Geekness thread: Do you name your PC(s)?

#1 Brian Frank

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 09:22 AM

I do. I'm a geek and proud of it.:D

Sig line tells all.:D

#2 felix

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 10:32 AM

Currently known as Kremlin, my machine has had many incarnations depending on hardware.

Kremlin
Bullwinkle
Firetruck
Enterprise
Starbase
NCC-1701-D/E
Annorax
Rocky

#3 Down8

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 12:47 PM

ThugBox <= Current main machine: too many 'thug' [generic] parts
BirdBox <= AMD machine-to-be: Tbird, duh
MeBox <= What's left of TB after BB^: running WinMe
GimpBox <= 486/66-router-to-be: old and inept
SpudBox <= HP Jornada 548: the little one of the bunch

Yeah, I name 'em. I name 'em good. Anyone wanna guess the WORKGROUP?

-bZj

#4 CrazyKillerMan

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 06:04 PM

well....i dont give mine a name per say, but i do call it a "son-of-a-*****" every now and again...pointing at the hard drive, cpu of just the tower in general, as if it where alive, and hoping my "pep" talk will get it moving again.

#5 clutch

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 07:31 PM

The only name I use for them is their "given" (network) name.

#6 Igor

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 09:25 PM

Big daddy and little daddy. One is Celeron 433 another is Duron 600. You guess which one

#7 DosFreak

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 11:02 PM

Whatever OS I have installed is what I called it. Currently:
NT5Box & NT51Box

Original huh?

#8 INFERNO2000

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 11:56 PM

Old Rigs:
Compaq Preasario 5600i: INFERNO
First Custom Built: OBSIDIAN
rebuilt with intel: OBSIDIAN2

OBSIDIAN2 rebuilt into new rig: NECESSARY EVIL
rebuilt with AMD: (no change)

Suitcase PC: [beta]LANBOX-1
rebuilt with standard case: LANBOX-1

intel parts of Necessary Evil, and vid/memory etc. from LANBOX-1: LANBOX-2

Streamlined Necessary Evil
(new case, new SCSI parts): Dissonance
.

Current rig(s)
CERBERUS -laptop
(unnamed--will start with an S, and be of mythology other than Greek/Roman or Norse) -laptop

Future rig
Ragnarok -dual AMD rig

#9 Dirty Harry

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Posted 24 August 2001 - 12:22 AM

Nobody calling it Superman... or Capt. America... or ihaveasmallpenis ?

H.

#10 FadedTimes

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Posted 24 August 2001 - 12:39 AM

LagMonster

FadedTimes

Tesla

Eart
Wind
Fire

Larry
Moe
Curly
Shep

#11 Brian Frank

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Posted 24 August 2001 - 08:54 AM

Quote:

well....i do call it a "son-of-a-*****" every now and again...

Yeah, I call my rigs other "colorful" names too.

#12 jennol

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Posted 24 August 2001 - 09:46 PM

Brain
Pinky
Duchess
Princess
Jack

The little family,,,,,

#13 Xiven

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Posted 27 August 2001 - 11:44 PM

Current machine: TIFA
Old machine: VOYAGER (cos it's a long way from home now - donated it to my parents to bring them into this century :))

Oh yeah, and my hard drive partitions are called:

Ryo-ohki (C: )
Sasami (D: )
Ryoko (E: )

just to confuse anyone who tries to use my machine

[size:9]ABit KT7-RAID
AMD Duron 750
512MB PC133 RAM
Creative Labs 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX (Det 12.41)
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Player
Macronix MX98715 100Mbit/s Ethernet Adapter
Maxtor 60GB Ultra-ATA/UDMA 100 HDD (Primary Master on HPT)
Fujitsu 17.3 GB Ultra-ATA/UDMA 66 HDD (Secondary Master on HPT)
Creative DVD-ROM DVD1241E (RPC-1) (Secondary Master on IDE)
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 451 19" Monitor
Cambridge Soundworks DTT3500 Digital 5.1 surround speakers
Win2kPro (SP-2)

ABit BX8
Intel Celeron 300 @ 450 MHz
Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Riva TNT
SoundBlaster Live! Value
Maxtor 6.4GB HDD (Primary Master)
Samsung 32X CD-ROM (Secondary Master)
Unbranded 17" monitor
Win2kPro (SP-2)[/color]