Have you named your harddrive(s)? Your computer? Does it still say "My Computer" on the desktop or does the poor thing actually have a name?

Me first:

Computer: "Yggdrasil"
Harddrive: "Jormungandr"

(it's a 12" iBook 800)

My laptop is named Cassilda. The desktop before that was either Cassandra or Callisto... yes, I do name my computers after women in Greek plays.
My sister named my mom's computer Walter a few months ago.

Okay, I guess I'm boring. My computer is still My Computer, and my two hard drives are System and Data (though it should probably more aptly be named Games, since that's the majority of what's on it).

-- Ben

The current Mac is named Penemune, the extra HD is named Azazel.
The old Mac is named The Duck.
The really old Mac is named Renfield

The PC laptop is named Elsa.
The old PC's HD's are named Hansel & Gretel.

I used to have some floppy disks named Alvin, Simon, and Theodore...


Stuart

I have a variety of systems, named Grey Wind, Ghost, Summer, Lady, and Nymeria. The next one I buy will be Shaggy Dog, of course. I'm not quite sure where the names will go after that :-)

Brian.

Orb. I have a thing for spiders...

Aidan

Hey all,

Computers must have names. How could someone neglect his (that's the gender unknown pronoun in English) computer so by leaving her (that's the personification pronoun in English -- nootch) unnamed?

My computer is Inferno, and my second computer, when I need a LAMP machine, is Spawn.

Later,
Grant

I've got G3 Baby! and Homey's Hardrive.

BTW, unlike here, most of my long time friends refer to me as Homey. As in Homey da Clown, or more appropriately as in "Homey don't play dat." An essentially Ironic monicker, because there is little that I don't play.

Made the more ironic because I resemble Homer Simpson in many ways, and I have a wife named Marjorie. Scary. No, I was not crazy enough to name my son Bart. Though he looks and acts like that already at the age of two.

Homey

G3 at work: deadflag
Athlon at home: bblackheart
FreeBSD box back in Alberta: fuckinyoda
Linux router back in Alberta: taintedlove

My Mac is Keter (Crown)
My two Hard Drives are Chokmah (Wisdom) and Binah (Understanding)

(The supernal triad of the Kabbalist Tree of Life)


Trevis

My PC's name is Snorlax. Yes, like the Pokemon.

1. It has a shiny Snorlax sticker on it.
2. The loud hum of all the fans inside it lull me to sleep.

Heh. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Yeah, I've named all of my home PCs and servers after characters in The Tale of Genji. The ones that come up most are (like, if I retire one system and bring in another, I make sure at least two of the systems are named) Yuugiri and Oboruzuki.

-Andy

Hmm. Well, I don't name hard drives, because they are mounted in specific places (Yep, UNIX propellor head all the way).

So, in my room, I have

Bohr: pentium 266 for the floks
Columb: Old 486-25
Dirac: main machine, K6-II 400
Einstein: Pentium 266
Fermi: SparcStation 4

At work, they have horribly functional names, which is good, otherwise I'd be all the way through Z and back round to G again.

Gibbs soon, when I can afford to populate a Tyan MP-X board (yummy!).

Oh, and there is wired, stoned, smashed and (soon) cracked, the student computing socities servers.

My PC is still My Computer

My Mac (built in 89): is called Macenstein cause it's a piecemeal project. The hard-drive is called Alpha.

There are ladies present so I cannot tell you what I call my computer, especially when it gives me some sort of error message, loses the internet conection or, worse yet, pop-ups. Let's just say it's a bad word and leave it there. My computer has no other name.

My PC is called Ash, after a vivid dream where I was some weird cyborg commando and my friend from real life(wose nickname is Ash) was in the dream - except they were my forearm mounted console (green text on black background) that exchanged witicisms with me.

Funnily enough my computer is a he but the friend is a she.

Hmm - that really sounds like a gamer dream doesn't it?

