Computer Names

You need computer names these days. I’ve had several over the years, here are the computer names that I’ve used. All of my computers, and many of my other electronic devices, have been named after characters from 2000AD stories.

Here is a table showing some of the computer names that I’ve used.

Name	Type	Dates	Spec	OS	Comments
Strontium	PC	1996 – 1999ish	Pentium 75	Windows 95	Managed 31 days uptime. Lots of upgrades, brand new was about £1,000
Robohunter	PC	2000	PII	Windows 98	Bought second hand for £100
Nemesis	PC	1999-2000	486/66 (most likely)	Dual boot red hat linux and NT4	A practice machine to hone my NT4 skills at work.
halo-jones	laptop	2001-2006		Windows XP	Toshiba, cost £1,000
Rogue	laptop	2006 – October 2013	Advent 7110Celeron 1.7GHz, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb hard disk	Originally Windows Vista, now Ubuntu 10.04.2	Still use alongside ace-garp when we need either a bigger screen, two machines on the road or a CD burned. Until it the screen broke.
sternhammer	PC	2008-2011	IBM Netfix PIII 800MHz, 512Mb RAM, 750Gb HD space	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS	Bought second hand from ebay for £25 (incl postage). Runs as a LAMP server plus mailman. Has several disks, including DVD burner.
digriz	PC	2009 – 2011	Dell GX280, P4 2.8GHz, 1Gb RAM, 40Gb hard disk	Ubuntu 10.10	Main desktop but used less than the mobile machines. Bought from ebay for £50 incl postage.
ace-garp	netbook	Aug 2009 – current	Acer Aspire One D150, dual thread 1.7 GHz N280, 1Gb RAM, 160Gb hard disk	Ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition	My main computer
middenface	PC	12 March 2011 – April 2016	Acer Revo R3700, quad thread 1.8GHz, 2Gb RAM, 500Gb HD	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS	Runs as a LAMP server, also with mailman. Replaced sternhammer. Decommissioned when I put everything in a linode.com cloud server (named doghouse)
ninja-cole	laptop	24 October 2012 – Sept 2018	Lenovo Thinkpad T61, Centrino Duo 1.8GHz, 3Gb RAM, 120Gb HD	MS Windows Vista Business (64 bit)	Acquired to run Mathcad 14 for an Open University course that needed a Windows machine. Named by Alexander and given to him in October 2013.
armitage	laptop	October 2013 – January 2016	Samsung Q320, Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz × 2, 3Gb RAM, 320Gb HD	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (main). dual booted MS Windows Vista Business (both 64 bit)	An ebay special, £30 because the CD didn’t work. I later spilled coffee on it and some of the keyboard keys wouldn’t work, including ? / [ { and the right arrow key.
orlok	laptop	22 January 2016 – current	Lenovo Thinkpad T420, Pentium i5 1.8GHz, 4Gb RAM, 320Gb HD	Ubuntu 18.04 (64 bit)	Acquired from ebay, £75 because it came with no OS and a BIOS password. Replacement for Armitage.
doghouse	linode cloud instance	10 April 2016 – current	virtual server. Linode 2GB: 1 CPU, 50GB Storage, 2GB RAM	Ubuntu 18.04 (64 bit) (LTS)	A cloud instance from Linode.com which runs this website, and several others.