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mark · #1 Post by **mark** » 2004-03-03 09:08

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

Glanz · #2 Post by **Glanz** » 2004-03-03 14:18

1) tao (debian)
2) kaos (debian)
3) simplecity (FreeBSD/DragonflyBSD/debian)

denise · #3 Post by **denise** » 2004-03-03 21:52

1. Stars
2. Sun
3. Moon

PL99 · #4 Post by **PL99** » 2004-03-05 22:04

I only have one machine : debian

As long as I don't get my one computer to do exactly what I want, I don't see any reason to get a nother one. (It doubles my troubles

)

greetings,
a poor but happy debian lover

Glanz · #5 Post by **Glanz** » 2004-03-06 02:00

PL99 wrote:I only have one machine : debian

(It doubles my troubles )

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.

Linlord · #6 Post by **Linlord** » 2004-03-07 07:39

I installed debian on a leftover PC that I didn't use for a wile, so this one is called : Pentium266
And my winXP is called AMD2600

NGene · #7 Post by **NGene** » 2004-03-08 14:59

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.

pipio · #8 Post by **pipio** » 2004-03-08 19:25

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)

Glanz · #9 Post by **Glanz** » 2004-03-08 20:16

pipio wrote:My 2 computers are : "down" and "up". Simply because one is downstairs and the other one is ................right, upstairs.

You ought to have up downstairs and down upstairs "for security reasons"...

Rips23 · #10 Post by **Rips23** » 2004-03-10 17:54

Ripster2000

TheBman · #11 Post by **TheBman** » 2004-03-11 12:12

Have been calling mine...PackMule...for about 2 years. Hey dont laugh, I call it that because it always carries the load...although it might complain once in a while!

Regards

lacek · #12 Post by **lacek** » 2004-03-11 19:01

I have these:
twilight
frontier
tleth
xiclotl
avalon
These are not all mine; I has a couple of computers under my control in my office :-)

tim · #13 Post by **tim** » 2004-03-13 20:07

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

BrandonT · #14 Post by **BrandonT** » 2004-03-17 18:30

My first PC is called brandon1, my second is called brandon2, my sisters PC
is called Jenny and the one of parents is called momanddad.

This way its easy for everyone to know which computer he or she is trying
to login to.
(only the 2 PC's in my room are linux installed)

Rambo · #15 Post by **Rambo** » 2004-03-19 20:40

I only have 1 computer and it is called Debian.

Sorry I couldn't be more original!

Stoned · #16 Post by **Stoned** » 2004-08-03 19:44

My server is called stonedserver and my second pc is called stonedbox and my laptop is called stonedlaptop.

The 5 other pc's on my lan are called by the name of my brothers and sisters.

-i- · #17 Post by **-i-** » 2004-08-17 11:39

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...

tgoodaire · #18 Post by **tgoodaire** » 2004-09-10 18:50

All of my computers (and my printer) are named after serial killers. So far, I have:

Manson
Bundy
Gacey
Dahmer
Gein

Jeroen · #19 Post by **Jeroen** » 2004-09-10 19:00

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)

snosscire · #20 Post by **snosscire** » 2004-09-15 12:06

I have named my computers after the Cook islands.

Rarotonga
Mangaia
Pukapuka
Aitutaki