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  Speaking of disk and other names Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-01-21 14:02 -0700
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-01-21 13:16 -0800
      Re: Speaking of disk and other names Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-01-21 16:25 -0700
        Re: Speaking of disk and other names Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-01-21 18:19 -0800
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2015-01-21 21:22 -0600
      Re: Speaking of disk and other names "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-01-24 02:28 +0000
        Re: Speaking of disk and other names Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-24 18:40 +1300
          Re: Speaking of disk and other names Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2015-01-25 08:14 +0100
            Re: Speaking of disk and other names Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-26 09:39 +1300
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-22 06:26 -0800
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2015-01-22 09:51 -0500
      Re: Speaking of disk and other names Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-22 08:01 -0800
      Re: Speaking of disk and other names Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-01-22 10:53 -0700
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 12:20 -0500
      Re: Speaking of disk and other names Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-22 17:36 +0000
      Re: Speaking of disk and other names Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-01-22 17:45 +0000
        Re: Speaking of disk and other names Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 15:04 -0500

#68615 — Speaking of disk and other names

My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".

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#68624

On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:02:37 -0700
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".

I guess you won't be surprised when you can't find your backup disk




 

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#68630

In article <m9p540$59c$2@dont-email.me>, Electric Comet
<electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:02:37 -0700
> Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> 
> > backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".
> 
> I guess you won't be surprised when you can't find your backup disk

She's always there when she's needed.

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#68641

On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:25:19 -0700
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
 
> She's always there when she's needed.

Ha, true. Perfect!

I do recall (incorrectly?) she ran off when others thought she was
needed. But I guess she truly knows when.







 

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#68644

On 2015-01-21 21:02:37 +0000, Michelle Steiner said:

> My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
> backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".

And my computer has seven accounts, Adventures, Encounters, Endeavors, 
Escapades, Exasperations, Explorations, and TaliesinSoft, the first one 
being my regular user account and the last one my administrative 
account.

In addition to the built in iMac disk, I have four external drives, one 
containing three partitions, Cowboy, Campfire, and Sunset, another also 
containing three partitions, Midnight, Sunrise, and Sunset, and two 
single partition externals, Ascension and Descension. Two of the 
partitions are for nightly SuperDuper! backups, and two are for Time 
Machine backups. The remaining partitions are for special storage.

And, yes, I have no problems keeping it all straight!    :-)

-- 
James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas

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#68837

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:22:09 UTC, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com>
wrote:

> On 2015-01-21 21:02:37 +0000, Michelle Steiner said:
> 
> > My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
> > backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".
> 
> And my computer has seven accounts, Adventures, Encounters, Endeavors, 
> Escapades, Exasperations, Explorations, and TaliesinSoft, the first one 
> being my regular user account and the last one my administrative 
> account.
> 
> In addition to the built in iMac disk, I have four external drives, one 
> containing three partitions, Cowboy, Campfire, and Sunset, another also 
> containing three partitions, Midnight, Sunrise, and Sunset, and two 
> single partition externals, Ascension and Descension. Two of the 
> partitions are for nightly SuperDuper! backups, and two are for Time 
> Machine backups. The remaining partitions are for special storage.
> 
> And, yes, I have no problems keeping it all straight!    :-)
 
I'm not nearly so imaginative in naming drives, but I don't want nor
have a problem remembering which is which. The drive in my iMac is 
named "System". The 4 TB Firewire drive is named "Time Machine". The
two USB drives that are used for alternating clone backups are named
"Superduper" and "Dupersuper". And there is one extra USB drive with
three partitions: "Snow Leopard", "SL Time Machine" (yeah, I know, 
don't bug me), and "Archive". That last drive is almost never 
powered up.

The LAN is a little more interesting. My main iMac is "Gandalf". My 
wife's Macbook Pro is "Arwen". The old 17" iMac running 10.6.8 down 
in the dark, dank basement utility room is "Gimli". Gimli is 
connected by a short ethernet cable to the Verizon-supplied router 
named "Gollum". Wi-fi is turned off on Gollum. In the garage at the 
end of a 25-foot ethernet cable is the Airport Extreme, "Shadowfax".
The Airport Express range extender is "Treebeard", and the iPad is 
"Aragorn". The names are all mnemonic in one way or another.

