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Delivery McGee posted:My father used an XP machine until about three months ago. He'd still be, except it let the smoke out and he literally couldn't find anything that didn't have Windows 8 or better on ebay. Haha drat, my old computer had a bulging capacitor on the motherboard so I am definitely glad it kept going for as long as it did.
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Naming scheme is computers and other oddities from Transformers. Telatraan-1, Vector Sigma, Lost Light, etc.
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Mar 20, 2018 04:37
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I'm the bananamanager
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Delivery McGee posted:I name all my computers after Royal Navy ships. Close to my naming scheme; I use World War II operational names. Still in the house I have Overlord (main PC), Avalanche (Current laptop), Fortitude (Hackintosh, naturally) Barbarossa, Torch, Coronet, and the Wifi network is Eagle. A friend had my favorite naming schema when he had 3 PCs in the house, named Run, DMC, and Jay. He now has like a dozen different systems ranging from an Apple ][e with a terminal emulator, to a C64, to a 1999 iMac, to his main i5 PC using Antarctic research stations and explorers now.
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Mar 20, 2018 04:47
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A mix between Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles characters/races, and Nordic gods/characters. Yuke/Selkie/Liltie/Clavat are my internet and wireless repeaters, because they carry all of my precious crystal data through the miasma that is our local wifi environment. (Actually I just really liked the game and kind of kept the naming scheme up for internet carrier devices)
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Close to my naming scheme; I use World War II operational names. Still in the house I have Overlord (main PC), Avalanche (Current laptop), Fortitude (Hackintosh, naturally) Barbarossa, Torch, Coronet, and the Wifi network is Eagle. Would you call an experimental but ultimately doomed router "Market Garden"?
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Mar 20, 2018 06:58
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Antioch posted:Would you call an experimental but ultimately doomed router "Market Garden"? Name reserved for parachute account.
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Mar 20, 2018 07:24
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My laptop is Piss and my phone is rear end
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Mar 20, 2018 07:35
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The Big Word posted:My laptop is Piss and my phone is rear end Is your operating system a piece of poo poo?
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Naming convention is "buildings" with an eye to appropriateness of function. My server is Library Mk. IV, living room gaming PC is "Amphitheater", main-use laptop is "Factory A", having retired numbers when I stopped using Macs. Phone gets Tower, as in "radio tower".
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Mar 20, 2018 08:11
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Delivery McGee posted:I name all my computers after Royal Navy ships. At one point I had Conqueror, Bellerophon, Dreadnought, Victory, and Temeraire on the networks -- of which the wired one was named Nelson and the wifi was Jellicoe. No Cockchafer or Spanker?
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Mar 20, 2018 09:16
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I just call mine what they are. GAMINGPC, ASUS TABLET, RPi1/2/3...,PLEX,PHONE etc. Easy to see what's going on and I am boring.
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Mar 20, 2018 09:26
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A friend's dad growing up had a TRS-80 named 'Oscar'. Not a network identifier or anything, he just called it Oscar.
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Hirayuki posted:Everything on our network gets a name, and apart from my work computer, I've named them after things in the Hitchhiker's universe. I've been using things from the Zelda games myself (big computers get named after Hylia or the three golden goddesses depending on their power button glow color :P), though it's a network with multiple people so it's right next to things named <user>-laptop and android-<garbage> Nuclear War posted:https://qntm.org/culture all the names you could ever need Though admittedly I've always been tempted to name something Meatfucker.
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Naming scheme: characters from Deus Ex. I name my computers smeg, goit and twonk. I once wrote an open source http server called twonk.
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Mar 20, 2018 13:24
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Boiled Water posted:Name reserved for parachute account. 
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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I named my iPhone SE. iPhone Esse. And with that I retired from the naming game at my peak.
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Mar 20, 2018 14:39
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Farmdizzle posted:A friend's dad growing up had a TRS-80 named 'Oscar'. Pretty solid Sesame Street reference I guess.
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I have a Dune name scheme. My network is Landsraad. Computers are named after great houses so my desktop (whatever iteration) is House-Harkonnen, my current laptop is House-Atreides, etc. Portable devices get named for transportation technology so my iPhone is Ornithopter, my iPad is Heighliner, etc. I've named flash drives after smaller stuff (e.g. crysknife, thumper, etc.)
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My 3 wifi APs are named Pig 1, Pig 2, and Pig 4
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Mar 20, 2018 18:41
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I don't name inanimate objects.
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Mar 20, 2018 18:48
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Shifty Nipples posted:I don't name inanimate objects. Well, then they named themselves at the manufacturer.
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Shifty Nipples posted:I don't name inanimate objects. Good post userid=113963
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Well, then they named themselves at the manufacturer. If my phone wants to be a Fred who am I to make it be a Joe? Ornamental Dingbat posted:Good post userid=113963 Is a user account a real thing, or merely an idea ascribed to a collection of bits? e: I'm not trying to be the fun police here I'm just not interested in changing my computer's identifier from "DESKTOP-somethingsomething" Shifty Nipples has a new favorite as of 19:03 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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Shifty Nipples posted:
You purchased the right to post on the forums owned by somethingawful.llc- corporations are people so a forums account is like, legally a fingernail or something?
