What is your Tablet's Device Name, and Why?
 

Just for kicks, I thought I would pose a fun question to you all:

What have you named your tablets, and what was the reason?

Perhaps we can run a poll on the best name at the end of the day.

EIPI: Mine is named X-Wing, since I have a Star Wars theme going on in my home network. My servers are named for droids, and my desktops are named after planets in the SW universe. Ship names made sense for portable devices. And yes, my invisible SSID is 'The Force'.

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I love my old battered Millenium Falcon!

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Dang I did not see that thread. Hopefully I won't get in trouble from the mods - oh wait there are none (yet)!

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"littlemonster" according to DNS, "Nokia-N810-23-14" by default. "littlemonster" is part of my theme at home - godzilla, ghidora, etc ... (Originally I had it convinced that it's own name was something more creative from the godzilla line of movies, but it got lost during one of the reflashings, and I never really noticed .....)

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Rocinante...

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The 770 is called NokiLL0, the N800 NaB00. Although the latter is temporarily -- and more correctly -- named "B0rked".

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My tablet (N800) is named theMicro (in form with my other machines, theMachine = desktop PC, thePhone = phone, theBeast = T61p laptop, and theCubed = server)

theMicro was named 'Master Hacklet' for a while just to freak out the sysadmins at my other school when they checked the DHCP logs :)

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My 770 is Mjolnir, my N810 is Dream (my laptop being named Dreamer) :D

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i named mine's "elf n da middle" because it's a quick fix tool, middlware, as i call my NIT.


but now i want to change that; how do you change the host name w/o reflashing?

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Control Panel -> Bluetooth Settings (I think)

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Here's some nicknames that i use for my tablet:

LittleT, Debbie, Z3577, b-machine, RoboTab, 8675309, G-force, N800, Tablet, Tabbie, N-I-T, Little-Deablo, PocketHacker, OMPTablet, MonoNerd, Armada, Gvuew, zercon


Those are all the names that i can think of that i sometimes call my tablet.
The most comon amung theas names are N800 and PocketHacker.

Z3577 mostly because that's the name of my favourite wifi connection, Armada mostly because i am a fan of C.H. Greenbaltt's cartoon art, 8675309 mostly because i allwase get a song stuck in my head called 8675309, PocketHacker because i use my tablet comonly for hacking. b-machine because it matches my user name, b-man. G-force because i can do just about any computer-related task on my tablet. MonoNerd, because it is a funny and unusual name, And OMPTablet because the tablets use OMPA prosessors.

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can't thank you enough!, it was so simple, i had to toggle bluetooth to "on" then change the host name....

i'm glad i saw this topic & asked, it's been a stickler for me for awhile, when i upgraded chinook & restored my backuo settings last year, the hostname followed, smh, & yet again, when i upgraded to diablo this weeknd, same difference, when i restored my back up....

i hated to make a post just to ask this, so this topic helped big tyme.


oh, the new name's "gn0me n my p0cket" lol

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.... kn810 and the previous nit kn800 .... and my phone k6500

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Jezebel, cuz she gets around. If ya know what I mean ; )

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BlackHole

Free time just seems to disappear when it's around my tablet...

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Name: Kraft.

Why? It was the name of the optronic computer owned by Axen Moon in the story of Outpost 2. Sort of his digital counterpart in the world, even though he only generally talked with it via link or directly [it was a big 1m cube box, not so portable].

Good lord; can't believe I remembered that. Still, great name. It's counterpart in Plymouth was... err... damn, so much for memory. I'll have to look it up now [sigh, yes, I still have the disk].

What's worse is that it totally bypasses the normal naming scheme for my computers, strange choice.

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name: Truc

was so named by my (francophone) girlfriend, which had no clue how to define it (Le Truc = The Thing)

she says she's very proud to be the second in my life just after Le Truc :D

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Name: Navi

Quote (stolen from some page):

NAVI are the personal computers that people use in the world of serial experiments lain. They include both desktop and handheld models (HandyNAVI). NAVI computers are linked to the Wired.

Interpretation:
"NAVI" is most likely a contracted form of "Knowledge Navigator." John Sculley, the CEO of Apple from 1983 to 1993, described the Knowledge Navigator in his book titled Odyssey (1987). The Knowledge Navigator was his vision of Apple computers in the 21st Century. Accurately predicting many of the changes eventually brought about by the World Wide Web, the hypothetical Knowledge Navigator would allow people to communicate with each other from anywhere in the world, would be connected to a vast shared hypertextual (Sculley cites Ted Nelson in reference to hypertext) database of information (like the Web or the Wired), and would also utilize intelligent agents or artificial intelligences to actively search out information of interest.

