I've got kind of random naming schemes for my computers. Here they are:
Names of current machines
- Kianna (64 bit Core 2 Quad Q6600, Ubuntu 8.10)
Named after the Tilly and the Wall singer. My favorite raid card is a 4-lane 9650SE right now, running those silly Seagate 1.5TiB drives (reliably, since upgrading their firmware). Currently gets 236 Kp/s up to 953 Kp/s on prtbench. Runs the AFP daemon for me, so I was able to officially ditch SMB.
- Moya (3.0GHz Quad Core OS X Leopard)
Named after the living ship from Farscape, my newest workhorse is primarily for processing panoramas. Moya can completely stitch a pano faster than I can read the tiffs off disk with Aeryn-Sun. Gets 287 Kp/s up to 1.08 Mp/s on prtbench (TODO rerun with latest Apple compiler).
- Pilot (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, OS X Leopard)
My work's MacBook white with an upgraded hard drive. Wicked-fast Python execution. Its hard drive is named Leviathan.
- Toothpaste (32 bit Celeron, Ubuntu 7.10)
Randomly named. Contains drives "berry" and "tilly" and stores my backups off-site. Draws about 35 watts idle, 1130 bogomips.
- Aeryn-Sun (PPC G4 laptop, OS-X Tiger)
Character played by Claudia Black in Farscape. Runs the PPC buildbots for Trac, and not much else at the moment. Briefly was called Professor Farnsworth because of a dent it has.
- li2-27 (UML instance, Debian Etch)
This one never really got a name, since I only refer to it by fully-qualified hostnames. It's run through linode.com which I'm very happy with.
- D'Argo (Dual Opteron, FreeBSD 7.x)
A dude who means business in Farscape. A 1U box I picked up, this will run things in jails so I don't have to put them in VMs on Moya anymore.
- Joolushko (Dual Opteron, Arch Linux)
A character from Farscape that screams a lot. Close to D'Argo. Will probably keep these two in the living room, and have to deal with noise issues. A 1U box like D'Argo, this one is intentionally not deb-based. While I think more people should use Ubuntu, I live in an Ubuntu-heavy world and would like to keep my options open.
Names of now-retired machines
- Dalek (evil guys from Doctor Who), which was my office box at UNT
- Cardiff (place where Torchwood takes place), a PPC G4 running Buildbot
- Kianna (previous incarnation, an Athlon64 which didn't survive the move)
- Arandis (from Star Trek), my first dual-cpu box
- Derek, Neely, and Jamie (band members of Tilly) which were VMs on Arandis (Derek was the windows one, Neely ran sparc and Jamie mipsel)
Drives
I favor ironic names. Most of them are some variant on "huge", knowing full well that disk sizes increase rapidly so they won't be for long.
- Drivechen (back when 250GB was a lot)
- Large (back when 160GB was a lot)
- Monolith (back when 120GB was a lot)
- Whitey (drive case is white)
- Speedy (slowest IDE drive I still use)
- Jay, Kay, Emm (back when I was running Windows, I named them after their letters)
- boot, root, usr (my first Gentoo box also used obvious names)