My computers used to be named after chessplayers (tal, petrosian, steinitz, lasker); then I gave up on that, because it didn't suit me any more. My workstation in Earth Sciences was shimari (from Go - because my desk was in the corner), and my iMac here in Chemistry is feldspar (to remind me where I came from).
With what I do now, the new ones under my control (starting with the powerbook - birch, cause it's silver) are named after trees...
My mouse hardware on Control Panel looks completely different. I have Windows XP. I have never seen such a window. I don't what is yours. It is a good joke. I could give my computer silly names.
Because I own nukesoft.co.uk I tend to pick computer names to match. My 2 desktops are proton and neutron and the laptop is electron. The Windows workgroup is nucleus and the wireless SSID is fallout. The LAN side of my router is fission while the WAN site is fusion. Various mobile phones have been called free-radical, quark, isotope and strange.
Back in 1997 or so I had an old Pentium 166 with 32Mb of RAM and no mouse. I ran a version of NT server 4.0 on it. It ran mightily slow and was painful to use without a mouse. The machine name? "mightymouse", obviously.
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Date: 2006-11-14 05:25 pm (UTC)In answer to your question, I don't know, but my Powermac is Shuggoth, and the Powerbook is Pseudopod.
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Date: 2006-11-14 05:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-14 06:30 pm (UTC)With what I do now, the new ones under my control (starting with the powerbook - birch, cause it's silver) are named after trees...
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