Help me name my new computer

BonoShed wrote: 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!

Shrivasubrahmanian Chandrasegarampeli

was his name, Peter Hyams shortened it for yous seppos.

K9 and 42 are too short unfortunately.

TARDIS was already used for a machine I built for a friend.

Maybe Type40. ?

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Cambo...doesn't naming computers seem, well, just a wee bit geeky???

ummmm..no

Cambo has standards, he even said so:

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

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Cambo...doesn't naming computers seem, well, just a wee bit geeky???

well it's not like calling your car Bessie is it?

This house has 4 desktops, 2 laptops, a fileserver and a router(ie an old compaq deskpro running Linux from a floppy disk) all on the same network, so they all need memorable host names, and I am a firm believer in not giving dogs bad names.

All computers have host names you know, ALL of them, mine are just better.

Besides, as Jesus said, the geeks will inherit the Earth.

So far it's a toss up between Melinda and FAC9000 (maybe even both since it will have at least two different operating systems on it and there is no need for both to share a hostname, in fact it can be better to have separate ones to keep any exported filesystems clearly understandable to other machines.

My laptop's called Montgomery or Monty for short... Cos at times it's a terrible cnut...

Snorri xxx

Either way, your comp. is 100 times better than mine, haven't upgraded it since early 2003. And even THEN, it was far from top-o-the-line

Beavis.

My desktop is called FHOJ (fookin' heap of junk). pronounced FODGE.

fookit it's oldmonkey again wrote: My desktop is called FHOJ (fookin' heap of junk). pronounced FODGE.

rhymes with Nhoj.

my nickname.

:(

what about "nerd"?

hibster wrote: what about "nerd"?

or Dr En.

stroke on trent or tent whichever it is...

King John Honest John wrote:

fookit it's oldmonkey again wrote: My desktop is called FHOJ (fookin' heap of junk). pronounced FODGE.

rhymes with Nhoj.

my nickname.

:(

Our John,my brother, is known universally as Noj an all.. wadda ya know..2 Nojes

Cambo,you are giving your computer a pet name ? Like normal people might do for their girlfriends ?

Computers arn't even cuddly

Boatraceface wrote:

Computers arn't even cuddly

Put your 7 inch in and watch it gasp.

Big Black wrote:

Boatraceface wrote:

Computers arn't even cuddly

Put your 7 inch in and watch it gasp.

I'd need the help of a shoehorn.

:p

No Boaty, machines on networks need names (or you spend your life remembering strings of numbers), and I think a machine deserves better than JHJH99r54n frankly.

At around 130 this afternoon, FAC9000 spun it's fans for the first time, I'm in full on proud dad mode

Useless for games as yet cos of sad Vid card. But when it gets the proper card next week, it's SHOWTIME!

It's the first time I bought anything but el-cheapo kit, especially the video card (200 fucking quid!!!), and I've done what I can to build in upgradability so that I don't have to start on a new one for at lest 3 or 4 years (my last one was bought in summer 04 so it did OK, still going. The previous one was autumn 02, that's the one that passed on a few weeks ago (all it's bits have gone to allow other machines to continue to live with a better quality of life....Bless). All in all, by the time I put another HD, SATA DVDRW,2GB of memory and a few small bits and bobs, it'll have stung me nearly 900 bills (not being able to out much has sort of provided it's own treatment there ;) ), and this from a guy who says you can build a real beast for £500-600 (you can of course, but I felt the need for a real bastard of a system this time.

ten times the machine you'll get from PC world for twice the cash, and it will work right.

If you can handle one of those kids puzzle balls with the holes and the different shapes to fit through them, you can build your own! (installing and getting windows to work properly is another story, one I am once again at the beginning of...SIGH)

Anyway, FAC9000 it is.

Not without dinner and a movie!

Doctor? wrote: No Boaty, machines on networks need names (or you spend your life remembering strings of numbers), and I think a machine deserves better than JHJH99r54n frankly.

At around 130 this afternoon, FAC9000 spun it's fans for the first time, I'm in full on proud dad mode

Useless for games as yet cos of sad Vid card. But when it gets the proper card next week, it's SHOWTIME!

