Hi, my name is Mark, and MY empeg works great!

Actually, all three of them work great!!! That's George, Thirty, and Sixty (do your players have names?)

Sure there were a few things I didn't like about them at first, but then I did this and that seemed to help a little bit.

Just thought you'd all like to know.

-ml

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"schragdoll"

Yea, mines called "Peggy", as in m-pegy

Cheers

Cris.

Actually, all three of them work great!!! That's George, Thirty, and Sixty (do your players have names?)

"empegcar" and "spare" - empagcar running hijack/2.0 final - spare running hijack/3.05a

Original eh ?

\\Kaare

"crowley" is my mk2a. "toothgnip" is my mk2.

My Rio Receivers have names from early NASA manned missions. One of them is called "aurora". I don't remember what the other one's called, because the Receivers are in the attic until we get a flat or house large enough to need them.

The Central doesn't have a name yet, because it's not plugged into the network.

do your players have names?

The Rush Machine (Because when I named it, that was about all it had on it). I still have Tony's Rush image on boot up, too!

Why did you post this the day my right hand RCA output sheared off!!! - but it is one of my proudest possessions, mine's generally referred to as "the Penguin" after a line in the Blues Brothers.

Venus and Aphrodite...godesses of love.

Andrea, because all it ever seems to play is the sodding Corrs.

Paul.

Just "empeg," though it is a RioCar Mk2A, the original empeg had to be replaced, 4 foot fall it never fully recovered from.

My players are bipolar; I have Rage and Calm. Calm lives at home in the dock and Rage is for the road. The are both happy well adjusted devices that play well with others and only complain when abused. Occasionally they like their cables pressed and tightened, but who doesn't?

-Zeke

Mine are rachelle and christa after a couple of babe's I know.

Alicia and Tabitha

LabRat
Archive
Hermit
Traveller

Car
Kitchen
Office 1
Office 2

--Dan.

Man, I tried to resist this thread.. but I guess I'll join the fray...

All my computers have German names... I dunno why, it all started with Deiter from that "Sprockets" skit on Saturday Night Live...

Gunter
Sashca
Deiter
Otto
Hans

Well, my empeg is just called empeg, and the spare has no name.

But the computers at home are called:

pootle
plinglot
brodgar
ubik1
ubik2
storch
frank
stein

All named after famous characters.

(I also have a stack of boxes I was working on clustering called:

chalcedone
chrysoprase
sapphire
etc etc etc

but I ran out of time - ie got married and had kids)

Deiter

No rules for names I guess, but you most likely mean Dieter. "ie" is called a "long i" in German and is pronounced as the name suggests, that is, like the "ee" in seen. Just out of curiosity: I see this very mistake happen frequently to native English speakers when using "long i"-words. Why is that? Does an "e" after an "i" look weird to you because it's a uncommon construct in English? (Not that I could tell off the top of my head if it's uncommon or not, it would take me an hour or two of random browsing through a dictionary.)

My Players:
Mk2a: Tempest
Mk2: Rae

EDIT:

Sashca

I oversaw that one in my original post. It's Sascha. I'm not trying to put the finger on every little typo, but because it's a foreign language to you there's a chance that you've got them spelled incorrectly on your player as well, which is something I'm sure you don't want after you cared enough to pick a naming scheme.

This is where we learn the truth about skunknumber1.
My players actual name is skunk1. When I first created an account on Riocar.org to upload some static logos, I tried to use my players name as the user name but it was already taken. So you all know me as Skunknumber1.
My nick name is Skunk due to a white streak in my hair I've had since I was five.
SecretSkunk is the name I was given by my musician buddys after Secret Squirrel.

Oh yah, Brad called my skunky once.

No rules for names I guess, but you most likely mean Dieter. "ie" is called a "long i" in German and is pronounced as the name suggests, that is, like the "ee" in seen. Just out of curiosity: I see this very mistake happen frequently to native English speakers when using "long i"-words. Why is that? Does an "e" after an "i" look weird to you because it's a uncommon construct in English?

Probably the opposite -- "ie" is much more common in English than "ei", and so "ei" looks more German to us than "ie" does, thanks to words such as Einstein, Geiger, Klein, mein, Steinberg, and Zeiss. Of course none of those are pronounced anything like Dieter. It's much harder to think of an adopted German word or name with "ie" in it -- Siegfried is about the only one.

It also doesn't help that "dieter" is an English word with three syllables -- die-ate-uh, one who diets (i.e. with food) -- so it looks wrong to write it for a German word with two syllables.

Peter

Well, if we're going to get into computers at home also, then..

Foxy, Bertha, Slowy, Gutsy, Dooly (dual-P3), Windy, Ibbm (IBM Notebook), Dan, Deli (Dell Notebook), Tbird, Brick, Jetty, Shifty, Rita, Tosh, Breezy, and Smokey (fastest machine).

die-ate-uh, one who diets

Clearly a pronunciation guide written by an Englishman. What's up with you all not pronouncing your R's, anyway?

We have two development machines at work I named "hans" and "franz".

Mostly because they are huge Sun boxes and all other servers look "girlie" in comparison.

(do your players have names?)

My player is working just fine, and so is my father's, And yes, they have names. Mine is Valentine, and my father's is named Bean.

A cookie to the person to guess where the names came from.

Foxy, Bertha, Slowy, Gutsy, Dooly (dual-P3), Windy, Ibbm (IBM Notebook), Dan, Deli (Dell Notebook), Tbird, Brick, Jetty, Shifty, Rita, Tosh, Breezy, and Smokey (fastest machine).

How on earth can you have that much computers serving a purpose?
It's not like I don't understand the need for several machines (Cynthia - Redhat workstation; Samantha - W32 workstation; Sarah - Debian file server; Lisa - Debian Sniffer; Laura - monitors, plots and logs heart beat, controls treadmill over RS232; Cassandra - Debian, on and around the treadmill workstation; Lena - Laptop;), but it would be interesting to see what purposes your machines all serve. Do you run your own little private cluster Mark?

A cookie to the person to guess where the names came from.

Orson Scott Card.

-jk

>How on earth can you have that much computers serving a purpose?

Well, this is my development lab. Many of those are special purpose machines sent to me for specific projects: eg. slowy, gutsy, hpserv (forgot to list it), Brick, etc.. The others have just accumulated, and are basically almost worthless on the resale market, so they live on here as trial machines.

Darn.. missed another one too: nw2 (second Netwinder; "Windy" is the main one).

Cheers

> Orson Scott Card.

Yeah, that was pretty easy. That is cool though, I have a very similar naming scheme for my computers; Barak, Silk, Hettar, Mandorallan, and Belgareth. My Empegs, alas, have no names, although if I did I would probably call my main one "Precious".

Ding, Here's a cookie for you.

But of course, names run as follow.

Jolene named after the car she's destined to occupy

Helena because she's never been out of the box

Nanci from a Toad the Wet Sprocket song because I loaned her to a friend.

Hi!
My name is Mike. (Although I reply to alot of different names, including and not limited to 'Fox', 'Michael', 'Idiot', 'Dumbass', and a few others I can't repeat here.)

I started with only one Empeg. It had a name - I called it 'carplayer'. I was unoriginal at the beginning. Shy, they say. Then I got to know it. Took it on trips - even though it didn't have a permanent home in my car. In fact, we went on LONG trips. Thinking about it, possibly 6 1500-mile trips..

Then there was an accident. A car next to me tried to occupy the same space and time as a semi-trailer. The resulting matter/anit-matter explosion nearly killed me, and worse, almost damaged 'Carplayer'.

So, had to get a new car. I got a Mini. Big (small?) change from the truck. But, I had money to give Carplayer a good home. I did. Now Carplayer rocks.

However, while talking with the movers who were going to give Carplayer it's home, I looked at other species on display, and realized that if Carplayer passed on, I wouldn't know how to live on. So, I went out and picked up another. At this point I realized I couldn't name it 'Carplayer 2', so they got better names. "Laurel" and "Hardy", at first. They grew up a little, and got better names that they deserve: "Waldorf" and "Statler".

They switch out occasionally in their home in the car, they both love trips. They have a close relationship with my Palm, and love to take commands from it. They also liove being shown-off at work in a neat little wooden house built just for them.

*uh* Anyways. (Can you tell I do work for a companyt that makes role-playing games?)
Me.

They grew up a little, and got better names that they deserve: "Waldorf" and "Statler".

I forgot to say this the first time you mentioned the names: Those are particularly cool names for empegs.

Brownie points to anyone who knows where the names come from.

its the two old guys in the box

It's my dream job to be one of those two guys.

-Zeke

Muppet Show.

empeg = Hodge Podge (hops from car to home)
RioReceiver = Portnoy (works "underground" through the phoneline)
Palm = Milquetoast (small and nearly undescructable)
Computer = Oliver (fast, smart, and black (sorry, not very pc))
Old Computer = Opus (big, slow, and clunky)

Can anyone guess which cartoon I like?

Since my minivan always carried all my saxophones in high school (I have 4 or 5), friends took to calling it the Sax Machine. I then got the vanity plate SAX MCHN. So that's the name of my empeg. My startup image is a Honda Odyssey I made with SAX MCHN next to it

Aw, thanks! I'm touched!

