What is the name of your computers(s)?

[qnr]

What did you assign as a network hostname? The computers I currently run are named:

timestorm, antic, gateway, laptop, and plain old 'terry' for the palm

[Sanity Claws]

1. HAL

[qnr]

3. Does it dream? n/t

[Heidi]

66. Same here. HAL. (eom)

[Mr. Flibble]

2. Okay, my fellow hacker:

Mine are:

LINUX-A001, VIDCAPTR, ATHLON-MAIN, DBASE-SVR-LNX.

[qnr]

4. wow, lotta upper-case, reminds me of my 8-bit days :) n/t

[cprise]

17. Where do you get a Mr. Flibble??

Mine are XAN1, Canada, Egg

[qnr]

24. Ah yes, that's a classic combo. XAN1, Canada, and Egg. Why just this

morning I was - oh wait, that was something else. Nevermind.

[Mr. Flibble]

36. Well, I'd rather not give my address out on an open channel...

:evilgrin:

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. Bobette

:)

[qnr]

9. cute, but close enough to make me grimace and my dangly bits

shrink a little :)

[aePrime]

6. Lennon is my server

Ringo is my main box.

I need two more (that I actually use).

Spot is our laptop.

[qnr]

12. I sense a pattern :) ... well, except for spot. n/t

[tekriter]

7. Y'all are nuts.

Computers name THEMSELVES. It's an infringement on their sprits for YOU to name them.

Sheesh.

[qnr]

10. Well, mine always named themselves Ralph for some reason, so I had

to take a more pro-active tack.

[many a good man]

8. In the Porcupine domain I have ...

Pork and Pine, of course.

[qnr]

15. Of course... and then there is U n/t

[sakabatou]

11. Bohenbaka

Blockhead in Japanese.

[qnr]

14. lol, nice - I call mine that sometimes, but mostly I'm projecting :) n/t

[bridgit]

13. my computer has no name but: dimension...

http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/matrix.htm

[qnr]

20. ummm. ok :) n/t

[BringEmOn]

16. Lately, it's been $#*&%$^$ son of a #($**&@*!!!

[qnr]

21. heheh, know that feeling- especially while coding n/t

[ZombieNixon]

18. LAPPY 486!

A la Strongbad.

[qnr]

23. Nice. However, for some reason, I'm honestly thinking of Zippy the

Pinhead right now, and I can't explain why.

[Salviati]

32. Mine is "Computerbox"

[qnr]

38. I used to have one a long time ago that I called "generic computer" n/t

[Les BOOGIE]

19. God **** piece of **** n/t

[qnr]

26. Wow, you'd think it would get confused with all the other God **** piece

of ****s attached to the network.

[fluffernutter]

22. Betsy.

i say "come on Betsy" to it all the time to get 'er movin. slowass mo fo ole Betsy is.

[qnr]

27. Well I don't blame her. "Betsy" makes her sound like she should be

in a rocking chair, knitting - er, um, printing cross stictch patterns or something, I guess.

[fluffernutter]

29. well, she didn't start out a Betsy

she earned it ;)

[qnr]

31. Well that's different. Maybe she needs some 220?

Note: Don't try this at home kids - it's a joke.

[johnnie]

25. I have four running

Laptop, Office, Studio and Lil' Bastard

[qnr]

28. There I was... I had a well laid out naming scheme, then someone slipped

me a bottle of sambucca!

[johnnie]

30. Heh

It was the first one I built and I named it what James Dean named his Spider that he died in.

[qnr]

34. Oh yeah. That's where I knew it from. Hey, I almost died in a spider

once. Small world. I was driving my Alfa Romeo GT2000 Spider on the autostrada, from Reggio Calabria to Sellia Marina, doing about 210 kph (about 130 mph) in the passing lane when I saw something ahead of me and swerved out of the lane. Turned out to be a piece of rebar from concrete, right about at my chest level in the car.


Um, sorry, I tend to ramble sometimes.

[johnnie]

43. Are you serious?

If so, that's pretty cool. Not the "near bucket kick" but that you had that car and were driving where you were driving.
Are you Bill Gates?

[qnr]

47. Yes, but no, I was just a poor Coastie stationed at a LORAN station

in southern Italy. The car was used. My nice car was my AR Montreal


That particular photo isn't of mine, but mine was just like it, including the color.

Edit: it was used too, bought from a fellow coastie heading back to the states.

[johnnie]

49. Cool

I'm not a machine head, but I know a good looking car when I see it. Looking at that makes me wish I would have been into cars more.

[mondo joe]

33. My 1st laptop was Lappy, my first Apple was Appy and the powerbook

is named Pappy.

[qnr]

42. Well, it will be easy to name your first lemon! n/t

[JohnnyRingo]

35. Zombie Force 2000

And my password is just 5 Xs

[qnr]

40. lol - love it n/t

[CornField]

37. Patchouli, Amyris, Basil, Bergamot, Hyssop and Neroli

Essential oils. :)

[qnr]

39. Nice ones. I see you pick a pattern and stick with it heheh n/t

[CornField]

46. At one place I worked, the servers were all given porn star names. :)

"If you'll excuse me, I need to go reboot Ron Jeremy and mount a drive on Silvia Saint."

[qnr]

48. heheheh n/t

[NV Whino]

41. Grande and Pequeño

Grande is partitioned into Artist, Artist + and Calvin.