-- 
John Varela

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#68850

In article <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-ZiRzB9cROw9d@localhost>, John Varela
<newlamps@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:22:09 UTC, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com>
> wrote:
> > On 2015-01-21 21:02:37 +0000, Michelle Steiner said:
> > 
> > > My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
> > > backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".
> > 
> > And my computer has seven accounts, Adventures, Encounters, Endeavors, 
> > Escapades, Exasperations, Explorations, and TaliesinSoft, the first one 
> > being my regular user account and the last one my administrative 
> > account.
> > 
> > In addition to the built in iMac disk, I have four external drives, one 
> > containing three partitions, Cowboy, Campfire, and Sunset, another also 
> > containing three partitions, Midnight, Sunrise, and Sunset, and two 
> > single partition externals, Ascension and Descension. Two of the 
> > partitions are for nightly SuperDuper! backups, and two are for Time 
> > Machine backups. The remaining partitions are for special storage.
> > 
> > And, yes, I have no problems keeping it all straight!    :-)
>  
> I'm not nearly so imaginative in naming drives, but I don't want nor
> have a problem remembering which is which. The drive in my iMac is 
> named "System". The 4 TB Firewire drive is named "Time Machine". The
> two USB drives that are used for alternating clone backups are named
> "Superduper" and "Dupersuper". And there is one extra USB drive with
> three partitions: "Snow Leopard", "SL Time Machine" (yeah, I know, 
> don't bug me), and "Archive". That last drive is almost never 
> powered up.
> 
> The LAN is a little more interesting. My main iMac is "Gandalf". My 
> wife's Macbook Pro is "Arwen". The old 17" iMac running 10.6.8 down 
> in the dark, dank basement utility room is "Gimli". Gimli is 
> connected by a short ethernet cable to the Verizon-supplied router 
> named "Gollum". Wi-fi is turned off on Gollum. In the garage at the 
> end of a 25-foot ethernet cable is the Airport Extreme, "Shadowfax".
> The Airport Express range extender is "Treebeard", and the iPad is 
> "Aragorn". The names are all mnemonic in one way or another.

The names of my hard drives / partitions are very simple:

   - "Mac OS X" for the system disc and OS X applications
   - "PowerMac G3 266" for the OS 9 system and applications
   - "Storage" for downloads, 'play' files, etc.
   - and another one with my business name for work files

Then there's three of USB sticks - two uses to backup my work files
(business name with "Backup" appended) and one used to transfer files
to other locations (an Imation Nano called "Nano").

Plus the G4 MacBook with it's hard drive called "MacBook G4".

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#68927

Salut Your Name

In article <240120151840407606%YourName@YourISP.com>,
 Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> Plus the G4 MacBook with it's hard drive called "MacBook G4".

maybe you should think about changing that name, as there is no Apple 
computer called MacBook (Pro) with a G4 processor.
It's either an iBook, PowerBook with G4 processor or a MacBook (Pro) 
with Intel processor(s).

Cheers
Andreas

-- 
MacAndreas Rutishauser, <http://www.MacAndreas.ch> 
EDV-Dienstleistungen, Hard- und Software, Internet und Netzwerk
Beratung, Unterstuetzung und Schulung
<mailto:andreas@MacAndreas.ch>, Fon: 044 / 721 36 47

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#68959

In article <andreas-490F22.08143125012015@news.individual.de>, Andreas
Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> wrote:
> In article <240120151840407606%YourName@YourISP.com>,
>  Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Plus the G4 MacBook with it's hard drive called "MacBook G4".
> 
> maybe you should think about changing that name, as there is no Apple 
> computer called MacBook (Pro) with a G4 processor.
> It's either an iBook, PowerBook with G4 processor or a MacBook (Pro) 
> with Intel processor(s).

Sorry, I did mean iBook. I had been checking prices of various MacBook
Air and Pro models for a customer and simply typed the same name here
by mistake.

