In alt.os.linux.slackware, Rich Grise dared to utter,
> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?

All mine are named after birds. No, I'm not a bird watcher; I just
decided to name all mine after birds.

My gateway is barnowl. Why you might ask? Well the first thing that
sees you when you walk into the hog bard at night is naturally the
barnowl. At least it is in our barn.

My primary desktop is redtail. It's the only AMD machine I've got, and
the fastest machine. Since the redtail hawk is the largest avian
predator here, it made sense.

My dualie is the LAN's NFS server, and is named carrier after the
extinct carrier pidgeon, because it carries information for other
machinces.

FInally my Laptop is crane. It's an Apple iBook G4, and solid white,
like a crane.

--
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, you wrote:
>
> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>

mine are not that original but somewhat function related:
firewall is Drawbridge
server is Castle
workstation is Dragon
wife's laptop is Lapdancer

Oh and my server at work is Ramblingwreck

Jeff
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"Rich Grise" <null@example.net> wrote in message
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> Just a sort of random thought; my first Linux was Slackware
> 2 or 3 or so - downloaded it back in the mid-1980s and it was

Do you mean the mid-1990s? My first Linux was Slackware 3.0 with kernel 1.2
and 1.3 in 1995.


> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>
>
rocky, boris, natasha, sherman

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Mount Vernon, WA
david at dstites dot net

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Rich Grise wrote:


| Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
|
| Cheers!
| Rich

Mine has always been `hannibal` since 1996


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Alan Hicks wrote :

> All mine are named after birds.

And mine are named after insects.
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Blumf tempted the fates in alt.os.linux.slackware
by rushing in here and proclaiming the following to be true:

> Does this mean that when you decide to get a new PC you have to wait 9
> months for a new name to become available?

*heh*

I had a conversation w/ the wife once hat went something along those lines:

+Me+: Hey hun, ya know, I just thought of something-
+Wife+: What's that?
+Me+: Well, you see, I've named all the machines here after the kids,
right? - Well I've run out of names since I've gotten those last two boxes.
What am I supposed ta do about the G5 now? hmm?

</me winks at wife>
<pause>
<wife glares at me>
+Wife+: Don't you even think about it...

> Name mine after fruit, don't know why. pear, plum, peach so far, running out
> of p* fruit names.

Passionfruit
Pomegranate

And, of course, "Pussyfruit". =)

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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:12:51 +0000, Blumf wrote:

> Name mine after fruit, don't know why. pear, plum, peach so far, running out
> of p* fruit names.

Here's a few more names for you courtesy of:

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/fl/commonMR.html

Pacay
Paco
Pacura
Palestine Sweet Lime
Palm Fig
Palmyra Palm
Pama
Panama Berry
Panama Nut
Pandang
Pandanus
Paniala
Papache
Papaya
Para Guava
Paradise Nut
Paraguay Tea
Paterno
Paw Paw
Peach
Peach Palm
Peach Tomato
Peanut
Peanut Butter Fruit
Pear
Pecan
Pedalai
Pejibaye
Pepino
Pepino
Pero do Campo
Persian Lime
Persian Mulberry
Persian Walnut
Persimmon
Phalsa Cherry
Philippine Tea
Phillippine Fig
Phillippine Palm
Pickle Fruit
Pili Nut
Pimenta
Pimento
Pin Cushion Tree
Pindo Palm
Pineapple
Pineapple Guava
Pink Banana
Pinguin
Pinyon Pine
Pistachio
Pitahaya
Pitanga
Pitaya
Pitomba
Plantain
Plum
Plum Mango
Poha
Pollia
Polynesian Chestnut
Pomegranate
Pond apple
Poshte
Potato Tree
Prairie Potato
Puerto Rican Guava
Pulasan
Pummelo
Purple Calabash Tomato
Purple Granadilla
Purple Ground Cherry
Purple Mombin
Purple Passion Fruit
Purpurea

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Mine are all named Doctor Who. Why? Because the Doctor has gone through Eight
so far of his Thirteen lives. And besides I'm a fan. And yes, I'm running Slackware
9.1, soon to be running the latest security fix for that distribution. This one is the
Fifth Doctor. When my normal work unit is running, he's the Third Doctor. (He's
currently on vacation.)
Gregg C Levine drwho8 atsign att dot net
In article <jK7Zb.49330$1S1.3975@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
david@dstites.net.invalid says...
>
>
>"Rich Grise" <null@example.net> wrote in message
>news:z14Zb.48468$1S1.15928@nwrddc01.gnilink.net.. .
>> Just a sort of random thought; my first Linux was Slackware
>> 2 or 3 or so - downloaded it back in the mid-1980s and it was
>
>Do you mean the mid-1990s? My first Linux was Slackware 3.0 with kernel 1.2
>and 1.3 in 1995.
>
>
>> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Rich
>>
>>
>rocky, boris, natasha, sherman
>
>--
>David Stites
>Mount Vernon, WA
>david at dstites dot net
>
>

In alt.os.linux.slackware Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:
> I think it'd be fun if as many folks as feel like it would
> post a little post with the name of their computer, and
> maybe even how did you come up with it?

Woah boy, slow down... that read so fast my head is just spinning, hehe.

As for my machines, it all started with the meeting of a MUD and a love of
aquariums. One of my first nicks online was "mudpuppy" and when spam
obscuring my email on newsgroups, I would put "mudpuddle" in the email and
have a sig that said "I may live in a mudpuddle, but my email address does
not". So that led to the following naming scheme with a few exceptions:

mudpuddle - my good old standby p2 450 that runs my MUD
pond - my P3 1Ghz laptop, dual boot Slack & W2k
lake - my new AMD Barton "3000" Shuttle mini-PC, dual boot Slack & W2k
stream - the router/firewall

Machine names are in increasing order of processing power and the router
is stream because it connects all my machinely bodies of water.

The exceptions are:

alpha - my Alphastation, doesn't get much use these days (fans are loud).
Name is pretty self-obvious. My cat used to think it was his perch until I
put the printer on top of it, heh.

hell - my old Via Shuttle mini-PC, name comes from my MUD in a round-about
way. The mud is called Malevolence and based on the Heaven7 mudlib, so we
started calling our devel port the "7th Level of Hell" after a few bad
run-ins with the developers of Heaven7. I use this machine as my
development "wipe-and-go" machine, so I named it "hell" after the devel
port for my MUD. Occasionally it gets called other 4-letter things, but
we'll not go into that right now, heh.

There's also the unnamed machine in the corner (P2 300) that used to run
my mud at a co-loc site and suffered enough damage when shipped back that
it is basically a cat perch now. It probably could run with a new case and
some hardware, but I have enough running machines as it is.

my linux box is called frog and my windows virtual machine is called
monkey, when it decides to work. i think im going to call my next one
something along the lines of fridge (because its going to be an antiquated
piece of shit and fridges are huge)