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Re:RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by tonyarkles on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:48PM (#16741508)
Me too on the periodic table names, but with a bit of creativity related to the machine too:

- Helium - my Surface 3, because it's light

- Lead - my heavy Linux laptop

- Lithium - the Mac Mini I bought to keep from going crazy using a decade old Macbook Pro for iOS development

- Caesium - my Dell "workstation" Windows laptop, because I bought it to save time (compared to running Windows + Visual Studio in a VM)

- Uranium and Thorium - the beefy Xeon workstations that run a bunch of VMs and things - named because they put out so much heat that they might be radioactive

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Re:RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by hashhar on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:07AM (#16741846)
It's quite funny that we share the host names Helium and Caesium. My Linux machines are radioactive because I tinker with them a lot and am bound to reinstall every few months.
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Re:RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by tonyarkles on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:18AM (#16742107)
Heh, yeah, there's that too...
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