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Silly Survey Sunday: What's in a name (revisited)?
Scott has a 15-inch PowerBook named Ambrose, and I just switched from a 12-inch PowerBook to a new 15-inch 1.67Ghz PowerBook, but I haven't yet come up with a name for my new Mac. My old 12-inch was named Mein Kopf (which is German for 'my head'). Laurie once before asked what's in a name, and as we haven't done a Silly Survey Sunday in a while, I thought I'd make a Silly Survey out of it.
I put it to you dear readers: Do you name your Macs? If so, what are their names? And, finally, what should I name my new 15-inch PowerBook?
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Hee Haw said 9:05AM on 9-25-2005
12" iBook -- White Power?
I just made that up. Don't name mine.
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Reacha said 9:14AM on 9-25-2005
14" ibook 1.42ghz named - Renovatio
15" Powerbook Titanium named - Yoshinoyo , simply because i love their chicken bowl =)
what i do is that i just do nothing it comes after a while namin your mac isnt something u just do like that it takes time to give it the right name ! =)
its like with a kid u have to take a few "vitos" on it =) eventually it will come =)
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Fred Monroe said 9:21AM on 9-25-2005
12 inch Poerbook --- Emily
name yours --- Brigg
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FSFunky said 9:25AM on 9-25-2005
I've named my computers after characters from Twin Peaks. And the harddrives after locales in Twin Peaks. Hence:
PC: Se?Droolcup
C-Drive: Twin Peaks
D-Drive: The Great Northern
E-Drive: The Black Lodge
Mac mini: BOB
Drive 1: Deer Meadow
iPod mini: Little Man From Another Place
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Nicholas Seow said 9:27AM on 9-25-2005
My 12' iBook is called winter. Original, huh?
Well maybe make some japanese name up for your pb. Makes it sound oh-so-oriental.
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mikel egurra said 9:31AM on 9-25-2005
12'' pb.
the little thing is called mansinho, a portuguese word for 'the quiet one'.
i have a surfboard called sanuk, a thai word for
' That beautiful word sums up the Thai people. Sanuk, meaning fun, is apparent in everything that the Thai people do, the belief that anything worth doing, even work, should have an element of fun.
Sanuk is the Thai word for pursuit of happiness.
The word sanuk means to have a good time, to enjoy oneself and to derive pleasure and joy from something. A slang variant for the word is man", which describes the feeling one can get when munching ones favorite food.
It is almost a rule of living for Thai people that whatever they do have to be sanuk". The concept of sanuk goes beyond the having of a good laugh or a good time at a dance or a performance.
(http://thaiarc.tu.ac.th/thai/peansiri.htm#sanuk)
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Daniel Gattermann said 9:33AM on 9-25-2005
My 15'' PowerBook is named Ambrosia. I name all my hardware after female singers. So there are Fiona (Apple), Beth (Gibbons), Gwen (Stefani), Nina (Person), Joy (Denalane) and Ambrosia (Parsley).
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TheDoode said 9:34AM on 9-25-2005
I name all the systems I own on my LAN-Windows, Linux, and Mac. The Mac is named Jimmy Tock, and one of the Windows systems has been renamed to Mr. Bunghole from Mr. D Sanchez. The Gentoo server carries the name of Roland Deschain.
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Magnus Nordlander said 9:36AM on 9-25-2005
My iBook 12" is named Tin?l.
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l0ne said 9:38AM on 9-25-2005
My computer take their names from a almost-unknown manga series: I've had Nan?my iMac), Kotomi (a PC laptop), Hachi (a PC) and Amano (my iBook).
My hard drives all have tissue names: Tulle, Velvet, Silk, Cotton, Wool, Denim, Nylon and Kevlar :D
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Brandon said 9:39AM on 9-25-2005
I have been naming my computers and network equipment after Federal government installations. My PowerMac at work is The Pentagon. At home, my firewall is Secret Service, my wireless network is The West Wing, my PowerBook is Air Force One, and my iPod is Marine One.
As far as what you should name your machine, you can't go wrong naming it after famous yet obscure Apple employees. Examples include Tevanian, Ives, Rubenstein, Cook, Oppenhiemer, Shiller, Serlet, etc.
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Robin O'Neil said 9:40AM on 9-25-2005
I've never actually given any of my computers pet names. I often call them 'Computer' as in "Now Computer, if we don't start getting on I shall reprogramme you with a very large axe" and occasionally "Evil little machine".
I look after a couple of companies computers and usually go for User-Computer-Iteration naming system eg 'Robin-PB-3' or 'Kim-iMac-2'.
One company I deal with uses the extension numbers from the phone system, which sort of works from a tech support point of view as the phone system shows the extension of the person calling and you can quickly log on to the computer in question but you have to keep the phone records and the computer records up-to-date.
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Thomas said 9:45AM on 9-25-2005
My powerbook is called sydney dunno why.
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JR said 9:50AM on 9-25-2005
17" Powerbook - I call 'Digital Bitch'. Named it after a Black Sabbath song of the same name.
40gb iPod - I call 'miPod'
4gb iPod nano - I call 'helliPod'
And at work, our network system is named after characters from the Sopranos.
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Richard said 9:53AM on 9-25-2005
I named my iMac 'Omoikane'.
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JimmyJames said 9:55AM on 9-25-2005
I decided to go with the Tennessee Tuxedo theme. PB12"=mr peabody, large firewire external drive=chumley, ipod20gb=phineas j. whoopee, shuffle=tennessee and the mac mini I plan to buy this week shall be Savoir Faire.
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korvin said 10:02AM on 9-25-2005
I'm going to buy a 12 PB and I'm sure how to name it:
Meua or Bableue or MeuaBableue
just because it sound nice and it means nothing (or anything=)
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korvin said 10:07AM on 9-25-2005
I'm going to buy a 12 PB and I'm sure how to name it:
Meua or Bableue or MeuaBableue
just because it sound nice and it means nothing (or anything=)
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Chase said 10:11AM on 9-25-2005
I name all the computers on out network after greek gods.
My 12" PBook, because it is the network admin is Zeus, my external HD which houses the family's music is Poseidon, My sisters' iBooks are Hera and Artemis. The iMac in the Kitchen is Hephaestus. My iPod is Apollo. And our network is Mt. Olympus.
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Phyl said 10:16AM on 9-25-2005
14" iBook is Blondie and her backup drive is Dagwood. iPod nano is Mork. (Sorry, I just couldn't resist it.) iPod shuffle that I use for audiobooks is Asimov.
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