What do you name your gadgets?

[Ink Asylum]

Someone I follow on twitter said their wife called them a nerd for naming his drives after Star Trek characters. I think most geeks tend to have traditions for naming their computer drives and other gadgets.

For the past decade or more my home PC's C: and D: drives are always named "Crow" and "Servo".

Logic should dictate that the computer itself should be named "S.O.L." but it ended up being named "Bebop" when I was on a Cowboy Bebop craze and the name has stuck through successive computers. I had an uber geek moment last year when I got my first laptop and it was a special (red) charity one from Dell, so it had a nice deep red for the cover. What else could I name it but "Swordfish II"?

When I finally got an iPod years ago the first name that sprung to mind was "PipBoy". As I still keep it around for data storage I had to come up with a different iPhone name and went with "GLaDOS".

What are your gadget names?

[axion]

I have never named a gadget beyond "Rory's iPod."

[Superman's Dead]

I named my Xbox Harddrive Xbox McGee, I think. McBox. Something like that.

My best friend has consistently named every gadget he has "The Bat (whatever)" for years. Bat Phone, Bat Computer, Bat Network, etc.

[digitalErich]

I never name my gadgets/drives, but my routers/networks tend to have names from DC comic locals. My wireless network is currently the Watchtower and my home network in the past has been Keystone [City] and various other things like that.

[Ink Asylum]

My best friend has consistently named every gadget he has "The Bat (whatever)" for years. Bat Phone, Bat Computer, Bat Network, etc.

That's pretty clever. "Quick! Reset the Bat Router!"

[Scull]

The only thing I have name is the network and the PCs that reside there. Otomo, Akira, Kei, Tetsuo, Kaneda, etc.

Oh, and I guess the hard drives/partitions in all the machines get their own names too.

[Purple Santa]

I never thought of naming my gadgets. I have stumbled upon new geek chic that I must try :)

[Thanasimos]

When I was dual booting Win7 RC and XP, the OS's were named OXICLEAN and OXICLEAN MAX FORCE, respectively. Now that I'm dual booting Win7 and Ubuntu, with the Linux boot loader primary, once I figure out how to name things it's going to be "OXICLEAN" and "rag with spit on it".

Probably not very geeky. It's just to piss off some friends of mine who take operating systems way too seriously.

[Suave Peanut]

I don't name too many things. I've had a little red flash drive for years that I named "Rush Jet". As for mp3 players, they're named what they are: "Sansa4" and "Zune8"

[xoanon]

The last set of names I used were of the three furies: Alecto, Magaera, and Tisiphone. At my last job I named everything after places in Middle Earth and then FF6 characters.

[JRR006]

The two iPods I own are Starbug and Red Dwarf. Computers just get named for their locations in the house.

[Panthera]

I tend to give my computers names based on myth and my vague sense of their personality. My main desktop is usually Poseidon. My work desktop is Hephaestus. My laptop is Apollo.

[Ink Asylum]

Two of my friends have computers named "JOOWANTAXE" and "IGOTAXEFORYOU". Always gives me a chuckle at LAN parties.

[Esquilax1138]

I name my hard drives/partitions Larry, Curly and Moe, with Shemp if needed.

[Ink Asylum]

That sounds like a recipe for disaster. Larry's going to try to retrieve some files from Curly, only for Moe to spin up and accidentally smack him with a RAM stick, sending him head-first into the heat sink.

[BLeeP]

I name quite a few things Bat(whatever). My iPod is the Batpod, for instance. The computer I'm using is called DeeperBlue (a silly joke, I know, but it was my first build!). Right now I'm sticking to calling my Droid FUCKING AWESOME ^_~.

[rein]

Network -Cruella
Desktop -HollyMarie
Notebook -Phoebe
Netbook -Tink
PS3 -Lorelai
PSP -Emma
DS -Tatum
iPhone -J's iPhone

[The Doctor]

PC - Golgotha
Airport Extreme - IttyBitty
TiVo - EmptyVee
iBook - Nemesis
iPod - Tony's iPod

[Karak]

Don't name anything other than my Finches.

Magatron
Lady Finch
Pax Tharkas
Nabisco

[Ghostbear]

Ummm "my computer" "thats my xbox"

[Expugnare]

Evan-PC
Evan-Laptop
Evan's iPhone
Evan's Zune

Yeah, I'm really creative.

