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Irritated Goat
Mar 12, 2005

This post is pathetic.
Goons, what's the name of your PCs\Servers\Network? Do you have a theme? If it's obscure, educate us :)

PC: Yomiko She's a librarian from a series called Read or Die. My PC is also my current file server as well hence the name

Network: Stormstout Brewery. This is an instance in WoW and I created the network back when I was playing. I need to change it.

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BlackMK4
Aug 23, 2006

wat.
Megamarm
iMac: opsek
MBP: discovery
ESXi Box: hubble

Canine Blues Arooo
Jan 7, 2008

when you think about it...i'm the first girl you ever spent the night with

Grimey Drawer
I started creating a bunch of virtual APs that are all lines from 'The Raven'. I don't think I'll be able to complete the entire thing, but I'll get close!

That's the only interesting thing I have named :(. My computer is just called, 'TheBox'

Canine Blues Arooo fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Oct 21, 2013

Hed
Mar 31, 2004

Fun Shoe
I use a theme of characters from Top Gun. My computer is Maverick, HTPC is Hollywood, netbook is Slider. VMs are Sundown & Merlin. My MacBook was goose, but (probably appropriately) he crashed and burned got stolen. It's all about viper now.

Magic_Anthrax_Ninja
May 10, 2009
My computers have been called George for the last 13 years.

Currently I am typing from georgethefourth and I have a raspberry pi which is georgeV

my router is called georgertr

Beenine
Aug 9, 2013
Network: (.)(.)Boobies

cage-free egghead
Mar 8, 2004
Network: FartHouse and Farthouse5ghz
PC Name: Fart

zapateria
Feb 16, 2003
Seriouspost:

We have used a standard of company shortform - username for our computers, like "ABC-JOHOL" where ABC is company and JOHOL is two first characters of first name and three first of last name "John Holmes". We've been playing with the idea of switching to using "john.holmes" as username, but then we can't have a matching computername (abc-john.holmes is both too long and contains a dot).

Any suggestions? We would like to have a logical connection between username and computername to make it easier to remote control computers.


Servernames are just boring "FUNCTION" names.. like "EXCHANGE" and "ORACLE".

Modus Trollens
Sep 12, 2010

Connect for Cock, obviously

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Desktop: Desktop
Laptop: Laptop
Netbook: Netbook
Laptop2: Laptop2
Server: Server
Toughbook: Toughbook
Raspberry Pi: rPi

:wow:

...I have no imagination.

EDIT: Someone come up with interesting/funny names and I will totally change them.

Humphreys fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Oct 21, 2013

corker2k
Feb 22, 2013

Network: Cereal Bro. This is named after our low-budget version of the X-men machine of the similar name, made from a cereal box, obviously.

Note: The cereal box has not been edited at all. It is just a cereal box that the wearer places on head.

Barehanded Brother
Feb 12, 2007

When you have a Hammer, everything looks like a nail.
My old tower had the standard 2 LED setup but only one of them worked, so I named it Odin, which got carried over when I got my new tower. My network, then, is Bifrost, and I changed the names of my Kindle and HTC One to Huginn and Muninn.

It's pretty nerdy I admit but I played a lot of Age of Mythology as a kid so :shobon:

Paradox Personified
Mar 15, 2010

:sun: SoroScrew :sun:
I've cycled through so many of the dozens of hilarious network names, think I'll keep this one for a while.. for nostomania's sake.
A mortal enemy of mine that has caused huge amounts of property damage/theft and stress (five tires, five screws, hundreds of dollars worth of theft within three months) is under double-narcotics surveillance as per my household's request and is the extremely paranoid type to boot.
So to gently caress with her head until she gets busted;

standardtoaster
May 22, 2009
My network is FBI Surveillance Van.

H to the ickle
Feb 17, 2007

All butter must come to an end.
Network: Living in the Future

I still think WiFi is pretty cool and futuristic, so it's stuck across several different routers.

KaiserSchnitzel
Feb 23, 2003

Hey baby I think we Havel lot in common
PC: Pwn Daddy
Laptop: Ol' Weezy
Network: KaiserSchnitzel

I have no stories about the reasons for the names, but my story about why I changed my network name to KaiserSchnitzel can probably be sufficiently guessed when you know that the previous network name was Whorefucker.

EscortMission
Mar 4, 2009

Come with me
if you want to live.
PC: Superbox
Netbook: Tinybox
Wifi: Maximum Security Car Wash

I don't have an actual house network set up because Dropbox exists. :(

Factory Factory
Mar 19, 2010

This is what
Arcane Velocity was like.
My domain is called Factory. My main computer is called... "puter." I don't actually have a factory.factory.

My WiFi is Butt Network.

zapateria posted:

Any suggestions? We would like to have a logical connection between username and computername to make it easier to remote control computers.

An Excel spreadsheet that matches an arbitrary PC name to your user's name?

Blaminator
Apr 16, 2007

"He seriously didn't go mech?"
All of mine are very boring, logical and descriptive, i.e. swi-pcy-lgf-001 (switch, abbreviated road name, lower ground floor, number 1).

However, my SSID is buttes

Sedes
Jun 7, 2007
SSID: Kaczadupa. It's in polish, and translates roughly as 'Duckbutt'. I didn't put much thought into it.

Friend's cell is 'I am not a cylon' @ bluetooth.

standardtoaster
May 22, 2009

Factory Factory posted:

My WiFi is Butt Network.