The Knowledge Navigator Sculley envisioned in 1987 would be suited for multimedia applications, utilizing large, high-definition, flat-display screens to support text, full-color, graphics, and computer generated animations. It would also feature high-fidelity sound, speech synthesis, and speech recognition. Sculley emphasized that the Knowledge Navigator would not need to take any specific form; it could be a desktop computer, a handheld, or even built into one's clothing.

Eventually, Sculley would implement some of his Knowledge Navigator ideas into the Newton, Apple's more-or-less unsuccessful PDA (personal digital assistant). The Knowledge Navigator concept was promoted in a video called "The Knowledge Navigator: Technologies to Get Us There and Beyond" as well as a shorter commercial for general consumption.

John Sculley's vision of the Knowledge Navigator, even if not fully realized, was important for the technologies it inspired as well as predicting the change of the personal computer's role as a productivity tool to one which is used to mediate information exchange and transfer.

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pocketpenguin is the network name as it is a Penguin (Linux box) in your pocket.

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The tablet has got the name "padlog", while the phone is named "comlog" after the fictional all-in-one device from The Hyperion Cantos.

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Hi there. My first post ...

My N810 is called 'brinquedinho', means 'little toy' em portuguese. There is no special reason for that (maybe the size of this gadget).

[]´s
Fernando
São Paulo - Brazil

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T Tablet ; just simple probably because i like the tablets and tactile in general.

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gypsy; it travels around the world and hacks around (artificial) barriers to get what it wants :)

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Man, am I the only one who just calls it "The Tablet"?

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My first post -- my n800 just arrived yesterday. I called it "burro" since I expect it to follow around behind me, carry things, and do hard work. Might be fun to change the name from time to time.

In the Arthur C. Clarke novel "Imperial Earth" people of the future have a networked PDA gadget called a "minisec". That could work.

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Welcome aboard!

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Darkside was used in an early Mandrake distro (now Mandriva). I use it with all my PC and 770/810 installations. No particular reason for doing so.

thaibill

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My desktop is orcrist, my media/fileserver is sting & my laptop is glamdring. Naturally then my IT had to have the grandest name, being the smallest, so I call it GROND! :)

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Must be a French thing that : mine are 770FPP, N800FPP, N810FPP and E51FPP.

Either our reputation as romantic dreamers is totally overdone, or I have too many bluetooth devices around :-)

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My old N800 that I've since given to my sister was named DIRGE, and the newer one I still have is named RAVAGE.

In my house, there's a Decepticon theme. My main server at home is named UNICRON (because it's the biggest and fastest machine in the house), my laptop is named BARRICADE, my NAS system is named FRENZY, my scratchbox system is named GALVATRON (since it used to be named MEGATRON before I pretty much re-built it, appropriately), my old router computer (which is now another scratchbox) is named RAMPAGE, etc.. etc.. :)

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AntZ - small, smart, mobile, inspiring

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Saul -
All my electronic devices have gender-appropriate names starting with the letter "S" and taken from relevant religious fables.
Why I started such a tradition? I don't know. My Palm III was named Sita, and even my HP48 was named Sisyphus.

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I've named my tablet <unknown> and phone N/A just because it causes confusion :)

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Did I miss something here?

The BLUETOOTH name is what you advertise when you connect via BT.

The DEVICE name is what shows on a network when you connect which by default contains the OS version. How do you change the DEVICE name?

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You can edit /etc/hostname as root in a terminal window to change the Device name.

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I named my n800 Sleipnir (my Zodiac 2 is Hugin and the backup Z is Munin, so I thought I'd continue the theme).

In retrospect, "Slider" is perhaps not the best name for a fragile mobile device...

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I named mine Shrike.

Originally, my naming scheme was scifi ships, eventually I played Eve Online and took up the Caldari naming scheme, and have named all of my computing devices random birds.

also:

Shrikes are medium-sized birds, up to 50 centimetres (approximately 19.7 inches) in length, with grey, brown, or black and white plumage. Their beaks are hooked, like that of a bird of prey, reflecting their predatory nature, and their calls are strident. Shrikes are known for their habit of catching insects, small birds, or mammals and impaling their bodies on thorns. This helps them to tear the flesh into smaller, more conveniently-sized fragments, and serves as a "larder" so that the shrike can return to the uneaten portions at a later time.

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My tablet doesn't have a name.

Damn, you guys are geeks! :p

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You can edit /etc/hostname as root in a terminal window to change the Device name.

Just what do I use to "edit" this file to change the hostname?

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I believe that you can do this using the 'vi' command: