Whats your PCs Name

I always call my PC FairDoos no matter what other cool names are out there ;) I called my mums laptop Slugs&Cheese because its slow and it had an annoying virus that came up every now and then displaying that our 'cheese was out of date update now' hahaha
 
DEANMACHINE10 (Slackware file/web server), DEANMACHINE11 (windows 7 PC), DEANMACHINE9B (laptop in sig) and MASSENGILL (Parent's Vaio) - I started out w/ deanmachine001 several years ago - '04 or '05... Eventually I'm thinking of buying DeanMachines.com and building/selling custom-made, custom-environment computers and devices - like for certain sorts of jobs where the computer needs to be protected or built in a certain way... I dunno, just things I think about - don't think there's much money in building regular old desktops these days...
 
deanj20 said:
DEANMACHINE10 (Slackware file/web server), DEANMACHINE11 (windows 7 PC), DEANMACHINE9B (laptop in sig) and MASSENGILL (Parent's Vaio) - I started out w/ deanmachine001 several years ago - '04 or '05... Eventually I'm thinking of buying DeanMachines.com and building/selling custom-made, custom-environment computers and devices - like for certain sorts of jobs where the computer needs to be protected or built in a certain way... I dunno, just things I think about - don't think there's much money in building regular old desktops these days...
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hmm, is your name by any chance "dean"? :P
 
Chernobyl:
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Aastii said:
Declan-PC

I have never named them, never thought to
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the only reason to name them is to run DNS and do any network services over DNS

so for example when I want to connect to my HTPC from my windows box I can just do this

\\htpc\movies or \\htpc\music

and then mount that share on my machines, naming conventions also make it easier to organize.
 
tlarkin said:
the only reason to name them is to run DNS and do any network services over DNS

so for example when I want to connect to my HTPC from my windows box I can just do this

\\htpc\movies or \\htpc\music

and then mount that share on my machines, naming conventions also make it easier to organize.
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Well I eventually plan on building a system for a different purpose, then I could see the point in it, but as we only have 4 systems in the house, 1 per person, they are just named after the user:

Declan-PC
Justin-PC
Sarah-PC
Lotte-PC

So pretty easy to remember them on the current network, but once I've got another system or two up, then you can't really have Declan 1, 2 and 3, that would start getting confusing :P
 
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Aastii said:
Well I eventually plan on building a system for a different purpose, then I could see the point in it, but as we only have 4 systems in the house, 1 per person, they are just named after the user:

Declan-PC
Justin-PC
Sarah-PC
Justin-PC

So pretty easy to remember them on the current network, but once I've got another system or two up, then you can't really have Declan 1, 2 and 3, that would start getting confusing :P
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yeah I have a Linux box HTPC, a dual G5, a macbook Pro, a Mac mini, and a gaming PC, so I name them all something since they are all networked and talk to each other.
 
Hah, looking at my router's stats right now, we have the following on the network:

CAPSLOCKFTW
home-873ebbf6f9 (???)
David-PC
CHARLIE!!
Charles
[blank] (the xbox, maybe?)
onewing3dang3l
MarieAntoinette
GeorgeLucas

There's nobody here named Charlie or Charles...
 
Drenlin said:
Hah, looking at my router's stats right now, we have the following on the network:

CAPSLOCKFTW
home-873ebbf6f9 (???)
David-PC
CHARLIE!!
Charles
[blank] (the xbox, maybe?)
onewing3dang3l
MarieAntoinette
GeorgeLucas

There's nobody here named Charlie or Charles...
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:good: awesome.
 
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