Name that girl!

[adolescent]

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.  

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.

[Failure]

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.

[JimS]

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....

[platon42]

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

[Karlos]

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... ;-)

[uncleted]

Mine is called Blaine, meaning yellow.

Oh, and it's an Amiga 4000.

[KThunder]

i was going to name my computers but my wife thinks im crazy enough as is.

[X-ray]

@ 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....

[recidivist]

 Sounds like Doug is a gambler!








 Is that spade a face card?

[recidivist]

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".

[weirdami]

I baptised her "Francesca".

Did you dunk her all the way under?

[TjLaZer]

and I thought I had issues with all my Amigas!  lol

[Lemonty]

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).

[Lemonty]

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!

[foleyjo]

My Amiga is called Amy and my PC is called Percy :lol:

[dovegrace]

Thank Eris I'm not the only one who names computers...
Website of my alter-ego, "Conceited Jerk".