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How do you name your machine?

Comics12 %12 %12 % 12.16 % (45)
Stars5 %5 %5 % 5.95 % (22)
Places4 %4 %4 % 4.05 % (15)
Foods and/or drinks4 %4 %4 % 4.32 % (16)
Proper human names14 %14 %14 % 14.86 % (55)
Chemical elements2 %2 %2 % 2.70 % (10)
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Re: How do you name your machine?
by Anonymous on Jan 04, 2005 - 04:50 PM
One of my servers is called "wendigo" from the "Call of Cthulhu" book Other one is "Dimebag" from the recently defunct PanterA & Damageplan guitar player Diamond Dimebag Darrell And mi iBook is called "excomunion", just because is white like the child when they has his first comunion :)

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  • Re: How do you name your machine? by Anonymous on Jan 14, 2005 - 12:21 PM
  • Re: How do you name your machine? by Anonymous on Mar 03, 2005 - 09:12 PM
  • Re: How do you name your machine? by Anonymous on Mar 07, 2005 - 01:20 PM
    • Re: How do you name your machine?
    by crystall on Jan 05, 2005 - 02:10 AM
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    My PowerMac is 'crystallite' and my Amiga is 'crystalline'... I always use variations of my nickname since they sound good enough :)

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 05, 2005 - 09:46 AM
    characters or objects related to french renaissance litterature.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 05, 2005 - 11:21 AM
    I used to name all macs (15 yrs ago) as things or characters of the Robotech saga. SDF 1, Lisa (Hayes), etc. My first tangerine iMac got the name FANTA. For its looks. This marked the shift. Now our machines have litterary names. Moore spec. from the menagerie of author Tove Jansson. ~Snusmumriken

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 05, 2005 - 01:57 PM
    biblical names...

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 05, 2005 - 05:04 PM
    We name development machines here after islands. US/British virgin islands, Hawiian, Phillipines, etc. We try to give physically co-located systems the names of geographically co-located islands, so that it is easier to guess the building/floor/department location of the systems.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 05, 2005 - 11:39 PM
    Mine is called "A present from God" cause I got it without any "human efforts": I needed it, I prayed, I got it (yeah, hard to believe, huh? ;-) but it was so :-p ).

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 06, 2005 - 11:09 AM
    I use really uncool (human) names for my servers.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 06, 2005 - 05:12 PM
    My dual x86 is called clementina, my G4 is called lorretine. Both names are titles of songs from Clan Of Xymox.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 06, 2005 - 11:13 PM
    My PowerBook Pismo is named 'Sharkan' after the heroic legendary warrior son of Umar Al-Numan from the Thousands Nights and One Night. (Dr. J.C. Madrus' translation)

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 07, 2005 - 02:38 PM
    Usually the apple internal name for the machine e.g. Quicksilver, Kihei Gossamer, Montana, Catalyst etc etc down to an SE, Yeah I own a few Macs :-)

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 08, 2005 - 05:40 PM
    Frelling Right! My G4 Tower with 17" LCD is Scorpious, my 12" iBook is Chiana. Anybody want to laugh, go see the big guy with the sword!

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 11, 2005 - 03:18 PM
    Characters from The Hitch Hiker's Guide To the Galaxy.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 11, 2005 - 06:20 PM
    I get to an hostname during installation; so my first set up softraid box is named SpadeQuest while my former file server kept it's name SpadeInfinity (> 20 GB); I just stick to Spade with every machine as a prefix and the rest, well just imagination martin

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 13, 2005 - 06:56 PM
    One set of servers is based on Aurthurian legend (including the Monty Python versions). Another machine is based on some obscure Star Trek references. Others are boring and functional names.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 15, 2005 - 12:15 AM
    Greeks. Sokrates, Zeno, Aristoteles, Homer, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Platon, Thales

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 16, 2005 - 12:41 AM
    I name mine after names in the space odyssey series and names of various moons and planets in the solar system. My next machine is getting named hyperion

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 16, 2005 - 05:47 AM
    I've been giving my drives animal names. Bootherium Bombifrons is an extinct yak, and my favorite. Sarcastic Fringe Head is my back-up drive. The new flash-drive I got for Christmas is called Sneaker, since I didn't think of anything better yet.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 17, 2005 - 08:33 AM
    Variations on aminal types, e.g. my powerbook is called macduck, since it flies with me, and my full-tower workstation is called coolcow (heavy and bulky ;).

