Fun with Naming Your Hardware

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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby CodeZTM » Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:48 pm

EDI: My Ipod Touch [Mass Effect 2 Reference]

Marle: My Laptop [Chrono Trigger Reference]
Normandy: My Editing Computer [Mass Effect Reference]
Chrono: My Old Rig [Now my younger brother's rig, but still retains the name]

PSP: Elizabeth [Persona Reference, and also the ONLY reason I bought the damn thing]
DS: Zero [Code Geass Reference, I was OBSESSED at the time]

I really don't name my hard drives. Perhaps I should.

External 1 : Miranda [ME2 Reference, because it's "huge" and is mostly for storage.]
External 2: Tali [ME2 Reference, because it keeps all my important work data on it]
Internal 1: Snoopy [Charlie Brown Reference. Because it KNOWS EVERYTHING]
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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby NS » Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:14 pm

Zune - Blain's Incrdible Punx Machine
External HDD - OAF (Stands for Orange as Fuck)...because the harddrive is really orange.

Never named my stuff that it doesn't ask you to name when plugged in.. Getting a laptop soon, will name that.
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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby Brad » Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:50 pm

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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby Castor Troy » Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:00 pm

Brad wrote:Bradcomp


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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby Phantasmagoriat » Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:06 pm

I admit I try to give my devices short Japanese "pet" names for consistency and organization.
Wherever possible, I try to use unique first letters, then map them as corresponding drives to keep track of everything :sweat:

ODZ - [main rig] Big 18.4" i7 Laptop (the giant from One Piece, pronounced "Odds")
YOSHI - [shared rig] Small 14" i5 Laptop (the yoshi from Super Mario Bros.)
TOBIO - [ultra portable rig] Tiny 10" atom Netbook (the real boy Astro Boy is modeled after)
ATOMO - [phone] Android HTC Dream/G1 (Japanese name for Astro Boy. He's "small but powerful")
KINO - [old rig] Small 14" AMD turion Laptop (from Kino's Journey)
iKINO - [old iPod] 60GB iPod Video (from Kino's Journey)
TENMA (T:) - [new iPod] Blue 16GB iPod Nano (girl from School Rumble with Blue hair)

MENCHI (M:) 320GB ext. desktop HDD (the dog from Excel Saga aka "the-back-up-food-supply")
HATCHI (H:) 500GB ext. desktop HDD ("Half" a terabyte)
ICHI (I:) 1TB ext. desktop HDD (means "One" terabyte)
KANTI (K:) 1TB portable HDD (robot from FLCL mistaken as God that can do anything)
RUKIA (R:) 640GB Black portable HDD (girl from Bleach with Black hair)
L (L:) 500GB White portable HDD ("L" from Death Note wears White shirts)

And my Home Network is called The_Grand_Line (obviously a huge One Piece fan...)

I have yet to name my new Fender Squier, but I'm leaning towards something like Luci/Elle/Ciel
But it might be too cliche using a variant of Lucielle from BECK, so I'm holding off on a name for now...

Note: anything above that is crossed out has moved on to a better place :( On the bright side, the devices didn't actually die. I ended up loading them full of useful information like an offline version of Wikipedia, and various encyclopedic/how-to documents, as well as some music and movies. Then I sent them off to some of my relatives in the Philippines in places that don't have internet access.
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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby godix » Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:22 pm

Way WAY back when, about the only anime I had seen were Ranma and Tenchi. I couldn't think of anything for computer names, so my main computer has always been named Washu with secondary computers named Ryoko, Ayeka, etc.

For awhile I had a theme going with HD names, various ones I've used are 'Bugger Off', 'Screw Off', 'Go Away', 'Go To Hell', 'Fuck Off' and an external named 'Crash on me, I dare you'.

The last one broke the naming trend, but at the time I was pissed that one of my drives died. When I got a replacement, I took it out of the box, set it on the ground, and smashed the dead drive with a heavy rock right in front of the new ones horrified eyes. Then I gave it a name to make sure the new drive will always remember it's fate if it fucks with me. Seems to have the desired effect so far.

My nook (ebook reader) is named 'Illiterate Bastard'
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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby Unlimited Rice » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:09 pm

I call my Macbook the "Matt"book
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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby Jadecavy » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:19 pm

I named my penis Treebeard, like the ent from lord of the rings becau-

OH, THAT HARDWARE!

My PC is named Old Rusty Because it's old and a piece of shit.
My PS3 is named Waifu because I love it.

Those are really the only two that matter enough for me to name.
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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby Moonlight Soldier » Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:07 pm

[Name]Compy - My Desktop PC, it has sexai Sailor Moon sticker by KikaiSaigono on it, and two of Doki's stickers.
MiniMoon - My netbook.
Sakura - My laptop. Has cute fansticker of Sakura from TRC on it :)
Firefly - 1TB external where all my rips/footage goes.
Yarrr - Internal 500GB drive for movies/tv I'm watchin' ... >_>
Muzak - 250GB external; all my music/amvs
MeinDisky - My 8GB thumb drive. It's purple :3
Hotaru - Internal 1TB drive. Saturn ref.
Marshmallow - My car, it's a white Pontiac Vibe. In the winter, it becomes a burnt marshmallow because of all the icky slush. Hanging from its dash is Yuki Nagato and Gingy from Shrek. Also a plethora of band/anime buttons inside.

I think my PS3 and Wii are also named Firefly >_>
And my MP3 is dubbed Piece of Crap, because it is and one of these days I will replace it.
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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby wurpess » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:00 am

Sancho-current rig (named after the Orgazmo character)
Link-1TB external (named after the video game character)
Kamina-1.5TB external (named after the TTGL character)


Then past equipment:
Bob-previous rig (named after Planet Bob from Titan A.E.)
Sousuke-500GB external that died. ;_; (named after the FMP character)
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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby dj_ultima_the_great » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:01 am

Not much naming going on here. Generically, I call my laptop and desktop "the lappy" and "the compy," but as legit names go...

Laptop - International Computational Device (brother bought it for me for study abroad and named it that). After the OS had to be re-installed, he re-named it Jennifer's Fireball of Doom.
Desktop - I was in a hurry and named it the first thing that came to mind, which was The Portal Device.
.mp3 player - no real name, but sometimes affectionately called Sparky because of static electricity building up in the winter and causing my earbuds to shock the insides of my ears.


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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby Infinity Squared » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:10 am

Chi - oldest laptop
Freya - external drive that used to be dedicated only to Chi (get it? Chobits? XD)
Yuki - main PC
Yuzuki - external drive that serves everything
Asakura - my Nokia 6110 Navigator
KOS-MOS - my Nokia E72

All of them are basically named after robotic or computer like anime characters. The only thing one that broke the pattern is my latest external drive which is GN Drive. I should rename it Veda... :P
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Re: Fun with Naming Your Hardware

Postby Fall_Child42 » Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:51 am

My main computer has a MSPA theme going on. I have three hard drives
Ace Dick
Pickle Inspector
and problem sleuth

But pickle inspector died, so now I have Future pickle inspector.

My Ipods (dead) was named codemonkey
my new working one is called Triceripod (thanks to Ileia)
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