That's a good one, might have to steal it.

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007
Wifi G: WirelessWilma
Wifi N: WireleseWanda

I used to name all my PCs by their CPU such as "AMD Thunderbird" or "Pentium 3", those were a long time long time ago.

Now I go by planets in the solar system. Desktop is Saturn, Netbook is Pluto (small, moves around a lot, misunderstood), Venus for wife's PC. My HTPC and NAS have booring, non planetary names.

Music Theory
Aug 7, 2013

Avatar by Garden Walker
Desktop: GAMEBOX
Network: VIRUS_DOWNLOADER

I like to think I've scared away at least one person from trying to connect to it. (There is a password, though.)

History Comes Inside!
Nov 20, 2004




My desktop is RedWun (Because it's fasta :orks:)

KaLogain
Dec 29, 2004

I got her number. How do you like them apples?
Cybernetic Crumb
I use the names of the Forsaken from the Wheel of Time fantasy book series.

BurgerQuest
Mar 17, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Network: potemkin - because I glanced at the DVD while setting it up

PCs: <name>-PC, of course!

Sebastian Flyte
Jun 27, 2003

Golly
Current WiFi network name is The Orgasmotorium. I had to change it temporarily when a nice, elderly downstairs neighbour with no PC asked if his visiting son could connect his laptop to my WiFi, if I had one.

Previous network names have been Sorry About My Terrible Taste in Music and SORRY ABOUT THE NOISE WHEN WE gently caress. I have been completely celibate for years.

(I know the last two are longer than 32 characters. They aren't in my language, which isn't English)

TheMopeSquad
Aug 5, 2013
PC: Mid-Boss

NadaTooma
Aug 24, 2004

The good thing is that everyone around you has more critical failures in combat, the bad thing is - so do you!
PC: Moleculo

THE MOLECULAR MAN

Proletarian Mango
May 21, 2011

PC: Charlotte
Netbook: Josephine
Network: Wonderland

I just really like those two names, and Alice in Wonderland is pretty cool so~

wintermuteCF
Dec 9, 2006

LIEK HAI2U!
Current naming scheme for my computers is Star Wars planets.

Main Desktop: Coruscant
Laptop: Dantooine
Wife Laptop: Tatooine
Work Desktop (in the office): Kessel
Work Laptop: Hoth

When I had to remote into my work desktop from home, I jokingly referred to it as "The Kessel Run".

This is now less clever that my two above-mentioned work computers no longer exist (I'm no longer with that company), and I'm tiring of the Star Wars theme. I like the NASA theme someone had earlier, if I move into a house this year I'll rebuild my network and probably change scheme to that. Name desktops after space shuttles (Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis), the server Houston (we've had a problem).

Knot My President!
Jan 10, 2005

Computer: SEANPC
Wifi: CRAIGSLIST TEA PARTY M4M
Girlfriend's Computer: Billy ("stop changing my computer's name to loving Billy")

Orcs and Ostriches
Aug 26, 2010


The Great Twist
PC - THE_COMPUTRON
Network - Aardvark

Chillbro Baggins
Oct 8, 2004
Bad Angus! Bad!
Ethernet name: Nelson

Computers: Victory, Excelsior, Bellerophon, Neptune, Vulture; all named after Royal Navy ships from the 1790s, named according to their relative power: Victory (104-gun first-rate) is the desktop gaming rig; Bellerophon (74) is the middlin' desktop, Neptune (98 guns) is the newish laptop with better specs than the lesser desktop, Vulture (14-gun sloop-of-war) is the netbook.

Wifi SSIDs are THE GIBSON and TOTALLY NOT THE NSA.

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

standardtoaster posted:

My network is FBI Surveillance Van.

RCMP Surveillance Van.

Moey
Oct 22, 2010

I LIKE TO MOVE IT
SSID: Moeylicious
Laptop: Moey-Asus
ESXi: Moey-VM
VM: Moey-Media
VM: Moey-MySQL
VM: Moey-Ubuntu
VM: Moey-Veeam
VM: Moey-Web
VM: Moey-FTP


Call me boring?

considerably
May 24, 2007

Delivery McGee posted:

Ethernet name: Nelson

Computers: Victory, Excelsior, Bellerophon, Neptune, Vulture; all named after Royal Navy ships from the 1790s, named according to their relative power: Victory (104-gun first-rate) is the desktop gaming rig; Bellerophon (74) is the middlin' desktop, Neptune (98 guns) is the newish laptop with better specs than the lesser desktop, Vulture (14-gun sloop-of-war) is the netbook.

Wifi SSIDs are THE GIBSON and TOTALLY NOT THE NSA.

Wow, are you me? I use the same scheme for PC/device names and thought I was so cool.

Maybe I should rename mine to French ships and we can go to war. :hist101:

100 HOGS AGREE
Oct 13, 2007
Grimey Drawer
I prefix everything with hey, I like to imagine I am saying hello to my devices when I connect to them. heyrouter, heyphone, etc.

Hey, computer! Stop operating like a piece of poo poo!

Hansolio
Nov 4, 2009

I W A N T M Y M T V

My SSID is TakeOffYourShirt and I think my laptop is something boring like Hansolio-HP, but I named my AirPort Extreme WAPple.

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McSlaughter
Sep 12, 2013

"Kill white people and get paid for it? What's not to like?"
My desktop is called HAL-9000 and my laptop is Pip Boy 3000.

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