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Londo
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Registered: Aug 2000
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'Marvin'...

.. for obvious reasons

08-02-2000 03:52 PM

rclayton
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I haven't named mine, now I am trying to think of something good.....not just a girls name.....

BTW - for all of you that think your PDA or your PC is like girlfriend (or boyfriend), you might be interested in these devices for your PC. http://www.fufme.com Please note it is adult oriented, but not pornographic.

Ryan

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08-02-2000 05:14 PM

fixitgal
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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Pleasanton, CA
Posts: 253

Toby,

The "guy thing" reference is to the fact that most guys name everything...It's kind of a "territory" thing I guess

To me it's just a device, that I depend on to keep my life in working order. It is a very "personal" piece of electronics. I keep my kids medical numbers, doctor's phone numbers, even birthdays and anniversarys...

So I can see why people would name them...But some of you guys need to get out more...

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08-02-2000 05:47 PM

Daryl
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Registered: Jan 2000
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On PDAs named Daryl:

quote:
Originally posted by LuckyChuck:
I actually thought of naming my PDA Daryl. (no offense to any Daryl's out there!)

No offense taken, I would be deeply honored.

On computers as boy/girlfriends:
Even back when I did name my PCs, I tried to make it clear to them that I really liked them as a friend, but nothing deeper.

On it being a guy thing:
I used to know a woman who named her cars - pretty darned close.

08-02-2000 07:03 PM

rclayton
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quote:
Originally posted by fixitgal:
Toby,

The "guy thing" reference is to the fact that most guys name everything...It's kind of a "territory" thing I guess

Well I am not peeing on mine!

Ryan

08-02-2000 07:42 PM

seansean
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Registered: Feb 2000
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quote:
Originally posted by rclayton:
Well I am not peeing on mine!

Yeah, peeing on it would be hell on the circuitry...

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seanseanadams
your friend and mine

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08-02-2000 08:58 PM

MarkEagle
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Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

quote:
Originally posted by rclayton:
...you might be interested in these devices for your PC

Hmmm... maybe I can patent some protection for these things...

Sorry, couldn't resist... I DO need to get out more

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MarkEagle - Ice is nice!

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08-02-2000 11:19 PM

fixitgal
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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Pleasanton, CA
Posts: 253

Bad, bad, bad! The lot of you...

MarkEagle,

NO PATENTS! That's all we need is that wacko posting to this thread

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Queen of Parts

08-03-2000 12:36 AM

sheaf
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Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Reston VA
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Ok, Ok, Ok, I admit it. I name my hardware after Shakespeare characters.

(yeah, well, you shutup!)

I've got Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (if you ping, you get "rosencrantz is alive" - get it?), Ophelia is my laptop, and the Visor is Hero. I even have "Hero is owned by:" on the Owner page under Prefs, followed by my contact info and a quote from the play...

*sigh* yeah, I'm a guy... any panty-waist comments will be cat'ed to /dev/null

"Done to death by slanderous toungues was the Hero who here lies" - Claudio

08-04-2000 04:06 PM

matty
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Registered: Dec 1999
Location: brooklyn
Posts: 268

quote:
Originally posted by sheaf:
Ok, Ok, Ok, I admit it. I name my hardware after Shakespeare characters.

I've got Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (if you ping, you get "rosencrantz is alive" - get it?), Ophelia is my laptop, and the Visor is Hero. I even have "Hero is owned by:" on the Owner page under Prefs, followed by my contact info and a quote from the play...

out of curiosity, why those characters? why not some of the trustier (or untrustier) servants in shakespeare -- you know, eros, or puck, or oswald, speed, launce, balthazar, robin, dromio (a or s), gobbo, malvolio is a particularly good one... ariel is maybe even better.

the list goes on and on - and we haven't even touched on the fools

now i'm giving myself ideas...

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i like bananas.

08-04-2000 09:50 PM

sheaf
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Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Reston VA
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quote:
Originally posted by matty:
out of curiosity, why those characters? why not some of the trustier (or untrustier) servants in shakespeare -- you know, eros, or puck, or oswald, speed, launce, balthazar, robin, dromio (a or s), gobbo, malvolio is a particularly good one... ariel is maybe even better.

I'm a UNIX guy, and on old Sun machines, when you "ping" a box, it said "<box> is alive". In all the old Sun docs the hostname was "elvis" - so "Elvis is alive". I liked the joke of having Rosencrantz and Guildenstern be alive instead of dead...

08-07-2000 10:13 PM

spice-um-up
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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Butler , NJ
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gizmoe

08-07-2000 10:22 PM

chrisfoster
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Urbana, IL
Posts: 99

My PowerBook is "The Death Star", and has a Death Star icon on it's harddrive (Mac).
My Visor's username is just my first name (for shareware reasons), but I like to call it "Dust Puppy", because I got a startup screen hack that has the little guy from the [url=http://www.userfriendly.org)User Friendly[/url] comic strip.

08-09-2000 11:51 PM

ToolkiT
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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney Australia
Posts: 1883

I always call my Visor 'my external Memory'...

08-10-2000 07:10 AM

Winchell
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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Baltimore MD, USA
Posts: 717

quote:
Originally posted by chrisfoster:
My Visor's username is just my first name (for shareware reasons), but I like to call it "Dust Puppy", because I got a startup screen hack that has the little guy from the comic strip.

Remember, Dust Puppy wrote Erwin, the AI program. Once Erwin's computer got "infected" by Windows NT, and Erwin had to migrate to other platforms.

One of them was this:
[url="http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19981020"]http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19981020

08-10-2000 02:33 PM

jammer
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Registered: Feb 2000
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Don't all computers have names?

I'm currently working on a seven deadly sins theme with devzero.org (which I own)... I have envy, sloth, lust, pride, and my Visor is Avarice.

Naming computers is very much not a "guy" think. How else will you refer to which machine you're about to do some work on?

"Hey, I'm going to upgrade the web server software on the machine we have on the IP address foo.bar.baz.quux"? Nah.

"Hey, I'm going to upgrade the web server software on gluttony."

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08-11-2000 06:59 PM

RussellKent
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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Dallas, TX, USA
Posts: 3

System names

quote:
Originally posted by sheaf
Ok, Ok, Ok, I admit it. I name my hardware after Shakespeare characters.

I named my PC at work "Caliban." Unfortunately, I don't think my boss gets it. :-(

08-23-2000 11:29 PM

madmango
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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Georgia
Posts: 7

Naming one's Visor

I never thought of doing that....Hmmm.....
Maybe Mozart, or Darth Maul, or 12 volt man....
(I have varied interests)

Mad Mango.....Livin' and dyin' in 3/4 time

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08-24-2000 12:45 PM

kpjarvis
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I've named mine Joshua

(monotone computer voice) "Shall we play a game?"

He plays chess, tic tac toe, and global thermonuclear war.

[Edited by kpjarvis on 08-27-2000 at 09:07 AM]

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