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.clair. Send message Joined: 4 Nov 04 Posts: 1300 Credit: 55,390,408 RAC: 69 |
Putrid, comes from `stupid puter` runs win 98se and can be a pain it the neck, crash test dummy but im`e not going to give up on it. Dingbat , it just popped into my head when trying to think of a name. Piglet , its a black case with a big alloy start button on the front, looks like a pigs nose. Scotty , given to me by a freind who is from scotland. Tincan , bought a case as cheap as possible, the metal is so thin........ Morph , alloy lianli pc60 case I just keep changing things in it, so the name of our plastacine pal seemed appropriate. and with 5 cases recently arrived from ebay, most with p2 p3 boards in them looks like il`e have to get my thinking cap on |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
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).LOL............Setislave................so be the kitties...................sounds like a punk band.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
John McCallum Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 877 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 |
Moon Base Alpha (don't ask) Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
dcappello Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 261 Credit: 170,969,320 RAC: 0 |
have to choose... umm it would be kahuna as it is my fav 8 core box. Most are named after dangerous sea life (wolffish, seasnake, seawasp, barracuda etc. etc.) |
Dune_Finkleberry Send message Joined: 25 Feb 06 Posts: 6454 Credit: 198,656 RAC: 0 |
Detruction Incorporated (Maybe you can guess) Account frozen... |
nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
i started naming my computers after great scientists. some still have their generic names like the one i'm using now is "e6300-1gig" not sure what main computer is defined by... the one i surf the most with or the highest ranking seti cruncher... |
kaseychief Send message Joined: 3 Dec 07 Posts: 1643 Credit: 480,503 RAC: 1 |
As this is my first experience with pc's I named it "Confusing". |
eluk Send message Joined: 10 May 08 Posts: 42 Credit: 634,661 RAC: 0 |
Indigo. The others are also colours of the rainbow. This is too exciting may go back to engineers and call it Brunel. |
aka_Sam Send message Joined: 1 Aug 07 Posts: 471 Credit: 1,637,878 RAC: 0 |
Serenity (for the old ‘Firefly’ TV show) Babbage (for Charles Babbage) |
hiamps Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0 |
i started naming my computers after great scientists. My main computer is my fastest computer, most all my computers actually have a purpose other than seti. My toy computer is named after me hiamps and I can overclock it and generally kill it without having anything lost. Of course it would once again get rebuilt into the latest and greatest but that Opty just keeps going and going. Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound! |
Scary Capitalist Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0 |
The content of your post: My computers seem to be named, "D*****" and "You piece of c***!" and other assorted things not fit to print here. Strangely, these monikers seem to be shared by whatever computer I happen to be in front of. I'm assuming these names come issued from the factory upon production. :-P Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing! |
The Gas Giant Send message Joined: 22 Nov 01 Posts: 1904 Credit: 2,646,654 RAC: 0 |
My comps are called Saturn and Jupiter. If I get a third it will be called Uranus and the fourth will be Neptune. Pretty easy to work out why... Live long and BOINC! Paul (S@H1 8888) And proud of it! |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
Mine all have very functional names. dev2k is my current development machine, and it replaced devnt. (I know, Windows 2000 is a little bit "antiquated" but it runs VMware just fine) At one point, I had a pair of servers named "Soulianis" and "Rahm" -- the origin of which is left to the reader. |
Fred J. Verster Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3252 Credit: 31,903,643 RAC: 0 |
Mine all have very functional names. dev2k is my current development machine, and it replaced devnt. (I know, Windows 2000 is a little bit "antiquated" but it runs VMware just fine) Had to log in, maybe 'cause off the upgrade' to FireFox 3.0 ? Had two whom i named Asterisk* & Obelix . . . |
Joseph Reeder Send message Joined: 18 Jun 08 Posts: 1 Credit: 6,629 RAC: 0 |
Mine is called sempron. Simply because thats the first word I saw on my computer when thinking of a name. My friend has some pretty cool names for his computers. One of is called Chibbi, another Naomi, and his third one is called Mia. |
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