Your thinkpad's name?

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#61 Post by **GomJabbar** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:10 am

thePCxp wrote:I also can talk to computers (I discovered this when I was around 4th grade and I was 9 years old, I am now 16).

I named my ThinkPad Steven (but like I said, its not for network purposes).

Stan had a computer that you could talk to too. His name was HAL. HAL said once: "I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me...and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."

Kinda creepy......

NS · #62 Post by NS » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:19 am

Ghost story...

Whenever my friend, Brandon (ex member of this forum) connected his TP to the internet, he will purposely said out loud and clear: darling darling, please connect to the Internet fast so that i can play with you.

EDIT: Brandon named his T60: Sweetheart

Aroc · #63 Post by **Aroc** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:43 am

I name mine after immortals.

main machine, Thinkpad T43: highlander
desktop machine, a beast: kurgan

other systems are named fasil, nakanu, ke, and kane.

jcrkelly · #64 Post by **jcrkelly** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:25 am

I've opted for favorite beers as a naming convention for my systems.

guinness
bass
harpoon
broonale (aka newcastle)
etc.

Although the X31 deviates slightly in that it is named "half-pint".

AIX · #65 Post by **AIX** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:23 am

christopher_wolf wrote:
GomJabbar wrote:I think it would be hard to top AIX's name for his T41. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 0&start=60&

Yeah, but that's AIX; *named after an IBM UNIX OS*....So what else were you expecting?

Haha, good one

I'm not that geek - in fact, the name of the laptop is HEX

christopher_wolf · #66 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:15 pm

Discworld and Terry Pratchett...Awesomeness, I have read just about all of the Discworld books as well as have a few characters on the Discworld MUD.

He has a bunch of great quotes; example

Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for the rest of the day; set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

(I swear, most of them are more lighthearted than that one)

tekthrawn · #67 Post by **tekthrawn** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:33 pm

T23: blackhat
Z60t: whitehat

Primary Desktop: tek-xp
Secondary Desktop: slave
"Chat Server": b!tch
Linux File Server: tigr

Ashburn, VA Server: dragon
Atlanta, GA Server: tigger

All my network gear is Star Wars names.
Cisco 1700 Router: obiwan
PIX 515: sarlacc
Catalyst Switch: yoda
WRT54G Access Points: han, luke and chewie

jamess · #68 Post by **jamess** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:31 pm

x60slon

#69 Post by **daeojkim** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:58 pm

Mine are

james-t41p
james-t42
james-x24

LOL. Not too imaginative I suppose. But it helps to identify in network.

BTW. Do you identify a computer as male or female? In Spanish it's La Computadora, hence female. So shold name your computer with a female name?

Just a thought.

k2jsv · #70 Post by **k2jsv** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:22 am

A31p - HAL9000
T21 - WarDept (wife's machine hehehe)
Desktop1 - DeepThought
Desktop2 - TheNothing

#71 Post by **GomJabbar** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:39 am

k2jsv wrote:A31p - HAL9000

That's the one I'm talking about. Maybe I was too cryptic in my post. Stan of course is Stanley Kubrick.

dsigma6 · #72 Post by **dsigma6** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:18 am

ever listen to pink floyd echoes in sync with 2001: a space odyssey?

#73 Post by **GomJabbar** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:04 pm

dsigma6 wrote:ever listen to pink floyd echoes in sync with 2001: a space odyssey?

Not that I am aware of. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

pphilipko · #74 Post by **pphilipko** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:27 am

My computer name:

IBM-DA04FF27Z3B

Saysana13B · #75 Post by **Saysana13B** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:36 am

My 600e's name is Solid. My main computer is Liquid. Its from Metal Gear Solid btw, if anyone is a fan. I'm a huge fan. I really don't call them by their names actually, its just I felt like naming them one day.

My Counter-Strike name is Big Boss, sometimes Saladin. If you can recall, Sniper Wolf called Big Boss, Saladin. Saladin was someone during the Crusades that I guess was considered a hero. I'm a huge fan, like I said lol.

christopher_wolf · #76 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:03 am

Saysana13B wrote:My 600e's name is Solid. My main computer is Liquid. Its from Metal Gear Solid btw, if anyone is a fan. I'm a huge fan. I really don't call them by their names actually, its just I felt like naming them one day.

My Counter-Strike name is Big Boss, sometimes Saladin. If you can recall, Sniper Wolf called Big Boss, Saladin. Saladin was someone during the Crusades that I guess was considered a hero. I'm a huge fan, like I said lol.

Awesome; from the moment I read "Solid" my brain went "Metal Gear Solid"

Got any one of them named SniperWolf or Otacon?

