Pisces          My laptop
Sagittarius     Wife's laptop
Gemini          Router
Libra           MP3 Player
Virgo           Server

Scorpio         Car MP3 player (currently not installed)

Taurus          Play machine (currently in pieces)

...and yes, when I get a new machine I shall name it with one of the 
remaining signs.

I think in a business, or other large site there might be too many devices 
to find a large enough name space to select from, but some ideas come to 
mind:

London underground station names
Greek/Roman gods
Birds
Flowers

Otherwise, groups or clusters of machines can easily be named:

Pinky & Perky
Bill & Ben
John, Paul, George and Ringo
Shadrach, Mishak and Abednigo
Fred & Ginger

Or (the most boring) function, or location-based, names.  One place I 
worked had building/floor/room number/machine number in a hard to pronounce 
but easily parsed string.

Andy

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