{"id":901,"date":"2012-02-15T14:27:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=901"},"modified":"2012-02-15T14:27:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:27:17","slug":"whats-yours-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2012\/02\/15\/whats-yours-called\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s yours called?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This is a repost from the GranularIT Blog<\/a>.)<\/small><\/p>\n

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I couldn’t stand it no more.<\/p>\n

After my latest timelapse experiment (a frame every minute for three days; over 3 GB of photos), not to mention mucking around with stop-motion<\/a>, I decided to bite the bullet and get myself a non-laptop based storage system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the end I went for two Seagate 2 TB drives, sitting on their own surge-protection board, with a cute little 4-gang USB hub into which I could also plug my SD card reader (and still have a slot free for the USB cable to my camera).<\/p>\n

\"Four<\/p>\n

The full Monty was mine for under 250 quid, thanks to an offer at Maplin’s (and that included a Cat6 patch cable. Geeks give the strangest Valentine’s presents). One drive to dump all of the camera files, and the other to back it up.<\/p>\n

The naming of parts<\/h3>\n

But then I had a problem. As any geek will tell you, one of the most important things to get right with new kit is naming it. What should I call my new drives? What convention<\/em> should I follow?<\/p>\n

Given that one was to be the primary and the other a backup, I thought something like ‘Batman and Robin’ would be appropriate. That wasn’t doing it for me, really, so-because I’m a biology geek, first and foremost-I toyed with the idea of something like 5′ and 3′ (“five prime” and “three prime”), followed by ‘GEF’ and ‘GAP’<\/a>, and then ‘Rac’ and ‘Rho’<\/a>. ‘DNA’ and ‘RNA’ didn’t sound quite right, but I did think ‘coding’ and ‘complementary’, ‘sense’ and ‘antisense’, and then ‘Crick’ and ‘Watson’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then again, if I were to nod to Crick and Watson, then why not ‘Crowfoot<\/a>‘ and ‘Franklin<\/a>‘? Or perhaps ‘Rosalind’ and ‘Dorothy’?<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until then that I remembered that I already had a naming convention: my laptop’s drive is ‘Guinevere’, my Time Capsule is ‘Galahad’, and my printer is ‘Gawain’ (which all started back in Sydney when I had the only Mac in the lab-it was white, and therefore had to be ‘Gandalf’). Steering away from the ambiguity of ‘Lancelot’, I first considered ‘Arthur’ and ‘Merlin’, but finally it hit.<\/p>\n

\"Copying<\/p>\n

Merlin and Morgana.<\/p>\n

Magic.<\/p>\n

\"Magic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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