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What is your machine naming scheme? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi's quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I've broadened it somewhat to include any Greek/Roman mythological figure, but the system is definitely not as clean as it used to be.

Do you have a coordinated naming theme for your machines?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do models for laptops and case names for my built desktop. So Dell-3590 or my desktop is NR400.

I know who has what so its easy to manage if i want to cut off network access or transfer files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Usually just names/lyrics of my favorite songs
iPhone: ByeByeBaby
AirPods: You're on your own, kid
Laptop: InnerMonologue
Except just for fun, I named my HomePod Cortana

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've not played for years but I still have a YuGiOh cards naming scheme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also some kind of Machinery. "GameMachine" for my Xbox "BigMachine" for my PC "MiniMachine" for my Phone "MicroMachine" for my Pi

Except my small 2-in-1 Laptop. That's "decepticon". Because it's an Asus Transformer Book.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My Synology is named Atlas because it’s my main file storage box (and has a most of my services running on it).

My VPS is called Aurora after the atmospheric phenomenon because cloud server.

And my little laptop I installed a server Linux distro on is called Challenger because I find it challenging to work with Fedora Server sometimes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Meta machines on my system offer data. Infra machines on my system run the network (infrastructure). But my favourite is naming all my HDD’s platters; Media Platters, Service Platters, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

pi3

pi3v2

space

fusion

magnet

qdivision

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Different Japanese food from this list, cause they are delicious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

urmom = main pc

fbi = rpi 4 with docker + pihole + 2x unbound

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Various computers/robots from media.

My desktop is Eddie (The name of the shop's computer from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and my home server is HEX (the weird magic computer in the High Energy Magic building at Unseen University in the Discworld novels)

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