In our house, our computer names revolve around important characters and magical artifacts in my fantasy world setting, Cora-Ni.

This is very close to the Dead Character Paradigm; I’d probably call this The Cora-Ni Paradigm.

So long as I get to type the word ‘paradigm’ a couple of times, I’m a happy bald man…

-pax-

Over time there has been a Mirvan (an Erendani Master Accountant) that hosted our family Quicken file and a media server named Tarafear (a Lunargenti Bard that Cyn played) - so they’re somewhat appropriate.

I started with our solar system for names, but that was lamezor. I’ve since converted to the Venture family for names. I don’t have a big enough machine to name Brock yet.

As for the drive, search around the maxtor/seagate site. I recently (6 months or so) RMAd a drive with them without issue.

David Moore wrote:

Hey KJ,

Check on the Seagate site, and look up the serial number of the failing drive. It may still be under warranty, and they will either replace it or refurbish it for free if it is!

I just had a 300 gb drive get fried by a bad power supply, and though it took about three weeks, I have it back and working in my system again.

How interesting that two Davids would suggest the same thing. Equally interesting that I had to rescue both of these comments from Akismet this afternoon.

I’m going to pull the drive tonight and see if it’s still under warranty. I would have done so sooner, but I wanted to backup and/or move all the data on the drive before I pulled it to check the serial number.

Ah, see, you didn’t specify that they had to be recognizable. I’ll agree that’s a problem.

Obscurity has a beauty all its own, though. You then get to explain it to people with all kinds of unearned smugness.

True enough, I didn’t specify. I suppose I could name the next PC “Goodwin” or “Varjak” and scoff at people who don’t recognize my perfectly obvious theme.

Obscurity has a beauty all its own, though. You then get to explain it to people with all kinds of unearned smugness.

You ask for a miracle, I give you the Aye Emm Dee Bee.

Peppard has been in a lot of stuff, but there are (in my mind, at least) only two roles that are instantly recognizable as him. When you see “Hannibal”, you might associate that with Anthony Hopkins’ character in Silence of the Lambs, but when you add “Banacek” there’s no longer any ambiguity about the common thread. In his long list of appearances, I couldn’t pick anything else out that I instantly associated with George Peppard. That’s probably less a statement about his impact on film and television than it is a testament to my narrow experience with the same.

Check on the Seagate site, and look up the serial number of the failing drive. It may still be under warranty, and they will either replace it or refurbish it for free if it is!

I just had a 300 gb drive get fried by a bad power supply, and though it took about three weeks, I have it back and working in my system again.

I guess, in the end, machines have to have names…

Yeah, because 192.168.0.5 isn’t nearly as flashy or romantic.