Name a computer

luke_church

Hey,

Just to give you an impression on my sad life, I name my computers after Shakepeare characters. Generally ones that resemble them physically or in function...

So, my primary development computer (a BLACK Dell Precision, with a soul almost as black as the case), is known as HAMLET.

Likewise we have BANQUO (who got surgically engineered somewhat nastily)

PROSPERO is a (sadly-ex) mystical laptop

PUCK is a spritly little laptop

NERISSA is a virtual server who lies about her identity..

So this would all be good... However, because of various reasons, (primarily involving lack of sensible hands), I have a Tablet PC arriving soon, and I can't for the life of me find an appropiate character...

So, what would your suggestion be for a Tablet PC, kind of scibe like? It must be a charater from The Bard, it can't be any of the above.

Of for that matter, what do you name your computers?

Luke


[Can someone write a piece of software that prevents me posting to forums after 01:30... The results are a little too wierd...]

Khaos

I never have named any inanimate object I have owned, but since I build my own PC's, I guess Frankenstein's Monster would be apt.

Andy

over the years i have played prospero, banquo, macbeth and macduff.

i suggest "macduff"

"lay on, macduff!"

some of the best lines are from macbeth

"double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble!"

"a tale told by an idiot,full of sound and fury.."

"out, out damned spot!"

and who can forget macbeth's soliloquy:

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

and after macduff kills macbeth malcom becomes king of all scotland...

ahh thanks for the memories, luke!

luke_church

Khaos wrote:

I never have named any inanimate object I have owned

Ahhhh OK, I name the things to keep track of them... They're DNS names, not names for pets...

That's my excuse anyhow...

Luke

luke_church

Well Andy, you live and learn

andy wrote:

over the years i have played prospero, banquo, macbeth and macduff.

Wow Andy, I never had you down as an actor... You live and learn

i suggest "macduff"

Nice-one, certainly an option...

"a tale told by an idiot,full of sound and fury.."

signifying nothing.

ahh thanks for the memories, luke!

My pleasure Andy, it's nice to kind a fellow person who appreciates it... Next time you're over this side of the pond, do try to make it to a performance by the RSC in Stratford... Really superb..

The Globe theatre in London is also well worth a visit just for the atmosphere, and at £5 a standing ticket, can't go far wrong...

All the best,

Luke

Andy

luke_church wrote:

Wow Andy, I never had you down as an actor... You live and learn

The Globe theatre in London is also well worth a visit just for the atmosphere, and at £5 a standing ticket, can't go far wrong...

All the best,

Luke

heheh yep - i thoroughly enjoy my shakespeare, i always go to the free shakespeare in nyc's central park in the summer. and yes, the globe in london is a treat - have been there!

off you go now, to bed!

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruisèd arms hung up for monuments,
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front,
And now--instead of mounting barbèd steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries--
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasings of a lute.

Gator

How about "Katharina" (Kate) from "The Taming of the Shrew"... A lovely lady with a nasty attitude who becomes a wonderful, mate! What more could a man ask for?

ian408

luke_church wrote:

Ahhhh OK, I name the things to keep track of them... They're DNS names, not names for pets...

That's my excuse anyhow...

Luke

I say name them after places with hard to spell names. I named mine
things Hawai'ian; kahiki & kava. Or islands in the Aluetian chain; diomede.
Or mountains; everest, foraker, sthelens.

For work, I name them after places that are really hard to spell--then I
give them easy CNAMEs for me to use

Ian

DavidTO

At work we have a LOT of printers/copiers on the network. They're all named after restaurants.

Denny's
Red Lobster
etc. (don't remember most of them, for some reason the one I use has the boring name AV Printer. Blecch.

For all you Los Angelenos, there's one named Roscoe's, too, after Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles. Yummy. I like the smothered chicken.

Nikolai

Since my early NeXT days..
.. I learned to name LAN objects after JRRT...
Frodo and Rivendell, Bilbo and Bywater, Smog and Carrock, Anduin and Elendil.. You can't possibly run out of that namespace even in a pretty big LAN..:-)