Name my New Computer

lightcrystal · Post by **lightcrystal** » August 1st, 2023, 6:56 pm

A few days ago my new computer arrived. He, she or it is a strong, silent type. Right now I am typing with it. By what name will this computer be known?

Ninja? Bill ? [after the person who made it for me.] Tux Esq? All Monty Python references welcome.

Winnifred · Post by **Winnifred** » August 1st, 2023, 8:54 pm

lightcrystal wrote: ↑August 1st, 2023, 6:56 pm A few days ago my new computer arrived. He, she or it is a strong, silent type. Right now I am typing with it. By what name will this computer be known?

Ninja? Bill ? [after the person who made it for me.] Tux Esq? All Monty Python references welcome.

Ni!

lightcrystal · Post by **lightcrystal** » August 1st, 2023, 9:15 pm

Winnifred wrote: ↑August 1st, 2023, 8:54 pm
lightcrystal wrote: ↑August 1st, 2023, 6:56 pm A few days ago my new computer arrived. He, she or it is a strong, silent type. Right now I am typing with it. By what name will this computer be known?

Ninja? Bill ? [after the person who made it for me.] Tux Esq? All Monty Python references welcome.

Ni!

Sadly my computer would need the holy hand grenade to be so named.

Penumbra · Post by **Penumbra** » August 2nd, 2023, 8:12 am

How about Ned, as in Ned Ludd, the man for whom luddites are named?
If that feels too much like tempting fate, then Indy (Indiana Jones) or Gary (Gary Cooper), both strong silent types.
Or, taking a different tack, Nirvana, which is a state of perfect happiness. Or Utopia. Either would be fine until it quits working. Then you might be tempted to revisit Ned.

lightcrystal · Post by **lightcrystal** » August 2nd, 2023, 4:25 pm

Penumbra wrote: ↑August 2nd, 2023, 8:12 am How about Ned, as in Ned Ludd, the man for whom luddites are named?
If that feels too much like tempting fate, then Indy (Indiana Jones) or Gary (Gary Cooper), both strong silent types.
Or, taking a different tack, Nirvana, which is a state of perfect happiness. Or Utopia. Either would be fine until it quits working. Then you might be tempted to revisit Ned.

Hmmm. Ned would in my sunburnt country be outlaw Ned Kelly. Nirvana? My computer might not feel like teen spirit.

GettingTooOld · Post by **GettingTooOld** » August 2nd, 2023, 5:40 pm

Code: Select all

 pong
 fedora_the_explorer
 hanging_with_my_gnomies
 HeyYouNotYouYou
 RootinTootinPutin
 serial_killer
 2b | !2b
 Ctrl Alt Defeat

It might be easier to suggest if you mention which Distro it users, some are specialised like https://ponyos.org/ or Suicide Linux, which interprets any spelling mistake at the command line as a command to format the hard drive, destroying the computer.

lightcrystal · Post by **lightcrystal** » August 2nd, 2023, 5:48 pm

Ubuntu Studio

GettingTooOld · Post by **GettingTooOld** » August 2nd, 2023, 11:20 pm

lightcrystal wrote: ↑August 2nd, 2023, 5:48 pm Ubuntu Studio

U bet u need the ubuntu studio. hey, I just worked that one out. But it's not a funny name...
still it fits a lot of sentences. U bet u need the ubuntu. Some times U desire inspiring OS's
cant think of anything funny tho

commonsparrow3 · Post by **commonsparrow3** » August 3rd, 2023, 6:52 pm

All my computers have had names. The first one was a decade-old castoff from a relative. My dad named her Bessie, because he said she was "a slow old cow". Her successor, a few years later, was Matilda, aka "Waltzing Matilda", because compared to Bessie she waltzed very gracefully and nimbly. The third one was Minnie, from "mini", because she was the first one with a CPU that fit on the desk, under a slim flat monitor, instead of being a big hunking CPU on the floor, with a big TV-set-size monitor. The most recent present-day one is Miranda, a recycled office computer turned loose from my boss's workplace, a very businesslike efficient computer, pictured in my imagination as somewhat secretarial, with hair in a bun and no nonsense about her. I have no idea why all my computers ended up with female names, that's just how it seemed to turn out. If I had a "strong silent type" computer, I think I might name her either Gertrude or Hilda.

Post by **redrun** » August 3rd, 2023, 7:18 pm

Now that's a naming style I like!
The first computer I thought to name was Leroy. Leroy was given by a business to a school when they upgraded their other systems, and by the school to me a few years later. Leroy was a good ol' tower, apart from an occasional reluctance to give me back my CDs. I once said, "spit it out, Leroy!" as I pushed the eject button with a paperclip, and "Leroy" it was, ever after.

You could name it for a famous audio engineer (this covers many generic names, like "Pete").
For a more butler-y style, Cogsworth, Beauford, or Smithers.
I'm also amused by MrTea - referencing, of course, the fellow who "pities the fool", but also John Cleese as "Mr. Teabag."

commonsparrow3 · Post by **commonsparrow3** » August 3rd, 2023, 7:44 pm

redrun wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2023, 7:18 pmLeroy was a good ol' tower, apart from an occasional reluctance to give me back my CDs. I once said, "spit it out, Leroy!" as I pushed the eject button with a paperclip, and "Leroy" it was, ever after.

This made me laugh! "Spit it out, Leroy!"

loon · Post by **loon** » August 8th, 2023, 8:15 pm

For many years computers in my household have had names of Martians from books / movies / TV. Sometimes the name had some relationship with the computer or its function - grumpy od' marvin (Bugs Bunny) was the house firewall, quato (Total Recall) had the first dual core / two brained CPU I owned, etc. Others were just names from here or there - deimos and phobos, of course, but also spike (Cowboy Bebop), tessa (Free Mars underground in Babylon 5), watney (The Martian) and several from various Barsoom books, but never a john or a carter; he was from Virginia.

A silent computer? Perhaps name 'him' after a mime? marceau? teller?