What’s in a name?

broderic on January 19, 2007

With the acquisition of the big ass hard drive and of Margaux’s new Mac Book, it’s time to think about computer naming conventions.

You just can’t let the hardware use the default name, because it’ll look funny on the network. For instance, I have named the big ass hard drive Gondolin. As you can tell (or can’t) this is a name from Tolkien. Yes it’s geeky. Doubly so.

All the computers that I have owned have names derived from Tolkien. Let’s see. My PowerBook 190 was Luthien. My Win95 box was Beren. My wifi network is Nargothrond. The MacMini PPC is Dorthonion. The TiBook is Doriath. The Airport Express is Finrod. My shuffle is even named Tinuviel. They’re all from Tolkien, the First Age, and The Silmarillion. Told ya it was geeky.

Anyway, the only issue is how to name these computing equipment. I had tried to stick with place names for most of my Apple computers. The older stuff though took the names of my favorite characters from the Silmarillion. I should standardize it where computers are places and peripherals people, but it’s so far served me good. But at least sticking within in this naming scheme I won’t run out of names to use and it evokes some rather cool imagery of my network.

I should just name all my computers after the 12 dwarf companions of Bilbo from The Hobbit.

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4 Replies to “What’s in a name?”

  1. Anonymous January 19, 2007 at 04:49 AM

    That is crazy geeky.

  2. Anonymous January 19, 2007 at 05:45 AM

    Just name your comps after Star Wars characters like every one else.

  3. broderic January 19, 2007 at 07:27 AM

    I like to take from Tolkien, because if need be, I can use umlauts and weird accents.

  4. Anonymous January 20, 2007 at 06:15 AM

    im simply calling mine, my new baby. what else?

    =o)

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