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#68659

On 1/21/2015 1:02 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
> backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".

I don't use special names like that when I have too many. Heh. I used to 
use ant themed names.
-- 
"He was a musical ant. He was there for the song." --Rick (Rick Moranis 
episode from The Muppets)
    /\___/\         Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site)
   / /\ /\ \                Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net
  | |o   o| |
     \ _ /        If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link.
      ( )         If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed.
Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer.

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#68661

In article <210120151402378353%michelle@michelle.org>, Michelle Steiner
<michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
> backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".


I feel so old-fashioned.

My main disk is called MacintoshHD, and my backup disks are called
TimeMachine and SuperDuper.

-- 
m-m
http://www.mhmyers.com

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#68666

On 1/22/2015 6:51 AM, M-M wrote:
> In article <210120151402378353%michelle@michelle.org>, Michelle Steiner
> <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>
>> My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
>> backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".
>
>
> I feel so old-fashioned.
>
> My main disk is called MacintoshHD, and my backup disks are called
> TimeMachine and SuperDuper.

Yep, easier to remember and find.
-- 
"But, you may argue, our uniqueness is so extreme! More extreme than the 
platypus which looks like a collection of leftover parts? More unique 
than the societal honeybee with its division of labor? More unique than 
the communist ants who keep aphids as farm animals?" --John Logan
    /\___/\         Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site)
   / /\ /\ \                Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net
  | |o   o| |
     \ _ /        If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link.
      ( )         If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed.
Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer.

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#68680

In article <220120150951489270%nospam@ny.more>, M-M <nospam@ny.more>
wrote:

> In article <210120151402378353%michelle@michelle.org>, Michelle Steiner
> <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> 
> > My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
> > backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".
> 
> 
> I feel so old-fashioned.
> 
> My main disk is called MacintoshHD, and my backup disks are called
> TimeMachine and SuperDuper.

Those are more modern names than the ones I use.

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#68673

In article <210120151402378353%michelle@michelle.org>,
 Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
> backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".

I had cute names for years, then I got more and more disks and my 
imagination started failing with age and now my drives (in my Mac Pro) 
are named Bay_1, Bay_2, etc. Makes it easy to find the right one when 
I'm swapping them around too. I've still got a USB drive named Godzilla, 
from when I thought it was a pretty big drive.
-- 
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing  room scene.
  -- notes for Blade Runner

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#68677

On 2015-01-22, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <210120151402378353%michelle@michelle.org>,
>  Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>
>> My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
>> backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".
>
> I had cute names for years, then I got more and more disks and my 
> imagination started failing with age and now my drives (in my Mac Pro) 
> are named Bay_1, Bay_2, etc. Makes it easy to find the right one when 
> I'm swapping them around too. I've still got a USB drive named Godzilla, 
> from when I thought it was a pretty big drive.

I, too, tend to give volumes more utilitarian names in order to make
working with them as quick and pain-free as possible.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#68679

On 2015-01-22, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <210120151402378353%michelle@michelle.org>,
>  Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>
>> My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
>> backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".
>
> I had cute names for years, then I got more and more disks and my 
> imagination started failing with age 


https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2100.txt

-- 
Today is Boomtime, the 22nd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3181
I don't have an attitude problem.  If you have a problem with my attitude,
                    that's your problem.

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#68693

In article <cicr8tF3mciU2@mid.individual.net>,
 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2015-01-22, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In article <210120151402378353%michelle@michelle.org>,
> >  Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> >
> >> My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
> >> backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".
> >
> > I had cute names for years, then I got more and more disks and my 
> > imagination started failing with age 
> 
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178
> 
> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2100.txt

Fun. Don't name a computer "up." I like the poem.

My computers have always been named after film directors. My Mac Pro is 
peckinpah (s'all right, I can type 50-60 wpm) and my Linux laptop is 
kubrick. I've had kurosawa and hitchcock and even fincher. The oul' 
Woman's imac is just "Mary's iMac" though, not to confuse her.
-- 
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing  room scene.
  -- notes for Blade Runner

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