(You are right about Her calling Big Boss by the name Saladin, by the way)

I think I will go and play some right now.

thinktank · #77 Post by **thinktank** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:44 pm

I used to do work with a company that had named its computers on its network after objects in the solar system, mostly Saturn's moons. That turned out to be a really good concept, especially since some of the computers were for designated tasks and shared by different people, including local files on those machines. So instead of referring to "the old Dell" or "the-machine-next-to-the-room-with-the-coffee-maker-no-the-other-one" people got used to the names; names that were "scientific" enough to be used in the presence of clients etc.

I kept the general idea for my own network at home and name my computers after space probes etc like Cassini, Apollo, Opportunity etc.
However, to my wife it's still "the main computer", the old computer, your old laptop, my old laptop, the thing next to the desk, the blinking thing...

Saysana13B · #78 Post by **Saysana13B** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:57 pm

christopher_wolf wrote: Awesome; from the moment I read "Solid" my brain went "Metal Gear Solid"

Got any one of them named SniperWolf or Otacon? (You are right about Her calling Big Boss by the name Saladin, by the way)

I think I will go and play some right now.

Ahaha nope, none named Otacon or Sniper Wolf. Like the rest of the fans, I like the main characters. I think my favorite has to be Revolver Ocelot, I loved him in MGS3. I feel for Big Boss though. I like Snake but I never played the first one all the way through because I was like 9 when it came out so I never really understood the character.

pianowizard · #79 Post by **pianowizard** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:20 pm

My X40's name is "Computer20", because it's the 20th computer that I had bought.

smugiri · #80 Post by **smugiri** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:25 pm

christopher_wolf wrote: Which makes me wonder just what kind of anatomy, classes or otherwise, you have taken and *how much of it* to instantly recall something like that to this day. Impressive.

Why remember or even go to school when you can just ask google?

christopher_wolf · #81 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:37 pm

smugiri wrote:
christopher_wolf wrote: Which makes me wonder just what kind of anatomy, classes or otherwise, you have taken and *how much of it* to instantly recall something like that to this day. Impressive.
Why remember or even go to school when you can just ask google?

Because I like to learn and use my Brain rather than grey goo that gets returned by Google.

As far as I am concerned, it will be a cold, harsh day in the last level of Hell before Doctors and other trusted professionals use something like Google or a Wiki when a patient's life is on the line.

Same goes for Engineers; would you trust somebody who just "passed" and uses Google for coming up with solutions for structures that literally *hold people's life on the line* like a bridge or a pacemaker? No, I think not. In such a case, quality, intelligence, forethought, and persistance are required in hard measure. There is a reason people go to school, study, and get educated rather than being force-fed results when there is an important decision that has to be made. The former is called "learning" and the latter is called "irresponsibility" or, in certain cases, "malpractice."

I like to call it Cult of the Amatuer and I have a particular nightmare about it, which I will relate in another story perhaps.

*seriously hopes that was a sarcastic remark*

naro · #82 Post by **naro** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:06 am

i call mine T42... hehe

used to name it 'Melvin's Mobile Warrior', but kinda lame.... just call it T42..

christopher_wolf · #83 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:09 am

That kinda makes me think of the T Series of Terminators. I wonder if anybody has named their Thinkpad "T-101," "Cyberdyne," or "Terminator" yet.

ramian · #84 Post by **ramian** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:33 am

Talking about giving movie-names, my T60 is Eleanor. Network name is a boring T602007-72A though.

dannyp · #85 Post by **dannyp** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:33 am

christopher_wolf wrote:That kinda makes me think of the T Series of Terminators. I wonder if anybody has named their Thinkpad "T-101," "Cyberdyne," or "Terminator" yet.

skynet? yoyodyne?

I named my X60s Crito.

lucas · #86 Post by **lucas** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:17 pm

mine x60s is "penelope"

dp and i for the greek

ramian · #87 Post by **ramian** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:41 pm

Is that penelope as in Penelope Pitstop or is it "pe-na-lope"? After watching Club Dread on HBO recently, I can only think of penelope as "pe-na-lope"...

lucas · #88 Post by **lucas** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:13 pm

i don't know what penelope pitstop is, but i pronounce it as:

pen-el-oh-pee

i guess to get the real deal(tm), i need to ask prometheus in my school's math dept. how to speak Πηνελοπεια.

#89 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:37 pm

Penelope Pitstop is a character from an old American saturday morning kids cartoon called "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop" where Penelope was a racecar driver and there was always this nutjob supervillian/racecar driver and his semi-incompetent pet mutt always trying to sabatoge her.

Website · #90 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:02 pm

AlphaKilo470 wrote:Penelope Pitstop is a character from an old American saturday morning kids cartoon...<snip>

You never cease to amaze me with your knowledge for things that outdate you. This show was on 1689-1971. I'm sure that there were reruns, but I don't think that I ever saw this one, and I am the definition of a couch potato.

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