Anyone else name their computers after Trek computers?

[zilla1126]

I used to keep my main computer named "nomad". Then in 1996 I took my computer to a huge LANfest (where people get together to play a computer game of some sort) and someone had "nomad" as a name already. This caused a network conflict. Drat!

I had to change my computer name on the spot, so I picked "M5".

I have used that ever since.

Anyone else have a similar story?

What Trek related names do you use on computers or other electronics?

 

[plynch]

Named my iPad 'iPadd.'

Clever, that.

 

[Gary7]

^ I never name a computer device that gives any hint of what it might be. Just one less bit of info for the devious to know.

When I worked for a start-up, we named our servers after Star Trek starship names. Of course the main one was "Enterprise", but we also had "Lexington" (Finance/Executive), "Endeavor" (dev1), "Excelsior" (dev2), "Defiant" (sqa1) to name a few.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

I name our copiers after starships... Reliant is an oft-broken Toshiba e650 that's at least five years old and creaks and groans as though it were listing and missing one of its warp engines... Excelsior acts like it's going to get going, paper loading, toner recycling, and whirrr......shuts down because it doesn't like the file it's been given.

 

[Sean Aaron]

I name my net-connected devices after Burgess Shale animals, with the one exception being my Mac Mini, which is named "orca."

I suppose if I had more computers I'd get around to Trek eventually, but I think the main barrier is the number of names. Would I use characters, names of ships, planets? The Burgess Shale animal names are funky and interesting and I've got a readily available list to choose from so that seemed easiest.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I was going to call mine The Ultimate Computer, but a week after I bought it it became obsolete. Such is fate. :P

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

I named the family's Nook "PADD-01."

 

[Winterwind]

I've never named anything, guitars, computers, genitals, etc.

My girlfriend works as a programmer at the university here and, after watching the TOS movies with me recently she said "Oh, so that's where our server names come from". They're all named after starships.

 

[GNDN]

Nice. I should really name my MAC 'Computer' so I can say "Hello, Computer". Wonder if
I'd get greeted with a "Good Morning, Captain" in return or maybe even a "Computed and recorded, Dear"

 

[ElBurro]

When my brother set up the wireless network at my dad's, he decided that it needed a name that we would all remember (this was when I still lived there). Since we're were a house full of major TNG fans, he decided to go with NCC-1701-D. And we do all remember it. Even my dad and he has a terrible memory!

I have a tendency to name everything, right down to the picture of a dog on one of my t-shirts. My guitar is called Steve. My current computer is called Orion and the one before that was Ziggy. Ziggy after Quantum Leap and Orion after Scott Bakula's characters code name on Chuck.

My next computers name will probably be something Trek related though, I'm sure

 

[Doug Otte]

Strange...it never occurred me to name a computer or other device.

I just let the router name our wi-fi network. There's no need for the family members to even know the name.

Doug

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

Oh, like "Netgear"? That's a good idea...
Perhaps your SSID anyway could be "NCC-1701 backbone" or something.

 

[Timewalker]

My first computer and printer were an Amiga 500 and a StarLaser 4. I named them "George" and "Gracie" after the whales in Star Trek IV.

Gracie died many years ago, but George still works fine (or would if I could find a working Amiga-compatible mouse).

 

[Captain Robert April]

I generally go with "HAL 9000" and go about my business...

 

[Lieut. Arex]

All three of mine are named after ST AI's. M5 for the desktop, Nomad and V-Ger for the laptops. At work, all of my passwords are starship registries (FJ's). Current login to the intranet is Exeter's.

 

[Vance]

I tried that once, then it went rogue and tried to enslave everyone, so I talked it into shutting itself down with circular logic. After that, never again.

 

[ElBurro]

Strange...it never occurred me to name a computer or other device.

I just let the router name our wi-fi network. There's no need for the family members to even know the name.

Doug

I don't know why my brother decided to give it a name we'd all remember. There are a lot of computers hooked up it though. I think it was something to do with that. When me and my other brother (who's away at university) lived there, there were about 9 on the network.

I pretty much know sod all about tech stuff but I'm sure brother had a reason.

 

[Sean Aaron]

Oh, like "Netgear"? That's a good idea...

Provided he's set a unique WPA2 passphrase I don't see a problem with taking the default name. Few wi-fi modems sold nowadays make such configuration easy enough for end-users to bother. My building is full of ones called BT+some-nine-digit-string - doesn't mean I can get a free ride on any of them.

 

[Doug Otte]

Oh, like "Netgear"? That's a good idea...

Provided he's set a unique WPA2 passphrase I don't see a problem with taking the default name. Few wi-fi modems sold nowadays make such configuration easy enough for end-users to bother. My building is full of ones called BT+some-nine-digit-string - doesn't mean I can get a free ride on any of them.

You're the winner!

Doug

 

[starrchild]

Well, I named my home network 'The Great Link', does that count?