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Falling in Love with a Hard Drive: How to Name Your Computer and Other Machines
- cylinder714 11y agoMy main Thinkpad is Magenta, the little laptop is Columbia, and I've misplaced my netbook Janet.... When I worked at SCO (well before the Caldera and Linux lawsuit crap), server names had "sco" in them, hence Scotty (a big old 68000 box), Crisco, Ionesco....
- shopinterest 11y agoI name all my Hard Drives after Battlestar Galactica Ships - I have: 1TB 27" iMac - Galactica/ 4TB NAS - Pegasus/ 500GB MacBook - Colonial One/ 500GB External - Majahual/ 250GB External - Cloud 9/ 16GB USB - Demetrius/
- arcanus 11y agoAll ancient greek or latin words/concepts for me. I'm typing this from my workstation, 'magus'. Home machine is 'logos'. Laptop is 'thymos'.
- fit2rule 11y agoSchemes I've used over the years: * Bodies of the Solar system - moon./mars./mercury./&etc. * Shakespeares' characters - titus, achilles, adam, agrippa, &etc. * proquint () of the address - 10.0.0.53 = bomab-babuj, etc. ( - http://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016 http://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016)