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Chuck [Visitor] — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:38:59 +0000

Being a fantasy/scifi type, I tend to pull names from that genre. For the box your parts describe, I'd probably call it "balrog"... it sounds like one mean machine that could only be outmatched by a physical fall (from a bridge perhaps).

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Henk Poley [Visitor] — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:11:19 +0000

A tip I once heard was naming your computers with colours. This is especially handy if you have less computer savvy people aound. You can add little colour-markers to the screen, keyboard, etc.

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Josh Saddler [Member] — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:32:14 +0000

@kshade:

Hmm, interesting. Other than the fact that it would make it sound extremely British (:P), it's nifty. Of course, it makes my Pentium3 "Coppermine" sound much cooler than it really is. :)

@Everyone: Thanks for the thoughts so far; I've been having a good think-session or two.

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kshade [Visitor] — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:11:28 +0000

What about using the CPUs codename (and if you got more of them, the first two digits of the quantispeed rating), like Windsor46?

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kojiro [Visitor] — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:25:32 +0000

Having a lot of machines to name helps. It doesn't mean much to name your computer "Enterprise" unless you have another computer for context, such as "Alamo" and "Hertz". But don't name your computer after car rental companies, please. I only have two machines worth naming. They're called "dell" and "g3".

Prizes for originality aside, you could name your computer after famous (or your favorite) actors' and actresses' last names. A few of my favorites would be Dench, Ford, Hopkins, Stewart, Moore (Mandy, not Roger :P).

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Giacomo [Visitor] — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:20:19 +0000

I'm waiting for components too, I placed three orders in three differents shops and they're supposed to arrive on Monday. I had a 600

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robbat2 [Visitor] — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:47:53 +0000

I use the last names of Nobel price winners, and other science notables that should have gotten Nobel prizes (Newton, Tesla are the only two non-winners so far).

Not limited to the sciences either, I've got a peace prize winners as well as a literature prize winner.