Fun with Naming Your Hardware

[LantisEscudo]

I usually pick a show with a decent-sized cast and name my machines after characters. My current scheme is Record of Lodoss War.

Deedlit - Main system (C2Q, 4 GB RAM)
Parn - My Laptop (C2D, 4GB RAM)
Slayn - Nettop portable playback computer.
Shiris - Asus Eee netbook
Spark - My old system, kept around as a backup (A64 single-core, 2 GB RAM)
Neese - A WAMP web server in a VM on Parn
Etoh - My old PowerBook G4
Ghim - My WD TV Live. It's only on the network so it can get firmware updates.
Orson - 120 GB iPod Classic

I don't name most of my external drives, though. I have too many (5 full-size drives, 5 USB flash sticks).

[Castor Troy]

Your putter's name is Charlene!

[Monitor Zombie]

Also, my silver '02 Ford Focus is called 'Folken' and my dark green '94 Camry was called 'The Moon Lander'

Since we're on the subject of names, I have a cat named Zeus, Lina (Short for thumbelina cus she's got massive thumbs) and another named Kit (Not short for KitKat or Kitten but K.I.T.T. the Knight Industries Two Thousand)

[JaddziaDax]

Cibo - My PSP
Hikaru - the computer I'm currently on..
Sakura - the computer I edit on.
JaddziaDax - my DS (I think I named it that for Pictochat reasons)

Ta-kun - one cat (the one in my videos/on my site)
Tsubasa - the other cat (he's new)
Zues - our dog

Pantera - my sister's dog which is still living with us currently O.o

[Ileia]

Pinku (short for "Pinku Dechu" from Ebichu) is my computer's name
Mini Corndog was my (unfortunately dead) 250 gb external hdd
Big CornDog is my new 1TB external hdd.

[CodeZTM]

EDI: My Ipod Touch [Mass Effect 2 Reference]

Marle: My Laptop [Chrono Trigger Reference]
Normandy: My Editing Computer [Mass Effect Reference]
Chrono: My Old Rig [Now my younger brother's rig, but still retains the name]

PSP: Elizabeth [Persona Reference, and also the ONLY reason I bought the damn thing]
DS: Zero [Code Geass Reference, I was OBSESSED at the time]

I really don't name my hard drives. Perhaps I should.

External 1 : Miranda [ME2 Reference, because it's "huge" and is mostly for storage.]
External 2: Tali [ME2 Reference, because it keeps all my important work data on it]
Internal 1: Snoopy [Charlie Brown Reference. Because it KNOWS EVERYTHING]

[NS]

Zune - Blain's Incrdible Punx Machine
External HDD - OAF (Stands for Orange as Fuck)...because the harddrive is really orange.

Never named my stuff that it doesn't ask you to name when plugged in.. Getting a laptop soon, will name that.

[Brad]

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[Castor Troy]

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[Phantasmagoriat]

I admit I try to give my devices short Japanese "pet" names for consistency and organization.
Wherever possible, I try to use unique first letters, then map them as corresponding drives to keep track of everything

ODZ - [main rig] Big 18.4" i7 Laptop (the giant from One Piece, pronounced "Odds")
YOSHI - [shared rig] Small 14" i5 Laptop (the yoshi from Super Mario Bros.)
TOBIO - [ultra portable rig] Tiny 10" atom Netbook (the real boy Astro Boy is modeled after)
ATOMO - [phone] Android HTC Dream/G1 (Japanese name for Astro Boy. He's "small but powerful")
KINO - [old rig] Small 14" AMD turion Laptop (from Kino's Journey)
iKINO - [old iPod] 60GB iPod Video (from Kino's Journey)
TENMA (T:) - [new iPod] Blue 16GB iPod Nano (girl from School Rumble with Blue hair)

MENCHI (M:) 320GB ext. desktop HDD (the dog from Excel Saga aka "the-back-up-food-supply")
HATCHI (H:) 500GB ext. desktop HDD ("Half" a terabyte)
ICHI (I:) 1TB ext. desktop HDD (means "One" terabyte)
KANTI (K:) 1TB portable HDD (robot from FLCL mistaken as God that can do anything)
RUKIA (R:) 640GB Black portable HDD (girl from Bleach with Black hair)
L (L:) 500GB White portable HDD ("L" from Death Note wears White shirts)

And my Home Network is called The_Grand_Line (obviously a huge One Piece fan...)

I have yet to name my new Fender Squier, but I'm leaning towards something like Luci/Elle/Ciel
But it might be too cliche using a variant of Lucielle from BECK, so I'm holding off on a name for now...

Note: anything above that is crossed out has moved on to a better place On the bright side, the devices didn't actually die. I ended up loading them full of useful information like an offline version of Wikipedia, and various encyclopedic/how-to documents, as well as some music and movies. Then I sent them off to some of my relatives in the Philippines in places that don't have internet access.