More bumpf about the computer

[chrishansenhome]

I realise I've recounted more than necessary about my computer woes. Well, here's a bit more for you.

The new computer now has the Blu-ray/DVD/CD drive installed, the memory installed, and all the interior cables connected. This has been a real eyeopener for me: I haven't put a computer together (as opposed to repairing one) in years. So it's quite a bit different.

There are five fans in it (if you count the CPU fan and the fan in the power supply), and I trust they work.

The current computer seems to be stable over the short term. However, the longer it is on, the more likely it is to reboot itself. So I shut it off whenever I go away for more than a moment.

Now I will make a recovery DVD so that I can get back my account/desktop/etc. if the computer reboots at an awkward time.

When my new computer is going and working fine I'll introduce it. Or maybe "her". Should computers get a name? And should that name be male or female? Enquiring minds want to know.

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[jwg.livejournal.com]

Computers should have names.

My current iMac is Gesualdo da Venosa; Robert's is Clemens non Papa, my laptop is Josquin des Pres, my iPad is Pierre de la Rue. Ockeghem and Obrecht are still in the house, though never used.

[bigmacbear]

I have to name mine for networking purposes. Of the systems still in the house, the oldest is my black tower from a mom-and-pop shop in Rochester which I call darth; next is my first Dell media center PC, dude; my current laptop, darlene; the replacement media center, dashiell; and Gary's new laptop, dragon. (I was inspired in my thematic choice by a family of 14 children who attended my parish school, all of whose given names began with the letter D.)

I still get a kick out of the home network where all of the systems were named for the Cleaver family: ward, june, wally, beaver, and eldridge.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten that at Quantime all the Unix servers were named after islands: mull, skye, wight, noman.

Remember that "No man is an island."

They had a sense of humour over there.

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

I called my very first computer " Computress", after the name given to the computer in the Cartoon Network show "Dexter's Laboratory."

I think I will give my new Mac a name, too, very soon.