[GEEK]What's your network computer's nickname?

[NoJo]

Reading Dr's 'Tsunami' thread, I noticed he called the heroine by the same name as I call one of my computers -- 'KALI', the goddess of destruction.

What have you nicknamed yours? Or am I way the saddest person here?

 

[elsol]

Too many to even mention...

Usually all out of a city in Robert Jordan's WOT series.

Or biblical cities.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[NoJo]

Too many to even mention...

Usually all out of a city in Robert Jordan's WOT series.

Or biblical cities.

Sincerely,
ElSol

Thank God. You're even geekier than me, you're even afraid to name them here becuase of hackers arent you.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

yes, you're the saddest person here

I tend to call any computer "the frustration machine", but I haven't ever given one a proper name. At the place where I used to work, we had a copier named Hitler and a fax machine called Stalin.

 

[elsol]

Thank God. You're even geekier than me, you're even afraid to name them here becuase of hackers arent you.

Teehee... I'm a total geek.

I have a unix, linux, and a windows machine... soon to have a mac-mini

And yes, I think that's a necessary setup; each does different things better.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[shereads]

My Macintosh Classic was named HAL. I'll bet it was the only one, too. I wish I had kept it and turned it into a lamp or a goldfish bowl. My God, it was cool. You could hear the gears turning when it was thinking. Clack-clack-clack-clack.

The last time I was on a network I named mine Lester Burnham. The computer I use now doesn't need a name. It works alone.

 

[shereads]

What's the geekiest thing you've ever done to personalize your computer?

I had a disc called Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time that could make the keyboard sound like a typewriter, including a ding! when you hit the return key. That was some satisfying typing.

 

[NoJo]

My Macintosh Classic was named HAL. I'll bet it was the only one, too. I wish I had kept it and turned it into a lamp or a goldfish bowl. My God, it was cool. You could hear the gears turning when it was thinking. Clack-clack-clack-clack.

The last time I was on a network I named mine Lester Burnham. The computer I use now doesn't need a name. It works alone.

Apple "lent" them out to prospective customers in 1984. I was working on an orginal IBM PC at the time. I felt the winds of change. I promptly became a Mac programmer. Then I found myself backed into a Mac corner with almost no chance of contract work in 1992. Apple offered me a job in Cupertino. I didn't take it, because then as now, Silicon Valley is a cultural wasteland.

So I came crawling back to Windows 3.0. Every time I see an old Mac it reminds me of sex and drugs for some reason.

I spent a lot of time playing columns and Mac Playmate.

 

[NoJo]

What's the geekiest thing you've ever done to personalize your computer?

I had a disc called Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time that could make the keyboard sound like a typewriter, including a ding! when you hit the return key. That was some satisfying typing.

I have to tell my friend The Fat Man. He just "thought up the idea" a couple of weeks ago and urged me to write the software. We both thought it would be cool. Damn.

 

[Honey123]

Well, Joe as my computer has been giving me many problems, I have very horrible names for it...

First it starts out as "Baby" and then when it acts up...the four letter words still stay, but they usually begin with F...

 

[NoJo]

Well, Joe as my computer has been giving me many problems, I have very horrible names for it...

First it starts out as "Baby" and then when it acts up...the four letter words still stay, but they usually begin with F...

Fido?

 

[Honey123]

Fido?

ends it "K"

 

[eric shawn listo]

Asshole.

As in "Hurry up you slow minded asshole."

 

[NoJo]

Teehee... I'm a total geek.

I have a unix, linux, and a windows machine... soon to have a mac-mini

And yes, I think that's a necessary setup; each does different things better.

Sincerely,
ElSol

I have linux + windows. Mac mini is very cool. But I bet you're only going to use the Shell prompt, you geek.

 

[tolyk]

My network computer name is Sotrin, which is the world from my fantasy novel I've been working on for entirely too long.

My login name is Tolyk which is the main character's name from the same novel.

 

[NoJo]

My network computer name is Sotrin, which is the world from my fantasy novel I've been working on for entirely too long.

My login name is Tolyk which is the main character's name from the same novel.

You forgot to tell us the password.

 

[tolyk]

You forgot to tell us the password.

Password? What password??

 

[shereads]

Apple "lent" them out to prospective customers in 1984. I was working on an orginal IBM PC at the time. I felt the winds of change. I promptly became a Mac programmer. Then I found myself backed into a Mac corner with almost no chance of contract work in 1992. Apple offered me a job in Cupertino. I didn't take it, because then as now, Silicon Valley is a cultural wasteland.

So I came crawling back to Windows 3.0. Every time I see an old Mac it reminds me of sex and drugs for some reason.

I spent a lot of time playing columns and Mac Playmate.

It still ticks me off that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates couldn't come to an understanding and monopolize the personal computer market together. Every time I call for DSL service, the first thing I do is ask for a tech who knows Macs. They all say they do. Then they ask you questions like, "Have you tried right-clicking the system reveal to unlock your line bar? That's the fastest way to rebuild the codex."

Eventually, it turns out that he was trying to guide me through a series of steps equal to selecting Preferences from a pull-down menu.

But we don't find that out right away. First, I have to make the tech accept the fact that he knows even less about the Mac than I do, which must be humbling indeed. The first time I interrupt him to say "I can't right-click," there's usually a pause as if he's trying to decide the simplest way to talk me through it.

 

[shereads]

I have to tell my friend The Fat Man. He just "thought up the idea" a couple of weeks ago and urged me to write the software. We both thought it would be cool. Damn.

MP's C Waste of Time with its Desktop Pythonizer is no longer available. Reinvent it.

 

[rgraham666]

Unless it's a Mac, I usually call computers I work on FRED.

It's an acronym. Stands for Fucking Ridiculous Electronic Device.

 

[Guest]

Scatrlet.

 

[DrFreud]

I called my old desktop Brutus.
My beloved laptop is Napoleon.
The desktop at work is Vanadium but I didn't name it.

 

[elsol]

I have linux + windows. Mac mini is very cool. But I bet you're only going to use the Shell prompt, you geek.

*cough*

Well... you see... you see...

I happen to prefer the MAC color palette for porn also.

So yes... I will only use the shell prompt even for writing as I use pico to write my first and second drafts.

But Porn is another consideration.

And of course getting a computer because Porn looks better on it... just makes me more geeky.


Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[elsol]

I like - Sodom -

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[shereads]

Uncle Slappy is an underused name.