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I always struggle to come up with a good hostname when I get a new computer. Now that I've got siduction installed, I'm looking for a good hostname. What did you call your system?

Hi,

my systems are named to places from Marion Zimmer-Bradleys "Darkover" series. :)

Greets
ayla

Most of my hostname come from the movie "Ice Age" as scrat, squint or buck.

I was always inspired by the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Therefore my current system is called "heartofgold" and there are a lot of more funny and unique names in these novels ;)

Mine is very simple, tim-pc

Tim

@ayla: Thumbs up :)!

I don't have a straight line when it comes to naming. The name somehow must match the character of the machine. I have a "gemini" that once was a Windows machine, there is a "phoenix" which earned its name when being revived after an "emergency operation", a "panther" which is just dark and quiet, an "oldie" (guess why), a "speedy" (laptop with 256 MB RAM after installation of antiX instead of Windows) and so on.

I'm boring - I just use the model number of the confuser. p690, dv9000, etc.

Because I have a mix of 32 and 64 bit installs (only one 32 bit left), and the fact that I have 4 distros on my UEFI machine, I use:

(distro_name)(32/64)(Display Environment)(CPU-abbreviation)

# hostname
siduction64kdefx

It may be a bit long, but it makes it easier when I'm looking at my routers DHCP client list.

I have no system, so the hostnames are only meaningful to me:


imerabox      (custom built desktop, started as aptosid Imera)
e6500          (Dell Latitude E6500 laptop)
suzdesk       (previous custom built system, now wife's desktop)
tosh205        (Toshiba NB-205 netbook)
decembersid  (old E-Machines POS with "December" installed)

I have some great people around:


but I have also dumb names like "printer", "router" and "s3"


greets,
Roland

2 machines here -
brain (desktop)
eee-brain (netbook)

on desktop workstations I got inspired by the CPU:

i7
i5
amd3200

my headless slaves are named by what they're used for:

nas1
nas2
backup

x1
x2
x3
x4
x5
bonghit
x7 phone

Zitat von: piper in 2014/05/13, 17:21:18
x1
x2
x3
x4
x5
bonghit
x7 phone

Haha, so you got distracted when you were installing x6?  ;D 8)

Zitat von: sunratQuote from: piper on Today at 12:21:18 PMx1
x2
x3
x4
x5
bonghit
x7 phoneHaha, so you got distracted when you were installing x6? 

lol, good one ;):):P

at work: solar system objects (sun, planets and moons)

at home: siddesk, sidlap, sidbox, etc...

characters from star wars; darthvader, chewie, hansolo, yoda (nas), and for my white macbook I called it stormtrooper, which isn't really a character but meuh. 

simply: "ramme" for my workstation, "lappi" for the laptop and "websrv" ...

Edith say: I have to admit, that "websvr" is the former "mistviech"

Zitat von: melmarker in 2014/05/16, 00:30:21
Edith say: I have to admit, that "websvr" is the former "mistviech"

*gg* And since you renamed it it is working fine I guess? ;)