Strange computer names

[draconis]

Having just discovered that somebody named a server within their company "Batman," I got to thinking about some of the other strange names I've seen given to computers.

I've seen them named for characters from The Simpsons and Star Wars, the ships and the races (but not the characters for some reason) from Star Trek, types of handguns, types of assault rifles, types of tanks/mobile artillery, and types of aircraft. I used to work in one place where we clearly shouldn't have set up the servers so close to lunchtime, because they got named things like hushpuppy, cornbread, and catfish. I've also named boxes things like hatchling, dragonnette, wyrmkin, and ramparts (that was the firewall, could you guess? ::G::).

What about you? What names have you given to your computer(s), or what odd names have you seen?

Comments

[shrewreader]

I am currently the happy butler for Fezzik, (15" laptop - ott, huge, and prone to rhyming) Mulder (12" laptop, Lenovo X-series) & Flipper (Asus eee pc tablet netbook - the flippy kind, and the brand name sounds like the noises (a) you make when you see it and (b) that I imagine dolphins make). Thomas (the ancient T31 with Win 98) mainly serves as 'slightly more advanced than a typewriter.' Not mine, but resident in this house is Zephyr the MacAir. His predecessor was Mac the Mac, who suffered a gravity accident. He's got a new hard drive, and sooner or later Yin the Housemate will get around to installing his OS.

A former occupant of this house was Poppy, a Lenovo netbook named for the print on the back of her screen, given to our Mutual Friend M when she was pregnant (and has been kept now that M is the New Mom).

[draconis]

Cool.

Too bad Mac the Mac wasn't a Blade server! LOL

[shrewreader]

'Cause I really need to have a life -more- like a Kurt Weil opera, really I do.

Or Immortals showing up to challenge my hardware. I can just -see- explaining that one to the alarm company....

[em_kellesvig]

I tend to go with insects: Grasshopper (my very first with a whopping 8 gigs), Cricket, Junebug, Ladybug (the wireless router), Firefly (the current laptop), and Dragonfly (the current desktop). Although, Junebug -- a refurbished stopgap -- should have rightly been named Cockroach. O.o

[draconis]

Nice ones! I don't think I've seen anyone using insect names before -- probably a programmer's primal desire to avoid "bugs" ;-)