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  • Reply 21 of 32
    jaredjared Posts: 639member
    My PowerBook is named Curie and my PowerMac (Juke Box) is named Feynman.
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  • Reply 22 of 32
    carson o'geniccarson o'genic Posts: 1,279member
    G5 powermac = Aluminatron

    Powerbook = Borgomobile

    Powerbook 2 = Alixtron

    old mac = Borgasmatron

    External Hardrive: Encephalotron
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  • Reply 23 of 32
    gongon Posts: 2,437member
    When I last thought up a nice naming scheme, I came up with the dawn of industrial age.



    My old Powerbook was named jenny, because I see hardcore geeks giving their computers female names all the time, and I thought it would be funny to copycat them. In my scheme, the name stood for "spinning jenny" though.



    My server was steamengine.



    My Bluetooth phone was telegraph.



    At my school they have a huge number of machines. Every type (Solaris, SGI, x86 Linux, ...) have an unique naming scheme. We got adjectives, Finnish presidents, natural disasters, spices. There are so many machines of the disaster type that they have had to come up with creative names. I prefer blizzard because it's my favorite game company also, but there are draught, ice-age, alien-invasion etc.
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  • Reply 24 of 32
    drsusedrsuse Posts: 49member
    mini is called "idoru" (from the william gibson book of the same name)
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  • Reply 25 of 32
    henriokhenriok Posts: 537member
    The name for my main computer, a dual 2 GHx G4, is "Morannon" witch is Black Tongue for the Black Gates into Mordor. I have several Macs on the same theme, Barad-dûr, Orodruin and Minas Morgul.
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  • Reply 26 of 32
    javacowboyjavacowboy Posts: 864member
    For some reason, whenever I connect to the internet and I open a command prompt the computer name displayed in my shell becomes a series of numbers:





    Last login: Sat May 7 13:13:31 on ttyp1

    Welcome to Darwin!

    119-178:~ me$





    but whenever I'm offline, I get my proper computer name:





    Last login: Sat May 7 13:13:31 on ttyp1

    Welcome to Darwin!

    Revan:~ me$





    This has only happened since I upgraded to Tiger.



    Any ideas?
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  • Reply 27 of 32
    kwsanderskwsanders Posts: 327member
    I think I will call my new Power Mac system T-X when I set it up. This was Kristanna Loken's character in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
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  • Reply 28 of 32
    gene cleangene clean Posts: 3,481member
    I'm gonna call my new computer Kunta Kinta. My old one was Komakino, and my current one is Perestroika.
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  • Reply 29 of 32
    regreg Posts: 832member
    Lots of names. Laptops have had Marvel comics characters

    Wall Street - Black Panther

    Ti 500 - Silver Surfer

    17 pb - Thing

    Desktops all had Shakespearean names. The most recent, dual 2.0 is Pip



    reg
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  • Reply 30 of 32
    maccrazymaccrazy Posts: 2,658member
    Mine's my name and computer.



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  • Reply 31 of 32
    vox barbaravox barbara Posts: 2,021member
    plain and simple

    Boss
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  • Reply 32 of 32
    ulmoulmo Posts: 21member
    My 17" Powerbook is called Dr. Evil

    My 12" Powerbook is called mini me

    My old iMac G3 is called Retired



    My machine in work is called shitbox

    My Windows machine at home is called WinXP64

    My Linux machine is called Tux
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