keeping with that theme, I named my other box Tart.

Kepler.
Every computer I have ever owned I have always named after a scientist, beginning with Newton.
Even my iPod is called Feynman.

Desktop: Darwin
Laptop: MiniDarwin

I like to name them with Power -prefix:

- PowerBook for my MacBook Pro.
- PowerVault for my LaCie External Hard Drive.
- PowerDrive for my other LaCie External Hard Drive (secondary).
- PowerCard for my USB Drive.
- PowerPhone for my iPhone…

Well… I rename all my storage systems after European Cities…
So…

My iMac : London
My external HD: Barcelona
My iPod: Paris
My USB stick: Oslo

And my old macbook (not mine anymore) was called Roma…

All here are named after cities in the Seven Kingdoms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASoIaF)

Mine would be Lannisport

Laptop: Matrix

Because of Enzo Matrix from Reboot, the greatest show of all time.

My Macbook Pro is called Almightybob, which is an obscure Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference.

IMac – Main Partition – “Welcome to Rapture”
Imac – Second Partition – ” Beauty before all else”
Toshiba – “Tobushi” two-boo-she
Extra Storage – “SkyNet”

Hmm, I’ve got an Asus A8Js named Accelerando and an iPod named Donalbain. How’s that?

CerealKiller from hackers, that guy was so funny

Desktop: Arucard Reborn (I named it Arucard and then later upgraded it)
Laptop: Optimus Prime

My Blackbird is called: HAL2000 (but the light is blue)
My Macs: I just name them POS1, POS2

Mac Pro – Israfel
Mac Pro While Running Windows – Bardiel
MacBook Pro – Zeruel
PS3 – Armisael
Wii – Matariel
PSP – Ireul
DS – Arael
iPod – Sachiel

It took me a while to find a good naming scheme for so many gadgets.
I wonder how many people recognise the names.

Main PC: Nuance
Macbook: smallNuance
Compaq notebook: CommieNuance
server: server
HDDs all include nuance followed by roman numerals!

magik ninja

I’ve gone through many names but my computers are currently set to blatant-lies and my consoles are set to Sakura for my wii and my 360 is either Tyuru or Haruhi…. actually my wii might be Haruhi as well……

Intel Mac Mini: Bender

Power PC Mac Mini: Galvatron
MacBook Pro: Starscream
TiBook: Rumble
iMac: Shockwave
Lenovo Thinkpad: Cyclonus

Mac Pro: No name yet. Ideas?

Home PC: Vystein
Gaming PC: Daggson
Laptop: Pliskin

Vystein is from Virtual On Marz, the White Knight, because he’s awesome. Daggson was a dwarf from a book I read a while ago… forget which book, but he was still awesome. Pliskin is a MGS2 reference, because Snake is awesome. And portable.

@Andrew I did recognize that they were angel names (hence the -iel and -el endings). But I had no idea that they were anime names!

blueverticalstudio

my user name in life is matkins70, so my ibook has been named Matkintosh, and my first PC wass called Josephine…I can’t remember why. My PC now is called Hannibal, suppose cos i love the movies.

i dont have any animals anymore so i get joy of naming my things

powerbook = bitchface
blackberry = peal
1st ipod = frankenstein (i built it out of three broke ipods )
2nd ipod = poc
desktop = retard
tv = bigface
wii = boo
ds = shorty
xbox(xbmc)= O.G
stereo = cube
truck = Silver (as in hi ho silver away from the lone ranger)

mac pro = dr evil
macbook = minime

Main Linux box = argent (it’s in a silver case)
Main Windows Box = tika (totally into kicking a$$), my former gaming box
Phone Server/Asterisk = meg
Main Linux Server = peter
Main 2k3 Server = stewie
Firewall = chris
Mythtv box = brian

Sorry, something is showing through there. :-)

Macbook Pro (OSX): Aperture Science
Macbook Pro (Vista): Black Mesa
Windows Box: Gordon Freeman
Dell Inspiron 6000: Black_Mesa_Incident

iMac: MacAttack
MacBook: AirRaid
MacMini: Spartan117
MacMini: PossumNest

My laptop is names BYRD-Lappy

MBP: fantods
Ubuntu VM: greebles
WinXP VM: hallucination
Sony desktop XP system: derealization
Cell phone BlueTooth name: dissociation (see a pattern here? fantods used to be called paranoia)

My WLAN is called Howling Fantods. And for variety, my iPod Touch is called iTouchBoiz. (My old iPod 5th Gen was called iHeartBoiz… But since I moved up to the ’Touch, well, I had to come up with a new name!)

Ahem My Machines are Named

Linux Server = Evil-Server
Windows Server = EvilServer
Mac Pro = Evil-Mac
Ipod = Evil-Ipod
Zune = Evil-Zune
XBOX360 = Evil-360
Wii = Evil-Wii
Linux box =Evil-Tux
OpenBSD = Evil-Daemon
Windows Box = Evil-Bill
Windows Box2 = Evil-Gates
Ps3 = Evil-PS3

My tower machines have all been named “Jolly Roger” Currently its

Jolly Roger Mk.V (5th tower in the naming sequence)
currently a MDD g4 1ghz/2gb/2×160/2×400/2xDVR111D

Mk. 1 was a Biege G3 tower that was maxxed out
466 g4/ATI rage128Nexxus/768MbRam/24xCD-R/2x80GB

My Laptops Have all been “Silver Bullet” in honor of my first 400Mhz TIBook

there have been 13 in the naming sequence of the silver Mac Portables so i wont elaborate-
Silver Bullet Mk. XIII was retired and is now named “TVMac” running front row on the bedroom TV.

My Tiger Server is “DryDock” despite goin thru several different machines
Currently DryDock is a 3u Rack Server case with B&W G3 Guts and a G4/400ZiF

my externals are use/size basednames
“Halfie” – 500gb
“Third terror Byte” 320gb RAID
“Nike” (sneaker net) Portable 40gb

Its funny “Pocket Rocket” Is my iPhone
“The Player” Ipod Video 30Gb
“Green Meanie” iPod Mini
“Kanga” powerbook 3500/G3
“Hancock” my Apple Laserwriter 16/600
“frank” win Xp box
“linus” fedora box
wifi network “the ocean”
Airport extreme N base “the Beach”

Dell M1330 Laptop: Tantive IV
500 Gig External: Home One
750 Gig External: The Great Holocron
4 Gig Flash Drive: Defiance
256 Mb Flash Drive: Independence
Old Laptop: Coruscant

Clearly all Star Wars references.

My MacBook (1st rev) has gone through lots of various names, but the most recent ones are (in chronological order:)

The Spanish Inquisition (DUN)
Prypiat (Abandoned Ukranian city)
and my current one,

Captain McSplashypants. :D

In my unimaginative yet effective method of naming things, I just give everything my alias.

MacBook Pro = ClaMs MBP
Sagem My700x = ClaMs MusicBox
iPod Shuffle = ClaMs Shuffle
4Gb Usb Stick = ClaMs 4GB

No confusion when it comes to Bluetooth Data transfers. :|

A mate of mine called his MacBook Pro “Egbert”. I really like it.

MacPro: MCBigMac
MacMini: MCMacMini
Laptop: MCLaptop

Not very interesting. In fact, I’m not sure why I posted it. Maybe I’ll change the names…

iMac: iMac G5

My brother has called his MacBook Pro “Brainiac”! :D

New Built-from-the-ground up PC: HOMEGROWN
Older PC it replaced: OLDHAG
Work Laptop: SimonSays

Desktop: Acropolis
Laptop: Securitas (Roman security goddess)
Flash Drive: Mercury (Roman messenger god)
iPod: Apollo (Roman music god)
External Hard Drive : Alexandria (refers to famous ancient library in Egypt)

I have nice old PC long before time i use Mac…and luckily I just forgot its name..=)
My girlfriend has her right to name almost all my gadgets

iBook 12″ = AppleSandwich (closed laptop looks like sandwich??)
Treo 650 = Toreo (no trademark infringement)
Tungsten T3 (now hers) = TuPie
BB8700 = HoneyBearry

so..anything was named after food..

Oh, forgot my iPod Touch: Touch Me
Had a shuffle (2G) for a while, named it: Shuff-a-long
and my fiance has a shuffle, named: Pink Possum

Deathstar

My MacBook is called Snowflake.
I was playing D&D at the time and I had a white Tiger in the game.
My MacBook is white, and runs Tiger.
Snowflake.

my computer name is call: Kinko-Kunka

this is a name i created when i was about 5 years old for one elephant of mine who didnt have a name, and i still love that name ! :)

PC is Roger

Macbook Black: sivil.
Macbook White: CoCo
Mac Mini “this my media center”: WhoreHole
iPod: Pirate Politician
Sony Viao Laptop PC: Travisd

Glad to know I’m not the only one….

iMac: Synch250
iPod 4G: Diatonic
iPod 5G: Neoteric
iPod touch: Triptonic

I needed something with 3 names and room to grow, so I decided on:
Neutron – Underpowered computer, since replaced by a same named external hard drive (as the name is still appropriate)
Proton – My big, unportable desktop
Electron – My small, heavy MacBook

Will expand into quarks as necessary

My laptop is simply named V, from V for Vendetta.

