Over at the collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers Stack Overflow, people from the trade are discussing the most interesting server names they've encountered. Server administrators can give human-readable names to their machines so that they are easily distinguishable from other network locations.
Stack Overflow has a system for rating and ordering answers. Out of 316 responses to the question "what is the coolest server name or naming convention that you encountered?", here is the one at the top:
"The funniest server name story I have is from when I worked at the Kennedy Space Center. On our particular project, our main server was named snowwhite, and the 7 client workstations were named after the Seven Dwarves. The kicker is, one day one of our engineers ran into a Disney Imagineer who worked at Walt Disney World, and they started talking about server names. The Disney Imagineer said 'that's funny, we have a group of servers named columbia, challenger, atlantis, and discovery.'"
Now, giving your servers names like Grumpy, Happy, and Sleepy, is a bit frivolous at first glance. Such naming convention, however, may not as outlandish as it may seem. Here is an excerpt from RFC 1178 - "Choosing a name for your computer":
"Naming groups of machines in a common way is very popular, and enhances communality while displaying depth of knowledge as well as imagination. A simple example is to use colors, such as 'red' and 'blue'. Personality can be injected by choices such as 'aqua' and 'crimson'. Certain sets are finite, such as the seven dwarfs. When you order your first seven computers, keep in mind that you will probably get more next year. Colors will never run out. Some more suggestions are: mythical places (e.g., Midgard, Styx, Paradise), mythical people (e.g., Procne, Tereus, Zeus), killers (e.g., Cain, Burr, Boleyn), babies (e.g., colt, puppy, tadpole, elver), collectives (e.g., passel, plague, bevy, covey), elements (e.g., helium, argon, zinc), flowers (e.g., tulip, peony, lilac, arbutus)."