Starcraft Network

This is pretty clever. Reminds me of an article a few years ago about printer names -- YouTube named theirs after Wu-Tang members; Google, after Transformers:<p><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/the-wu-tang-sag.html" rel="nofollow">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/the-wu-ta...</a><p>Regrettably, I must report that at Blizzard, printers have boring but functional names. And even though the campus is laid out with three buildings positioned similarly to the current WoW map, they're merely Buildings 1, 2, and 3. At least the meeting rooms all have lore names, however.

I think this is enough for me to switch from protoss to zerg. Just the idea that I'm playing a Mac race is going to affect my psyche enough for me to stay in bronze forever ;p

Sounds fun if you do it for your home network, but profesionally you'll quickly appreciate embracing a more dull pattern of calling database machines db01, db02, etc, preproduction machines preprod01, preprod02, etc. And the sysadmin that will come after you will appreciate it even more.

"A partitioned box with unix and windows. Windows OS named Marine, Unix OS named Infested Marine"<p>This just seems to be the wrong way around...

I'm ashamed to admit I'm using Jersey Shore names for my home network. "Situation", "Snooky", "Jwow", "Paulyd", etc.

"Here are some examples: you might use the planets in the solar system (I would never do this; who wants to have to wait for the discovery of new planets to buy your 9th computer?)"<p>For this reason, I use moons of our solar system in naming external hard drives at home. Figure it will last me a little longer, and saves me having to say to my wife in front of friends "Can you put the wedding photos on x?" and "Is x now full?" for certain instances of x towards the outer reaches of the system.

Well, butter my biscuits.

Here is the my naming convention:<p>1. Desktop computers are any land animal<p>2. Laptops are birds<p>3. Virtual machines and servers are any water dwelling creature<p>I try to progress through the alphabet. For example, "Buck" is an old, now defunct computer - "Gila" has only recently been retired.

My home network is based on the Batman universe:<p>My shiny new power tower (Windows 7): Batman<p>Same tower booted into ubuntu: TwoFace<p>NAS: arkham<p>Content Filter: gordon<p>Wifi SSID: TheRiddler<p>etc, etc

I've previously gone with various fun things (the main server at my previous job was named mainframe for ages), currently it's star wars characters as a friend of mine insists. Mine are all just named for their purpose. Laptop being playworkschool, my older server is called beast (hosting a civilization 5 replay generator). I don't like the idea of StarCraft though, but perhaps i'm just not such a big fan? I remember playing the first game a lot but i'm not a huge fan.

This is brilliant!!<p>The only issue I will have now is trying to convince my wife that SC2 is a healthy addiction - especially now that her iMac will be renamed 'Archon'.

Am I the only one who thinks that Windows, with malware, worms, and trojans, are more akin to the zerg? Whereas Linux, with its post-humanism, is akin to Terrans?

I was hoping this would be about Blizzard or battle.net, oh well. My own network machines are all named after space probes: pioneer, skylab, mercury, surveyor, gemini, apollo, voyager, etc. The university I went to (www.hsu.edu) named all their machines after trees (cyprus, pine, etc) - the school alma mater was about the pine trees that grew throughout the area, so a tree based naming scheme made sense.

I recall Hotmail's servers were revealed to have some funny names, including rotate-the-shield-harmonics.hotmail.com.

Server names at my university's CS department (and at least 2 other universities I know of) are biblical characters- Matthew, Mark, John, Gabriel, Mary, Martha, etc...<p>And, of course, Saul is a alias for Paul.

i was expecting to read something about scalability of battle.net...

I just name mine after motorcycles I've owned. Crazily enough, I go through motorcycles faster than I go through computers, so it works.

I love starcraft...but honestly this is stupid. I mean seriously...you could waste your time in so many better ways .

i like the unimaginative names. www28.fe2.us.example.com<p>one huge portal used writers, philosophers and poets. try to spell Nietzsche to the operator during an outage.<p>Another job, they used star trek ship names. with the occasional klingon vessel here and there.

This is very intellectually unfulfilling. Second place? HN is approaching chain emails...