On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > But a name can be a snare and a delusion: we had another > quasi-classical name, atticus, so called because it was located in the > attic. Then we moved house and it was relocated under the stairs... > And I had my office in the potting-shed for a time, so my very > odd-looking skeletal tower box, with bits bolted on in all directions, > was named potty. But it soon moved indoors and got a new case so that > name was out of date too. And how much refitting is needed to justify a > rename? new processer, new case, new motherboard, new hard drives, but > all at different times, so at which point should it be renamed?
My (currently down) computer is called bixi, because it has an Intel BX mainboard. If it turns out I will have to replace it (I hope it's only the memory, otherwise I'll have to change just about everything) I'll have to think of a new name as well. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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