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Cleophus Newbie  
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posted June 20, 2001 18:39
  
My computers don't follow a specific naming scheme, and are based on names I come up with on a whim. I'll start with my PCs. My Linux box, an AMD K6-2 350, is named Mew, and my Wintel box, a PII 333, is named Mewtwo. Reason: In Pokemon (The game, not the TV show. The TV show is, well, let's not get too excited) Mew and Mewtwo are the two most powerful. The only real difference is their appearance. Mewtwo is a 6' monster with armor and glowing eyes. The PII is a tower with two fans and 7 drive bays. Dual CD-ROM, 128 MB RAM, SCSI, etc. You get the idea. Mew is much smaller, and looks somewhat less menacing, despite being very powerful, more so than Mewtwo. The K6 is a smaller midtower that looks rather harmless, in my opinion. It's actually the fastest computer I own My Macs are named thusly: Samantha: an SE 4/20 (Name it came with) Coming soon: a Power Mac 7300 to be named Jane Bennet (Character in Pride and Prejudice) IP: Logged |
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SupportGoddess Highlie 
Posts: 527 |
posted July 17, 2001 21:48
My home box is called Hagbard after Hagbard Celine. Also pet names: ------------------ IP: Logged |
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supaboy SuperBlabberMouth!     
Posts: 1242 |
posted July 18, 2001 06:31
Hail Eris! IP: Logged |
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CrawGator Alpha Geek  Posts: 326 |
posted July 18, 2001 10:35
I recently installed Linux to dual boot with Win98 on my computer at home. I felt it was appropriate to rename it, so it is now Gemini.  ------------------ "Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, peoples, and times it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) IP: Logged |
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SupportGoddess Highlie
Posts: 527 |
posted July 19, 2001 18:46
quote: All hail Discordia ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Jasoco Geek-in-Training  
Posts: 35 |
posted July 20, 2001 00:45
My Ruby iMac DV + is named Melissa. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Lex Super Geek 
Posts: 167 |
posted July 23, 2001 11:13
My DP 533 G4 is named Muffy, and any emulated computers running on it tend to be named VirtualMuffy or VMuffy. The hard drives on it are named Ozymandias and Millie, after my favorite comic strip characters. At my last place of employment (My high school), most of the machines get a name that is a function of what campus they are on and what room they are in and how many other computers are in the same room. In the server rooms, this tends to be a little different. The computers take a name dependent on their function, for instance, VBHSPDC for the Primary Domain Controller (Yes, its an NT network, I hate it too), VBHSWWW for the intranet server, and MAIL for the mail server. Funny thing is, the school district decided to take over all mail functions and centralize them on their own servers. So MAIL no longer had any purpose. So I formatted it down and played with it, installing Linux or NT, depending on what new trick I wanted to try. But the room had no room number, and the machine had no function, so I was at a loss for what to call it. TEST sounded dull, so I called it WOODCHUCK. About a week later, my supervisor gets a call from the district asking what WOODCHUCK was. They didn't seem to have a problem with it, they just wanted to make sure it was legit. My supervisor, being not only paranoid, overreacting, and technically inept, took it to be a threat on the security of our network and made me rename it. And when she found out it had Linux on it, well that just had to go. Linux was soon banned entirely. *sigh*. The school also has banned the use of DHCP (What if students tried to get into the network with laptops? It would be just letting them in! Not that our IP scheme isn't easy to figure out!) and Macintosh systems, which is a shame, since then I have to work with pain in the arse compaqs. Luckily for me, I got out of there. Now I need to think of a name for my new iBook... IP: Logged |
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RyMan Newbie Larva
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posted July 23, 2001 14:24
My professsor grew up in some podunk town in Iowa, so all our machines in the research lab are named after podunk towns in Iowa, such as: Keokuk, Okoboji, Ottumwa, Illyria, Voorhies, and Swisher IP: Logged |
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JoeUUD Mini-Geek
Posts: 58 |
posted July 24, 2001 13:11
Personally, I would go with astrology. My home computer is Virgo(my sign), and at work, I use Pisces (girlfriend's sign). IP: Logged |
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JoeUUD Mini-Geek
Posts: 58 |
posted July 24, 2001 13:13
One of my friends had his home network named. Odd names, too. We had to make a video production at his house once, and we thanked the computer we used in the credits: "Thanks to Alphonse. You know who you are." You'll have to agree that Alphonse is an interesting name. IP: Logged |
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JoeUUD Mini-Geek
Posts: 58 |
posted July 24, 2001 13:17
I almost forgot. My friend also named his calculator: "Shiela the magical Ti-89" IP: Logged |
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SupportGoddess Highlie
Posts: 527 |
posted July 24, 2001 16:21
At work we had a network for a client - now gone... their computers had some highly original names: PDC You get the picture. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Naglimund Neat Newbie
Posts: 14 |
posted August 02, 2001 02:28
