Date   : Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:30:04 GMT
From   : Philip Pemberton <philpem@...>
Subject: Them pesky case stickers (was 1MHZ SCSI/ATA board.)

In message <44101A1C.9030407@...>
          Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:

> I have a habit of peeling any Intel or "Designed for Windows" stickers off any 
> equipment that I see :-)

Me too. The nasty little plastic Celeron ones you see on 2000-2002 era
laptops are especially nasty - the one on my Toshiba 4600 peeled up at one
corner and started catching on my wrist as I typed. The careful application
of a quantity of IPA removed the glue quite effectively, and removed the ugly
M$ sticker too.

I want one of those cute little Fedora Linux case badges, but thin enough to
apply to the palmrest without it hitting the LCD when the cover is down.
MICROS~1 can keep their butterfly, I'll keep my penguin :)

Just out of curiosity, does anyone else name their machines? How do you pick
them? I've been using a "wild animals" theme of sorts:

  Fastest machine on the LAN   => fastest land mammal       => Cheetah.

  Big cat   => Tiger     (the Toshiba 4600 isn't exactly small)

  RiscPC    => Tends to make my life difficult at times     => Kitsune
                         (see Wikipedia, or read up on Japanese folklore)

I'm still not sure why I called the server "Wolf" though... "Slug" might have
been more appropriate, but that would have broken the convention a bit :)

I knew someone that - at one time - called his servers Noisy, Lazy, Crazy and
Steve... The story was Noisy arrived with a HDD with a duff bearing, Lazy
tended to be rather slow (it had a lot of stuff running on it and he used it
for late night compile runs), Crazy tended to crash a fair bit (especially
when it was being used to test unstable code), and Steve "because [he] ran
out of names"...

-- 
Phil.                         | Kitsune: Acorn RiscPC SA202 64M+6G ViewFinder
philpem@...                   | Cheetah: Athlon64 3200+ A8VDeluxeV2 512M+100G
http://www.philpem.me.uk/     | Tiger: Toshiba SatPro4600 Celeron700 256M+40G
                              | Wolf: Linksys NSLU2 233MHz Debian-ARM/LE 15G