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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: McVenco on September 08, 2006, 01:40:03 PM
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I just wondered if anyone else gave a name to their Amiga(s). I mean, I think we all (at least a lot of people I know do) look at the Miggy as being female, and girls should have nice names. :-)
I called my first A500 "Jacqueline", my A2000 was called "Jessica", my A3000 I called "Anjuli", and since I gave my current A1200 a good place so she could be used daily, I baptised her "Francesca".
(However, I did not name my other A1200 and A1000, since I never really used them on regular base)
So, am I a nutcase, or have you all done the same? :lol:
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I think you're a nutcase;-)
I never named my Amigas but I do talk to them. Same with my motorcycle!
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nutcase.
:-P
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Come and lay down on this couch and tell me all about it....
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I usually give my units name indicators because it makes them easier during maintanance and stuff. Especially if I have to get parts for systems.
@FlashLab
OMG, it's the VEE-DUB guy. That guy freaks me out...
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If you want to go crazy about girl's names used for various rumoured new hardware, check out Amigaworld.net.
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I'm sure this has been posited before, but, around we go again!
I tend to name my hard-disk partitions, rather than the machines. Apart from the boring ones like 'Storage' where I store most non-operating system related files, and 'Lard' where I keep other extraneous files and backups, I have two main named partitions which boot to backdrops of the associated anime character. They are 'Misato', my main boot drive for most of my early Uni. days, and 'Mitsune' for my portable UAE hard-file which ran off a ZIP drive. "Sir, you aren't allowed to install software on the Uni. computers!": "But, I didn't! This is installed on my dis(k}c)s..." :-P
All other machines have always, albeit obviously, been referred to as 'Ami' if ever 'named'. I have a lot of Ami's.
benJamin
"You can make metacity look a little like AmigaOS, But it's not the same."
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Flashlab wrote:
I think you're a nutcase;-)
I never named my Amigas but I do talk to them. Same with my motorcycle!
Ha, me too! Although I must admit to naming my bike. My big Blue BMW 1200clc is named Bertha!
Bob
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nutcase :lol: :crazy:
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With me, names are temporary and are dependant on performance. My A4000T has had many names:
1) You beauty!!
2) You fu**en prick, that render was almost finished, why crash?
3) Come on slow coach...
4) Retard
5) Genius
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Nutcase... :-) But why not, eh? When you have several machines in use, it makes sense to give them a handle so you know which one you mean. So I've got "Amy" or "the Toaster" as my main 2000. The spares in storage don't get names... that would make it hard to canabalize them for parts. :-) The peecee I'm on now is "The Labor Day Machine" because that's the day (U.S & Canadian holiday) I found it in the trash. It replaced "Nevian" after the co-worker who gave it to me. It replaced "Mousetrap" built in a peecee tower that used to hold external HDs for the Amiga 3000 at the store (Better Mousetrap) where I once worked. :-)
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@ justthatgood
Yep it's the VeeDub guy. I think those commercials are hilarious! Laughed my pants off!
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Names? Dude, you have ENTIRELY too much time on your hands.
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Hum,
my 1200 tower is called douglas...
My PC systems don`t have names but i have a Hal A.I. install on them that is called charlie.
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X-ray wrote:
3) Come on slow coach...
I like this one. I use this one in traffic when my son is in the car. :D
My computers were originally named (hostname at least, since they're networked) after the ghosts in Ms/Pacman but now they're named after classic NAMCOT video games.
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I don't think it's weird or nuts to name computers. I name everything! My A4000-T is zephiris, the AMIX box is motoko.
At work people used to get annoyed by my naming conventions (generally, anime characters) which got even worse when we introduced VMware and physical machines had multiple names! We actually had as a topic in a meeting of what scheme to use for naming new machines/VMs. It was actually written down that we would use characters from the Matrix.
I just thought that was kinda funny.
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At work we used to have two servers called "Ben" and "Jerry" after the ice cream. They were housed it what used to be the mainframe room... which had enough air conditioning to cool off the big honkin' mainframes that once lived there. Without them, the room was a freezer....
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Nutcase ;-)
Well, I never really "baptized" my machines, but the hostname of my main A4000T machine was "wilma" (related to the nick name of my real girl friend at that time), whereas the now unused A1200T is called "fred". The Pegasos uses "medusa" as a hostname. And no, I never talked to my computers with those names...
Speaking about partitions, I stuck with boring names like "Boot", "Work", and "Temp" usually, but my big storage partition has the volume name "Bixter" and the DOSName "DNA" in memory of Douglas Noel Adams. The Backup partition on Peg for "wilma" is called LookingGlass :)
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Like X-Ray, my machines tend to get labelled based on their behaviour at the time.
Given I'm not prone to talking to them, it's usually negative since something has annoyed me to the extent of verbalising... ;-)
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Mine is called Blaine, meaning yellow.
Oh, and it's an Amiga 4000.
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i was going to name my computers but my wife thinks im crazy enough as is.
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@ Blobzie
"..my 1200 tower is called douglas..."
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Q. What do you call a computer with a spade shoved in the floppy drive slot?
A. Doug
Q. And if it hasn't got a spade in the floppy drive slot?
A. Douglas
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Okay, stop hitting me, folks....
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Sounds like Doug is a gambler!
Is that spade a face card?
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RE:name that girl
Shouldn't only French,and possibly Latin users apply feminine names to the computer in accordance with gender rules of grammar. "Us" Americans might use masculine names unless you consider the Amiga a ship.It has always sounded weird to hear the Nimitz referred to as "her",or speak of the sister ships.
Seriously,if anyone has several computers,especially similar ones,naming them is a sign of sanity.Whether the names reflect mundane IT nomenclature or the latest in fashion trends,etc. tells something about the user.
I tend to use the names of deceased pets as a memorial.
"Only insanity keeps me from going crazy".
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I baptised her "Francesca".
Did you dunk her all the way under?
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and I thought I had issues with all my Amigas! lol
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Sure, name that girl! It will not make you any less sane in my book. I mean what's 'sane' about having vintage computers for a hobby anyways?
(I do not name my Amiga's except for network purposes ofcourse).
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Hey I just realized that some sad individuals once gave the actual chips inside computers girls names (Alice Daphne Agnus etc). How limp-wristed is that!
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My Amiga is called Amy and my PC is called Percy :lol:
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Thank Eris I'm not the only one who names computers...
Website of my alter-ego, "Conceited Jerk". (http://bunchothugs.tripod.com/locker-CJ.html)
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I don;t name my Amigas or PCs.
The only computer that has ended up with a name is my G4 upgraded Beige Power Macitosh G3, which is nicknamed 'Beigey'
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Bomb number 20. Come in bomb number 20.
"Let there be light!" :evil:
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So, I'm a nutcase after all then :lol:
Good to see though that more people agree in using names for computers in a network, rather than ugly combinations of numbers and letters. At my rowing club we named the computers to various things which have to do with rowing, like "bow", "coxswain", "crab", "oar" etc.
@weirdami
No, I just sprinkled some champagne over her keyboard :-)
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I sprinkled some cola over my keyboard----had to get a new keyboard!
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I hope you all enjoy your rubber rooms!
The men in white coats will surely be around to see you all quite soon.
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The white men stopped coming a while ago. Their sedatives no longer have any effect on me... said something about being a 'lost cause' and that I was waiting for some resurrection, yet strangely never mentioned a holy spirit... I think one of them even started twitching...