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 19, 2005 - 05:49 PM
    Well, the Amiga is called "amiga", the PC "pc", and err, the Pegasos, "pegasos". I think.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 23, 2005 - 12:50 PM
    All of my systems have been named for AI's in games/books/movies/ect.. My current PC is Tycho and my iBook is named Mjolnir (both from Marathon, and yes, I know that Mjolnir was not TECHNICALLY an AI, but a cyborg would have SOME AI componants.) Previous incarnations have been Hal, Leela, Durandal, Majel(in honor of Majel Roddenberry's role as the voice of the computers on StarTrek) and Viki. My friend Jack named his systems Mainframe LostAngles and SiliconTor as a refrence to the cartoon ReBoot.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 23, 2005 - 08:46 PM
    Nearly every machine I have is named after a science fiction space ship (and surely I can't be alone in this). I avoid the obvious - for instance the latest one I built is known as fireball (Gerry Anderson, early sixties). Sad but true. On the other hand, this machine is called hotblack; Since its Hot, Black, and its a tribute to Douglas Adams and THHGTTG

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 24, 2005 - 04:16 AM
    I use Computers from RAH books for my names. Mike, Miverna, Teena, Dora...

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 28, 2005 - 12:27 AM
    Futurama characters. My PowerMac G5 is called "zoidberg", my PC is "farnsworth" and my laptop is "rodriguez" (Bender's last name). :-)

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Jan 29, 2005 - 05:21 AM
    Desktop (PC) > Nautilus (Jules Verne's novel 20000 leagues below the sea) Powerbook > Mercuzio (From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) iBook > Sputnik iPod > Beduino (Beduin, travelers of the desert)

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Feb 02, 2005 - 04:34 AM
    Not proper human names, but proper pet names.. Spot, Fluffy, Miss Kitty, Ruff, etc...

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Feb 06, 2005 - 01:52 PM
    Laptop's name is "cow", and pc's name is "sigh"

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Feb 11, 2005 - 07:43 AM
    I name mine after favorite single malts

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Feb 12, 2005 - 06:20 PM
    City names in the Netherlands--they always sound like science fiction/fantasy.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Feb 14, 2005 - 06:15 PM
    After southpark charaters - stan, cartman, kyle, kenny (always dies)

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Feb 15, 2005 - 03:22 PM
    greek gods such as ares, hermes, atlas, and so on

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Feb 24, 2005 - 08:30 PM
    Abstractly. I have one named Cacophonous and another named Serendipity.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Mar 01, 2005 - 03:45 AM
    My PowerBook is called sputnik. I was a Russian major in undergrad and sputnik translates roughly as "traveling companion."

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Mar 06, 2005 - 07:42 AM
    I named my machine "Cygnus", after Rush's "Cygnus X-1". Simple as that.

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    Re: How do you name your machine? >
    by Hiromi (wideocean@gmail.com) on Mar 08, 2005 - 09:45 AM
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    Since my nickname is Hiromi, I use the english translation of its meaning, which is wideocean. :D mata ne!

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Mar 10, 2005 - 12:57 PM
    Dually.local of course...

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Mar 18, 2005 - 10:49 AM
    my machins are variations on the word (you'll hve to excuse me) 'smeg'. eg: metasmeg (old smeg), supersmeg(better than metasmeg), ultrasmeg(the best smeg i have)

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Mar 18, 2005 - 03:38 PM
    after names and/or things i like. currently i have 2 boxes called after strangely named or funny animals, 1 with the name of my fav. writer, and 1 named after a special word he used in his books.

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    Re: How do you name your machine?
    by Anonymous on Apr 15, 2005 - 08:04 PM
    With my nickname being Suicide, I decided to go with a sort of dark theme. I started off with the four horse men (death, pestilence, famine, war) but I quickly ran out of names. I retired war, although I might resurface it at some point. But, anyways, I picked up some other similar-sounding names to go along with the four horsemen of the apocolypse. eternity (my network) purgatory (my internet router) death (my server) famine (my big computer) sacrifice (my powerbook laptop) pestilence (a crappy pentium 1 laptop, I just haven't gotten rid of yet) Dang, do I still have that many computers?

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    by Trekkie on May 10, 2005 - 12:15 AM
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    I have the domain nomorestars.com (astronomer anagram) and usually name my machines for the stars in the Orion constellation as it was the first constellation that got me interested in Astronomy as a child because of the horse head nebula and M42.

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