xena?
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| Author | Content |
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| moopst Mar 19, 2009 4:08 PM EDT |
Quoting:Want to know your computer's name? Xena? Really, Xena? Oh, wait a minute $ hostname frodo Nevermind. |
| gus3 Mar 19, 2009 4:37 PM EDT |
Joseph (desktop), Mary (gateway), Peter (SPARC), Joachim (old laptop), Anna (other old laptop), Paul (AMD64 X2, took my desktop to the next level), James (the Lesser, the EeePC)... I think you can see where this is going. |
| techiem2 Mar 19, 2009 4:45 PM EDT |
Firewall (firewall/game server), Cthulhu (file/print server), Games (vm server...used to be a gaming machine...I'll rename it one of these days), Techiem2 (server vm - I've traditionally used my handle for the server), Serenity (Desktop), Escape-Pod (laptop), Lexx (Neo Freerunner) |
| tracyanne Mar 19, 2009 4:48 PM EDT |
I just name mine after the brand of computer. except the file/print server which gets called main |
| herzeleid Mar 19, 2009 5:10 PM EDT |
I tend to name my machines after sci-fi books or movies - freeside, armitage, case, neuromancer, wintermute, ninsei, chiba, neo, trinity, cloverfield... Most of these names will most likely draw a blank from the average bloke, but it's always fun when somebody gets it and makes a hip insider reference. |
| NoDough Mar 19, 2009 5:14 PM EDT |
Sam Norm Cliff Diane Rebecca Carla Woody Coach Frasier Lillie That was a former workplace, my current workplace uses boring names. |
| techiem2 Mar 19, 2009 5:38 PM EDT |
Quoting:Most of these names will most likely draw a blank from the average bloke, but it's always fun when somebody gets it and makes a hip insider reference. Yup. That's half the fun of using odd names. |
| mortenalver Mar 19, 2009 6:11 PM EDT |
My wireless network is called Brachionus. |
| Sander_Marechal Mar 19, 2009 6:27 PM EDT |
Tweety (desktop), Sylvester (main server), Pinky (from Pinky and The Brain, modem), Marvin (The Martian, laptop), Speedy (Gonzales, managed switch). I also have a VoIP box but I can't set a hostname for it. The webinterface only works when using the IP address :-( |
| caitlyn Mar 19, 2009 7:00 PM EDT |
Mine are named from former pet ferrets, ones that passed away years ago: I have Adric, Nyssa, and Romana at the moment. |
| ColonelPanik Mar 19, 2009 8:14 PM EDT |
Thanks, I feel much better about myself now. |
| jdixon Mar 19, 2009 8:43 PM EDT |
Tanelorn, Mouse (a windows machine), Auk (dual boot), Otter (a windows machine), Zebra, and Walrus (a Windows machine). My personal machine is always Tanelorn. We also have an older Freedos based machine not currently in use which we call Dodo. |
| jdixon Mar 19, 2009 8:45 PM EDT |
> My wireless network is called Brachionus. Ours is The Raven's Roost. since Meredith maintains the website ravendays.org. Our wired network is called Unicorn. |
| caitlyn Mar 19, 2009 8:47 PM EDT |
"Too big to fly, dodo ugly so dodo must die,
Doggo with fear on its side, can't change, can't change the tide.
Dog baiter, agitator, asking questions, says he wants to know why.
Ain't no reason that money can't buy.
Mink he pretty so mink he must die, must die, must die.
Sun he giving life in his light,
Part of the system,
Friend to man, friend to the trees,
No friend to the snowman.
Where does he go, what does he do?
Does he meet with the mole, the stream, the cloud
And end up at the bottom of the sea..." Sorry, I couldn't resist. That's what came to mind when I read jdixon's post. Those are the first section of the lyrics from Dodo/Lurker by Genesis. Lyrics by Phil Collins. |
| hkwint Mar 19, 2009 9:06 PM EDT |
Mine is called in a way so I'm sure (most) foreigners cannot pronounce it: Ghans. But hey, I feel ashamed having only 1 physical box (runs both VMWare, wine _and_ kvm&qemu now though). Obviously in the wrong place here at LXer. BTW is XenA the unprivileged sister of DomU? |
| gus3 Mar 19, 2009 10:07 PM EDT |
But Hans, you can claim that you are far "greener" than most of us. You've found a way to maximize your hardware's usefulness, rather than just go out and buy more... er, buy new hardware. |
| jezuch Mar 20, 2009 3:04 AM EDT |
$ hostname
zx-spectrum-1 (no, not really, it's an Athlon X2 ;) ) |
| tuxtom Mar 20, 2009 4:17 AM EDT |
bluto, dday (DB)
flounder, deanwomer (MX, DNS)
otter, boone, niedermeyer (WWW)
stork (JMS) ...there were several more that I forget. It's been a while since I worked on that network...brings back some good memories in more ways than one. My essid (dd-wrt) is "BigBrother". |
| gus3 Mar 20, 2009 10:56 AM EDT |
I was war-riding in Silicon Valley one day and found "virus laden network". |
| ColonelPanik Mar 20, 2009 12:44 PM EDT |
gus3: So you clicked on it? |
| number6x Mar 20, 2009 1:22 PM EDT |
national parks |
| gus3 Mar 20, 2009 1:29 PM EDT |
Click? What's this "click"? iwconfig FTW! I tried to catch it on stdout, but we were out of range just that quickly. And turning around and going back wasn't an easy option on rails. |
| moopst Mar 20, 2009 2:32 PM EDT |
frodo carries great evil with him. It's my old Micron dual boot with Win98 and zenwalk. I keep it around for the nice soundcard it has to digitize my vinyl collection. When the micron boots Windows he's billthecat, after the bloom county character who coughs up hairballs all the time (and Bill Gates). harpo is the HP named after the Marx Bros. character. manoa is one I built for my sister who lived in the Manoa valley in Hawaii for 12 years The laptop is celeborn The wireless essid is "pizza fan" after a line from the Queen song "Bicycle" My first Linux machine was opus - the penguin from bloom county. |
| gus3 Mar 20, 2009 2:42 PM EDT |
One OS to rule them all, one OS to find(1) them, One OS to bring them all, and in the darkness bind(2) them. |
| techiem2 Mar 20, 2009 3:25 PM EDT |
gus3: The MS Mission Statement? |
| gus3 Mar 20, 2009 7:38 PM EDT |
No, that would be: "It looks like you are making a Ring! Would you like help? o Get help making a ring for Dwarves o Get help making a ring for Elves o Get help making a ring for Men [X] Just tell Frodo to mind his own business" |
| Bob_Robertson Mar 21, 2009 12:02 PM EDT |
> Tanalorn Oh wow, serious flash-back time. THank you. My systems are named for kids I didn't have, since my wife didn't like the names I thought of by myself. Stephani, Dierdre, Corwin Gateway was named for function, rather than form. :^) |
| azerthoth Mar 21, 2009 1:25 PM EDT |
Nicola and Tesla (Laptops that connect only via wireless to the network) Bedantor (a mix of letters from the first names of my wife and kids) the family computer. OLPC (the gutted and rebuilt now ubuntu file/print/RAS server) Beast (My main, with no guarantee as to which OS its set to default to at any given time) Fidget (In process of becoming a media center) |
| jdixon Mar 21, 2009 5:44 PM EDT |
> Oh wow, serious flash-back time. THank you. In which case you could probably hack my personal machine fairly easily, as you're probably familiar with all of the base passwords. :) |
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