Dear nerdfolk,
If you're the sort of person who names their computers *and* has a naming scheme for them - what are they named and what's your naming scheme?
Dear nerdfolk,
If you're the sort of person who names their computers *and* has a naming scheme for them - what are they named and what's your naming scheme?
Work servers are (mostly) video game characters, with the character being some sort of mnemonic for info about the server. Mario is misc-prod, Luigi is misc-staging. Thwomp is the one with a big ol slab of a hard drive for archives. Sonic is the one with a fast CPU for big CI jobs. (Chatty) Cathy isn't a video game character, but handles our XMPP and Jitsi chat.
Personal computers are generally have boring names because they tend to be more general-purpose and so don't have much character for me to go off of at naming-time. "lukeshu-{model}" for prebuilts (laptops, SBCs, phones, and such), and -something-about-the-build otherwise; "lukeshu-build64" was my first 64-bit build back in the day, "monolith" is a big featurless black tower (2001 A Space Odyssey). I had a laptop that was the guts of one model in the exterior of another model, it was lukeshu-arla, because Arla was a skinwalker in a TV show (Haven?).