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

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:49:03 GMT, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:


>
> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>
>

Do you mean the hostname? I called mine eden, cos it's a fanless
silent via eden embedded processor. Did I metion its silent?

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

--
Laurence

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

Hallo Rich

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

I'm a cartoon type - @home I have 'oggy' and 'jack' (from 'Oggy and the
cockroaches'). If I would install one today it would probably become
'spongebob' :-)

Juergen

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:49:03 GMT, "Rich Grise" <null@example.net> wrote:
[snip]
>Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?

Usually apropos personal names...
- My Z80 CP/M system is Simon ("Simple Simon", really)
- My Slackware 9.0 server is Merlin (because he knows everything and does magic)
- My Slackware 9.0 desktop is Bitsie ("Bitsie Puter", because it's cute)
- My Slackware 9.0 laptop is Aurora (it's bright and a Northern Light)
- My wife's Win95 laptop is SuzieQ (it's old and it wobbles, like the dance)

--
Lew Pitcher
IT Consultant, Enterprise Application Architecture,
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')

angrycow... no logic =P

--
phrag
http://gan.gs/box
Linux-2.4.24 Slackware-9.1-current

Slackware 9.0 server - Strauss
My Win2k PC - Stravinsky
See the logic? :-) No?
It's named after a horse called Strauss, his dads name was Stravinsky, so I
decided to go with that for my PC's as well.

/Morten

--
Replace .hej with .com in my e-mail prior to sending e-mail.

"Morten Lundstrøm" <semizealot@iname.hej> writes:

> Slackware 9.0 server - Strauss
> My Win2k PC - Stravinsky
> See the logic? :-) No?
> It's named after a horse called Strauss, his dads name was Stravinsky, so I
> decided to go with that for my PC's as well.

glynthebearded ........

Glyn
--
RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html
GAFC http://slackbook.yoshiwara.org.uk/
STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...inux.slackware
GAFL Trolls - Google on "slrnbqimqr.189.Cibao@raven.home"

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:49:03 GMT, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:


> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>
>


Do you mean the hostname? I called mine eden, cos it's a fanless
silent via eden embedded processor. Did I metion its silent?

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

--
Laurence

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

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:49:03 GMT,
Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:
>
> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?

Linux box:
Heaney, after the poet. (Seamus Heaney.)
Logic: I was reading one of his anthologies at the time of install.

Windows box:
Noisy
Logic: Because it is.

I used to have an aquatic-naming scheme, ("Swordfish", "Turtle",) but
prefer non-themed names now.

--
Mark Hill <usenet@mark.ukfsn.org> (devnull address not read)
GPG KeyID: 4A3B58AC

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Rich Grise wrote:

> 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>

full time job - maya

part time job - thunder, jungle

home - moya

client's servers: dynamite, mephisto, liberty, frodo, gandalf, matrix,
freestyler, xr6, cooler, twice

servers at work: tealc and will be two more, soon (I don't know what
name I'll give to them)

They are more deployed, but I don't remember them. All runs Slackware as
- -current as posibile

- --
Claudiu Cismaru
Network/System Administrator
RoEDU Net - Tg-Jiu POP

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