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?

  • Ruaidhrigh Featherstonehaugh@friendica.me
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    1 year ago

    @aquova
    At the University (West coast, USA), it was a mix based on the department. I worked in the physics lab, and all the machines were named after physicists.

    Then I spent a decade in industry on the east coast, and all the machines were named by the common “scheme”: location, purpose, number, etc. Very dry, unimaginative, and IMHO, very East Coast Corporate.

    My personal servers are Greek Titans - Phaethusa, Tethys, etc. - and my home network is Middle Earth-based: WiFi networks are forests, servers and PCs are swords. I give our phones our initials; modern phones don’t last long enough to name.
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