Brian Mahoney writes,
What does everyone name their hard drives and/or computers on your
network? I figure with the creative crowd here in Powerbooks there might
be some pretty neat names for drives/computers out there. Mine have names
such as Waldo, Dude, Bubba, Buddy, Bedmac, Kathjam, and, my favorite,
Bobomb (from the Mario games). Any cool ones in the ether?>
I'm glad to hear this, I thought I was the only one who did this kind of
thing! I do it with both my G3 and my PB 190. (OT note to those who
recently told me my PB needs surgery and what kind): I checked with my
boyfriend, sharing your info, he knows how, and he's agreed to do it).
Anyway -- I don't have a network (nor do I use names like the ones you
mentioned), but concerning my hard drives and the "primary use" folders I
keep on the desktops, I have a Star Trek theme going on my Powerbook, and
a biology theme on the G3.
Powerbook first, of course:
HDD Name: "Main Computer Core"
Applications Folder: "Operations"
Documents Folder: "Holosuites" (I write sci fi fantasy, so what I keep in
here are my novels, current WIP and "reference materials" like story
outlines, alien language glossaries/genealogy, etc).
Internet Folder: "Subspace Comm"
The biology themed G3 presently has 3 HDDs on it (soon to be just one: a
bigger one, and one that's not on its last legs):
HDD #1: Nucleus
HDD#2: Nucleolus
HDD #3: Plasmid
Right now I'm confined to Nucleolus (Nucleus and Plasmid are known bad).
Nucleolus is beginning to show signs of dying, so I know its days are
numbered. Anyway, when I get the new HDD, that will become the new
Nucleus. I keep two primary use folders on the G3's desktop, and in
keeping with the theme they are:
1. Translation -- this contains all of my applications. The Internet apps
are in a separate internal folder called tRNA ("transfer RNA)." In my
mind, the apps, since I use them to create new or work with existing
data, are "equivalent" to the ribosomes in a cell which "translate" the
nucleotides of transfer RNA into strings of amino acids (proteins) that
in a living organism define and enable life function (a.k.a. "gene
expression") -- on my computer, data is the "gene expression." Hence the
name of this folder.
2. Transcription -- this contains all of my data (keeping in theme, the
result of "translation" is "transcription"). Inside here are the folders
"mRNA" (messenger RNA) which is for general correspondence, stationery
designs, lists and anything else I want to print out with the exception
of job-related. "Motility," (job related only: resume, references, etc.)
and "Recombinant DNA." My novels/WIP/reference materials, pictures people
email me and variously organized "miscellany" reside in the Recombinant
folder.
I don't have custom icons for the HDD or desktop folders of the Powerbook
(haven't been able to find any Trek icons I like), but at least I have a
star pattern on the PB's desktop. As to the G3, I have rat icons (a
sub-theme: I love rats). I use one kind of rat on the HDDs, another for
the folders, to differentiate them from the HDDs. On the G3, I also have
biohazard symbols (black w/orange background one on startup, a several
shades of violet one for the desktop).
The only thing I'm conventional about in my computer name system is the
backup system: my Zip disks are simply named "Backup #1, Backup #2" and
so on. Hmmmm. I just got an idea...Mitosis #1, Mitosis #2.... hey!! :-) I
just might do that!
~Yersinia.
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