Your thinkpad's name?

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Manarius · #121 Post by **Manarius** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:12 pm

tomh009 wrote:Romanus eunt domum, IIRC ...

One of my favourite movies ever!

Romanes eunt domum.

3rd decl. pl, Third Person pl, 2nd dec sing. acc.

#122 Post by **tomh009** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:21 pm

I knew I should have taken Latin in high school!

#123 Post by **gator** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:17 am

Oh Man, that Monty Python film is one the funniest I have watched. With surreallistic, absurd situations only describable by the word 'Pythonesque' at so many levels, that film is one of the best pythons things did (Holy Grail notwithstanding).

"Romanes eunt domus? People called Romanes they go the house?"

Wait, you guys are talking about this right?

JHEM · #124 Post by **JHEM** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:23 am

Salve Tom,

tomh009 wrote:Romanus eunt domum, IIRC ...

One of my favourite movies ever!

"People called Romanes they go the house?"

As someone who suffered through several years of Latin at the hands of tyrannical Nuns and Jesuits during my school years, John Cleese giving Graham Chapman a lesson in Latin grammar at swordpoint seldom fails to reduce me to tears of laughter.

The correct phrase is, of course, Romani ite domum!

James

JHEM · #125 Post by **JHEM** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:29 am

gator wrote:Wait, you guys are talking about this right?

The Spirit of X21 · #126 Post by **The Spirit of X21** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:32 am

My own contribution (already in my sig but my collection may change:

T40 - "Blackhawk"
X23 - "Raven"
My ol' X21 (tear) - "Blackbird"

Odd that I chose a birds theme. . .

#127 Post by **gator** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:48 am

The Spirit of X21 wrote:Odd that I chose a birds theme. . .

Not surprisingly, all those birds are black

Temetka · #128 Post by **Temetka** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:57 am

Tower #1: Stormfront
SFF #1: Wavefront
T41P: Padling

It's a thinkpad, and it's smaller than the other machines. So pad + ling(small) = padling.

andyP · #129 Post by **andyP** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:07 am

x3400 Server "Freddy" - after an ex-colleague who's surname is Kruger.
TP 600 2645-5FG "BlackBox" - I know, someone else has mentioned the name
TP T23 2647-9LG "TheMachine" - there was nothing better on the market
TP T43p (in sig) "TheMachineII" - 'cos it didn't give the T23 with the same components

No prizes guessing what the next one will be called

noetus · #130 Post by **noetus** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:57 am

I use names for the network identifier and for the various hard disk drives I have (internal and external). I seem to go through a lot of them - currently I have network IDs that are Scottish islands (Harris, Rona) and HDD names that are Russian dogs that went into space:

Laika
Albina
Lisichka
Belka
Strelka
Pchelka
Mushka
Krasavka
Chernushka
Zvezdochka
Veterok

At one time I once had a string if names I used for HDDs and my laptop IDs that were all mythical horses. The only piece of hardware left from that era still running/attached to my system is Embarr, and sadly that's due to go very soon....

molson3530 · #131 Post by **molson3530** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:33 pm

My T60p is named Lappy486

#132 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:36 pm

My desktop is Corpy NT6. Now if you'll excuse me I need to get back to tazzerin' those gnomes... ... I mean upgrading the taser in the gnome.. er.. server.

http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail169.html

solitude · #133 Post by **solitude** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:33 pm

My server: Stephanie
Dell 6400: Vivienne
IBM X31: Amy

This can lead to some weird convos with my gilfriend.

vanaya · #134 Post by **vanaya** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:57 pm

Wireless network is "Watch Tower" as in the Justice League cartoon.
R40 - Batman Mine
T21 - WonderWomen Wife's
600e - Zatanna My backup
600e - Hawkgirl Cousin's that I service.
600e - Martian Man for my dad
600e - Apache Chief Oldest brother's
Sony Vaio - Flash Older brother's

DavidNY · #135 Post by **DavidNY** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:18 pm

I used to name my thinkpads after me and the numbers in the model ("David365", "David23"), but then I bought two T60s so I opted for Sun and Moon. My NAS is named Venus and my flash drive is Mercury.

