At my school there is a student run network DOGNET: Mix of FreeBSD and Solaris
buck, lassie, odie, hosehead, cerebus, wonderdog, yip, scarf, fang…etc
in my suite Diseases.Net all GNU/Linux
syphillis
rabies
MadCow
AIDS(xbox media)
porntop(non-conformist).
Upstairs from me is a Usual Suspects theme
i think theyre all running FreeBSD except McManus running GNU/Linux
Verbal
Hockney
Fenster
McManus
Kobayashi(sp?)
At a company I worked at we used the names of moons from planets in our solar system.
Off the top of my head we had…
Charon (Pluto)
Phoebe, Janus, Calypso (Saturn)
We also had a Chimera (Chimira) but I can’t find that as a planetary moon. Does that name look familiar to anyone?
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I just remembered, at another company I worked at we named our servers after Monopoly properties.
Biscuits? That’s just wrong somehow.
Disney? Warner Bros I can see, but Disney? masonite our sympathies.
And no HAL yet? Or HEX?
Anonymous I take your point. I’ve worked on systems with an untold number of machines IIRC the machine names started with a prefix signifying which country the thing was in. But if you’re only dealing with a handfull of boxes it seems a bit churlish to call 'em SRV1, SRV2…
HP machines are Big Ben (Houses of Parliment) and Saucy (HP Sauce)
Solaris machine are Alien based, Ripley, Sulaco, Hudson, Hicks, Mother, Bishop
Win machines are minor Star Wars characters, Wedge, Tyree, Biggs, Watto, etc
AIX machines are Big Blue and Little Blue
My machines are Discworld bases, Gaspode, Rincewind, Carrot
Printers are herbs, basil, chive, etc.
Windows boxes:
Thor, Tyr, Freya, Odin, Sif, Frigga, Bragi
Linux boxes:
Zeus, Hera, Artemis, Hermes, Atlas (now decommissioned)
Do you see a pattern? 
At home, our boxes are named after characters from the Wizard of Oz: Oz, Ozma, Glinda, Scarecrow, Tik-Tok.
I’m the CIO of our company and it was a free-for-all when I arrived. We had servers that were named after Star Wars characters, cartoon characters, or something not even meaningful enough to remember.
I was going to let things slide but then two things occurred: First, I was made aware that one of the servers was named after an anime porno character. Second, when the next new server came in people were fighting about what to name it.
So now they are all named after U.S. Presidents, in order. It is not very creative but it eliminates any controversy. A new server? No problem, what is the next President in the queue? Server named.
I’m not sure what we’ll do next when we have more servers than unique President last names. I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Cartoon (and some Batman villains) characters (Unix servers):
Beast
Beauty
Scooby
Freeze
Riddler
Charlie (Brown)
Snoopy
Old Film Stars (VMS machines):
Astaire
Rogers
Burns
Bogart
Bacall
(there are others, but those are the ones off the top of my head.)
I’m not happy with the cartoon characters I’m replacing them with; I might go for generically cutesy/stupid names like Blinky, Pongo, Pootles etc.
Good suggestion; I’ve done this now. Thanks.
I didn’t name them but we have:
Dilbert
Dogbert
Ratbert
Wally
My department is split into East Coast and West Coast groups. West Coast computers are named after any prominent West Coast city/town; East Coast… prominent East Coast city/town.
At home, my computers are named after Canadian provinces: ontario, manitoba, and quebec are the desktop, laptop, and firewall, respectively.
The computers where I work all have boring names, so I dismiss them. polite waves
At home, we have two generations of naming going on. The first set of computers, mostly Windows boxen, have the first names of important gay people or characters. We had Randy (Shilts), Harvey (Milk), Angel (from Rent), and Oswald (from Drew Carey, but that was mostly in jest). We’ve also had Zamora (from Real World), and a few others which I’m not recalling at the moment.
More recently, during the latest round of computer buying, they’re all named after colors. Maroon and Cobalt (a pair of iBooks), Indigo (my iPod), Argent (an external storage device), and the most recent addition, Amber. We have a small server which still needs a name (it’s called “Martian” at the moment, but that’s from the factory), so we’re thinking of names of bright green colors. The next computer purchase will likely be an iMac for the library, which will be called Sage (mostly because the walls in that room are a sagey-green color).
Whee!
JOhn.
At the last place I worked there were some very odd names set by the guy who left:
ploppyteen (???)
shitenet
captain pakora
And also parodies of Star Wars characters:
jobbiethehutt
handjobsoslow
seethreepeepeeo
…
I’m sure that had them doubled over with laughter. I remember being phased when the production assistant growled in a faintly menacing way; “jobbie the hutt doesn’t like being switched off!”. Slightly worrying that one.
At home:
schadenfreude (Windows XP)
zeitgeist (Windows XP / Fedora dual boot)
gemeinschaft (Sharp Zaurus)
A few years ago, I created a network for the small town where I worked. The computers were given names like fear, despair, agony, pain, angst, anguish, and so on.
Wow - that sure makes a change from Star Wars, Star Trek and cartoon characters!
I’m stunned that no-one’s mentioned The Cthulhu Mythos yet.
Ia!
We’re boring at work.
Vice Presidents?
Our servers are named for NHL hockey teams & the workstations are MLB baseball teams.
In another 6 months we’re gonna run out of both sports and I’m not sure what we’ll come up with then. Probably the NFL, we’re not big on cartoons or SF.
What the heck? Jocks running an IT system? I’m shocked. Sports teams - that’s nearly as bad as biscuits.
I think the best set of 3 names I’ve seen is: lion, witch and wardrobe. Not much room for expansion though.