The Story of the Roach Infected Computer

[otakuneko]

Computers on networks need names! After all, who wants to remember IP addresses? (even private ones )

My computers are generally named at birth, but sometimes earn their names.
Many of these are no longer in service:
Freebie, Freebie II, 3B - Just guess.
TRS800 (A freebie P3 800, but also a Dell. For the less geeky, the name is a play on the Radio Shack TRS "Trash" 80)
Dopey (My first solo-build, a K6 200. Shorted out to the case on initial power-up.)
MegaDopey (Cyrix 233, not troublesome, but it was a step above Dopey, so..)
UberDopey (My latest, and most troublesome build. It has truly earned its name. Renaming it Ryudo after a mobo change did not cleanse it of Dopey's curse. )
Simpleton (for the Sempron processor it started life with)
MrCheap, CheapJR (take a wild guess )
em (lower case on purpose: emachine Celeron 400, running Debian Sarge)


...None have been roach motels, though some have run quite naked, and em is just a a skeleton, doesn't even have a front panel, just bare metal frame.

[Nyoibo]

My old computer was named Asuka, at a friends place when they were networked his comp was named Rei, we then forced another friend to name his computer Shinji.

[Gravekeeper]

TRS800 (A freebie P3 800, but also a Dell. For the less geeky, the name is a play on the Radio Shack TRS "Trash" 80)

I have one of those in my closet. The "laptop" version. Still works. Has something like 4.8 kb's of memory, a Microsoft OS and a 5600 baud modem. Its also heavy enough to kill a man.

and yes there is such a thing as too much anime, cripes.

[Pezzle]

*Now I have to ask my Firedog BF if that's ever happened at his store. BLECH!!!!

When I was working for Firedog, I had a computer smell so bad and be so caked up with curry-stench infused cigarette-smothered dust that I actually vomited repeatedly and couldn't work on the thing without a dust mask and some oust.

Also my computer's name is FROSTEDBUTTS on the network.

[Chromatix]

Onyx, Ebony, Jet... there are plenty of things that are characteristically black.

You could even put Stealth if you really run out, or start on things to do with astronomical singularities.

[Gravekeeper]

Also my computer's name is FROSTEDBUTTS on the network.

Loath as I am to admit it, and puzzled as I am by it, there are two servers at work named Night Elf and Tauren. Every other server is logically named after its purpose. Its just 2 out of 30. For no apparent reason.

[wraiths_crono]

.....yes they have names. Leave me alone.

Duo core: Viper
Laptop: Lotus
Mac: Porche

mine have names also, see a theme?

[froglet]

Oh, and my computer's names...

• FrogsLegs, my laptop.
• PondLife, my own linux box.
• Froggie, my family machine.
• Michigan J. Frog, my mp3 player.
• LeapFrog, my thumb drive.

(might have forgotten one or two exactitudes, but you get the idea)

[Drakstern]

My computer used to be named Vic Viper.

It was renamed Yukari after the fan died and I had to rebuild a chunk of it.

My iPod is named Ran.

And I've referred to my DS as Chen.

I've become something of a fanboy of some moderately obscure games...

[otakuneko]

and yes there is such a thing as too much anime, cripes.

Lies! Blasphemy!
Well, ok, maybe if I get to the stage of making a whacked-out music vidoe, or cosplaying as the overfiend..repeatedly...both at cons and out...

[Gravekeeper]

Lies! Blasphemy!
Well, ok, maybe if I get to the stage of making a whacked-out music vidoe, or cosplaying as the overfiend..repeatedly...both at cons and out...

Speaking from experience? -.-

About the only thing I'd ever be able to pull off Cosplay wise would be Gordon Freeman. ><

[Alpha Strike]

But if you do come up here, just keep an eye on what city you're in and be careful how you voice your opinions about the local hockey team. You want to be chased down the street by rabid, hockey-stick-waving Canadians? Diss the local team. That'll do it. (Unless you're in Vancouver. Say what you like about the Canucks, nobody in Vancouver can really argue with you. )

All I ever need to know about fitting in with Canadians I learned from either Strange Brew or Berry Melrose: wear a hockey jersey, drink beer, say "Eh" a lot, randomly drop phrases like "Power play goal" or "Dumping in into the zone" and for bonus points have a mullet. Also, if you're in the magical French Canada land, do all of this in French.

Eh, I've got a whole theme going for my machines:

Enola-Gay
Fat Man
Little Boy
Einstein
Oppenheimer
Missouri
Trinity

Hrm. A whole lot of Manhattan Project references - are you a scientist?


And I am apparently very different from most folks - I have no name for machine, although my SO will often call it "that damned computer" when the internet connection goes down.

[mharbourgirl]

All I ever need to know about fitting in with Canadians I learned from either Strange Brew or Berry Melrose: wear a hockey jersey, drink beer, say "Eh" a lot, randomly drop phrases like "Power play goal" or "Dumping in into the zone" and for bonus points have a mullet. Also, if you're in the magical French Canada land, do all of this in French.

Ok, just a few tips: Don't say 'eh', you won't do it right and people WILL notice. And ONLY grow a mullet if you're spending time in Alberta. Everywhere else people will point and snicker.

I'd discuss the whole French thing, but I'd end up in Fratching, it's a touchy subject. Ask me again sometime.

Oh, and I'd advise looking up some episodes of both the Red Green Show and Royal Canadian Air Farce. Throw in some Rick Mercer too, while you're at it. That'll give you a better idea of what Canadian is.

But if you're drinking beer, you're welcome any time.

And to stay relatively on topic:

My computer - OldanBusted
The Hubster's computer - TheNewHotness
My Walkman - Edgar
My camera - The Bug

[alacazar]

Ahh taxes, fun things. I have charged over $50.00 in state taxes on a 19.99 cell phone before. Ganted the phone retailed for $500.00 and the state law had some off catch about needing to pay taxes based on the full value of any electronic equipment that recived a discount based on the acceptance of a contract based monthly content subscription.

yes that is the reason the state makes us give out customers

yes the customers usualy yell at us for a while befor the report us to the Better Business Bureau.

yes there is generaly notes on account 3 or so weeks later giving the results of the Business Bureau's investigation. the guys who have to work with the BBB and the FCC reguarding complaints dont like being annoyed over stuff thats madated by the local Goverments, and they can be... a bit abrupt... when the have to contact a customer about this kind of complaint

did i ever mention I hate explaining taxes


either way ive had a few computers over the years with names, not very creative though.

Pheonix
Old Yeller
Mark
Mark 2 - later named death after the 15th reformat.
reboot, formaly named death. Renamed after 40 reinstalls of winders and replacing the hard drive after it died. If you first you dont sucseed I guess.
Blue Box
and Finally my current computer, Mark III

as I said not very creative.

[Broomjockey]

Ok, just a few tips: Don't say 'eh', you won't do it right and people WILL notice. And ONLY grow a mullet if you're spending time in Alberta. Everywhere else people will point and snicker.

Correct on the "eh", but incorrect on the mullet. You only get away with that if you're a hockey player. If you're not, you're gonna get beat up by them