Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Yeah, but yours are ships, right, ND? There's a pretty limited number of ships' names, and you go through HDs at a right quick clip.
Networks: cities (Lothlorien, Rivendell, etc.) External HDs are towers (Minas Tirith). Portable handheld devices are weapons (Sting, Orcrist). Desktops and laptops are people, although it's all laptops these days. Current ones are Theoden, Gimli, and Galadriel. The last desktop was Rosie, because she stayed home. Oh, and the NAS is Elrond.
Yeah. Mine are all fictional ships and things like jump drives are small craft types and have been branching out into characters because I've got so damned many jump drives.
I had been only creatively naming things with operating systems, but the lines are so blurry now, and so many things need identifying. Jump drives are definitely too transient, though. I just don't buy more than one of any sort, and tell them apart that way.
I have dozens of jump drives and usually quite a few of each type. Names become critical.
I am so fucking agog at storage technology. I know that shit got predicted, but still. The teeny tiny not that expensive 64GB jump drive on my key ring in a lovely colour--man. I don't use them as much as I'd expected because of cloud and actual devices, but still. Fucking AMAZING.
ST:TNG fucking PADD, man. My mind is regularly blown.
Yeah the amount of storage available now is staggering.
My little 11" Air astounds me. All solid state, weight of a feather, and enough power to render video. Just insane.
You know how sometimes the diagram is what makes an explanation pop or plop? I was trying to work out how the fuck to adequately represent "virtual machine", and figured "Hey! I bet the internet already knows!" which led me to this [link] which are really pretty, and have saved my spaghetti illustration as much as it can be.
I totally heart the naming discussion. -t, I think I may love you.
I think I might have to name my Mac mini "No'-As-Big-As-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-than-Wee-Jock Jock" because it is smaller than the towers but more powerful than the powerbook.