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    Pratially inspired by dZeus and wulfman in IRC, but also I have been wondering for a while what themes for computer names (if any...) people use.

    I have:

    -an old laptop called Sisyphus ('cos when I got it expected it to crash everytime I had nearly finished a section of my university thesis, but in the end it was fine though...)

    -my main rig is Neptune (big, powerful (well, it was...), and a very default-blue win2k desktop)

    -my "spare" box is called Hermes in anticipation of it one day being turned into a fileserver or whatever.

    A friend uses Russian polititians from the first half of the twentieth century, & communist thinkers.

    What about you?
    DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.net

  • #2
    Mephistopheles
    Server:
    if you're good or neutral, you become evil

    Raiders
    Workstation:
    place all your gold and objects on the oasis space

    Poltergeist
    HTPC:
    the Poltergeist becomes your follower. While you have the Poltergeist as your follower, you can only move one step a turn. When you cross water you may ditch the poltergeist card to the discard pile

    Theme? Sure, but you may figure out where from

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    • #3
      igor - debian linux @ epia: router
      ivan - gaming rig

      the laptop will soon be baptised to:

      vlad

      why? short names, easy to type & remember.
      but I ran out of (male, russian souding) names by now. suggestions?

      mfg
      wulfman
      Last edited by Wulfman; 21 July 2003, 12:50.
      "Perhaps they communicate by changing colour? Like those sea creatures .."
      "Lobsters?"
      "Really? I didn't know they did that."
      "Oh yes, red means help!"

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      • #4
        My main Rig:

        Quasar

        The Vidcap/Fileserver:

        Quantum

        My laptop:

        BlackBird

        I'll think that I'll going to rename them : Visar, Jevex, Zorac
        Last edited by Technoid; 21 July 2003, 13:04.
        If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

        Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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        • #5
          Hmm...

          Pooh - My Desktop PC running WinXP/Gentoo Linux

          Piglet - My wife's Desktop PC running Win2K

          Roo - My Fujitsu P2046 Laptop

          Owl - Our RedHat 9(Yuck huh?) and Oracle 9i server.

          If you couldn't guess it yet... my wife is a big Winnie the Pooh fan
          The poster formerly known as "ahardjan"

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          • #6
            The Beast - Gaming rig/workstation

            Mainly because it's so damn big and heavy.

            My laptop has no name since I technically don't own it.

            Jammrock
            “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
            –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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            • #7
              Expensive Bastard.
              Chief Lemon Buyer no more Linux sucks but not as much
              Weather nut and sad git.

              My Weather Page

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              • #8
                Cheetah is my main machine.. originally had a Seagate Cheetah drive in it.
                Sunbox is my server, it had solaris on it at one point, and I nicked a Sun Ultra 10 name plate from a university workstation and put on the front .. now mainly running W2K server, untill I get around to installing W2K3 server or something on it.. maybe soon
                We have enough youth - What we need is a fountain of smart!


                i7-920, 6GB DDR3-1600, HD4870X2, Dell 27" LCD

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                • #9
                  Poultry- Main Machine
                  IBM- Thinkpad Laptop
                  Server- Server
                  "I dream of a better world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned."

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                  • #10
                    "Poultry" I expected nothing less Byock.
                    DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.net

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                    • #11
                      "You ****ing piece of shit."

                      Gurm_
                      The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

                      I'm the least you could do
                      If only life were as easy as you
                      I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
                      If only life were as easy as you
                      I would still get screwed

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                      • #12
                        they are just ' boxes'
                        Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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                        • #13
                          System1
                          >
                          >
                          >
                          >
                          >
                          >
                          System8

                          Not exciting, but effective.

                          Dr. Mordrid
                          Dr. Mordrid
                          ----------------------------
                          An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

                          I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Gurm
                            "You ****ing piece of shit."

                            Gurm_

                            Yep esp when they dont work right
                            Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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                            • #15
                              I use to name my home machine "Beast_Machine" after the transformer series and that it use to have many, many extra pieces of hardware and heavy weight and could do everything when it was first built. It had eleven drive letters without partitioning and without SCSI. Add to that dual VoodooIIs a Marvel G400, and an original SBLive with daughterboard. Now I just call it "Here".

                              My network domains/workgroups are based off of something in the matrix.

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