Its name is
September 12, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun
kaylee-frye.
I saw that on Planet Ubuntu people were telling the stories behind the names of their computers and I decided to follow suit. It’s an interesting meme. ^^
My almost two-year old laptop is named kaylee-frye. I named her after Kaylee Frye of the tv series Firefly. Kaylee is the cheerful mechanic of the ship Serenity. She might be a bit child-like sometimes, especially when it comes to her fascination with frilly dresses and strawberries. Kaylee is an awesome mechanic with a big heart. And so I decided that even with a geeky reference, my laptop can have such a sweet name and personality to go with it. (My laptop has some curves. At the time that it was issued, it was the only one with the curves! The other machines were too blockish.)
My old ThinkPad was named Picard, after Jean Luc Picard of Star Trek. And the aging desktop machine at home is named Figaro, after the Figaro twins of Final Fantasy. The desktop machine is a shared one hence the name. But I think that when it comes to my laptops, their names have been patterned after characters of tv shows that have a space theme. 
What’s your machine’s name? Why? I hope you’d care to share the reason here.
On my dual boot machine, the name is Curly, as in nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. On the linux side the name is Jerome… Curly’s real name… Get it? Real OS, real name… Pseudo name, for pseudo OS…
Ed
I name mine with the function they are…for example,
Pixie is my PXE server
oldlap is my old laptop
xpslap is my new xps laptop
main is my main new computer
lostgate is my gateway server
lostroute is my wireless access point
Sor for me, it’s more function and less personal. I change hardware enough and reformat enough that I don’t need to have personal ties with my equipment
My desktops and laptop were once named Melchior, Casper, and Balthasar. *cough*Eva addict*cough*
Now, Company policy dictates what this lappy is named.
Laptop = Pinguin (dutch for Penguin), an ode to penguins and not just Tux
Home server = Jackass, the african penguin, because this one gets rather warm
Sisters Desktop = Ijsbeer (dutch for polar bear), it just has stronger graphics than my laptop, polar bears look stronger than penguins, get it?
Any new computers will be named after animals that live on a pole.
Hal. He has always been Hal. I think since my first (very cheap, AU$25 make it go away) second hand mainframe which rapidly became windchimes, a chook run, and fascinating innards for kids, there has been a Hal. Probably the first usable Hal was Hal100, the Amstrad CPC6128. Each significant upgrade in hardware or software has meant a new number.
He is about Hal4500 atm. A way to go to true Hal9000;)
Others on the network currently include Tardis (the large capacity server & smaller kids Kubuntu box), Loofy (from One Piece, the traditional name for Ms nearly 14’s boxen – currently Ubuntu Netbook Remix EEE), and Going Merry, (my old TC1100 tablet formerly known as HAL3800), that is the dual boot XP/Kubuntu home of Ms so close to 16.
Friends computers I have named upon request (builder gets to name) include:
Ada, Babbage, Alexandria (for the Library), Hypatia, Holly, Deep Thought, The Earth, and the much missed Sagan.
A friend named his recent laptop aquisition Harold, as his music mixing box is Thomas, and his desktop is Richard. Its an obvious but still clever pun;)
@Ed Heh
You’re so biased against the other OS. It’s your machine so you have a say 
My sister and I settled for Figaro simply because one partition was Edgar and the other Sabine. A compromise for our favorite male characters in a game who happened to be brothers.
@devnet I think that you’re very practical in the way you named your machines and that is a good thing. It’s easier that way
@NTLE Hey hey. Eva, and the magi. Of course!;) Too bad your work laptop has been pre-assigned a name
@Jeroen Naming your machines after animals sounds really cute. How does your sister find the name? Does she like it?
@timeladay You’re so loyal to Hal!:D Sweet! And among the other machines you named, I think Alexandria is simply perfect
I named my linux machine kamineko, after a cat in Azumanga Daioh. http://azumangadaioh.tripod.com/kamineko.html No real reason, I just liked the name. My Win computer is names pufiamiyumi after the jpop group- again, just liked the name. I named one of my laptops osagnostic, since I have a dualboot on it, and the other is called Lorraine’s laptop or something like that- it came from my mom, and I never changed the name.
Hi, Karin!
That’s cute, Kamineko 
You seem to have Japanese pop culture references. Cute ^^ I would’ve named my laptop Hagu if I watched Honey and Clover earlier, I think. Or some other anime. osagnostic sounds fitting for your dual-boot machine. 
Hi Clair
I don’t know if she likes it, I don’t know if she knows it. She is the only Windows user, so..
Yes, my husband and I are quite into anime.
I loved Honey and Clover!
Being a Harry Potter fan, I found a wikipedia page that lists all of the places in the Harry Potter world. I have one machine that is called ollivanders and another that is named diagonalley. In the past, I had (and still have) a list of all of the Greek gods and such.
@Jeroen ^^; Well, there’s that. I hope she does like it somehow
She is using that machine after all.
@Karin Sounds great
I’ve been hoping to encounter Linux in anime from time to time but so far, none yet. Lemme know in case you find any 
@Jeff Why Greek gods?