Journal: Computer Names

My PCs have the dumbest names. I can never think of anything creative when I am looking at the computer name: screen.

My Windows Server: CORONA - I had a Corona in my hand at the moment.

My Linux laptop: TPLINUX - TP for ThinkPad, Linux, well because it's running Linux.

My XP Desktop: EGGMAN - my "old" Alter-ego online gaming name.

And of course my machine at work, K000140DSF.

I have worked in small companies, and in labs where systems had creative names.

One company I worked at named all the servers after types of trees. Cherry, Oak, Elm, - those were the important ones. Another place named servers after planets, Mars, Earth, Venus, etc. When we ran out of planets, we started with constelations. The CEO wanted us to tape pictures near the boxes in the MDF depicting the planet that the server represented. (We pushed back on that one)