Miia Ranta » computers http://myrtti.fi/blog Nerdette ravings Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:02:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Forest friends http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/09/12/forest-friends/ http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/09/12/forest-friends/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:51:57 +0000 myrtti http://myrtti.fi/blog/?p=342 Continue reading →]]> a “recent” meme via Maco:
I’ve had three major naming schemes with my ICT appliance/hardware. First one started on 2003, with my first computer resurrected as a home server. It was named as pingu, for its penguin soul and also for its Swiss namesake animation series. Later, as I moved to using Linux on my personal desktop (and later laptop), my computers got names like nanook (I remember doing a GNOME splashscreen out of that Wikimedia Commons picture), auviq, perhaps even orca. Related to those came Finnish words for snow, lumi, kinos, nuoska, loska.

Later I got employed by COSS for my first “Real Job”. By that time I had developed a caffeine addiction and had to compensate the horrible tar side product also referred as “coffee” at the office. So started a new naming scheme for computers at work. Came mocha, cappuccino, espresso, macchiato, latte, lumumba, kahlua.

Currently I work for Nomovok and my whole ICT hardware has gone through a total overhaul. I urgently needed some kind of a scheme to name my loved tools. So now, I’m living in the era of <drumroll /> Winnie the Pooh scheme:
Kengu – homeserver – Kanga
Tikru – desktop – Tigger
Kani – laptop – Rabbit
Puh - Nokia 6021 – Pooh
Nasu – Nokia N95 – Piglet
Ruu – Nokia IT 770 – Roo
Ihaa – external 320GB hard drive – Eeyore
Möhköfantti – Samsung SCX-4200 – Heffalump

And they all live in…
PuolenHehtaarinMetsä – WPA2 ESSID – HalfAcreWoods

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