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I use animals, mostly. Except any ARM-based device must be named after a limb or a part of a limb that is not an arm. It must.

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I use food. Abstract, but also memorable.

Personally — since we're all chiming in — I use elements. My fallback DNS is a periodic table.

Please tell me you assign IP addresses based on atomic weight!

This might be the coolest thing I've read all year...

Atomic number, yes. And of course every machine has a one or two-letter alias.

Back at Uni we got four new workstations so obviously I named them 'death', 'war', 'famine' and 'pestilence'. Then shortly after we added a fifth, it ended up being 'mayhem'.*

Some time later we got two more boxen and the female members of our research group were given the job of naming them, and we ended up with 'itchy' and 'scratchy'...

* for the Pratchett readers I was wrong, it should of course have been 'Kaos'...

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