It's the first time I bought anything but el-cheapo kit, especially the video card (200 fucking quid!!!), and I've done what I can to build in upgradability so that I don't have to start on a new one for at lest 3 or 4 years (my last one was bought in summer 04 so it did OK, still going. The previous one was autumn 02, that's the one that passed on a few weeks ago (all it's bits have gone to allow other machines to continue to live with a better quality of life....Bless). All in all, by the time I put another HD, SATA DVDRW,2GB of memory and a few small bits and bobs, it'll have stung me nearly 900 bills (not being able to out much has sort of provided it's own treatment there ;) ), and this from a guy who says you can build a real beast for £500-600 (you can of course, but I felt the need for a real bastard of a system this time.

ten times the machine you'll get from PC world for twice the cash, and it will work right.

If you can handle one of those kids puzzle balls with the holes and the different shapes to fit through them, you can build your own! (installing and getting windows to work properly is another story, one I am once again at the beginning of...SIGH)

Anyway, FAC9000 it is.

Uber-w00tness! Thrilled for ya that FAC9000 is up and runnin'.

I'll admit tho--I'm a bit beside myself to bear the name of your new computer. But yeah, heh. It was the first thing that sprung into my head. :D Heh.

Haven't decided if it's male of female yet. very sweet natured so far, it might be a girl.

Jeff......damn you, you know just what a cheap whore I truly am :(

(or is that a classy date round your way? )

Whats up doc? Y not call it ballbag ?

Doctor? wrote: Haven't decided if it's male of female yet. very sweet natured so far, it might be a girl.

Hey the name thing made sense......but deciding a "sex" of the machine is a bit scary of a thought

nahhhh

it's only a matter of whether or not I'll be yelling

"come on you bitch" or "come on you bastard"

while "booting" it ;)

As long as you keep it pg-13

Doctor? wrote: nahhhh

it's only a matter of whether or not I'll be yelling

"come on you bitch" or "come on you bastard"

while "booting" it ;)

Niiiiice!

I cracked and bought my "proper" vid card on ebay, a pound cheaper and it'll get here 2-5 days earlier, depending on if it's too big for normal post (no parcel post on Saturday and no post at all this monday).

Right now I'm downloading a new Gentoo Linux install CD, cos all the versions I have are for 32 bit. It'll be good to see the machine run in full 64bit mode (XP just isn't, and XP64 while better, is woefully incompatible with, errrm everything), as well as seeing the dual core being handled correctly by the kernel's syncronous multi-penguins system (it's really called that, and if you boot a multicore kernel on a single CPU you get told "single processor detected, Multiple penguins slaughtered"...and people wonder why I prefer it to DOS-XP LOL).

I installed gentoo on a simillar tho slightly slower system for a cow orker last summer and it terrified me. Gentoo compiles every single program and library just for your machine, on a reasonable (1Ghz, half a gig of mem) machine that can take 36 hours from blank disc to full desktop OS (still less time than it takes to beat windows into submission), but with 5600 bogomips (Linus Torvalds sarcastic cpu bench measure, since all such measures are utterly bogus, his being slihghlt more accurate by reducing the heisenberg effect by measuring how many times a second the CPU can do fuck all) and 2GB of 800MHZ Ram, it like......

Install this please Certainly (I pop off to get coffee, wondering what I'll watch on the other machine while this enormous application+any other crap it needs, gets built) (I return 4 mins later to read) OK and am suddenly stuck and stumped about what to install next.

Can't WAIT to use Beryl on it (youtube for "Beryl Vista" and sit down...I first seen it under the heading "Attn Vista, Linux is eating your luunch", after seeing the video, and installing it, it's also pissing in vista's bed, sleeping with it's girlfriend and using it's credit card at Tiffany's), as even though all other aspects are glass smooth without even registering on either the video card or processor of my old machine, it cannot quite keep full motion video going in a window while you fling the desktop around like a madman.

then when I'm all happy I'll install vista, enough to depress anyone. Installing it tripple boot, XP,Gentoo,Vista.

In honour of it's Sunshine bestowed name, it's desktop wallpaper is simply a black screen with a small factory "F" in the middle, saville would love it ;)