On: RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)

[chewxy]

I have named my machines after Doctor Who planets for the last 18 ish years. All new machines start as Gallifrey (workstation) or TARDIS (laptop).

Then as they stop being my primary devices they get other planet / ship names. The torrenting machine was suitably called Skaro. :p

Two exceptions are my PiHole and OctoPi. The old PiHole used to be called TimeLock but when I upgraded I didn't keep the name

[BlueTemplar → chewxy]

Just reminded me how Sword of the Stars 1 uses a bunch of scifi references for the names of their "neutral" or Human randomly generated stars :

http://wiki.swordofthestars.com/sots1/Sci-fi_References#Star...