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hcaztoday at 8:19 AM5 repliesview on HN

I always refer to https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page


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jimnotgymtoday at 9:32 AM

For LAN servers, I used to name my Linux machines after penguins. It seemed apt, made me smile, especially when new people came on board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_penguins

The Windows and Solaris boxes had numbers before i got there. A new guy started moving them to a name that included the os version like 'server-2008' in it. Never really liked that

vermilinguatoday at 9:01 AM

Fantastic, I have long used Culture Ship names [0] to name my devices but this is a far easier list to reference than others online

[0] https://namingschemes.com/Culture_Ships

jaggederesttoday at 10:01 AM

Good to see I'm probably not the only one who worked with a monstrous single database for all the things named "Yggdrasil", and a job server that was seemingly constantly trying to take it down named "Nidhogg".

voidUpdatetoday at 8:25 AM

Could do with having Minecraft Blocks instead of just Minecraft Materials, that's what I use for my home network