what do you name your computers?

swjam

you're classifying your current president amongst bank robbers? :omg: :doh:

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realJSOP

Mine are planets Mars (my desktop) Venus (my wife's desktop) Mercury (my web server) Uranus (my laptop - I get a kick out of telling people "I'm using uranus to code" - okay - that's kinda puerile, but it makes me laugh) Jupiter (my NAS) Saturn ( my HTPC)

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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realJSOP

Yeah - you don't see the parallels? BTW, you'd have a lot more names to pick from if you switched to crooked politicians as a naming convention.

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

swjam

:) so you're planning to have at most only 9 home computers max? i'm disappointed in you, i was expecting glock, smith, wesson, kalashnikov :)

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realJSOP

At one of my jobs, the servers were all named after terminal illnesses - Ebola, ChickenPox, Massa, Anthrax, HIV, etc...

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

Dalek Dave

Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Titch Had to add on Simon and Garfunkle recently, any new ones will be named Peter, Paul and Mary.

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Dalek Dave

8?

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Dan_Martin

I've only got one. I think it's called "localhost". Sometimes I call it much ruder things, though.

realJSOP

It's too much of a hassle to change, but if I did, I'd use Remmington, Colt, Springfield, Winchester, Sharps, Henry, and Marlin before using any of the foreign makes...

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

swjam

oh riiiight pluto, am not too politically correct on a friday. :rolleyes:

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realJSOP

Nine if you could Plutoid.

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

AspDotNetDev

Terminal illnesses for terminal servers... makes perfect sense.

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swjam

been there done that

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Dalek Dave

Well many more in that case! Sedna and Makemake, Eris and Ceres, not to mention Cruithne Then there are all the fictional ones...Vulcan, Gallifrey, Dune etc.

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Russell Jones

I've got Greyarea, KillingTime and MeatF***er My domain is called TheCulture

Mark_Wallace

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

At one of my jobs, the servers were all named after terminal illnesses - Ebola, ChickenPox, Massa, Anthrax, HIV, etc...

The servers here are named after composers, so when I write example code, I use the names "Lizst" and "Brahms", but not necessarily in that order. You probably need to be English, to get that one.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Lost User

I name my computer as AgileMouse RedCarpet WhiteCollar BlackCode OmCodeReview LastBreath .....i just join 2 words that come to my mind when a name is required

Ravie Busie Coding is my birth-right and bugs are part of feature my code has!

Ian Shlasko

I name them after characters and worlds in my novels... I've gone through plenty of names in the past, but my current ones are: Weven desktop = Orp XP desktop = PrameKlen Laptop = Rikket Netbook = Nwerp NAS = Rotai

Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)

Paul Watson

APPL-W87472LV1C9 I didn't name it, IT did. They used to name computers after Irish islands but ran out and swapped to the above craziness for "asset tracking" purposes. Never mind that an asset tracker will work as well off the string "inishlar" as the string "APPL-W87472LV1C9".

cheers, Paul M. Watson.

daniilzol

black (for black case, at one time was thinking of blackpearl, but that's a "she" name, my computer is a "he") akira (24/7 rig) silo (fileserver) htpc (obvious) Don't remember what I called my netbook, also used raptor in the past for my main pc.