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Jim wrote:

> Here's a few more names for you courtesy of:
>
> http://www.crfg.org/pubs/fl/commonMR.html

Thanks, that'll keep me going.

> Pink Banana
....
> Purple Passion Fruit

Are you sure these are all fruit and not euphemisms?

Blumf


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In message <z14Zb.48468$1S1.15928@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>, Rich Grise wrote:

>
> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
Current selection is robinton, mnementh, ramoth, canth, piemur, jaxom,
menolly, sharra, sebell, bigmac and ozone. (The last two are Power Macs)

Some people might recognise the common theme :-)

I obviously got things mixed up somewhere, given my choice of domain name.

Dave
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mail: da ve@llondel.org (without the space)
http://www.llondel.org/
So many gadgets, so little time...

In article <opr3mh8wddap2tkr@news.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Nld100eO@S.doc.Pic.Aac.Muk (Laurence Darby) writes:

>On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:49:03 GMT, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:
>
>> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
>Do you mean the hostname? I called mine eden, cos it's a fanless
>silent via eden embedded processor. Did I metion its silent?

Yes, but we didn't hear you. :-)

>At a summer job, my boss named each node of his cluster after an
>egyptian god, which I thought was pretty nifty.

It would be kind of nice to name the Linux/Unix boxes on a network
after the good gods, while you could call the Windoze boxes things
like beelzebub, azazel, pluto, etc.

>ps. I don't think anybody wanted to hear your overshare...

I know I didn't.

But as for my home network, I have the following:

amicjg - "AMIga" followed by my initials
amidon - the Amiga once used by my wife Donna
darkstar - AcerNote 370 laptop running Slackware 7, default name
genesis-cjg - Windows 98, used for development work on the dark side.
(Hey, a guy's gotta eat.) I used to call this one gateshit (a name
gleaned from alt.folklore.computers for its editorial value), but
one Friday evening I was dialed into a customer site with PC-Anywhere
and their end hung. The following Monday morning the customer came
in and found that their machine thought that a connection to someone
called "gateshit" was still up and had been for something like 58
hours. They thought they were being hacked. We decided that a
more discreet name was in order.
aiello - NT4, inherited from its previous owner
scosysv - a 386 running SCO 3.2v4.2
donnalap - my wife's laptop
boat-anchor - another Win98 box, since shipped off to my sister
puffy - OpenBSD 3.3, named after the mascot
tuxmove - Toshiba Satellite 4100 laptop running Slackware 9.1
(Tux the penguin, on the move)

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Et circa horam 02/19/04 15:49, clamavit Rich Grise:

| Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?

At home: decadence

At work: I named computers after some characters from an old Polish TV
series (still very popular in Poland) called "Czterej pancerni i pies"
("The Four Armored Ones and the Dog"); it was a series about a four
men crew of a tank and their dog in WW2. So, these computers are:

szarik (the dog)
janek (a young soldier, tank crew)
gustlik (another soldier, tank crew)

I work sometimes on two other computers which I had not named and they
are:

kastor (one of two identical servers working together, so its
"twinbrother" is of course pollux)
sunrise (probably because it runs Sun)

jkb

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+Cibao+<Cibao@softhome.net> wrote on Thursday 19 February 2004 2:28 pm:

> Organization: Cranky Indianz, inc.

hahahahaha, i never noticed that one before, but thats freakin hilarious...
:-D
-dave

Hi Rich,

Interesting topic I've often wondered this myself. But first, one
things I was curious about...

> Just a sort of random thought; my first Linux was Slackware
> 2 or 3 or so - downloaded it back in the mid-1980s and it was
> funner than a rat.

Didn't Slackware start around 1993 and Linux wasn't even around until
1991. Just nitpicking :-)

My computers, whether Linux, Windows, or Mac are generally named after
old computers, or on occasion location. My main system running Slack
9.1 is 'TRS-80', my dial-up server running RH 7.3 is 'Amiga', my
PowerMac is 'AppleII', my Windows 98 box (for gaming) is 'Commodore',
and my garage PC running Slack 9.1 (yes I have a PC in the garage) is
simply 'GaragePC'. Oh, and my laptop running Slack 9.1 is 'Penguin'.

In the early days, I stuck with Star Trek ship names, like
'Enterprise', 'Reliant', 'Excelsior', etc. This got confusing during
LUG meetings and LAN Parties because if you get more then 8 nerds on a
network, you're bound to have at least 2 computers named 'Enterprise'.
hehe

Take care,

Alex.

