I've always loved naming machines. Starting out as a sysadmin it was one way you could have fun, especially when setting up large clusters. Here's my fun names through the years:
A Sun 3/80 lab named after japanese authors - kimitake, mishima, yukio, (can't remember the rest)
30 X Terminals named after creatures in the B52s Rock Lobster song. (Sea-Robin, Bikini-Whale)
I'm sure some people can guess what this set of NeXT machines were named after: hafnhaf, ashpool, mrfrosty, tessier.
Prod backend hosts at hi5 were named after the Simpsons (moe, bart, etc.) We ended up having so many we had to name machines after the guest-stars. ssh'ing into lindaronstandt or michellepfeiffer at 3am was a real spelling test.
Currently at Google I have machines named arcwelder and huskerdu for my dev purposes. Other musical acts that have had the honor of their own machine name over my career include mudhoney, danzig, and even... anthrax.
Originally shared by Paul Lindner
What's the most creative name you've ever give to your computer?
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Of course serverfault would have done it better! It's interesting to see responses from non-grizzled sysadmins :)
... but I did have fun recollecting some of my odder naming moments :)
Paul Lindner, Jul 28 2011 on 1500wordmtu.com