I have a little script file in place (that Hijack runs) that echos a quote to the screen every time it's booted up. Like:

"I have half a mind to go home."
"If you had half a mind, you wouldn't be here in the first place!"
"Har har har!"

to name one.. Love it.

Me.

Ah... Sashca was a pure typo on my part. And I always spell "Dieter" as "Deiter" but that's out of bad habit... the "actual" name on the machine (and my cat's name) is spelled Dieter. I always 2nd guess myself on that, so thanks for clearing it up!

There is no need for either to go on a diet!

customsex, you don't watch TV, you're cheating!

My MKl is Jake and my MKlla is Audioslave. And both of mine work great.

<waves to Mark>

he didnt say that i had to have the knowledge before the question was posed!

youre just jealous i beat you

well, since you didnt answer, i guess, technically, i didnt beat you. but still, you gotta be jealous. i mean, come on, its me

Mine are for a similar purpose - my 'practice' LAN for running exploits and attacks. I never seem to get enough time in our work A&P LAN for this so it makes sense to do it at home. Plus, it is more configurable - I don't need to sign for, or document changes I need.

They grew up a little, and got better names that they deserve: "Waldorf" and "Statler".

Damn!

I was doing some excel quiz the other day (where you had to put names to pictures of muppets), and I got Wladorf but I couldn't remember the name of the other muppet for the bloody life of me!

Thanks for putting me out of my misery!

ROFL. Hey, no problem. I grew up with those guys. Idolized them. So to speak.

Me.

192.168.0.1 central - Linux server in the basement
192.168.0.2 central3 - Replacement Gentoo Linux server, still being built
192.168.0.10 dragonsden - Gaming PC
192.168.0.11 dragonbookw - Powerbook Wireless
192.168.0.12 dragonbook - Powerbook Wired
192.168.0.13 dragoncar - Empeg Mark2a 60GB
192.168.0.14 destivu - Media PC, named after the Gateway Destination software
192.168.0.15 dragoncube - PowerMac G4 Cube
192.168.0.16 dragonwhelp - Empeg Mark 2a 10GB
192.168.0.17 pocketdragon - iPaq H3630
192.168.0.18 xdragon - X Windows terminal I have never gotten to work
192.168.0.19 dragontv - Replay TV 5000 unit

My GameCube, XBox, and RioReceiver need to be named and added to the DHCP file, as does the SGI Indy box I recently got.

I'm thinking evildragon for the Xbox. DragonCube is already taken, so I'm not sure about it.

Hm... Thought the naming thing was a mk2 thing... Guess I'll need to get a better look at the emplode menu once I get around to updating it (It's exclusively used in-car, and the rest of the stereo isn't installed yet, so I wouldn't get much use from it, even if it was).

My computers have names though: Kamishiro, Mikaze, Asuka, Chii, Rem, Mariel, Yuzuki & Koizumi.
The car has "Yuki" on the plates (halfway down)... Goes good in snow for some reason ^_^

DragonCube is already taken, so I'm not sure about it.

Dragendo? Dragondoh? =]

I've never named my riocar, but I should probably call it "mlord",

You've worked on it, it runs hijack, and spends most of its time in one of your docks.

BTW, thanks for everything.

Good to hear it's still happily playing along!

Cheers

Erik (the Mk2) and Emma (the Mk1)

Erik (the Mk2) and Emma (the Mk1)

Let me guess, the names of your children ?

\\Kaare

Taympeg

Sorry, for some reason I couldn't resist replying with that subject change.

Not telling you empeg names but the ship i am on has three compressors named

Smokey, wheezy and leaky

Back on the 21st if anyone is wondering

Actually, we were more concerned with when you are leaving again... a new beta would be nice.

I feel a little left out of the fun, my player has no name.. sniff sniff!

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My empegs still work fine. The one in my car has worked great for five years now. The one at my girlfriend's works great too. The two in my house would work great if I put them back together. I can't remeber the last time any of them crashed.

Matthew

Both of mine have problems. :/
One doesn't boot at all, and the other crashes and had disk issues often.

Doesn't really matter right now, though, because I lost my car in a flood on NYE and now have a new car that I haven't installed the empeg into yet.

I seriously miss my music.

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Whoa, this thread is over 2 years old. Seeing as we're keeping it alive...

Lunatic - Empeg Mk2a, baby
Peaches - The "Server" Machine (Gentoo Linux)
Stranger - Linksys WRT54G (OpenWRT)
Puffy - Microsoft Xbox (XBMC)
Dunebuggy - 12" Powerbook (Tiger)

Lump, Kitty, Weevil and Candy are all names of machines that for one reason or another don't exist anymore.