Named Computers

[Greg Marra]

All computers need network names, right?

Old PC: Pikachu
New PC: Mewtwo
My laptop: Articuno
Old laptop: Moltres
Dad's laptop: Zapdos
Parent's PC: Slowpoke
Linux server: Charmander

Deep blue or Ultima

MMMMmmm LEDSSSSSS

[artdutra04]

I don't know if graphing calculators count, but I named my TI-84 plus 'Hal 9000'. I don't really have any other names for any of the computers at my home, except when they decide to not coorperate. BTW, never let a computer know that you're in a hurry. Because once you do, they seem to do everything imaginable to make life even more difficult.

[Ian Curtis]

The computer that while not technically owned by me, no else uses but me is named Cecile in honor of my friends wicked cool guitar. Plus Cecile is just an awesome name.

[Wetzel]

My Desktop: Philip
My current laptop: Shorty
My old laptop: Fatty

Shorty because it looked short (widescreen), Fatty because it was fat and used FAT32, Philip is a Goats reference, best as I can remember.

Wetzel

[Elgin Clock]

Laptop = Lappy..

Who needs interesting names as long as people know what you are talking about when you tell them to hand you lappy.

:sigh: As for the team, our 2 new laptops are named Bill & Ted.

[JoeXIII'007]

An old Gateway 2000 that I was using for about 3 months, that's now trashed except for the box, was simply called R.A.G. or Rotten Apple G 0.33333 (complete with name 'sharpied' on side and logo of a rotten apple).

My old laptop, when its screen became no longer functional, the primary hardware was ripped out, and then put into a shoe box, was named C.R.A.P. or Cripppled Rotten Apple Pod (no G number of any sort was assigned, nor was there a logo for it).

Now, I have a newer Gateway and a slightly newer laptop. None of them have a name, but I would like to give them one. I'll have to think about it.

-Joe

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

This Desktop: Zeppelin
Other desktop: Cheesecake
Backup Laptop: Stalin
Newer Laptop: Glomp
Gaming desktop: DDR Ninja

[Pat McCarthy]

My desktop: Pat's Baby

Our team computers: HOT Right and Left

[RogerR]

Originally Posted by Big Mike

my Laptop was named WraithLeader and my Desktop is named RogueLeader... (bonus points if anyone can tell me who Wraith/Rogue Leader is)

wedge antilles, i believe

...not that i'm into star wars, or what-ever-its-called. i'm too cool for that.


my laptop's network name is HAL 9000.

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Laptop = Lappy..

Who needs interesting names as long as people know what you are talking about when you tell them to hand you lappy.

Aww, I totally thought it was a StrongBad reference. You should go with that.

I do not get to name my computer at work since it's on a corporate LAN and they'd probably be upset if I broke something. Our servers have pretty cool names, though, including Mystery Machine, Cobain, Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin. Those are all internal machines, as best as I can tell. Externally, our customers' data resides on machines named after elements of the periodic table.

At home, our LAN computers use "kaiju" names -- Godzilla, Mothra, Orga and King Ghidorah, if I recall correctly. The laptop I use every day is Microsoft Asset # such and such.

I'm pretty sure my XBox has a name, too, but I have no idea how to get to it without plugging it into a LAN with another XBox.

[Lisa Rodriguez]

laptop - Chaos
old desktop - family room (oh how descriptive)

wireless network for my room (that i set up) - West Side (we're in the west lodge of sigma, an "island" on campus, that's temporary housing)

my favorite has to be my brother's name for our network at home - Megatron
naming computers is fun, it's like naming a baby, but you can change your computer's name a lot easier than a baby's name

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

Aww, I totally thought it was a StrongBad reference. You should go with that.

It's a bit more powerful than a 386 though. lol
It possibly could be from that, I don't remember which came first. me calling mine lappy, and laughing when StrongBad got lappy, or seeing StrongBad get lappy and laughing and naming mine that.

[KenWittlief]

the network at my home, we named the computers after Simpsons characters (mine was Homer)

most places Ive worked the computers on networks had names, at one place we had Dopey, Sneezy, Doc...

Star trek characters,

Star wars characters...

just make sure you have enough names to go around.

[Travis Hoffman]

I named my desktop PC "Jesus". That would be the "Gee'-zus" Jesus, not the "Hey-soos'" alternative. Amen.

My work laptop has the tres sexy moniker "CP3J0CFK68839Z". Delphi IT people aren't known for their creativity.