Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words: I concur... ;-) The machine names I used to use were generally pretty bland; but start with a 'z': zmerch = main work machine zhome = main home machine Secondary name for my home machine: zgoon = dual Athlon MP 2600+'s, dual 3COM NIC, dual SCSI onboard, special 460W PS, 2.5G RAM, 3 HD's, CD-R, DVD-R, firewire, and prolly soon have SATA ;-) zmaggie = wife's machine zkids = kid's machine zfudge = Fujitsu laptop, hate the spelling, so... zms = If I'd ever gotten my DECstation 3100/m38 on the network with TCP/IP, that would have been it... zqms = QMS magicolor2 color laser printer zivo = my TiVo ... however ... It's getting to the point that it's easier just to remember the IP addresses (especially when I tape a label with it to the machine...) so I don't name them anymore. Oh, and I only have one 'full-time' POS (kids machine for kids games) - I usually keep a small Win2K partition for work on most of mine, but they usually spend most of their time in Linux... Wife's machine has *only* Linux, so I'm working on eliminating what I can... ;-) Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch(a)30below.com Hi! I am a .signature virus. Copy me into your .signature to join in!

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Eric Smith wrote: Well, it was as much a commentary on this seasonal thread as it is on the OS that I choose to run on my computers. My important machines run Linux, i.e. my webserver and firewall. I couldn't trust Windows to run anything without my constant supervision, and those are two functions that I do not want to have to constantly supervise. Windows is like the retarded child of the OS family. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

I name my boxxen after vodkas - Stolichnaya, Ursus, Charodei, Rain, Chopin... Ones that don't get much use generally get put down as "3100" or similar though. Network devices get their own explanatory names - gateway, ds300, router etc alex/melt

And Octarine?

My NeXT's are named by the model: Nextcube, Nextstation, etc; the Sun's are named for stars: Tau-ceti, Alpha-centuri, Mizar, etc; the Indigos have German first names: Hanz, Arnold, Franz, Werner (original owner names); The later Sgi's are named after where they originated: Lockheed, Boeing, Nortel, Disney; the Mac's are named for moons: Luna, Charon, Phobos, Triton, Io, Europa, Titan, etc; the BeBox is named BeBugs (my 4yo daughter was named it, I guess she didn't hear "box" when she asked me what it was); the others are named by model number or maker (C128D, TandySX, TandyHD, IBM-PC). J.C. Wren wrote: -- http://webpages.charter.net/jrice54/classiccomp2.html

Squant. William Donzelli aw288(a)osfn.org

On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 01:29 AM, vance(a)neurotica.com wrote: Wyborowa vodka when you can get you own? <rimshot> :^)