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Computernames
Computernames
Just out of curiousity; How are you computers named?
Mine are:
server : server (original eah )
PC 1 : sade
PC 2 : pearl-jam
PC 3 : live
Mine are:
server : server (original eah )
PC 1 : sade
PC 2 : pearl-jam
PC 3 : live
So true! I have three because two are sort of gifts -- or rather they were replaced by friends who upgraded to the "latest and greatest" stuff. Normally I only use a Debian laptop. But I use one of the others for testing and development. I have much experimental stuff on it to de-bug. My wife uses the remaining one, and with Mozilla and Open Office, she doesn't even miss M$. In fact, she hardly notices, but she did ask one question: 'how come we never get viruses when there's no anti-virus program in it?' Rather than go into a three month explanation, I just told her ther was an anti-virus in it called Debian.PL99 wrote:I only have one machine : debian
(It doubles my troubles )
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I have one machine, Darkstar.
The name has a long history. Somewhere around 1998 I was doing my very first Linux install, and the Slackware I installed used "darkstar" as the default host name. As a n00b, very wet behind my ears, I had absolutely no idea what it was and how to change it, but it sounded cool, so I kept it. Since then, I've named all my Linux computers Darkstar.
The name has a long history. Somewhere around 1998 I was doing my very first Linux install, and the Slackware I installed used "darkstar" as the default host name. As a n00b, very wet behind my ears, I had absolutely no idea what it was and how to change it, but it sounded cool, so I kept it. Since then, I've named all my Linux computers Darkstar.
My 2 computers are : "down" and "up". Simply because one is downstairs and the other one is ................right, upstairs.
But some time ago when there was only one in our house , it was called "oracle".
The reason is almost the same as NGene's:
A long time ago a was following a guide to install oracle on a PC (It never worked, maybe I give it another try one of these days), in the guide the computer was named "oracle" and I never thougt of giving my computer another name. (Call it lazyness)
But some time ago when there was only one in our house , it was called "oracle".
The reason is almost the same as NGene's:
A long time ago a was following a guide to install oracle on a PC (It never worked, maybe I give it another try one of these days), in the guide the computer was named "oracle" and I never thougt of giving my computer another name. (Call it lazyness)
My girlfriend and I have two laptops in the house. Since we tend to call each other by our last names, my computer is Folger, hers is Nolan. Mine runs woody; she uses xandros, and she doesn't miss windows at all.
Tim
Tim
Grieve not for happy Claudius, he is dead;
And empty is his skull.
Pity no longer, arm-in-arm with Dread,
Walks that polished hall.
Joy, too, is fled.
But no man can have all.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
And empty is his skull.
Pity no longer, arm-in-arm with Dread,
Walks that polished hall.
Joy, too, is fled.
But no man can have all.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
My personal debian machine is called "Tsepeliin" (estonian for Zeppelin)
The living room coputer, which is running Windows XP (because its all my parents and my elder brother can handel :/), is called "Elukas" (estonian for creature), because it just cant be called a computer...
Soon I also have to give a name to my router...
The living room coputer, which is running Windows XP (because its all my parents and my elder brother can handel :/), is called "Elukas" (estonian for creature), because it just cant be called a computer...
Soon I also have to give a name to my router...
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At my study union (computer science, maths, physics), we name computers after famous scientists:
http://www.a-eskwadraat.nl/sysop/
Alan (Turing)
Richard (Feynman)
Janos (von Neumann)
Niels (Bohr)
Isaac (Newton)
Leonardo (of Pisa, aka Fibonacci)
Georg (Cantor)
And the windows ones Female scientists:
Emmy (Noether)
Marie (Curie)
http://www.a-eskwadraat.nl/sysop/
Alan (Turing)
Richard (Feynman)
Janos (von Neumann)
Niels (Bohr)
Isaac (Newton)
Leonardo (of Pisa, aka Fibonacci)
Georg (Cantor)
And the windows ones Female scientists:
Emmy (Noether)
Marie (Curie)