April 10, 2008
Dear Clusterflock,
Nathan asks, What are your computers/hard drives/networks named?
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Nathan asks, What are your computers/hard drives/networks named?
35 Responses to “Dear Clusterflock,”
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Mine all share a single name: Motherfucker.
I fear this will reveal too much about me. But here goes.
HD 1
HD 2
Jeez, Deron. You could be a librarian.
Computers: soleil, samir, faye, evo, tracyskickassmac, attitude
My hard drive I think is called something stupid like “Mary Jeys’s Hard Drive” However, my networks are: Homelandia and Homelandistan.
At work, it’s Macintosh HD.
At home, including external drives and iPods, I think it’s currently Austen, Cassandra (Jane’s sister), Sophie, Villers (should be Villiers, but I’ve never read the books, only listened to them, so I don’t know how people’s names are spelled), Maturin, Pullings, and Bondin.
One of my USB thumb drives is Hoochie Mama, though.
India: No Preserved Killick?
I think when I get myself a Drobo, that’ll be Preserved Killick. You know, because it’d be a backup drive.
Which it would be muttering and grumbling in the background. Yes.
Just so.
diskee.
My machines are all given male names. Nicholas, Gideon, and Spencer are my current computers. The first drive in any system is named “see”, and if they have a second hard drive it’s named after its use (e.g. “media” “home”)
mine are HD 1 and HD 2.
My Windows desktop is named Wonderboy, and my Mac laptop Nastyman, after a song by Tenacious D — a song that would be my theme music, if I could will it.
The desktop has two hard drives; the primary is The Seaward, the external is H. Maddas. Both named after their drive letters, both Arrested Development references.
And since I freely share this info with all who ask, my wireless network is “shoooot_herrrr”, and the password is “clevergirl”.
Back when I admin’ed the network for my high school newspaper, I don’t think I named the network, but I did name each connected computer after elements of Norse mythology. Few appreciated it though, seeing as “mjolnir”, “yggdrasil” and the like don’t exactly flow off the tongue — or the fingers.
Deron, what are yours named?
The laptop HD: Inscrutable
The networked HD: Hubris
oh mine? thanks for asking. mine are named HD 1 and HD 2. HD 1 is my main drive. HD 2 is the other one. I have two of them. on my computer.
Fascinating.
yep.
and, I can ride a two-wheeler, run pretty fast, and tie my shoes.
You know, I think that that old PC I have that’s been just gathering dust for four or five years is named Evelina. I really ought to get rid of that thing.
In order:
1) Loose-meat
2) Maid-Rite
3) Dubuque, Iowa Don’t-KnowShitAboutLooseMeat
My much-neglected desktop is named Smurfzilla, my laptop is called Nietzsche (’cause it’s a ThinkPad, har har (and Descartes doesn’t roll off the tongue)), the media server is Lunchbox, my iPod is called Ackbar, and my Pocket PC is called Gizmo. I briefly had a UMPC I dubbed Roger. My wireless network is called “Tube of Wonderful” and the password is lunchbox (I was having a Kevin Smith day when I set it up, I guess). I don’t think my girlfriend has named her laptop, but her iPod is called Eisley and her Wii is named Peanut. I think that’s it.
oh, I have an external drive called Fannin County. my iphone is Deron Bauman’s iPhone.
The “name” feature on my phone is mostly useless, but I dubbed it The Phoninatrix anyway.
My iPod is Nateling II, in honor of its dearly departed forerunner, killed falling 8 feet onto a hardwood floor in an Irish hostel.
And now that I think of it, my TiVo has a name too: Ansible, after the faster-than-light communication tool from Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game”.
Sigh. Late to the game but mine are named:
Vista
Backup
Leopard
pre 2005
2005
2006
2007
2008
and growing.
The one at school is “Dude!” (It’s a Dell machine)
The one here at home is nameless.
Oh, by the way, the desktop called Smurfzilla has Smurf-themed hard drives as well: Papa Smurf (C:, system files and programs), Smurfette (D:, miscellaneous stuff), and Poet Smurf (E:, music and movies and such).
Smurfs! Have I ever told y’all my Smurf story? We were teaching basic computer classes to doctors several years ago at my library. On the one day that I was helping to teach, an ancient female doctor–a remarkable woman, over 80 years old, who had endured all manner of discrimination and hardship to succeed as a physcian–took the class, for about the fifth time. She was incredibly bright (she showed me how to decipher the barcodes on manufacturer’s coupons in order to cheat the Man), but she just couldn’t get the hang of using a PC with a mouse.
So we’re teaching the class, and my role is to go around to individual users to give hands-on help. Dr. Lady motioned to me that she was having a problem. I got there to see her hand resting on the mouse, with about 30 windows open. All to a very detailed and well-drawn site depicting Smurfs having oral sex. “Let’s just close these,” I said, and spent the longest minute of my life closing window after window of Papa Smurf getting a blow job. I then excused myself from the class.
I love my job.
george
phineas
this_aint_your_moms_network
Thank You
inside
outside
on the road (usb stick)
backup baby
bobsquat
bobsquat II
bobsquats lil cousin
Big Cat
My ipods are named II,III and IV
ipod I was stolen by ipod stealing-criminals.
How could I overlook this? My current iPod is named The Nutmeg of Consolation.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi