I just finished building an ASRock DeskMini 110 with an i7-6700 and I'm trying to think up a good name for it. I named all my other machines after fictional planets, but that doesn't seem fitting in this case. The only thing I can think right now is Gimli- the small, but powerful dwarf from Lord of the Rings. Any other suggestions?
What are good names for SFF machines?
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Goliath, Leviathan, Kaiju, Behemoth, Kong, Rex.
haha, that's the joke. It's like that really big guy that everyone calls Tiny.
How about a fictional tiny planet? Zabriska, a planetoid from the Lensman series.
A superheated billiard-ball-smooth rock a few miles wide, orbiting continuously illuminated in a trinary system. Home to the stupidest creature in the universe that still qualifies as alive: the Fontema. It absorbs sunlight, and rolls forward in a straight line, encountering no obstacles other than other Fontemas (which merge then split again by mitosis, leaving on right-angle paths).
'The Compensator'
I usually randomise it, basing it on what the build is sometimes. I've had;
'Aurora V 1- infinity' Because i like the word
Think_Micro (my smallest build)
Kase (my first NAS)
Detox (a wooden case)
Shhhh (passive)
No rhyme or reason to the schema, but it works for me.
I usually randomise it, basing it on what the build is sometimes. I've had;
'Aurora V 1- infinity' Because i like the word
Think_Micro (my smallest build)
Kase (my first NAS)
Detox (a wooden case)
Shhhh (passive)
No rhyme or reason to the schema, but it works for me.
I just realised none of my builds or PCs have names. My main desktop PC is just "desktop PC". My NAS based on NAS4Free is uninspiringly called NAS4FREE. My ESXi host is probably called ESXIHOST, although I don't know if that's its hostname since I always connect through IP.
#boring
#boring
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I'm equally as half-hearted as Phuncz when it comes to naming things, I usually just name computers after either the case their in or the function they perform or the name of the platform (pi for my Rpi, Domino for my Domino Pi, fortress for my ft03 mini, wii for the wii, etc). The only box I ever put any effort into naming was my HTPC, called Vitascope
Perhaps name your deskmini after a fictional moon or fictional man made satellite / space station / etc
Perhaps name your deskmini after a fictional moon or fictional man made satellite / space station / etc
#boring is right
I'm quite fond of naming my computers.
My older PC's are/were all named after iconic characters in games.
My HTPC is named after the iconic emissary(s) in, "2001: A Space Odyssey", which I found quite fitting.
My newer PC's are all named after metals (or the malignant conditions they can cause).
Companion_Cube (NAS)
Monolith (HTPC)
Tungsten (Wife's PC)
Daedra (Gaming PC)
Tetanus (Laptop)
So you have to get shots if you accidentally come into contact with the laptop?
I'm going to name my white LZ7 build "Neutron Star"; lots of power in a tiny space like a real neutron star.
Space-based names are always fun. Perhaps something like "Singularity"
Space-based names are always fun. Perhaps something like "Singularity"
Space thing, bacteria or chemical elements are fun
gilly is a good one. it is the smallest moon in the kerbal space program solar system
On that note, U+0020 or U+00A0 would be a cool name. Unicode codes for Space and Non-breaking Space respectively.
Also we're now at a time where a build could just get an emoji as it's name.
