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November 27, 2007 8:08 AM

Name my new (home) server! Witty is better, obviously.

I'm having a hell of a time thinking of a name for my new home server. It's a headless box with plans for future expansion that will basically be running test virtual machines, serving files/media, and providing remote access into my home network.

My current naming scheme is somewhat literal:
MackBook (my MacBook, which is the Mack)
TreeKllr (printer/print server, which kills trees)
BitchBox (an underpowered, unslung NSLU2 that's to be replaced)
Rizzouter (a DD-WRT'd WRT54G, as the router)
xbmc (modded xbox)
tivo (tivo)

...etc...

So what could I call it? Bonus points for obscure references. Feel free to also suggest new naming schemes that would lend themselves to quick interpretation of a device's function based on its name.

posted by TheNewWazoo to Technology (33 answers total)

how bout the millenium falcon. or just falcon.
posted by eedele at 8:12 AM on November 27, 2007

Call it 'server'.

It's ironic.
posted by chrismear at 8:14 AM on November 27, 2007 [1 favorite]

I named my home server Teletraan 1.
posted by Industrial PhD at 8:16 AM on November 27, 2007

sever, 'cause it has no head
posted by Good Brain at 8:17 AM on November 27, 2007 [2 favorites]

Vigoda
posted by bondcliff at 8:18 AM on November 27, 2007

Best answer: antoinette (after Marie Antoinette, because it's headless)
or XVI (after Louis, also headless)
posted by limon at 8:18 AM on November 27, 2007

Pick a favorite movie, tv show, comic book, novel, etc and name them accordingly.

I have worked in places with Greek gods, characters from Dune, Simpsons characters, etc. Just pick your favorite.
posted by poppo at 8:19 AM on November 27, 2007

Response by poster: bondcliff: as in, The Fish?
posted by TheNewWazoo at 8:19 AM on November 27, 2007

Response by poster: limon, I love that idea - it's by far the most powerful thing on the network, and it has no head!
posted by TheNewWazoo at 8:20 AM on November 27, 2007

Bartleby
posted by papercake at 8:22 AM on November 27, 2007

Vic Morrow
posted by bondcliff at 8:24 AM on November 27, 2007 [1 favorite]

Hmm, who else lost her head? Isadora Duncan. Regrettable incident involving a long scarf and the rear wheel of a lovely Hispano-Suiza.

My server lives in a closet, and has a name suggesting its closeted status.
posted by adamrice at 8:37 AM on November 27, 2007

Rome, as in 'all roads lead to Rome'
posted by Argyle at 8:43 AM on November 27, 2007

Alfred, or Jeeves. Something along the traditional butler name.
posted by fallenposters at 8:45 AM on November 27, 2007

Walken. Headless, yet willing to serve, especially if it involves an uncomfoftable hunk of metal being stored for long periods of time.
posted by cosmicbandito at 8:53 AM on November 27, 2007 [1 favorite]

Black Jack Ketchum
General Holofernes
Servr (beta)
Frank
posted by sanko at 9:11 AM on November 27, 2007

May I suggest you rename your "BitchBox" Rosie, once she gets replaced?
posted by iamkimiam at 9:14 AM on November 27, 2007

Waiters often call themselves servers when trying to class things up, you could spin it and call your server "Waiter."
posted by SpiffyRob at 9:32 AM on November 27, 2007

I once named a server I ran from home "baphonet". Probably doesn't help you much, but it's too damn clever not to share.
posted by baphomet at 9:49 AM on November 27, 2007

Along the lines of what SpiffyRob said, I was going to say Head Waiter or Head Server. But maybe Headless would be better. Or just name it after your favorite waitstaff.
posted by bassjump at 10:07 AM on November 27, 2007

What is the opposite of server? taker; bus (busser, busboy); grabber; stingy
posted by parmanparman at 10:16 AM on November 27, 2007

Philippoussis, after one of the fastest servers ever to play tennis.

Along the headless line, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Anne Boleyn.
posted by Maxwell_Smart at 10:28 AM on November 27, 2007

The Hessian (Headless Horseman reference).
posted by entropic at 11:29 AM on November 27, 2007

To Serve Man.
posted by D Dear at 12:31 PM on November 27, 2007

SkyBucket -- it's basically a big bucket in the sky for all your files, plus it has a nice ring to it...
posted by LordSludge at 1:41 PM on November 27, 2007

Best suggestion I've seen (especially if you're dealing with a single class C of internal IP addresses) was to give each box a static IP and name it after the element whose atomic weight is the final octet.

So 192.168.1.28 would be "Nickel" for example. 192.168.1.15 named "Phosphorus", etc.

I think this may have been used at MIT or somewhere like it.
posted by JaredSeth at 1:44 PM on November 27, 2007 [2 favorites]

Oh with the obvious advantage that you could use a Periodic Table as a network map.

Hit post too soon.
posted by JaredSeth at 1:46 PM on November 27, 2007

my computer names:
desktop - dusty box
server - dust collector
laptop - dust transporter
posted by Sonic_Molson at 3:13 PM on November 27, 2007

Ichabod. Or Ichabod_Crane.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 4:20 PM on November 27, 2007

If it is Above all your Servers name it Maitre D'
posted by Megafly at 5:14 PM on November 27, 2007

I tend to name computers after Harry Potter characters/concepts - hence my file server is named "Pensieve"
posted by pjern at 6:44 PM on November 27, 2007

Roland, the Headless Thompson Fileserver


I named my iPod Marvin (brain the size of a planet, and all they ask is to play music), so the home box tied to the TV and everything became The Heart of Gold
posted by pupdog at 8:17 PM on November 27, 2007

My previous servers have had names like Zarathustra, Azathoth, Amaterasu, etc. Lots of syllables and some kind of "cool" reference.

MrSplashyPants is still a lot of syllables, but not quite so self-impressed.
posted by Kwirq at 9:09 PM on December 2, 2007