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:49:03 +0000, Rich Grise wrote:

[snips]
> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
Win2k/SuSE 8.2 multiboot p4 2.6GHz 2GB RAM - bluewhale, because it's in a
large dark charcoal case with blue LEDs. (geddit?)

Redhat 7.3 net gateway/mail box PIII 850MHz 768MB RAM - gate. (yeah,
original it ain't but it's utterly reliable)

Win98/SuSE 8.1/Redhat 7.3 multiboot PIII 850MHz 768 MB RAM - calliope,
because it's the one I used most for MIDI/music apps.
bluewhale is doing most of that now so a rebuild/rechristening is due.

Win95b clunker 486-100 384MB RAM - orlando, I think just because it sounds
nice. Was a Windows development box (Delphi), those days are long gone
since Linux arrived so it just does the occasional accounts work now.

Win95a pile 486-33 128MB RAM - ermintrude, because it's a real cow to get
anything running at a useful speed. (cf. "The Magic Roundabout")
Was used for DOS/Pascal development work, pretty well retired these days.
This heap is in need of a decent burial - I thought maybe pushing it out
to sea in a burning boat, Viking-style with looming thunderclouds and
crows flapping overhead. <cue Wagner>

Redhat 6.<mumble> 486-33 with a massive 16MB RAM - oldbox
Currently being used as a doorstop/spare seat.

B.
--
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

Server is called Redhat since it has redhat on it.
Dell desktop is called Dell
Gateway desktop is called Gateway
My laptop is called GKH-Laptop (initials)

Very original I know...


"Rich Grise" <null@example.net> wrote in message
news:z14Zb.48468$1S1.15928@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
> Just a sort of random thought; my first Linux was Slackware
> 2 or 3 or so - downloaded it back in the mid-1980s and it was
> funner than a rat. Had fvwm going, running that era's
> netscape, had apache going, at least locally (I think I
> exposed a virtual host once).
>
> But the area where I had to make something up was thinking
> up a name for the computer. I came up with "Vehicle," the
> logic being that it's a transport mechanism for information
> back and forth to the outside world.
>
> My main computer, I called Entheos, because I have a DBA
> of "Entheos Engineering." I came up with "Entheos" because
> I saw some new-age lecture back in the early-to-mid 1990's
> where the guy wrote "entheos" on the whiteboard, and said
> it means "God Within," and it's the root of "enthusiasm."
>
> I realized recently where I came up with "Thunderbird" for
> the third computer - apparently I had subliminally picked
> up on it while I was either looking for the reset cmos
> jumper on the mobo, or looking for the part no. & stuff
> on one of the ebay adapters, and something called itself
> "T-bird." Oh, well, so much for creativity.
>
> Anyway, I've seen people talk about their computers by name,
> and some of them are kind of, well, interesting.
>
> I think it'd be fun if as many folks as feel like it would
> post a little post with the name of their computer, and
> maybe even how did you come up with it?
>
> <overshare>
> To go even further OT, I've heard that some men name their
> penis, and some women name their breasts or their partner
> names them for them, but that would be entirely optional.
> I only refer to "Little Richard," or sometimes, "Wee
> Willie Winkie," but that's really nobody's business but
> my partner. It also gives me something to blame when he
> doesn't want to cooperate. (it might be construed as
> unkind to say, "Sorry, lady, apparently you just don't
> turn me on.")
> </overshare>
>
> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>
>


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My full-tower: biggybig
My mini-tower: smallysmall
My mid-tower: renric (after my daughter & sil, Renee and Richard
who gave me the computer)

As you can tell, I'm not real creative at naming inanimate objects.

nb

All right, here goes:

main desktop: apollo (AthlonXP, 512MB, mandrake cooker *shame*)
Alpha PWS: saturn (EV56, 512MB, gentoo)
main notebook: athena (PIII, 256MB, slackware-current)
play-around-with box: gentoo-ppro (Pentium Pro, 128MB, gentoo/BeOSMAX 3.0)
old laptop: mercur (486, 20MB, slackware-9.1 again soon, i hope...)
really old box: pizza (486, 8MB, slackware-9.1, fun! really flat, thus the name)

not named yet:

old HP workstation (HP apollo 720, PA7000, 16MB, hp-ux 9.05 preinstalled)

All those gods in there come from the fact that I needed lots of names at once,
so I went the easy way and chose a large field to pick names out of. Need a
better name for the little gentoo box some time, but I can't think of any
ancient god that fits it...(pluto is taken by someone else on that net.
hephaistos maybe?) And sadly, the HP apollo won't get "apollo" as its already
taken. Something like "Ra" will have to do, I guess. Or something that reflects
its age somehow.

st