I'm afraid you can't name him after me, Dave.

August 24, 2006 8:46 PM

Help me name my new PC. My home network is full of machines named after William Gibson characters.

I just built myself a new desktop and I want to name it in accordance with the existing theme.

I currently have the following machines:
Neuromancer (laptop)
Wintermute (my current desktop)
Sensenet (the router)
MollyMillions (daughter's desktop)

Tell me which character from the Sprawl trilogy I should name this new machine after and why.

Case is a shiny black mid-tower with a chrome bubble on the front. It looks just like this

Thanks Hivemind! You're the greatest!

posted by cosmicbandito to Computers & Internet (26 answers total)

name it bill! why not?
posted by sdn at 8:48 PM on August 24, 2006

how about Case? Not only the Neuromancer nod, but a Pattern Recognition reference too.

Other posibilities TheFinn? Uhh.. what's the name of Wintermute's counterpart computer?
posted by slipperywhenwet at 8:54 PM on August 24, 2006

3Jane!
Yonderboi!
Tessier-Ashpool!
Hideo!
Armatage!

A cute little case like that has to be a 3Jane though..

(I did the same thing! My music server is called Neuromancer....I'm such a nerd!)
posted by cowbellemoo at 9:06 PM on August 24, 2006

The Marcus Garvey
Dixie / Flatline
Newmark

but I really like

The Villa Straylight (or just Straylight)

Where it fits in your menagerie might help - is it a media server, a basic email/web appliance, or just a second desktop?
posted by Rock Steady at 9:19 PM on August 24, 2006

Count Zero!
posted by QueSeraSera at 9:34 PM on August 24, 2006

TheFinn, without a doubt.

Or, Lupus Yonderboy.
posted by bshort at 9:34 PM on August 24, 2006

Johnny Mnemonic? Bonus points for giving it a password which renders it useless to everyone, including yourself.
posted by jimmythefish at 9:38 PM on August 24, 2006

(I did the same thing! My music server is called Neuromancer....I'm such a nerd!)
my two drive partitions are neuromancer and wintermute...we're not just nerds, we're clichéd nerds.

my vote for colin
after that talking pda thingy kumiko has in mona lisa overdrive

or maybe after one of the AI loa that show up in that book:

And they are there, the Horsemen, the loa: Pappa Legba bright and fluid as
mercury; Ezili Freda, who is mother and queen; Samedi, the Baron Cimetire, moss
on corroded bone; Similor; Madame Travaux; many others. . . . They fill the
hollow that is Grande Brigitte. The rushing of their voices is the sound of
wind, running water, the hive. . . .
posted by juv3nal at 9:49 PM on August 24, 2006

Response by poster: Rock Steady, it's a replacement desktop....Wintermute will likely become the media server. Keep up the great suggestions everybody.
posted by cosmicbandito at 9:57 PM on August 24, 2006

Best answer: Case is a shiny black mid-tower

Then you've already named it Case.

Maelcum, if Case won't work. Or Ono-Sendai.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:19 PM on August 24, 2006

3Jane? Armitage?
posted by sixacross at 10:37 PM on August 24, 2006

Depends... is it a nifty powerful desktop? If so, Dixie.

Is it a collection of salvaged parts? Then go Case.
posted by pompomtom at 10:38 PM on August 24, 2006

..or you could put Win98 on it and call it Wilson...
posted by pompomtom at 10:39 PM on August 24, 2006

Chevette (Washington) - Virtual Light
posted by scheptech at 10:44 PM on August 24, 2006

what's the name of Wintermute's counterpart computer?

Umm...
posted by Paris Hilton at 11:08 PM on August 24, 2006

Anyway, what about characters from the bridge series? A veritable goldmine of nomenclature. I'd gall it God's Little Toy myself.
posted by Paris Hilton at 11:10 PM on August 24, 2006

No one's said Idoru.

Tsk.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 11:40 PM on August 24, 2006

Threejane, for sure.
posted by Joh at 12:52 AM on August 25, 2006

Oh, there's so many:

Aleph-0
ChibaCity
DeadChannel
RazorGirl
TheOracle (yes, yes, The Matrix, I know. Gibson used it first. Much like The Matrix, funnily enough )
Babylon ( yes,yes, The Matrix, I know, Gibson,ohhh, pffft.)
LiveWireVoodoo

Oh, and you should probably call your workgroup/LAN name The Sprawl.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 1:37 AM on August 25, 2006

Make it a dual boot, call the unix-y version Corto, and the windows-y version Armitage (because the windows side is sure to go nuts at some point).
posted by lowlife at 5:50 AM on August 25, 2006

or the other way around if you prefer! ;)
posted by lowlife at 5:50 AM on August 25, 2006

You can call your network group BAMA.
(Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis, special points for the ghetto slang overlap)
posted by cowbellemoo at 6:42 AM on August 25, 2006

scheptech, I was also going to suggest that and some others from virtual light.

Then I remembered that it isn't in the sprawl trilogy.

Are you really sticking to just the sprawl? The bridge books are fun too :)
posted by utsutsu at 7:24 AM on August 25, 2006

screamingfist
posted by de void at 11:36 AM on August 25, 2006

seconding Chevette
posted by chr1sb0y at 11:41 AM on August 25, 2006

Response by poster: ROU_xenophobe gets best for giving the blindingly obvious answer: Ono-Sendai. That's the brandname of Case's cyberspace deck.
"Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7"

Thanks everybody.
posted by cosmicbandito at 1:15 PM on August 25, 2006