The computers of my home-network are all named after places in "The Dragonbone Chair": hayholt (linux-router), naglimund (win-workstation), stormspike (iBook), winspike (pc-emulation on the iBook  ) and kwanitupul (Amiga 3000)Originally, I wanted to name them after the Sithi cities, but they are not suitable for that purpose... IP: Logged |
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Jidabug Super Geek
Posts: 118 |
posted August 08, 2001 14:51
quote: I don't think Brain was a mentor to Pinky, since I doubt that Pinky truly aspired to world domination, but anyway... Our old PowerBook 150 was "Pinky" and the old PowerMac 8500/150 was "Brain". At the moment our only computer is an iBook named simply "Jidabug"...I couldn't help it. My former workplace had all the computers named after famous skifields around the world. IP: Logged |
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bull3t Super Geek
Posts: 246 |
posted August 09, 2001 01:50
my box's name is vidar, meaning "tree-fighter" .. why? because it sounds cool 8) hehehe 8) ------------------ <? echo "Thank god I'm a Nerdy boy."; ?> IP: Logged |
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DUCT TAPE Geek
Posts: 80 |
posted September 01, 2001 14:14
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Melonpool Newbie Larva
Posts: 2 |
posted September 08, 2001 17:46
My Linux box is called "EDDIE" ala Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Xanoxt R'rilander Super Geek
Posts: 239 |
posted September 09, 2001 14:48
Mine is called Cril's Lair. When I am running Black Wi(n)dows (Games, Games, Games!), IP: Logged |
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spacebot Maximum Newbie
Posts: 16 |
posted October 02, 2001 09:59
My computer's name is Grepton.
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sk00t Mini-Geek
Posts: 57 |
posted October 06, 2001 01:02
My Linux box has been born as localhost@localdomain. Then I called it 'cave' (my cave), but a stupid DHCP server still names it 'net5' or 'net7'. IP: Logged |
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sk00t Mini-Geek
Posts: 57 |
posted October 06, 2001 01:22
quote: Do you keep the same name for Linux and Win98? (My one's Linux personality is 'cave', WinNT personality is 'tunnel') IP: Logged |
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Geekatrix Super Geek
Posts: 154 |
posted October 07, 2001 10:45
I've been using a Philip K. Dick theme for a while, so I've had computers named Tagomi (The Man in the High Castle), Deckard (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), and Lord Running Clam (Clans of the Alphane Moon). I also have a PowerMac 7500 named Isidore (Confessions of a Crap Artist) which, after a major upgrade and two hard drive blowouts in less than six months, has been living up to his namesake too much for my liking. He's brilliant in his own peculiar way, but extremely flaky and badly in need of some good therapy. IP: Logged |
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CrawGator Alpha Geek Posts: 326 |
posted October 09, 2001 17:49
quote: Actually the whole computer is Gemini, the Linux partition is Castor and the the Win98 partion is Pollux ------------------ A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams Mostly Harmless IP: Logged |
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littlefish Geek
Posts: 71 |
posted November 05, 2001 05:52
My G4 Cube is known affectionately as the Toaster, with the drive partitioned in Ren (rhymes with os 10) and stimpy (doesn't rhyme with 9). And if you ever see Powdered toast man fighting in quake, you'll know it's me. As for school, they have all their mail servers named after obscure scottish islands. IP: Logged |
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Evilbunny Highlie
Posts: 614 |
posted November 07, 2001 17:43
My computer's name is "You ASS! Why must you fail on me again today?!?!?! NOOOOOOOO!!!!" As you may guess, I love my computer very much... IP: Logged |
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MacManKrisK Super Geek
Posts: 132 |
posted November 09, 2001 00:05
Well, I've seen many naming schemes. My high school used BHS_LAB A1 through BHS_LAB A10 for the first row of comptuers, B was used for the second row, etc. The middle school uses RMS_LAB, same scheme. Actually, I installed the comptuers (with a group of 4 other "Cisco guys") The library in my middle school used to have 4 computers for periodical lookup and card catalog stuff, this was back when the IBM PS/2 comptuer was fast. A naming scheme I can't believe no one has stated! Larry, Curly, Moe, and Shemp! A friend of mine named his computer BigGig (he has a 10 Gig drive (the biggest of all the drives any of my friends have, incl. myself)). He recently told me that he didn't feel BigGig fit the comptuer anymore, though, and he told me that he thought the comptuer was trying to tell him another name (he feels that computers name themselves). I've traditionally named my comptuers after the model names (Mac II, IIci, Classic, PowerBook G3). After listening to my friend, though, I'm trying to come up with better names, ones that the computer has given me. So, now my new-to-me Performa 6400/120 is The TV Tower, and my powerbook (having oS X on it) is now Chrome Plated X. The hard drive is named Lone Wolf, though. I have this really cool icon of a wolf that I found on a computer that someone gave to me (oddly enough, the hard drive was still Macintosh HD). I also used to maintain a lab of Power Mac 5200's at my High School. They were named Power #1 through Power #8 and the hard drives were Power HD #1 through 8. Not that they're very powerful, but...what can you do, eh? Wow, I'm really talkative tonight, this is the second REALLY LONG post I've made already! I need to go off and e-mail the hell out of my friends, they'll love me for it....or not. (sorry for the LOOOOONG post!) ------------------ IP: Logged |
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zorgon Super Geek
