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zztzed · 04-21-2003, 06:04 PM

My Windows PC is called samsara (a Buddhist term for the endless cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth ... which, if you replace 'birth' with 'booting' and 'death' with 'crashing', describes my experience with Windows to a T.

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My Linux box is called arianne, after a friend of mine. It's actually the third machine to have that name and probably the sixth or seventh OS installation that that name has carried through (I've run a few different Linux distros as well as Free and OpenBSD). The first was a 386 running Slackware... I needed a hostname for it, and I asked my friends on IRC, and a friend of mine suggested that I name it after her. So I did.

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zztzed Tilted Location: Here and there	My Windows PC is called samsara (a Buddhist term for the endless cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth ... which, if you replace 'birth' with 'booting' and 'death' with 'crashing', describes my experience with Windows to a T. ) My Linux box is called arianne, after a friend of mine. It's actually the third machine to have that name and probably the sixth or seventh OS installation that that name has carried through (I've run a few different Linux distros as well as Free and OpenBSD). The first was a 386 running Slackware... I needed a hostname for it, and I asked my friends on IRC, and a friend of mine suggested that I name it after her. So I did. __________________ "It seemed to me that if humanoids eat chicken, then obviously they'd eat their own species, otherwise they'd just be picking on the chickens."