What is your main computer named, why?
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 hiamps  Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0 
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My main play computer is named Princess after my Sheltie. Seems now and then people call their computers by name and it seems some people have some interesting names. Seems Marks are named after Gilligans Island people... Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound! 
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Es99  Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 
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Mine is called Deep Thought after the computer in Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Reality Internet Personality ID: 764887 · |
kittyman     Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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My main play computer is named Princess after my Sheltie. Seems now and then people call their computers by name and it seems some people have some interesting names. Seems Marks are named after Gilligans Island people... No, that'd be JDWhale's maritime crew.... Mine all start out with Harv (an old nickname), then the OS, then the cpu, the the build if there are more than one...it's the only way I can keep 'em straight.... Harv2000-C2D Harv2000-C2DII Harv2000-C2DIII Harv2K-C2QUAD Harv2K-C2QUADII Harv2K-C2QUADIII HarvXP-C2QUAD HarvX64-C2QUAD (The Frozen Penny) "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster 
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OzzFan  Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28
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I originally named my computers very generically by what they were, such as my main system is simply Xeon5130, or by who owned the machine or what function it served such as Donna, Michele or Family Computer. Only recently did I decide to name them after Transformer characters, but now I want to change that to MOTU-based names. Ahhh, decisions, decisions. ID: 764890 · |
Matthew Love  Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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I name mine after the type of computer. I have A IBM Intellistation M Pro which I named Intelas   LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 764891 · |
Luke  Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0 
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My celery desktop is named: System And my Dell XPS m1530 is called: Luke-Laptop Need... more... computers... - Luke. ID: 764896 · |
Al  Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 5832 Credit: 401,935 RAC: 0 
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hiamps Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0
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My main play computer is named Princess after my Sheltie. Seems now and then people call their computers by name and it seems some people have some interesting names. Seems Marks are named after Gilligans Island people... Opps, knew it was someone I read a lot...I wish they would bring Gilligan back to Nik at night...That is all my girlfriend watches at night. Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound!
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TimeLord04  Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23
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Andromeda - AMD K6-2, 350MHz, Win XP Excelsior - AMD K6-2, 350MHz, Win 2000 Agamemnon - AMD K6-2, 350MHz, Win NT4-Workstation, Win 98, DOS 6.22 w/ Win 3.11 Intrepid - PIII, 600MHz, Win XP Constellation - AMD Athlon XP 2200, Ubuntu Linux Excalibur - AMD Athlon XP 1.6GHz, Win XP Farragut - P4 3.2GHz w/ HT, Win XP Enterprise - T2300 1.66GHz, Win XP NOTE: Agamemnon never crunched, Andromeda, Excelsior, Intrepid, and Constellation are presently not crunching, Excalibur crunches SETI Beta, Farragut and Enterprise crunch SETI. TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos ID: 765048 · |
The Simonator  Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 
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My main desktop is named Astarte after the goddess of Sex and War, as a pagan myself it seemed a logical choice. This laptop is called Isis, similar reasoning. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. 
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Jeffrey  Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
My main desktop is named Astarte after the goddess of Sex and War, as a pagan myself it seemed a logical choice. This laptop is called Isis, similar reasoning. Not interested in finding Venus, eh? ;)  It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .
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The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50
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If thats a euphemism, then trust me i already have, several times... Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.
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Gavin Shaw  Send message Joined: 8 Aug 00 Posts: 1116 Credit: 1,304,337 RAC: 0 
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Main Computer (Laptop): Gatekeeper. Named after the belief of someone or something standing and protecting a threshold or gateway between two things. Others: Aurora, Latin word for dawn, the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology. Defiance, randomly picked as a name for the computer. IvyGarden (my fiancee's laptop). FIT..... (network name for the uni computer assigned to me). Never surrender and never give up. In the darkest hour there is always hope. ID: 765212 · |
Helsionium  Send message Joined: 24 Dec 06 Posts: 156 Credit: 86,214,817 RAC: 43 
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My computer is named after the enigmatic figure SATOR AREPO from the "magic" SATOR AREPO palindrome which has some extraordinary features.  
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SATAN  Send message Joined: 27 Aug 06 Posts: 835 Credit: 2,129,006 RAC: 0
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The old Powermac was called Berth THe new Mac Pro - Ethel. 
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Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8962 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0
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My AMD is: petestoy (Inside joke from someone who did some hardware work on it for me) My Dual Core desktop is: Lorin (name of a young man I mentored for 9 years starting when he was 4 years old) My DC Laptop: Beffas2 (Gaming name)   ID: 765373 · |
Dr Who Fan  Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3215 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4
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My main machine is named THOR. It's a P4 3.0Ghz w/Hyper-Thread... because at time I got it it was one big bad machine and could run SETI at least 20 times faster than the old Pentium-II 200Mhz it replaced shortly there after. ID: 765688 · |
littlegreenmanfrommars  Send message Joined: 28 Jan 06 Posts: 1410 Credit: 934,158 RAC: 0
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The server is Kryten The workstations are Lister and Kochansky Any further additions will be Cat, Rimmer and Holly (All characters from "Red Dwarf") 
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Jane Delawney Send message Joined: 3 May 02 Posts: 5 Credit: 2,886,879 RAC: 0 |
Desktops: Sir Killalot, AMD Sempron, mandrivalinux '08 Dead Metal, AMD Athlon, mandrake linux pro 2006 Fission Chips, the old-skool box, P1, Windows 98 Laptops: Sergeant Bash, Pentium dual core Windows Vista :( Shunt, P4, windows XP Hypnodisc, a baby Libretto! P1, windows 98, rock solid and two EEEPCs both running Xandros Linux (ASUS version, duhh) haven't named the EEEs yet. They get out and about a bit and don't crunch all the time. But generally - as you may gather, I don't dump computers, I make 'em crunch. Even if it takes them 6 weeks to run a SETI unit. all named after 'characters' from UK Robot Wars - mostly because Sir K. the boss lives in a misleadingly hardcore gaming case with fans'n'lights and looks just like the said robot. needs an upgrade though. actually runs like a dog - but don't tell him I said so :) jd 
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[KWSN]John Galt 007  Send message Joined: 9 Nov 99 Posts: 2444 Credit: 25,086,197 RAC: 0
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Mine are all appropriately named for what they are, slave computers. They do nothing but crunch, 24/7, so they are named setislave, setislave2, up to setislave9. The secondary crunchers are the laptop (Laptop), my work PC (GBGW), and my Mac (hicktown.local). The only ones not being used are slave2 and slave5, as they are awaiting brain transplants (to quads after the summer, making 9 PCs, 36 cores total). Clk2HlpSetiCty:::PayIt4ward 
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