How do you name your computers?
These days just about every computer is networked, and that means they have to have a hostname. So how do you name yours? Assuming there’s no particular corporate standard you have to follow, do you make up a theme, or just give them random names?
At home we have lano and woodley.
At my girlfriend’s place, they’ve called them crunchie and munchie.
The company I use for web hosting names their servers after towns and cities around Australia.
At one job I had, we went Red Dwarf, and ended up with holly (main server), kryten (test server) and hudzen (temporary server).
At another job, we started on The Simpsons, with maggie, marge, homer… then moved onto Asterix, with getafix (very appropriate for a machine that needed patching) and obelix.
