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Originally posted by dietrichbohn
Also, nobody's figured out why I named my car Ahura (from a previous thread.) It's because of the make, and because of my favorite Holy Text

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Originally posted by reeseman
You drive a Mazda. Ahura-mazda is one way to anglicize the name of one of the principal gods of Zoroastrianism.

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Japanese words. My current desktop at work is Tsunami, and it's about to get replaced with Akira (new, faster machine). Or weather-related words (Forceten, Typhoon, the cloud types, etc.).

For a while in our lab, we used names of moons (Callisto, Europa, Io, Phobos, Ganymede).

Others:
Twoproc (our first dual-processor machine), but that was voted down due to its context (the dead rapper), so it was changed to ElGrande (two 500Mhz procs = 1000 = one grand)

Eightball (my first useful home PC, an AMD 486DX2-80 - 'member those?)

Denali (my work laptop, which I'm using to type this - a travelling, outdoorsy kind of name)

Zubat (my backup testing machine, named during my kids' Pokemon period)

I guess you could say my desktop at home has a name. I've been known to cry out, "You piece of CR*P!", very loudly in it's general direction many times. (Strangely, I haven't been compelled to call a person that in years, just that computer, a Compaq)

My laptop is called the 'Fuji'. I never yell at it. It has been a good friend.

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My aging HP 200 LX is Palmella; my Visor Deluxe was Bart (as in Connor - he did handsprings...); my Platinum is Nadia (ditto); my old Dell was Dellbert; my new Dell is Della. I've had various others, mostly portables and handhelds - all named. How do I name them? I ask them thier names!

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Originally posted by ThirdMan
At work, I named our domain Sol (not S.O.L., but Sol as in Solar), and our servers:
-Mercury
-Venus
-Earth
-Mars
-Asteroidbelt
-Jupiter
-Saturn
-Transneptunian

With Neptune, Uranus, Pluto and Kupierbelt (sp?) soon to come. When I run out, I'll start hitting moons and/or comets. It really shouldn't be a problem as we have too darn many servers anyway.

Yeah, it's boring but you asked...

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Originally posted by BobbyMike
[...] a Compaq [...]

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"There's your answer. Just remember: You can't say Presario without saying 'sorry'."

Absurd, but true....

The really sorry thing is that for what I paid for this hunk o' plastic I can get a 1.5 gig Dell now. Oh well, I was ignorant before I was sorry.

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Originally posted by davecombs
Twoproc (our first dual-processor machine), but that was voted down due to its context (the dead rapper)

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I had named one of my old computers "Memory Alpha", after the computer planet in the classic Star Trek episode "The Lights of Zetar".

I considered names like "Colossus" and "HAL", but they were a little over the top.
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Originally posted by BobbyMike
"You piece of CR*P!", very loudly [...] a Compaq)

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"BobbyMike- don't worry, eventually some of the proprietary parts in your compaq will give up and you too will kick it to the curb so some knucklehead with more ambition than common sense can pick it up"

I'm not waiting for that to happen, next month I get the Dell and this computer is being downgraded to my sons. My youngest already killed the floppy by jamming about 100 of my business cards into it. (I know it was apprx. 100 'cause I got them out.) All their software is on CDs and they can beat it to death for all I care. I love it no more.

"shouldn't that be, "You piece of Compaq!" ?"

No, not until the word 'Compaq' takes on the same connotation as the word cr*p in common usage (which may be soon).

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At work we name the computer after their users, e.g. mine is "Jonathan's computer", etc. etc. etc.

Home I never saw a need to name it. Even if I would call it it would never answer.

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Originally posted by BobbyMike
No, not until the word 'Compaq' takes on the same connotation as the word cr*p in common usage (which may be soon).

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As a software developer, I periodically get a new PC at work and bing on a network, I need a better name that the default which is usually something like "CompaqDeskPro". I've been naming mine after scientists I admire: Darwin & Sagan, so far.

I don't have a name for my VDX. I just call it 'my Visor' or 'my VDX' to those in the know, or those really out of it 'my Palm' or 'my PalmPilot".

I was always intending to use the name of the woman who corresponded with Babbage about techniques to program his 'difference engine'. But I just looked her up and I found her name was Ada Lovelace. Obviously Lovelace is out, I don't want to use Ada because of the programming language, and I don't want to use ADALOVELACE because it's too long.

Maybe I'll call my next PC HOPPER.

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As I said before, the computers at work are named after moons. At home, I name the computers after volcanoes on Io. My Windows computer is named Pillan because when it crashes/erupts, it's a major crash/eruption. My linux computer is named Tvashtar for the same reason. My VDX is named Tejeto. Finally, my laptop is named Isum.

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Originally posted by volcanopele
As I said before, the computers at work are named after moons. At home, I name the computers after volcanoes on Io. My Windows computer is named Pillan because when it crashes/erupts, it's a major crash/eruption. My linux computer is named Tvashtar for the same reason. My VDX is named Tejeto. Finally, my laptop is named Isum.

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You people are lucky. At my job we support hundreds of servers and thousands of desktop machines, and we have to have a standardized naming convention, if only for inventory purposes. Once a year the bean counters give us a list of assets and some poor schmuck has to go and identify them, usually by the serial number. So our desktop PCs are named something like HCCTC0034567. The name includes the serial number. Servers are named something like HCCTCFS01. It's so boring, it's a crime, but that is how it is out in the cold world of network support. We have to be able to look at a name and be able to tell which department has it and what is is used for.

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Originally posted by thatch
That's really sort of imaginative...where can us non-enlightened people find information on object names within our solar system?

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Originally posted by reeseman
You people are lucky. At my job we support hundreds of servers and thousands of desktop machines, and we have to have a standardized naming convention, if only for inventory purposes.

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