i know someone who names his after the planets. and zpodseven has his named after the servers on FF XI. ![]()
i only have one hard drive... i guess i'm not that cool...
i know someone who names his after the planets. and zpodseven has his named after the servers on FF XI. ![]()
i only have one hard drive... i guess i'm not that cool...
I use cartoon character names.
Pretty boring actualy.
Main system is Marvin.
Mickey and Minnie are my two laptops... Mickey is my Dell and Minnie is my iBook.
Drive names are the defaults.
120 system - Whistler (If you didnt know Whistler is XP's codename)
120 test drive - Longhorn (name changes depending on what I have running on there)
120 storage - Storage (duh)
soon gonna get a 300 external, proly gonna call it "BFSD" (big fat storage drive)
My computer's name is "Xixo3" why? cause of the dual xeon's and it being my third pc, my first was called "DeeDee" cause it was a Dell Dimention, and second was called "Penfo2", cause it had a 2Ghz P4 ![]()
My computer's name is Red (The Communist computer).
My harddrives are MINE! and MINE 2!
I guess I'm just posessive of my harddrives.
2 Physical drives with a total of 6 partitions...
AV (Audio + Visual used for video and sound editing exclusively)
Main (WinXP Pro ONLY)
Apps (also includes all my non-AV data)
Games
Temp (inc swapfile)
Downloads
My machine always used to be called Percy... cos it was a PC, but after a major rebuild I rechristened it Phoenix as it had risen from the ashes, renewed.
Ampa
USE JAPANESE NAMES!!!
They're cool...
C: = Taro
D: = Kenji
H: (U2 iPod) = Aiko (stole from a bunch of other ppl that use that name but its so kawaii I couldnt help)
mah computer is called MOTHER SHIP
the External HD is called BROKEN SPOON
mah nokia 6600 on bluetooth is called Flying Hen
& mah younger brohters pet name is SKELETOR
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I name my computers and friends with "people" names... right now my computer is Nathan Scott Philips.
I call my second drive "DEL /F/Q *.*" and when I want to access it, I go to a windows command prompt and type the name of the drive.
My small one, which I keep all of my programs and Windows on is WORK HOSS
And the larger one, used for all my media is BIG HOSS
Finally, the computer is named Eva01
Man am I cool... :cool:
My computer is: Shanta (A friend)
Hard Drive: Yeesha (Bet you can't guess where that came from
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Nokia 6630: Lyra (After one of the characters out of "His Dark Materials" Tirlogy)
and Flash Drive: again Shanta (Should really rename it)
My computer names seem to come almost always of Sci-fi books (usually frank herbert or isaac asimov). My current one is called Radiant, and the previous one was named Caladan ![]()
As for drives, then whatever comes to mind
My current drives are called Qubitar ©, Equilibrium (E), Gorgoroth (G) and Ankari (K).
I name my Storage drives after the boroughs,
C: Manhattan (120 Gig Main)
D: Queens (60 Gig Secondary)
H: Staten Island (512 mb Usb Drive)
I : Bronx (Ipod)
My Computer -> Maelstrom (When will nVidia make quiet fans?)
Old HDD -> Mini (it's only 8Gb)
New HDD -> Stupid (It kept being ignored by XP even though BIOS could find it, I've installed XP on it now and it works fine).
iPod -> Moomba Booma (After the cute little lion things from FF8)
Supra-Interesting names :
Dream's Xp
Fichiers (Files)
Jeux (126 gb partition on my serial ata drive only for GAMES !!!)
SUSEEchange (SUSE Share , when i partitionned my sata drive , i had 325 unused megs so , i partitionned it with FAT32)
Dream's Baka SuSE (for Nux , Baka because : i like this japanese work very much and because i had many problems to get it work on SuSE !)
Disket (my floppy disk , in french it's disquette)
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Does anyone know howto change 'My Bluetooth Places" name ?
C: IKIRU
D: GENZAI JIKOKU
E: RIYUU
network drive K: FOXTROT 9
network drive L: QUEBEC 0
Pocket PC: SOULDOUT
C - system (36GB raptor)
D - storage 1 (250gb WD)
E - storage 2 (250gb WD)
F - storage 3 (250gb WD)
G - unsorted (250gb WD)
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I prefer (IMHO) clever wordplay that, at least to me, describes what the drive's for without laying it out
C: Gray Matter (All program files--main windows partition)
D: Bits and Pieces (documents and settings, temp files, secondary partition)
I: Out of Body (External, backup hdd)
J: Mk II (iPod)
Computer name: Deep Thought
This thread should have been left to die. It really wasn't worth bumping...