On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:12:16PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 19/04/2008, Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Names remain the same over different hardware - less work. For me it > > is the data it holds or the function it performs that I name.
I guess I do a mix. Part of it depends on the personality of the computer. It starts off being functional, but after a few years, a computer gets a personality after which I would only rename if the personality changes. For example: my oldest computer is the IBM PS/ValuePoint 6492X5C 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram. It started out with 4 MB but it has expanded over the years. In fact, someone is mailing me more memory for it (I just returned from a trip and haven't checked mail at the PO yet). While for the same software, a memory upgrade will enhance the performance (and personality), gradual memory upgrades over time just keep the performance even with newer software not being as careful with memory as older software with no change in personality. Thus the old 486 is as reliable as ever so is called Reliant. (hard drives don't count; I suppose I could name my 20+ year old 171MB hard drive "StoneHenge" or something old like that. My P-II with 64 MB ram has a defective CPU cooler fan that makes a rattling sound that sounds like a gravel truck, and is called "rocky". Also because it is unreliable. I acquired it full of cat hair and overheated so a new CPU cooler isn't worth it now that the damage is done. Noisy or not the CPU stays cool now. My Athlon64 3800+ with 1 GB ram is in the largest case I could find and considering that it replaced the functionality of the P-II I call it Titan since its so huge and powerful (160 GB drive space with raid array compared to 8 GB on a single drive for the P-II). I haven't named my Palm Zire nor my Sharp Pocket Computer PC-1401 with 4KB of ram (with built-in BASIC). When I had a separate firewall, my old P75 was called Bulwark. Back when I did my first networking between the 486 (then called Workstation) and the P75 (then called Server). How origional! Finally, my VT520 isn't named either, just VT520. I only have one and its connected to the first com port of Rocky. Rocky also drives my un-named Epson dot-matrix LQ-2180. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