Unfortunately I lost my Calvin icon several upgrades previously.

[qnr]

45. It's under the bed - but who is going to look? Sorry, I tend to go off

on tangents.... suddenly thinking of the monsters under Calvins bed in Calvin & Hobbes.

[Igel]

44. Hard drives are

bulgakov, tyutchev, zalygin; the one yet uninstalled will be lermontov.

Russian authors.

My wife's hard drives and computers are all Russian rivers.

[qnr]

50. Any significance to the actual choice of authors? btw, timestorm

is named after a science fiction book by Gordon Dickson.

[Igel]

59. Fairly random a selection, actually.

Mostly I wanted to avoid long names with no established standard English spelling.

Zalygin was a socialist realism writer, mostly short stories; "grey" in terms of plot, but interesting characterizations and descriptions. "Grey" is a late Soviet/post-Soviet way of saying a book is as readable as a concrete block, dull, untalanted. He knew it, and mostly deals with things like people fishing on a Volga tributary.

Tyutchev was a gushy Romantic poet with quasi-religious overtones. Pretty stock stuff, but well written.

Bulgakov was an oppressed writer; less dissident, anti-Soviet, than just a damned good writer who didn't like shackles, and didn't want to portray the communists, who he saw in all their glory and flaws, as perfect.

Lermontov is the counter-weight to Pushkin. A really talanted poet, early 1800s; most people think he's secondary to Pushkin, but I like his stuff better. (There are these odd splits foisted on people, strong preferences people develop: Bach/Handel, Haydn/Mozart, and Pushkin/Lermontov. Beatles/Rolling Stones. ;-)

[qnr]

62. Hmmm - I'll see if I can find any of their works, thanks n/t

[Dukkha]

51. Red 5 and Defiant

a Mac G4 and G3

[qnr]

52. I like the attitude n/t

[Lilith Velkor]

53. Stan, Kyle, Eric and Zod

Bastards killed Kenny.

[qnr]

55. lol n/t

[BiggJawn]

54. "Siege Engine I" through "Siege Engine XXI"

But theres a big gap between IV and XXI, AKA "Computus Maximus (it's a G-5)

The guy who tends to the streaming servers names his after trains. "The Coast Daylight" "20th Century" "City of New Orleans", etc.

[qnr]

56. So, if Computus Maximus takes up 15 through 20, are those others

physical computers or partions / logical ones?

[BiggJawn]

57. There are no Siege Engines 5 thru 20.

And I'm not sure what they're called on the network, Siege Engine is just an arbitrary name so I know which one the editor is bitching about when it won't boot or digitize. So much easier to track "Your damn Siege Engine Three has locked up" than "Jody's computer is down".

IT did put out a query last winter wanting to know who owned "Tinky Winky", "La-La", Dipsy" and "Po". Those were 4 boxes that were no longer on line.

[qnr]

58. Ah. (I do know my roman numerals, honestly - it was a typo heheh. n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

60. I used to call my machine at work Rocinante

I'm a computer programmer. Rocinante is Don Quixote's horse.

In those days, I liked to quip that I came to work everyday to save my employer from the system. I would joust with the windmills that were bugs and awkward code in old legacy software, carried to my task by my trusty steed.



That was when I liked my job.

Since them, the Barber and the Priest found a way to rein me in. We've been bought out by a large company which has turned the place into a bureaucratic morass. Gone are the days when a computer programmer could should initiative and just find a bug and fix it; now one finds a bug that might be simple to fix, presents the idea to his manager, who presents it to a committee of bean counters that takes about six months to determine that it is a problem and is worth fixing. Meanwhile, customers aren't being served.

A survey taken by a polling organization on our behalf shows customer satisfaction down. Of course, those bean counters can't understand what the problem might be.

Don Quixote by Pablo Picasso from Artchive

[qnr]

61. I feel for you. I have a number of friends in the same boat in their

workplaces. All my coding is done for fun (well, fun is relative, I'm a developer for a Linux distro, but I still consider that fun).

[Jack Rabbit]

73. Thanks. I needed to hear that somebody understood that rant.

This is the second time I've worked for a company that was bought out by a Forune 500 outfit. The pattern was the same. When the come in, they say, "You guys are doing great. We won't impose our corporate culture on you." About three years later, we need to fill out a form in triplicate to lift a pinky.

Big business in more productive and more efficient? Than what? Something designed by Rube Goldberg?

[Mutley]

63. nightcrawler

[qnr]

71. that does sound kind of "Muttley-ish" actually :) n/t

[Mutley]

74. .

:7 B-) :smoke: :crazy: yep i like it

[JVS]

64. Charlene

[qnr]

72. I never named any of mine after women, though a lot of my friends

did (years ago, that is) - I was just a contrary cuss, I suppose.

[ContraBass Black]

65. PaaKow (my name) for the Palm, The Black Box for the Dell.

[Longgrain]

67. Petronella...seriously.

When it came time to name my computer, I named it Petronella.

[qnr]

70. The band? Dance? Actress? other? nothing in particular? n/t

[Longgrain]

75. None of them, it only because my name's Peter.

Petronella is the female equivalent.

[DS1]

68. I have a server named BFS

You can probably figure it out :D

[qnr]

69. :) n/t