[Handmade.Mercury]

My 8 GB USB drive is named Mercury, this laptop is named Neptune, and my old laptop, being a brick, is named Jupiter.

[civil]

Up top: Honey and Dew.

Down below: Bob Seger and the Silver Bullets.

[Lithium Flower]

My net book is called Atom, my current desktop is called Deathstar, my old desktop was called GladOS and my network is called Skynet. :p

[Voodoo]

These are their names in their respective OS's on the network...

Gaming desktop = Gozer
Gaming laptop = Jabberwocky
Server = Khaine
Android Phone = Muninn
iPhone = Huginn

[Dorkandproudofit]

Tim.

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[Spectre-7]

My PC's been through several iterations. It was originally Grendel, then Tiamat after an extensive upgrade, and is currently Horus. The only other gadget I have is my Palm, which is named Ghost.

On the not-so-gadgety side, my old car was named Judith and my bicycle is Bucephalus.

[Whunpo]

I name my partitions after the letter they are given. My win7 partition is named Cindy, my vista partition is named Dave and my zune is named Frank. I think I named my flash drive george. I generally don't name my gadgets though.

[Generation ABXY]

My best friend has consistently named every gadget he has "The Bat (whatever)" for years. Bat Phone, Bat Computer, Bat Network, etc.

Way to stay in character. :D P.S. He'll try to kill you (twice) after years of retirement.

[Rogue_hunter]

Hard drives are Imperial Star Destroyers, Flash Drives/MP3 players are "hero ships" from Star Wars, Star Trek, Mass Effect, etc., router is either Yavin or Echo Base.

[PathMaster]

Old tower is named Snow Crash. Other than that, I use completely mundane names, like last name + PC.

[Cactaur]

Home wifi network is Magi. Hard drives Balthasar, Melchior and Caspar.

[boratika]

Uh...


My computer is Computiemagical and my phone (to other bluetooth devices) is Phoniemagical.

Other than that, I've not really named anything.

[TheKeck]

My computer is names dell-vostro400. My older one is gateway. Another is bklaptop. My hard drives are named things like C: D: and E:. I guess I don't play your games. ;)

[zarathstra]

Car: Hank (cause he's blue)
Zune: Mother Box
Roomba: Jefferson Pierce (cause it was black, and full of electricity...)

[Stoke]

Old beat up computer was Galactica.
Got a laptop and named it Pegasus.
New desktop and new laptop are named Triton and Solaria.

Named them after Battlestars for those of you who never watched Battlestar Galactica. (Shame!)

[Crittias]

I name all my computer gear based on the very old (but fondly remembered) Thieves' World books. So I have computers named Sanctuary, Tempus, Critias, Straton, Ischade, etc. Obscure to the average Joe, which makes the names useful to me.

[Codicier]

My server is named Bebop and the SVN repository on it is mars, but nothing else has a particularly special name.

[Whunpo]

Hard drives are Imperial Star Destroyers, Flash Drives/MP3 players are "hero ships" from Star Wars, Star Trek, Mass Effect, etc., router is either Yavin or Echo Base.
I do IT work for my school and whenever we get a computer that isn't shitty (aka a computer for us) I name it after a specific Imperial Star Destroyer. My computer is named Eclipse.

[MagGnome]

I don't name all of my gadgets, but I have named a few. My new rig is named GnomePC, my green iPod Nano is Booger, and my network is GNOMENET.

[Shadowstorm]

My computer:


Windows 7 partition: Data
Ubuntu Linux: Lore
WD Black 1 TB Storage: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)
WD Black 1 TB Storage: USS Pegasus (NCC-53847)
WD Black 1 TB Storage: USS Defiant (NX-74205)
WD 320 GB External: Escape Pod 2373

Zune: Spock
TV remote: Borgbox
Network: Assimilation Node 641A

[boratika]

Car: Hank (cause he's blue)
Zune: Mother Box
Roomba: Jefferson Pierce (cause it was black, and full of electricity...)

Freudian much?

[Loki]

Since I am a very original individual, all of gadgets have begin with 'Loki':

LokiTop
LokiPuter
LokiPhone
LokiNet
LokiBox

My computer:

* Windows 7 partition: Data
* Ubuntu Linux: Lore
* WD Black 1 TB Storage: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)
* WD Black 1 TB Storage: USS Pegasus (NCC-53847)
* WD Black 1 TB Storage: USS Defiant (NX-74205)
* WD 320 GB External: Escape Pod 2373

Zune: Spock
TV remote: Borgbox
Network: Assimilation Node 641A

Nerd ;)

[pomeroy]

I name just about everything "X con sizzle!" (IE: iPod con sizzle!"

It's in honor of the stupid name Applebees gives their fajitas (Fajitas con sizzle!).

[Narradisall]

I love you guys, you make me feel so less geeky

[DangerousDaze]

I name my gadgets Eric. Eric the Gadget. All of them. :)

[Urizen]

I name all storage devices after historic Islamic cities. Places like Mecca, Medina, Istanbul, Tikrit, Lahore, Jerusalem, Ajmer, and on and on.

My computer is Computor (pronounced "com-pew-tor").

[LongStepMantis]

I name my gadgets Eric. Eric the Gadget. All of them. :)

But do you have a fish license? ;)

I tend to not name my things. Call me old fashioned I guess. My stuff only gets a name when it begins to perform poorly. "Hey shitbox, work!"

[fitbabits]

A think a more pertinent and telling question would be "why do you name your gadgets?".

My computer is called my computer. My Zune is called my Zune. My cell phone is called my cell phone, etc.

[zarathstra]

Freudian much?

No, more like Jack Kirby-an or Fourth World-y

[chex]

I feel very art geeky now...
I named my boyfriend's first laptop Obsidian, his second is Diptych, and mine is named Triptych.
My jump drive is Liam, which means "determined guardian"... this is usually where things like term papers are backed up. I have yet to name my phone, as I have yet to encounter a situation where I want to yell at it.
I named my bicycle Eyler.

[Ink Asylum]

A think a more pertinent and telling question would be "why do you name your gadgets?".

Because they're my gadgets. Naming something is a way to declare ownership. It's also fun to come up with names that mean something to you.

[Handmade.Mercury]

Because they're my gadgets. Naming something is a way to declare ownership. It's also fun to come up with names that mean something to you.

I usually name my gadgets because setup usually prompts me for a name. Isn't that why everyone names their gadgets?

[Krispy]

I usually name my gadgets because setup usually prompts me for a name. Isn't that why everyone names their gadgets?

Some people just have no imagination.

I don't name much of anything myself except my Zune is Optimus Prime, but my dad works as lead comp tech and a large research lab and has fun with it. He's starting a Spartan army. Up to 127.

[diablopath]

For a while, I was doing Norse gods.

[Wasson_]

quit trying to steal my computers identity you e-thug.

[Vermillion]

Everything is named after Battlestar stuff:

Router: Galactica (2ghz)/Pegasus (5ghz)
Computer: Basestar
Original Zune: Starbuck
Zune HD: Apollo

etc. etc..

[Hawkzombie]

I like to name my stuff after the following:

Transformers (Gen 1 :p)
Cervantes from Soul Calibur
Greek Gods (Prometheus, the dude that stole fire for mortals....well...guess what that drive holds :p)

[pomeroy]

For a while, I was doing Norse gods.

Sounds sexy.

[Handmade.Mercury]

I think I'm going to start naming my gadgets after random letter-vomit, probably obtained by smothering my keyboard, then truncated down to five letters.

sbkna
asino
z;wny

[LordDon]

Laptop: Tiny God
Desktop: Major God
iPod: Dave (The Edge's real name... my ex's iPod was Paul, Bono's real name)

http://i526.photobucket.com/albums/cc346/jerimmortal/19990428h.jpg

[Loki]

For a while, I was doing Norse gods.

Ooh. I dig this. Time to read up on some more Norse mythology. I wonder if I could name my elliptical 'Sleipnir'.

[Narradisall]

Actually, I must admit, I named my phone once purely for amusement on anyone searching bluetooth in public.

I once heard someone laugh when they were playing about with their bluetooth in a pub and came across "KingOfTheJews".

now it's just Myiphone on my current phone.

[ReaverX]

All my gadgets received Final Fantasy inspired names (which were inspired by actual mythology in most cases). However If I replaced the device, the name got another numeral added on. Hence:

Ipod: Leviathan II
PSP: Bahamut II
Ipod Touch: Cerberus
PS3: Ragnarok

[roboninja]

Don't really name anything. My PC's computer name is roboninja-i7; not really creative in any way. Hard drive partitions? Well, my current D drive is called 640GB WD Black. Descriptive, but hardly anthropomorphic.