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What is your machine naming scheme? (startrek.website)

submitted 2 years ago by aquova@startrek.website to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi's quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I've broadened it somewhat to include any Greek/Roman mythological figure, but the system is definitely not as clean as it used to be.

Do you have a coordinated naming theme for your machines?

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[–] apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use trees and other types of shrubbery. Towers and laptops are named after trees while Pis and the like are named after bushes and ferns.

[–] Shrek@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Examples please?? I love this!

[–] apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pine, Oak, and Aspen for the towers on the network. My primary laptop is Rubber and my Surface tablet is called Birch. My raspberry Pi 4 is Pedatus, the species name of some raspberry bushes.

[–] Shrek@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I love it! Thanks for sharing!