Help me name my new computer

Ever since HAL9000 went pop, and I stuffed his innerds into SAL9000's chasis, I've had a schizoid computer. 5 hard drives and all the PCI cards from both boxes, plus a killer video card I scored on ebay for 50 bills (the existing radeon, was fine for games in windows, but revolting for video playback in any OS, particularly Linux).

Well I'm sick as bollox of....

want to play a game reboot>windows want to burn cd reboot>linux want to play with cubase reboot>windows want to read email reboot>linux

and so on

The Cpu of my new machine arrives tomorrow, and assuming I have not done terrible damage to the motherboard during a typically hamfisted installation, the machine will take it's first breath tomorrow evening. Which gives me a problem...

What do I call it? It must have a hostname! (or two if I choose as this machine will be dual boot with linux too, but only as a backup in case the existing HAL/SAL hybrid throws a hissy fit)

Any ideas? I ususally call them after great computers from sci fi....hence HAL9000 SAL9000 Orac, Deep Thought have all been variously used, and one of my usb sticks with a working linux on it is called "minivac", a pint for anyone who spots that reference.

Well? Thought? WOrth pointing out that I think Star Wars is for girls and halfwits so no fecking ARRRTOOO cack OK?

For those who care......

Asus M2N32-WS-Pro motherboard Athlonb 64 X2 5600+ @2.8GHz 2GB low latency Geil Ram Just a 320 GB Hitachi HD to be getting on with (class drives BTW) Tomorrow it will have a borrowed GeForce 6200 LE/TC....a piece of unmitigated shite, but it'll get a picture on the screen and give me a chance to get the machine ready to receive, next week.... GeForce 8800GTS (o/c version, 575Mhz core) Motherboard supports 8GB of RAM, Athlon FX CPU's and is one of VERY few that will let 2 Nvidia cards run in SLI mode with both still at full 16X bandwidth (most boards drop both cards to half speed, therefor negating all advantage). It also has capacity for 10X SATA and 4X IDE-PATA drives. So plenty of options for keeping it current.

Doctor? wrote: I ususally call them after great computers from sci fi....hence HAL9000 SAL9000 Orac, Deep Thought have all been variously used,

How about a variation (this woman must of come out of a sci fi):

is minivac a reference to multivac?

how about:

hactar - another douglas adams ref

dora and/or minerva - both heinlein

ira - wonderwoman's computer

bloodynora wrote: is minivac a reference to multivac?

Nora, you are getting deeply annoying

yyyyup.

I like the sound of Minerva.

Hectar was off his chump you see. Never name machines after evil computers, hence I have no MCP (master control program, from Tron.....basically where Bill got the idea for windows I think) Ira....probably not a great option in Northern Ireland LOL

Knew a guy on a Linux forum once who had Desktops called Holly and Hilly, a Firewall called Queag, a fileserver called Kryten, and my fave was his laptop....Bob (the scutter)

Come to think of it, I aint had a Zen or Slave yet.

How about the famous Eliza? The first AI computer.

Alfie

wasnt the computer in alien called "mother" ,failing that call it "cunting thing" its got an asus mobo in it so it wont be long before u do :D

Getoutmore

I think you should call it Jeremy.

Not Minerva, in college that was our server name and the thing was absolute crap. Don't curse it!

sadie?

What about that annoying computer that appeared in 2nd series of Space 1999?

BRIAN THE BRAIN!

mike powell wrote: wasnt the computer in alien called "mother" ,failing that call it "cunting thing" its got an asus mobo in it so it wont be long before u do :D

Would do but you can't have spaces in yer hostname :D

Recent Asus AMD boards are great, dunno about their Intel ones as I've never had one. This one is the only one I could find with true SLI 2X16 performance.

MONTY The Merciless wrote: What about that annoying computer that appeared in 2nd series of Space 1999?

BRIAN THE BRAIN!

Or maybe Braeman after Brains' robot/portable computer.

Omnicognate Neutron Wrangler maybe?

Milliard Gargantuabrain?

Jeremy is a good name. So is Dave, but having HAL and Dave on one subnet may not be wise

Médor.

Well, it is a dog name, but who is the master ?...

Missy Jem wrote: Alfie

wasn't that the computer in barbarella? brilliant! you don't get more classic sci fi than that...

Doctor? wrote:

bloodynora wrote: is minivac a reference to multivac?

Nora, you are getting deeply annoying

mwah hah hah! that's a hat AND a pint you owe me now.

Melinda, fcuked by Bill Gates.

"Computer" :p

Or "Piece of Shit", that's what I call my home computer

Mine is still called Dell even if there's more Seagate than Samsung in there now.

Well you could go backwards with the code and call it IBM. :D

Anyways isn't naming things like computers and cars more of a girl thing.

FAC9000.

Two VERY good suggestions there, in the form of Melinda (Priceless JT ) and FAC9000.

Bro suggests, HAL9001 for it's linux persona and SAL9001 for DOS-XP (and maybe a tripple boot with DOS-Vista too, just to see the performance drop first hand.) Sounds too confusing to me.

bloodynora wrote:

Doctor? wrote:

bloodynora wrote: is minivac a reference to multivac?

Nora, you are getting deeply annoying

mwah hah hah! that's a hat AND a pint you owe me now.

Fook! I'm off to Rio!

barney

Really thinking that FAC9000 might be the winner.

Two ideas

1. From "Lost in Space" Jupiter 2(the name of the spacecraft) the Robot was simply "Robot"

2. Dr. Chandra In "2010" He was HAL's creator and help reactivate HAL. Chandra loved HAL like a child

or call it K-9 Dr. Who fan!

My vote is UTM9000 [Universal Turing Machine 9000]

but FAC9000 will do quite nicely