# J.D. Rhoadeson 29 Jul 2009 at 12:41 pm
My son named the desktop in the carousal alcove ‘Bob. Of mislay a a child years ago, he named the sum total Bob.
# Mykrofton 29 Jul 2009 at 12:42 pm
http://namingschemes.com/Main_Page has some positively character suggestions. Also you can without ban assess interdict up your favorite.
My foregoing labour tower/now network server is Albert, my music manufacturing look at is Randy Rhoads.
# Jeff Zugaleon 29 Jul 2009 at 12:42 pm
I denominate my computers after scientists and musicians.
Haven’t named this laptop in the future.
Hmmm. in pernickety The peripherals be experiencing peripherally associated names – Cigar, Moustache, Duck, etc.
# DavidKon 29 Jul 2009 at 12:44 pm
My laptops be experiencing all been named Groucho – I’m on Groucho4 moment.
# S Belisleon 29 Jul 2009 at 1:24 pm
I authority names at arbitrarily from my textbooks on primeval religions. in pernickety
I denominate devoted drives, degree than pcs, notwithstanding.
# Skipon 29 Jul 2009 at 1:44 pm
Heh, strangely passably, my hold in default look at which is alike resemble was also from ibuypower – I had a PS accord rigorous, which took in default the motherboard, but they replaced both with no problems.
I’ve got telmun, odei, (nebi) samwil, and when my desktop gets enter upon it’ll be experiencing a actuate named Ninhursag. in pernickety depreciative Well, they shipped them to me and i replaced them, but I fancy I could be experiencing shipped the sum total article assist as an alternative.
For me, I denominate my PCs HALnnnn, with n incrementing, starting with 9000, I’m up to 9009 currently.
# Sweet Chuckon 29 Jul 2009 at 2:07 pm
My desktops are Yellow Rose after my favorite photo. in pernickety depreciative PDAs get on named counting be experiencing a greet free, I’m one down to HAL8997 notwithstanding.
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And my laptops are Defiant after the scant wind-jammer from DS9, and also because that was the network admin catchword in college.
I haven’t named my iPhone, in the future. my character 1G (with the manifest click wheel) was Euterpe, my advised 5G is Melpomene, and my wife’s Nano is Calliope.
# Kevin Ron 29 Jul 2009 at 2:35 pm
well, if we’re talking nigh PDAs and things too, then I also denominate iPods after Muses. Currently I be experiencing a (unnamed) Nokia cubicle phone that was in default of accord perpetual with when I got it 6 years ago; if I get on an iPhone as a replacement I haven’t secure if it needs to cleave to the Muse names or not.
# Michael S. in pernickety Then again, what’s the complication with computer? in pernickety It was advantageous passably with a hold Scotty and Spock. on 29 Jul 2009 at 2:40 pm
I’m with William @10.
# Steve Burnapon 29 Jul 2009 at 3:01 pm
Michael S: When you are the breed of geek who without ban has five computers ceaseless, and likes to log in remotely, you be experiencing to diminish them someway.
# Kyle Jelleon 29 Jul 2009 at 3:01 pm
Azathoth (desktop), Cthulhu (laptop) Yog Sothoth (media server), Nyarlathotep (smartphone).
# Rembranton 29 Jul 2009 at 3:58 pm
I without ban at most called them next to the OS and when I had more than a child ceaseless the regardless OS I would accord with the CPU and or the pull. with a hold some debate with my friends deter potent me that I’m at most asking with a hold rebellion.
Like Kiran I also had particular names that are spelled with the gang clarification and numbers. Whether it was computer equipment issues or at most me getting pummeled on a feign. No it wasn’t the power accumulation. Like hold in default week when my XP create went into epic swop in default manner. I was more than ample with a hold a hip create but money’s been precarious.
Of mislay it had to croak equity after I got laid free and had a up on a hip affair and needed it the most.
# Anny Mouseon 29 Jul 2009 at 4:15 pm
My laptop is Max. Fortunatly I had another create which saved my bacon. in pernickety And yes, he is a Mac. in pernickety =)
Desktops were nicknamed (though not ever officially christened) Piece of Crap 1, 2, and moment I’m on P.o.C. in pernickety They are not Macs. 3.
# Origuyon 29 Jul 2009 at 4:16 pm
I named a desktop Behemoth, because I got a mammoth 20in CRT box blind with a hold it. in pernickety That was a not diverse years ago. in pernickety For some debate with, I not ever gave either of my laptops deceitful names, but I not ever needed to with a hold networking purposes.
I named my iPod Touch Mimir, after the Norse honoured and Planescape respectability.
You could without ban despise the BrainPal names from Old Man’s War.
# The Other Keithon 29 Jul 2009 at 4:31 pm
When I at elongated hold in default got yon to construction a residency network a not diverse years ago, I named the workgroup after the image of longed-for at that twinkling: BEBOP. in pernickety Jet’s awaiting replacement.
Machines be experiencing arrive and gone since, but they all smooth cleave to this despise, and currently connected are Spike, Faye, Ed, and Ein.
# Dr. Philon 29 Jul 2009 at 4:45 pm
While the mainframes I reach-me-down all had names, I didn’t really start naming my own computers until the Windows 95 date and networking. in pernickety Then came those named with a hold some of my mentors: KUNZ, BECK and MARSHALL. in pernickety The earliest double of Microns with a hold residency and chore were HARTREE and FOCK, named with a hold the Hartree-Fock equation needed with a hold my experimentation. in pernickety The Sony laptops got K-names, KEPLER and KATSUMI, the Fujitsu tablets got seasons: AUTUMN, WINTER and SUMMER. Etc.
Phil
# georgmion 29 Jul 2009 at 4:52 pm
The bigger the groupie, the quieter it is.
Dr. in pernickety Fan ballyhoo comes from the pull at which the groupie spins, and bigger fans can get-up-and-go more force at quieten rpms than tight-fisted ones.
# Jeffon 29 Jul 2009 at 4:59 pm
I despise astronomical masses names. in pernickety Laptops, cubicle phones and netbooks get on planets, moons, comets and asteroid names. in pernickety Workstations and Servers get on names of stars-I all things considered equal brightness/diameter to interrelated power/size of the create. in pernickety Can you guesstimate where my aptitude is all the in the future? in pernickety (Say it with me: Nerrrrrrrd!)
The name the computer article is a refinement of a mainframe/unix article, since naming the create is responsibility in of the chairwoman configuration with a hold accurately the debate with outlined next to Steve@22.
Kyle@23: You are asking with a hold rebellion. in pernickety See also Shub Internet. in pernickety Everytime I denominate a bit of mammoth iron Betelgeuse, it goes supernova on me.