Main desktop: quadfu
Media PC: iris
Dell Inspiron 2200 Laptop: joe2200
Powerbook: joebook

I’m a little less creative with the laptops. :)

My rev A Core Duo Black MacBook is Anderton — named for John Anderton from Philip K. Dick’s short story Minority Report (and subsequent fantastic movie by Spielberg). The name I have picked out for the 17″ Penryn MacBook Pro replacing this soon, is Merlin. (I’ve had that one in mind for quite a while.)

My 2G iPod Nano (Black) is Apollo.

WorkGroup = Brewery

Steinlager
MacsGold
LeffeBlond
Heineken

My PC is named “Thrasher”, named after the “Thrasher skateboard magazine” sticker I stuck on the bottom of the monitor.
Not very creative but funny to say and a nod to skateboarding.

I also name my hard disk drives because of how it looks in “My Computer” when read.
For example, my C:/ is called “NOTHING TO” (C:)
My D:/ is called “DOUBLE” (D:)

slappy…haha jkin…you guys really are nerds =]]

Primary Computer = thedot – I am the my domain’s schema administrator and hold the global catalog of my forest, as well. The root of my domains is ” . ” & ” .. ”
Primary Gaming PC – Catbird.
Ghostcast Server = Spot – It is essentially a dot ( It was the name of our C Avg. President’s first dog in the WH – That in itself is pretty sad)
Laptop = Africanswallow (not many people have ever seen one & hopefully my wireless is as fast as one)

iMac 20″ = OptimusPrime
iMac Aluminum = BumbleBee
PowerBook = Megatron
AirPort = Cybertron

iPhone: Henrietta
iPod (160GB Black): Gilbert
MacBook Pro 17″: Harper
Airport Extreme: Janine

Homer: My box
Marge: Wife’s box
Lisa: Daughter’s laptop
Bart: Son’s laptop
Moe: Our fileserver
Barney: Our webserver
Itchy: HTPC1
Scratchy: HTPC2

Macbook = neekmac (my name is nick, nick name neek)

Dell #1 Goliath

Server #1 =hivecluster

both named after starcraft

Windows XP PC: dukkha (Pali for “suffering”)
Mac G5: Mondō (Japanese: “questions and answers”)

iPod: Sano Shisuru
MacBook: Matsumoto Aki
Thumb drive: Taguchi Jun
External HD: Akanish Miroku

Am momentarily blanking on my Dell’s name, cause I try to stay away from it… and yeah, I’m an otakufanbrat, basically.

main dualG5: “eraserhead”
powerbook G4: “disaster” then I changed to “rnd404″
old titanium: “spitfire”

next macbook pro (on the way from apple store): “A”

PowerMac G5 is “ishmael”
Laptop is “stubb”
Old PC was “starbuck”
BSD file server is “queequeg”
router is “ahab”
…

Surprised these names aren’t more popular!

ibook: emoryyyy!
ipod: gene parmesan

i obviously enjoy ATHF and arrested development, and took a light year and a half to post this.

Gene! *Squeals*

Yes, that show was awesome.

My server is named Charon
1TB Ext Drive is Tisiphone
The old desktop is Megaera
The Vista Desktop is Alecto
The Toshiba Laptop is Psyche
And the Acer Laptop is Eros

Everyone of those names was long thought out, I can’t just name a box. I have to use it a while and get to know the ghost in the machine so to speak…….

R2D2

Gaming computer – Nacho
Media Server – Cheese
Carputer (oh yes I did…) – Salsa

Dell Laptop /w bluetooth – Psion
Wireless Router – Telepath
Extender – Telepath Jr.
Two Durabook Laptops – Bonny and Clyde (clyde has bullet-hole stickers on his face)
Asus Laptop – Nicholae Carpathia (I’ve had a lot of problems with this book)
Custom Watercooled Desktop – Bubbles
New Desktop – Gateway Sr. (haven’t reformatted it yet, i wait til i figure out a computers personality)

Awesome names you geeks!!

My computer is named General Kenobi.. my wireless network is the Holonet…

i = uber star wars nerd.

I named mine Steve. (However it is a female computer.)
I named my modem KipKay. (Based off a Minecrafter’s username.)