Funny Hostnames

[Tux]

Hey, have any of you christened any of your machines with interesting or humourous hostnames?

My most interesting are mithrandir and conundrum.

[Void Main]

We have some interesting names on all of our IBM, Sun, and Linux boxes at work but I don't want to list them in case any of my coworkers happen to be members here. They "might" put 2 and 2 together. :) Some names I've used in the past are allegra (fast), bertha (big), thunder, lightning (last two used while working in a weather shop), fred, barney, betty, wilma, bambam, pebbles, dino. Then we had 7 IBM diskless workstations we of course named doc, dopey, sleepy, bashful, grumpy, happy, and sneezy, along with their bootp/NFS/NIS server called snowwhite. There are countless others, we really had some good ones in the weather shop, they just escape me at the moment (too long ago). Lately I haven't been very creative and have made management happy by giving servers names based on the applications they host and location. :(

[agent007]

I usually use storm-center.....

[X11]

A lot of my computers are named after charictars out of the book Jenifer Goverenment... (jeni-govt , billy-nra, john-nike)

And im starting to name them after guitar companys (gibson, and my next box ill coin fender)

Then theres my PC (exeleven) and my brothers (tazor)

[dishawjp]

I don't know how terribly funny/unusual these names are, but I have 5 computers. Their names are alphabetical in the order that I got them. Their names/descriptions are as follows:

ancient: An old XT running DOS 5.0 (now) that cost me a small fortune and still runs. It has dual floppy drives (360K 5 1/4 and 720K 3 1/2) and a hard drive (20MB) and 640K of RAM and CGA (4 color video). Seriously hot stuff in its day.

badboy: another DOS computer (6.22)a P266 with dual floppy drives, 64 MB RAM, dual hard drives, and a tape drive.

crasher: my Win98 box. P3 933, 512 MB RAM, dual 30 GB 7200 RPM hard drives, tape drive, scanner, IDE DVD, IDE CD ROM, SCSI CD RW, SCSI scanner, and etc.

dinix: my first Linux box, RH 6.2, P 166, 48 MB RAM, not much else.

eunix: my main computer now; dual boot RH9/FC1, P4 2.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM, dual 40 GB 7200 RPM hard drives, 32 MB NVidia video card, IDE CD ROM, IDE CD RW, and etc.

I guess if there's any humor, it's the name of my Win98 box. Either that or the fact that I still have an XT up and running

Jim Dishaw

[Membrax]

Mine is called "Houston".
Guess why ?

Coming from :
"Houston, we have a problem"

[cdhgold]

don't know how humorous they are but my systems names are after some of my preffered drinks like JD as in Jack Daniels which is the laptop(w2k/Suse 9.0 depending on whether my wife or I am using it), Whiskey(my main full tower SUSE 9.0), JOSE my Suse9.0 web server, and finally MARGARITA ( my wife's w2k pro system), and last my linux system at work BOCK(SUSE 9.0/FC1/Slackware 9.1 depending on my mood) as in my fav beer Shiner Bock.

Chris

[Calum]

my laptop is called claudia and my desktop is called harvey.

i don't know why, my girlfriend named them.


my guitars have names too now i think on it! i had one guitar (now sold) called beth (after beth from portishead) and i have one guitar in orkney called grant (because the brand name is grant, beleive it or not) and my mandolin is actually called melody, named by an ex girlfriend.