Wintermute?

Just kidding. I'll think of something else.

how about WonkoForum or WonkoLucida

And how much did that cost you?

How about "Mordor", "Gondor", "wonko" :P

Thor.

Wonkabar or Wonkobar (Whew, it's out of my system.)
Other possibilities: HeartOfGold or Beeblebrox
and there's always: Numenor

I was going to suggest Marvin. He was shiny, metal, and had endless storage capacity. But then someone beat me to the HHGTTG refrences.

Out of the rest, though, Marvin's the only reference I could really take a liking to.

LotR allusions just seem too cliche at the moment.

Inspired, I admit, but Da5id's name, how 'bout Raven?

By* Da5id's, that is.

Igor, maybe?

I know, third post, but I keep having thoughts.
What about something Brustian? Brust conveys a sense of ultimate badassery.

Dragaera, Taltos, Loiosh, Morrolan, Kieron, Lavode, Sethra, Kiera, Khaavren, Yendi, Pel, Lyorn, Tiassa, Dzur, Spellbreaker, Godslayer, Kragar, Vlad, Miklos, Miki, Jenoine, etc. In my opinion, Brust is well established in the names-of-ultimate-badassery department.

I believe you can also find full lists of Dragaera cast online.

My first suggestion is Ilúvatar, pronounced eeloo'vatarr, who is the greatest entity in the whole Tolkien saga, basically our equivelant to "God".

However, since that name isn't nearly as recognized, my second suggestion is Sauron.

Sauron- any geek will know it's powerful, any geek will know its a badass, and nobody wants to fuck with it.

mnemonic, Adj.

1. assisting or intended to assist the memory.
2. pertaining to mnemonics or to memory. –n.
3. something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula.
4. Computers. a programming code that is easy to remember, as STO for “store.”

[1745–55; —mnemonically, adv.

As in Johnny Mnemonic; the ultimate in wetware. Shiny brushed aluminum and blinking blue LEDs are all very nice, but I can't help thinking: Where's the meat?

Zorlac

Ok, so maybe Monkey is overdone, but I like monkeys.

Boomstick.
Toth (as in book of)
Serenity
Firefly
Book
T3
Terra
Sanctuary
FederalOne
IceBox
PrawnBox
Behemoth
Shiny
Jennifer (as in Government)
Leviathan
Babar
QubitTwo
Dog-box (for those dyslexics)
FedRAID

That's all I could think of in the five minutes before house advisor Spring training. I hope one of them catches your eye.

If you the Tolkien route i think you might have to go with Numenor or Ithilien. People in Ithilien are of the badass variety, what with being on the edge of mordor and fighting the good fight all the time....

See, if you did that then when i got a new comp i could name it pippin....;-)

very very nice! but i have the suggestion "not enough!" never enough to have an amazing server when somewhere... somehow, there will sadly be something better

Enough.

Obviously.

Serenity? :) Or are you going to insult Kaylee by claiming that name isn't kickass enough?

If you hadn't already named the computer Shiny, you could go that way. Simple and to the point.

The name's kicking me inna lobes. I know I've read it in a book somewhere, but which and where?
I know I'm going to feel stupid when you tell me.

Blast, right, I should have known I'd think of it as soon as I posted.

Amber, right?

Dude, go with Ghostwheel. Ignore my earlier suggestions :)

Though serenity is easier to type fast.

And fits your monkeypants theme of Joss fandom.

Except that -- and I swear this is true -- I was using "monkeypants" well before I had ever seen anything by Joss Whedon. It was a Carlsonism, if I remember correctly. As some point he used the phrase "velcro monkeypants" and I immediately knew the man was a genius.

Then, when Joss used it in Buffy, I immediately knew he was a genius too.

So am I a genius for "evil hell-fart" or do you just find it amusing?

And just because you didn't MEAN monkeypants as a joss-ism, makes it no less a joss-ism.

Yes, yes, you are definitely a genius for "evil hell-fart". Although "evil monkey hell-fart" might have been even better.

this works I think

I like "Ghostwheel".

If you're going to be needing high I/O throughput, especially for any kind of database and video editing, I'd highly recommend using a RAID 0+1 configuration (striped and mirrored) over RAID 5. Granted, you lose half of the amount of storage in the configuration, but disks are cheap; your data is not. The 0+1 configuration is substantially faster than 5 for both read and write operations.

Could you point me in the direction of where you got that spifftastic case? I desperately want it.

omg wonko when is lucida going to come out, it is so simple and nice and i am still waiting for a image gallery script

For the storage drives, I'm not terribly concerned about speed. It even took me a while to settle on RAID 5 instead of just RAID 0.

There's also a 10,000RPM SATA drive that exists outside the RAID and contains the operating system, applications, and swap file. It's real nice and speedy, so it'll handle the IO-intensive stuff while the RAID will be for long-term storage. If necessary, I can cap video to the system drive and transfer it to the RAID later, although I'm sure the RAID is still plenty fast enough to handle digital video.

Thanks for the advice, though. If I had more money to spare, RAID 0+1 would probably be the way to go.

"Velcro monkey pants" came about when he and I and Sara and possibly Loren were watching Cutthroat Island. There's a monkey in there. And he has velcro pants.

Here you go: linky

Soon young Padawan. Soon.

Egad! I am going to slowly calm myself down and you are going to carefully explain why you were watching Cutthroat Island. Were you bound? Was there torture? Monkeys maybe? A band of roving space monkeys maybe bound you, tortured you, and forced you to watch Cutthroat Island?

i cant wait

hurry

and how is the forum coming

Do you really think the system drive will be faster than the RAID? I don't know specs for your particular controller and drives, but generally decent RAID controllers have pretty significant amounts of cache (making write latency more or less moot). As for reads (media reads especially), you should get much faster throughput from a raid-5 array than from a single drive.

If your raid controller offloads most of the processing to the CPU, then maybe the system drive will be faster, but if you have a good controller (and most cheap ones don't support raid 5), you should be set.

The RAID controller is a 3Ware 8506-8. In my opinion, 3Ware makes the best RAID controllers money can buy. It doesn't offload any of the processing to the system CPU, and while it has a smaller cache than most RAID controllers, it still tends to perform better for a variety of reasons. The most important factor is that 3Ware's controllers provide a dedicated port (and thus a larger pipe) for each drive rather than sharing one port between two or more drives.

As you said, the read speed won't be affected much by RAID 5, but as these benchmarks show, write speeds are much lower. The system drive will have a significant advantage over the RAID array in write performance, which is exactly what I want. Frequent writes such as swapping, temporary file storage, etc. will take place on the system drive, while the RAID array will only need to handle the occasional batch write.

As soon as I get a chance, I'll run some filesystem benchmarks and post the results to see if the theory holds.

FYI, I didnt see it mwntioned anywhere, but Ghostwheel is an AI in Roger Zelazneys second amber series... Awsome Author, Awsome Series, Awsome computer...