Posts: 238 |
posted November 09, 2001 13:32
The root servers at my place are called "Colossus" and "Guardian" (ok geeks, who gets the reference?) and the non-desktop data processing machines in the server room are called Skipper, Gilligan, Professor, Ginger, Maryann, etc... ------------------ IP: Logged |
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dajt Geek Larva
Posts: 23 |
posted November 09, 2001 14:23
Only us old SF nuts will remember *that* trillogy. Many more people will remember the movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project" which was based on the first book. Keeping things vaguely on topic, my wife insists that some people have a kind of intrinsic geekyness that goes all the way to their bones. She calls it "nerd marrow". So all of our machines are named after bones: cranium, mandible, etc. So just to be difficult, now she wants her new machine named after a tropical fruit: papaya, mango, etc. So I called it durian, because I can't spell liliquoi. IP: Logged |
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quantumfluff Highlie
Posts: 672 |
posted November 09, 2001 19:52
quote: Remembering the Forbin movie makes you pretty old to begin with. That came out in the 70's. I haven't seen it since then. I did not realize it was a trilogy of books. I remember reading "The Fall of Colossus", but that was over 20 years ago. IP: Logged |
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Evilbunny Highlie
Posts: 614 |
posted November 09, 2001 19:58
Alright, my computer's real name is Felix! The eND!@ IP: Logged |
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MacManKrisK Super Geek
Posts: 132 |
posted November 09, 2001 21:12
quote: I, to this day, do not get the reference, but....Does the phrase "Let's go Huskies" mean anything to you? Do you often see people in yellow and black striped overalls carrying band instruments? Lest I mention the pizza lab....If you know what I'm talking about, please replay (or just e-mail). ------------------ IP: Logged |
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voice- Newbie Larva
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posted November 18, 2001 12:29
My PowerMac QuickSilver is named Zpeedy, and my iMac(wich has a problem with the screen) GreenScreen IP: Logged |
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zorgon Super Geek
Posts: 238 |
posted November 18, 2001 19:55
quote: Whoa. No. That does not ring a bell. How about "Slime'em Banana Slugs," people in wet suits carrying regulators, and The NatSci II lab? No? Sorry, wrong zorgon! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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MacManKrisK Super Geek
Posts: 132 |
posted November 18, 2001 22:41
quote: Actually, I'll be a bit more specific. I spent one (very expensive) semester at Michigan Tech. and the main servers for the CS dept. are named Colossus and Guardian. Like I said, I don't get the reference, so to me servers named that aught not be common. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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redneckgeek unregistered |
posted November 21, 2001 20:18
My favorite servers were Kyrie and Eleison which roughly translates to "god help us". On my home LAN there is black-slab the NeXTStation whose CNAME is black, the eponymous G4 whose CNAME is grey, cowbird the Win2K server whose CNAME is white and my company supplied iBook is named with my company and loginname so that when its drive is shared at client's sites it is identifiable. When at home the iBook is known as PB because it inherited my old PowerBook's IP address and white was already in use. IP: Logged |
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Evilbunny Highlie
Posts: 614 |
posted November 30, 2001 19:50
My laptops mane it coolcat IP: Logged |
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Blutrane Geek-in-Training
Posts: 35 |
posted December 05, 2001 01:10
my laptop's name...well...it's Gene(pronounced Jenny)(or any other variation) short for Genevieve. however she's got this nasty little*cough* program Photosuite 4 or Stovos, the memory eater. my next comp's name will be Guin as in Guinevere. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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platypus Super Geek
Posts: 198 |
posted December 05, 2001 15:16
My last computer was named Fluffy. Because it pretty much ran as if it had fluff for brains. This also had a rich historical tradition of using public terminals, abuse of which I won't go into. The current box is Squish, with varients depending on what OS I boot into. I've considered a new naming scheme. Great writers, but first names: William (Shakespeare, not Gibson), Miguel (Cervantes), Wolfgang (Goethe), and Victor (Hugo). but I need a new computer before I start giving serious consideration to a new scheme. Perhaps with my birthday and Christmas... I name everyling actually. My car is the Huny Wagon, mark II (The first Huny Wagon had an affair with a telephone pole and broke up with... er ON me). My guitar is Angelique (old girlfriend), and my big, 80's style ghetto blaster (no other word describes it) is the M-Machine... a name which has a LONG story behind it. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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platypus Super Geek
Posts: 198 |
posted December 05, 2001 15:17
quote: As in a faithless individual on intimate terms with you? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Demosthenes Assimilated
Posts: 372 |
posted December 05, 2001 16:18
i call this one lestat; the one before it was hal. ti-83 calculator? that's frankie, and my digital watch is named trent. you figure out for yourself who/what each one is named for. IP: Logged |
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