Environmental Bloodhound
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Hackintosh
1) Interloper (OS X) 2). Virus (Windows) External HD: Domesday iPhone: Squawk Box |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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"Domesday"?
Is that like a celebration of Sir Christopher Wren??? ... |
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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Also potentially relevant: the (related) BBC Domesday Project.
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Ninja Editor
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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My laptop's drive is named "Dave's HD of Infinite Recursion" (yes, there's a link in the drive that points back to the top level). My other favorite is "<drive brand> <capacity> HD of Doom".
When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream. |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Promise Land of Trustafarians
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My naming scheme is characters from MASH.
My MacBook Pro is Hawkeye. Old 12” Powerbook repurposed as a server is a Klinger. Time Machine drive is Colonel Potter. iPhone is Radar. Extra hard drive is Trapper. USB flash drive is Frank Burns. Wifi network is just “4077." |
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Lovable Bastard
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston-ish
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My gear is named after the children of Hyperion:
MacBook Pro: Helios iPad: Selene iPhone: Eos External drive: split, half for time machine (Time Machine) and half for storage (creatively named Storage 500). WiFi: Red Rocket. Used to be Valhalla (mixed mythology, I know, shut up) but then I changed it to Red Rocket when I changed the password to a throwaway, since in the age of iPhone, everyone wants to get on the WiFi... (Can you guess the password? I bet you can...) Also, this thread amuses me because from the front page it shows up as "The Ultimate List of Hard..." Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end. |
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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MBA: MacBook Air
iPod nano: Nano jawn Time Capsule: Time Capsule I'm not very creative, nor do I really name everything. |
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I'm really boring for drives:
In my MacBook Pro I have simply "SSD" (for the ExpressCard SSD boot volume) and "Mobile RAID" for the 2x500GB RAID 0 In my Mac Pro I have "3TB RAID" for the 4x 750 internal document array and "SSD RAID" for the dual SSD stripe array that's the startup voume. ...but it works for me :-) Jack, rest in peace. I know you sold your HDTV, and I'm sure you're using a 200 incher right now! |
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Member
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: St Evenage
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As a long time RPGer, I think you should go with this option .
As for mine, I'm very uninventive, my current MBP HD is called... Macintosh HD . I think I'll do some renaming, probably using names from the Appleseed series of manga/anime. My Airport used to be called Cupertino, but when I upgraded to a Time Capsule, I changed it to Infinite Loop. |
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9" monochrome
Join Date: May 2004
Location: 🇦🇺
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Hi schalliol - I'm interested in picking up an Express Card SSD for a boot volume. What model/size do you have and are you happy with it?
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Antimatter Man
Join Date: May 2004
Location: that interweb thing
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Mini : Prometheus (first Superdrive = Bringer of Fire)
MBP17 : Hephaestus (God of Technology/Blacksmith/Artisan) iPhone : Uhura (Black communicator) Don't think I named the MBP internal drive or it's windows partition, and IIRC most of my externals or thumbs are boringly named with their sizes... LaCie600, Passport320, Lexar16, etc... although my Time Machine 1TB might be Monolith due to its sleek black design. This thread is prompting me... might be time for a more consistent naming scheme. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I've become afraid to rename a lappy's HDD for fear it will break something. Unfounded fear?
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Within
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I used to do planets and moons: Mars, Pluto, Phobos... Then I got less celestial, and that's where I stand today. iPhone 4: i4 iPad: Tablet Time Machine: Vault External drives: Storage, Archive Minimalistic, I suppose. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Unfounded. The boot drive's name is purely cosmetic. Changing external drive names may have side effects if you have some custom shell scripts or programs trying to sync data using hard-coded paths or something, but the boot drive name is used for virtually nothing.
The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Avast!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: New York?
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MBA: TheFlash
MBP: Sweetness34 WiFi network: Death From Above iPhone: It's all in my pants now* iPod shuffle: Do Not Eat *This was embarrassing when taken to the genius bar recently, and will be changed in the near future. It popped on up the diagnostic tool, and the Genius looked at me with a quizzical smile, I looked at her, and then I realized what I'd done.... "How could you falter / when you're the Rock of Gibralter? / I had to get off the boat so I could walk on water. / This ain't no tall order. / This is nothing to me. / Difficult takes a day. / Impossible takes a week." |
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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You should change your iPhone to "Upper Class Status Symbol," to be all ironic. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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If she was cute and single you could rename your phone "You're cute and I have a big penis, Applegirl, wanna date?"
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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Is Sir's collection becoming too large for the internal?
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My Time Machine back up is named DeLorean, my MBP's internal hd is Adora (She-Ra) and my other external hd is Grayskull
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Sub-PowerBook Lobbyist
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Washington, DC
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The Windows partition on the family iMac is called Winblows!
My Mac HDDs' names are not worth noting... |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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So I named my Time Machine external "Tardis" because it is smaller in dimensions than my old external but has more capacity inside, and also you know, time travel. My primary system drive is called.... Macintosh HD, and my Windows Bootcamp partition is called BOOTCAMP.
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I named my 1 TB external hard drive, The Vault.
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Subdued and Medicated
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Oh wow how have I missed this thread? Lets see...
1) Little Cray 2) Portabella 3) Ebbypod 4) Mercury 5) Goliath 6) Dolos 7) Moya 8) Speedy Brain |
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
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I have a river rock wallpaper on my iMac, so I named the HDD "Pebbles".
I never bother renaming my Windows boxes. Weird. |
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Ok, I've decided to go with my favorite characters from my 80s childhood. Mainly because dealing with hard drives and technical crap can be frustrating so if I name the drives something warm & fuzzy, it might release some endorphins while editing.
Kermit Mrs. Piggy Papa Smurf Smurfette Fozzie Bear Animal Tweetie Bird Snoopy Curious George You get the idea. |
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It was when I got my first external hard drive that I started and have been naming them religiously since.
First one was Kraken, a 400GB and then I continued with another mythical creature, Balgorg from Citadel Combat Cards in the Warhammer universe for my 3TB. Then I chose Zangief for my 4TB after the Street Fighter character. Smaller flashdrives get correspondingly less grand names: Pippa 4GB Mrs Reynolds 4GB My internal hard drives are treated with less reverence again. My Local Disk is named Deirdre Rachid after the late great Coronation Street charater played by Anne Kirkbride. |
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