Sheesh, any computer running a real OS has to have a name. :)

My Debian machine inherited the (now dear departed, destroyed by a lightning strike less than 100 yards away) my FreeBSD machine's name, "demiurge." Joseph Campbell said of his computer many years ago, "It's like an Old Testament God--a lotta rules and no mercy."

The desktop machine, when it isn't also a server, is called archon. I usually call any laptop I have (so far only loaners from various jobs) "sophia."

--JB

My newer computer is Enoch (P4 1.8ghz), my laptop is Sumomo (I forgot what processor it has). My old computer is named Enclave (P3 800 mhz). Soon I'll be building a junk pyle computer that I am thinking of naming Oscar.

I don't name my hard drive (probably will when I get two). I do have a friend who has two hard drives one named Beauty and the other Beast.

-Joshua

My machine is named Cthulhu (a celeron 667 oc'ed to 830)

My old machine was Azathoth. (An AMD K6-300)

Hehe...i suck. I didn't log on before posting the above.

Sorry.

Hi all

Ahh, a subject i can always babble about, my computer.

My computer is called Excalbur :) "Behold, Excalibur - Sword of Power. Sword of king's since the dawn of time."
The latest incarnation Excalibur-Gamma.
The latest incarnation specs
Abit KR7A-133 RAID
AMD Athlon xp 1800+ (1.53Ghz)
640 MB Crucial/Micron PC2100
Geforce 3 TI 200 128MB
kinda cheesy 17" CTX VL710 monitor
Soundblaster Audigy (not the 2, don't upgrade sound card very often:) )
2x75GB Maxtor 7200 rpm 2MB IDE drives (named simply Disk1, Disk2)
Liteon 32x12x40 CDRW
Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 SCSI adapter
Quantum Atlas IV 9GB U160 SCSI Drive
Plextor Ultraplex 40x SCSI CDROM
Pioneer 6x SCSI DVD-ROM
SCSI Zip 100 external that is suprisingly reliable and pleasantly fast.
wouldn't mind getting one of them zip 750's for an upgrade. since I have like about 20 zip100 cartridges that I still use.
the plextor and Pioneer are actually in this little external SCSI case I bought a couple years ago ago.
Oh, and USR USB V.92 external Modem, USB hub, and a killer Saitek X36 USB joystick/throttle setup, a totally crosswired sound setup with a pair of Cambridge soundworks PCworks speakers and a set of Altec Lansing ACS 48 speakers. I want a set of those Klipsch Pro-media 400s, the ones that are like 400 watts RMS and like THX certified, even though it would probably knock the walls down in my room:)
Oh, yeah, got a Netgear 10/100 ethernet adapter for when i drag this beast up to my friends for a weekend of LAN gaming. Everytime i do it makes me think I like need to get a laptop. the damn tower on this thing is heavier than my monitor these days!


All stuffed into an old Inwin Q500 full tower case with far far to many fans in it. Recently upgraded to a Enermax 430W PS for it. Been using this case forever, It has fanholes drilled into the one side to cover my topmounted video card fan bracket deal, oh, and like has all rounded cables inside, in attractive reds, blues, and yellows. And has some cool GBU-24B/B laserguided bomb stickers that my friend gave me on it. This thing makes a hell of a space heater:)

It's getting a bit on the slow side lately, or something, next upgrade want to get like
NForce 2 MB, probably Epox 8RDA+,
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2 Ghz) or faster
1 GB PC 2700/PC3200 DDR SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB
Want to upgrade to like a 19" CRT, even through LCD's are cool, they are expensive, and still not da shiznit for FPS.

Don't really need anymore HDD space, though I would love like a couple of 36 GIG U160 drives for like CD Burning, DVD-Ripping, and like a cache drive. or maybe try out that Serial ATA stuff with like a couple of 100 Gigs in a RAID array or something.

I am like an old school SCSI dude from back in the day (my original P133 had a 1GB SCSI HDD and like an 6x CDROM.) So this whole serial ata has kind of got me down, but U160 SCSI is still da shit, not to mention U320, plus like damn, i spent $200 on that damn Adaptec card, not gonna just ditch the SCSI tommorrow. :)

Anyway, thought I'd babble about my PC stuff, since I am like hardcore computer geek type.

:)

This is going to sound dumb, but I didn't know that you could rename "My Computer". Got me a laptop through work, though, which is my personal deck, so it needs a name. Maybe Wintermute....

And my home PC's hard drive is named HAL.

Seth Ben-Ezra
Great Wolf

Until one minute ago, I had absolutely no idea that anyone ever named his or her computer by retyping the "My Computer" label. It never occurred or even almost occurred to me.

Seriously.

Best,
Ron

My production/office PC (the one I made Little Fears on) was named "Dai Oni" before *snif* it passed on.... My G3 is named "Smilin' Jack" and my laptop is "The Bogeyman." I haven't renamed my computer at work but I call it "Dumfukn Summonabich."

Ron Edwards wrote: Until one minute ago, I had absolutely no idea that anyone ever named his or her computer by retyping the "My Computer" label. It never occurred or even almost occurred to me.

Adam wrote: That's not what we're talking about, Ron - or, at least, not what I'm talking about - all computers with a TCP/IP stack installed have some sort of semi-unique name to identify it on a potential network. Most modern Windows installs just generate a random name based [IIRC] on the initials of the person registering it.

cruciel wrote: It's been sort of standard Mac user behavior for ages to name the HD the same thing as the hostname. At least in my neck of the woods. Windows users aren't so consistent...(goad, poke) :)

I named my computers after my favorite NPCs. So the desktop is Edward and the laptop is Xalienci, God bless their black little hearts. I figure it's appropriate enough; just like my NPCs, I love and traumatize and torment the computers.

My computer's name is Svetlana (although, to be honest, her hostname is just 'anvilwerks' and I call her 'Sveta' normally.) She's a cold Slavic girl on the outside, but hot and sexy once you get to know her.

My computer's name is COMPUTER. And such a pretty name it is.

Hey,

I'm serious - I've never named a computer anything in any way - the IP thing, retyping "My Computer," just verbally, nothing. And again, this is a wholly novel concept to me. People do this? You guys do this?

I'm scared.

Best,
Ron

Ron,

Yep. I've named every computer I've ever owned, back from when I was 10. Wait. I actually didn't - I named my first computer when I was 13. And they've all had female names: Juliana, Beth, Sveta...

That is a disturbing conclusion I just had.

See, Ron, machines have to have names on Networks, or you can't tell them apart. So why not give them interesting names that you can remember. In large companies, your machines name is likely to be something like CKS3974, assigned to it by some tech. But on smaller networks it makes sense to actually name the machine so that you can refer to them mnemonically.

As Jason points out, with Mac Appletalk networks, what you see on the network when you look at another machine is the hard drive. So, to make things simple, you just name the hard drive the same mnemonic title (in fact in some versions yu don't even need the host name at all per se).

So, over time, it just becomes habit to name drives this or that.

Actually, where you see even more of this is with servers, and printers. For example, the printer I use at work is something like NBP100-4208. Like I'm goint to remember that that one's the downstairs one, and NBP100-5182 is the mail room printer. So you rename them. I have them labeled Help Desk, Mail Room, Upstairs, etc.

But again, if it's your machine, why not be creative? I don't know a macuser that doesn't do this. In fact, I couldn't tell you right now what name a mac drive ships with. I know it's not My Computer (because it doesn't logically represent that). My Hard Drive or just Hard Drive? Something like that. Dull as dirt.

Anyhow, Macs don't have drive letters. So if you have more than one, you have to name it something else to keep it straight.

Mike

Mike Holmes wrote: But again, if it's your machine, why not be creative? I don't know a macuser that doesn't do this. In fact, I couldn't tell you right now what name a mac drive ships with. I know it's not My Computer (because it doesn't logically represent that). My Hard Drive or just Hard Drive? Something like that. Dull as dirt.

The little woman named her car too: Ozmodeus (she named her cello too: Nuriko, but insists cellos are supposed to have names).