I'll be getting an X60T very soon

(I'm spending the weekend figuring out exactly which config) so I might replace the second T60's name so I can reuse 'moon'...

Utwig · #136 Post by **Utwig** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:56 am

I name computers after icecream flavours:
Vanilla (desktop)
Chocolate (main desktop)
Strawberry (T42p)
Cherry (A21p)
Stracciatella (file, printserver)
Tropicana (download VM)

#137 Post by **schen** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:41 pm

In the last few years, I've gone through computers too fast to name them so I just use the model as their network IDs. My desktop has a name that's been passed down from when I owned an IBM Aptiva S9C. They called them Stealth so that's what I used. So now, my current desktop is Stealth 5 since it's the fourth machine since the original.

Stealth 5- P233> PIII/733> PIII/933> P4/1.7> Athlon XP/2500

Does anyone name their cars? I've ownly named one: when I had a BMW M5, it's name was Heinz (for Heinz Guderian- father of the German Blitzkrieg).

Ancient · #138 Post by **Ancient** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:43 am

I originaly called my t42p "Fireglumi" due to the fact that back then i was a bit obsessed with pokemons and charmander in german is glumanda.

So since the t42p had a fire gl 2 i simply named it "Fireglumi" (yeah sad i know). After i reformated it a year ago i renamed it to "Ancient force" since my screen name is ancient. And more recently after upgrading to Vista i called it "Ancient force vista"

Im currently thinking about names for my new t61p as soon as it is released. I have recently picked up the habbit of naming my machines after game characters (my server is named Spyro).
Not sure how to call the t61p yet tough.

Need to start thinking.

Regards Ancient.

ChuckB · #139 Post by **ChuckB** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:30 pm

"Thinkerbelle." Waaay back in the 80s that's what we named our System/34. Before Thinkpads.

Giovanni · #140 Post by **Giovanni** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:02 pm

Dell Dimension 4600: xanatos
T60p: owen

abu_sme · #141 Post by **abu_sme** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:49 pm

I just refer to it as "L. Black"

L for lenovo, but most of my co-workers still think it is IBM since it has the ever confusing IBM Thinkpad still emblazened on the top and palm rest.

Tholek · #142 Post by **Tholek** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:01 am

Haven't got mine in my arms yet, so it's still "Expecting".

zappb · #143 Post by **zappb** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:31 am

freddy
tool
shanghai
and presence

elite-elitist · #144 Post by **elite-elitist** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:52 pm

I called my R40 "The Dirty Snake."

Terrahawk · #145 Post by **Terrahawk** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:46 pm

I don't have a anme for my R40 apart from "Thinkpad" on the network but I have been known to refer to it as "Darth" or "Darth Laptop" in the company of people with lighter coloured laptops.

My X20 however, is often called Mini-Me.

lightweight · #146 Post by **lightweight** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:30 pm

X22:

Code: Select all

io@lightweight ~ $ uname -a
Linux lightweight 2.6.22-1-custom SMP Wed Jul 11 03:52:02 UTC 2007 custom GNU/Linux

... aka the square headed girlfriend.

Elwyn · #147 Post by **Elwyn** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:20 am

My computers all use the photography theme, as that is one of my hobbies.

For example:

Canon = Webserver
Konica = PC on Windows
Minolta = Same PC but on Linux

Kodak, Hasselblad, Leica, Nikon, Fuji have all been used for computers I have built up or reinstalled for close friends or family.

My laptop, a Thinkpad x30 is called Agfa

apbudha · #148 Post by **apbudha** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:14 pm

The x31 I had for over 3 years and the x61s I had for 2 weeks were both named smallfry, because so small compared to the T21s I had and my gf's T40.

My current Gateway ML6720 is just <username>-PC, but I love bigger screen, good keyboard, sturdiness, and lack of flex compared to the Acer I had, even though it is 1lb more.

ippirate · #149 Post by **ippirate** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:41 pm

balmer

GIFF · #150 Post by **GIFF** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:02 am

Back when I used to warDrive a lot I would name my box "error" just in the off chance some idiot would think it was an actually error and dismiss it as nothing. Never thought it would really deter anybody but I had to name it something so why not?

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