What should I name my next computer?

[tr0psn4j]

Voted for Socrates but Plato sounds better.

[Casey1505]

Roc

[TruCelt]

“Screwtape” or “Nothing”

From “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis

You no longer need a good book, which he really likes, to keep him from his prayers or his work or his sleep; a column of advertisements in yesterday’s paper will do. You can make him waste his time not only in conversation he enjoys with people whom he likes, but in conversations with those he cares nothing about on subjects that bore him. You can make him do nothing at all for long periods. You can keep him up late at night, not roistering, but staring at a dead fire in a cold room. All the healthy and outgoing activities which we want him to avoid can be inhibited and *nothing *given in return, so that at last he may say, as one of my own patients said on his arrival down here, “I now see that I spent most of my life in doing *neither *what I ought *nor *what I liked”. The Christians describe the Enemy as one “without whom Nothing is strong”. And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man’s best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.

[Czarcasm]

Mike.

[Sunspace]

I named my network devices after characters from Jean Giraud’s Aedena Cycle: stel, atana, burg. The only exception is the network drive toto.

[Sunspace]

I chose something else. When I was in electronics school, I named by backup discs meningitis 01, 02, etc. How about unexpected or disconcerting names like mondotronic or yelverton?

[Terraplane]

I like to keep a running theme, so for yours I’d pick Socrates and then just keep naming them after philosophers. Plato, Nietzsche, Foucault, the list is full of names that also sound neat for a PC name.

For me, I name them after scientists. My home PC right now is Darwin and my work PC is Galileo. Before those I had Newton and Curie. My brother has a dead president theme going. I think his current PC is Eisenhower.

[Angel_of_Doubt]

Well I named my first Big Bertha, didn’t think to name the next. Now you got me thinkin…

[Geek_Mecha]

My computers and iPods have gotten S names for no real reason. The newest addition is Spiffy.

[Foggy]

I have had 2 computers and both were named PANE. The C drive has always been named **Curtains **and when we added a second hard drive to the first computer (D drive) it was named Drapes.

I bet you will never guess what OS I’m using.

[Cazzle]

My old computer was Cray. When I got it, I thought it was a super little computer.
Cray was followed by Beastie, because it was a bit of a beast.
My laptop started life as Heppy the HP, but is now Ploppy because I moved in with my SO, and his household naming theme was Blackadder characters. Blackadder is the server, Edmund is his laptop, Baldrick is his previous laptop, the MythTV box in the lounge is Bob and the one in the bedroom is Percy, the printer is George and the modem is called Nursey. My next computer will be Flashheart - woof woof!

[Little_Nemo]

I don’t name anything that won’t respond to its name. So as far as I’m concerning the only things worth naming are children and dogs.

[Cazzle]

What about deaf children and deaf dogs?

[Sunspace]

@Foggy

I have had 2 computers and both were named PANE. The C drive has always been named **Curtains **and when we added a second hard drive to the first computer (D drive) it was named Drapes.

I bet you will never guess what OS I’m using.

Unix? Running the X Window System?

[BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed]

@Kalypso

With that kind of power and beauty I’d go with a goddess name. Female for the beauty from the graphics card, but definitely a major goddess, because of the power. I christen her…Artemis.

Or Kali.

[Musicat]

Dave.

My mind is going, Dave…

[drachillix]

@EvilTOJ

My wireless network is named “Police Surveillance Van #035”

Thats got to be the most awesomely funny thing I have read in days.

[Daylate]

A few years ago, back in the Windows 98 days, my computer was named Beelzebub. This was because it always seemed to be harboring Evil Spirits.

[Musicat]

@runner pat

Multivac

Sounds like a Hoover with attachments.

[Isamu]

Chip Megawhatz