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Poll: Have you named your computer(s)? Please share Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Mary Worby 
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:43
German to English
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| Dull names ... | Apr 5, 2011 |
Our computer all have very dull, functional names. My husband works as a network administrator and started out by giving all his customers' computers interesting names. For example, one had countries in Europe and another had makes of car. When the networks got bigger he started to struggle on the names to reverted to ordinary but intuitive names.
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But practical, as Mary suggests. We have main office, side office, staff laptop and Noni's laptop. That way everyone knows where they are (looking around you helps!) and where they are directing things to.
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Arianne Farah
Canada
Local time: 05:43
Member (2008)
English to French
Back in University, my desktop was "Planet Bob" (from Titan A.E. - "What are you going to name [the new planet]" / "Bob." / "Bob?" / "Yeah, I always wanted to name a planet Bob")
I had a computer the size of my palm called "Thumbelina" for obvious reasons.
My (now defunct) 10" notebook was named "Small Fry".
My 15" laptop was recently renamed from "Hot Stuff" to "Delilah" after it betrayed me and crashed catastrophically and I had to do a full system res... See more
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| Yes for my home network | Apr 5, 2011 |
With my home network populated by 5 computers of the family members, we need clear names to identify who is who.
My last computer was called FERRO (I was translating a book on ferrous materials at the time), the new one is ALUMINO (it has an aluminium casing), and my baby 10" is LITHIO (the smallest metal atom). No need to say that I am a chemist!
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David Wright
Austria
Local time: 11:43
German to English
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| Named my computer? | Apr 5, 2011 |
It was hard enough finding names for the kids, the dog and the bloody cats! We still have hens running around without any form of identification other than "the fat black one".
Mind you the computer does occasionally get adressed in the vocative, but not in terms I could print here!
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 11:43
Spanish to English
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Have probably cursed and shouted at it though... I do it with everything/body else...
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Angola
Local time: 11:43
English to French
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My favourite geek started naming not only the computers but each partition of the HDDs when he was a student. In those Simpson craze days, I managed to sort the characters out. The network became bigger when whatever Starwars (or was it Startrek) picture was released and he went for that... I still have trouble sorting out some names, so the computers each have a label and I know which partition I am allowed to use and what for.
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[Modifié le 2011... See more My favourite geek started naming not only the computers but each partition of the HDDs when he was a student. In those Simpson craze days, I managed to sort the characters out. The network became bigger when whatever Starwars (or was it Startrek) picture was released and he went for that... I still have trouble sorting out some names, so the computers each have a label and I know which partition I am allowed to use and what for.
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Nicole Schnell
United States
Local time: 02:43
English to German
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In memoriam | The entire crew | Apr 5, 2011 |
Since you have to name the machines in a network anyway, you might as well have some fun: Mr. Big, Mr. Knister, Kolosso, Ophelia, Mr. Eppenheimer, Anton a.k.a. "The Tony", Ms. Eppy, Huey and Atom. Before you call me totally silly - some of the names above came with the machines that I purchased from 1.) my Macintosh technician, and 2.) our network technician. 
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| No, I don't have any affective relationship with my comp! | Apr 5, 2011 |
Being with "him" all day long is rather a pain, I prefer naming camping-cars.
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Sara Negro
Italy
Local time: 11:43
English to Italian
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| Personally... | Apr 5, 2011 |
Though I'm Italian, I've named my PCs and laptops and hard disks and USB pen drives and NAS with the English names of Warner Brothers' Looney Toons! DD
Just to make some fun out of my work...
Ciao!
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... my sister calls hers Dell Boy.
Sorry, only Brits will appreciate that one......
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Michal Glowacki
Poland
Local time: 11:43
Member (2010)
English to Polish
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| I said no, but I lied :/ | Apr 5, 2011 |
I said no, but then it came to me that it's not true. Actually, my devices have functional names: MichLap (my laptop), MichBerry (my BB phone), MichPod (my iPod). Not very original, but personal(ish).
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Amandine Added
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:43
Member (2010)
English to French
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But i do not think that much of it as it's the first thing your computer ask from you: giving it a name.
I must also admit, that I am very bad and have the greatest pain to remember names, password, ID and so on required nowadays on a laptop..... so I kept it simple, clear and impossible to forget !
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I've had three computers so far and they all had the same name: PORSHE! I am crazy for the PORSHE 911 from 1969 and when I got my first computer and someone told me I had to name it, this was the first thing that came to my mind and I have been doing it since then, so my PORSHE (PC) has always been with me. A little crazy? Probably, but aren't we all...? Ah ah
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