One is that since the very beginning of my computer use, or at least over a decade I think, I've used F1 for calling forth my main web browser. And F9 for my email app. (Which has been Eudora for almost as long.)
Another one is naming my Hard Disks with names beginning with HD:
My systems at home are named after spaceships. Enterprise, Discovery, Voyager, DS9(space station). My cellphone's network ID is Liberator (Blakes7) and my car PC will be Serentity (Firefly).
ReplyDeleteIt seems there is a tradition in the UK to name UNIX systems after characters in Magic Roundabout.
How about spaceship names from Iain Banks' Culture novels?
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"Just Read The Instructions"
"Xenophobe"
"Unacceptable Behaviour"
"Of Course I still love you"
Cool spaceship names. I think I have a few others to get through. Oh I forgot, one machine was Nostromo...
ReplyDeleteI want Valley Forge and Beagle too
Howdie-Doodie, y'all! Hello Dere, Honey-Dear.
ReplyDeleteHot Damn! Those Hard Disk names are, like, Heavenly, Dude! How Does He Do it???
Highly Dusty drives store poorly in High Density.
Think fast, now. Hey! Duck! :-)
"Holy Digital Hovering Data, Batman, is this a flying saucer I see?"
"Now, see here, pilgrim. Unless you leave town tomorrow, we duel at High Dawn."
PLease excuse me, Ma's calling me to eat her Home Dinner.
So, Hasta Dentista, baby.
Thank you very much. I needed some fresh inspiration.
ReplyDeleteActually a new hard disk arrived 120 seconds ago. Really. You wouldn't think I'd need a fourth, would you? Well, long story.
Excuse my ignorance, but do Mac's support redundant striped RAID arrays? Then you could justify half a dozen, and get your system backed up too!
ReplyDeleteYes, they do support RAID and mirrors and that sort of stuff. It's a Unix system, so pretty much all of it is possible.
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