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Shifty Nipples posted:If my phone wants to be a Fred who am I to make it be a Joe? It's not even a "fun" thing most of the time - In professional IT, long practice is giving machines human-identifiable names so that whoever is using a set of servers can more succinctly identify problems to you and convey what they need. "Hey, Carbon's reading down but I can still ping it from Iron." is easier to work with than "Can you check 10.1.7.35? It's reading as down but I can still ping it from 10.1.7.36." e: poo poo, if someone started feeding me IP addresses at my last IT job instead of human-legible server names I'd've asked if they were okay or needed a break or something.
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Exit Strategy posted:It's not even a "fun" thing most of the time - In professional IT, long practice is giving machines human-identifiable names so that whoever is using a set of servers can more succinctly identify problems to you and convey what they need. "Hey, Carbon's reading down but I can still ping it from Iron." is easier to work with than "Can you check 10.1.7.35? It's reading as down but I can still ping it from 10.1.7.36." Why not just the IT version of "Diesel Generator #1" which is human readable, professional, doesn't open you up to any liability for names from a problematic media franchise, etc
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shovelbum posted:Why not just the IT version of "Diesel Generator #1" which is human readable, professional, doesn't open you up to any liability for names from a problematic media franchise, etc If your place of business does not have a procedure/template for naming all systems in the company with the same template, you work at a circus.
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shovelbum posted:Why not just the IT version of "Diesel Generator #1" which is human readable, professional, doesn't open you up to any liability for names from a problematic media franchise, etc At my work, most of the internal programs and servers are just named for what they do (e.g. emailservice, orderprocessing, etc), but several years back the devs went through a phase of giving things "clever" names. I'm sure it was hee-larious if you happened to be there, but it also means that we've been stuck with those names for years now, and every time an alert goes off for a service named something like Poptart or Al-Dente, we have to try to remember what the gently caress those even are.
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shovelbum posted:Why not just the IT version of "Diesel Generator #1" which is human readable, professional, doesn't open you up to any liability for names from a problematic media franchise, etc That's how you end up with "emailserver" running the test version of your web site, "newemailserver" being bulk storage, and "realemailserver" being the email server... for now
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Our hospital calls the stationary computers, on our floor, "Dragon #x," and the wows (workstation on wheels) are some variant of "Burn #," because we're in a burn center. Each other floor has a different name for the groups, so if you find Dragon 4 on a different floor you know it's misplaced.
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I'm not sure if I should apologize for this naming derail or not. I'm sure as poo poo enjoying it, and it seems likes others are too. When I worked for a library system for over a decade, our IT guy named all the machines after literary characters, going so far as to make them age/genre specific. So our youth services (i.e. Kids books) machines were Pippi, Charlie, Dorothy, Anne, etc. I worked in the AV department, and our 3 machines were Larry, moe and curly. The printer was Shep. Footnote to my "finding a laptop in the garbage" saga: this guy not only threw away a fully functioning laptop that wasn't password protected --- the user login is still the default "owner" name and chess piece AV that comes with XP --- but it's got PowerPoint files on it with schematics of... Some structure meant to be built in Afghanistan in 2006. This was clearly a work machine, I haven't found any evidence of it being a personal machine. All the files on the desktop have something to do with legal arrangement of US real estate, or PowerPoint poo poo on foreign development. I'm gonna wipe the gently caress out of this thing, but eesh, it's giving me the willies now. To end this post on a cheerier note: yes, the first tower I built myself back in 2001 was named Devastator after the Constructicons. I was never even a big Transformers fan, but I just liked the quote from the movie: "Devastator, the most powerful robot!"
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I swear if you find the piss tape on there
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JacquelineDempsey posted:All the files on the desktop have something to do with legal arrangement of US real estate, or PowerPoint poo poo on foreign development. If this isn't the plot device of some Will Smith-stumbles-onto-a-conspiracy movie, it should be.
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Trabant posted:If this isn't the plot device of some Will Smith-stumbles-onto-a-conspiracy movie, it should be. Seriously guys, should I back this poo poo up before I wipe it? Being a 44 year old dinosaur, I got cake platters of CDs and DVDs to put it on hard media, and this old laptop has a burner. I don't think I've stumbled on anything other than some random crap a Raytheon jock who knows poo poo about security put on here, but just in case....
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This is actually the plot to Burn After Reading. Copy the data and offer to sell it to the Russians. Hope George Clooney doesn't kill you. Good luck.
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Antioch posted:Would you call an experimental but ultimately doomed router "Market Garden"? Boiled Water posted:Name reserved for parachute account. beauty
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Seriously guys, should I back this poo poo up before I wipe it? Being a 44 year old dinosaur, I got cake platters of CDs and DVDs to put it on hard media, and this old laptop has a burner. I don't think I've stumbled on anything other than some random crap a Raytheon jock who knows poo poo about security put on here, but just in case.... Burn it to two CDs. Store one in a box in your attic, as far towards the back as possible, and cover it with dust. This will be your insurance. Wrap the second CD in a ziplock bag. Go to the park on the east side of town, and find the oboe player. Put two quarters in their cap, and ask them where "Charles's Bench" is. They will ask if you mean "Charlie". Say no. They will indicate one of the park benches. Duct tape the CD to the underside of the bench and walk away. Do not look back.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Our hospital calls the stationary computers, on our floor, "Dragon #x," and the wows (workstation on wheels) are some variant of "Burn #," because we're in a burn center. Each other floor has a different name for the groups, so if you find Dragon 4 on a different floor you know it's misplaced. Interestingly, a few hospitals I worked with called theirs COWS (computer rather than workstation). It was fun to hear a nurse say they just needed to bring the cow up.
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