• MinusOne – This is my main computer. -1 is a way sometimes used to mark an int as NULL.
• NaN – This is my laptop, a dell inspiron 1300 … also my battery is dead if anyone knows where I can get a cheap one in Canada that would be great. NaN stands for not a number in matlab.
• Void – This is my current test box. I’m not really sure if void is used in any programing languages but it seemed to me like a synonym to NULL.

In the past I have also had:

• NULL – This was my first linux computer and the mother board died.
• Zero – A laptop that no longer works. Zero is also used as a NULL value.

I also have three devices that currently do not follow this naming convention:

• xo – This is my OLPC XO this computer came whith that name and I have not changed any of the default settings on it.
• Neo – This is my work computer, named after Neo from the matrix. When I have more than one work computer I use other matrix character this helps me keep my work machines seperated from my personal computers since some of them travel with me and spend a lot of time on my home network.
• DD-WRT – This is my router and yes it is using the DD-WRT firmware. The DD-WRT firmware is a great way to get all the power out of your router. I only just started using this and would love to get some neat tips and tricks or other recomendations that people find better and why.

Lastly I have one virtual computer:

• earobinson-PC – This is my vista box, this is the name vista gave it, and I hardly use it so it can stay like that. (Well the last time I used it was to check out google chrome)

So what do you name your computers? Also I do intend to recycle the no longer used names but if anyone has any ideas for more ways of saying NULL I would love to hear them so far the only unused one I have is None from python.

• imagecapture.py
• imagefilter.py

Set it up as a cron job and upload pictures from outside my apartment window every hour. I’m not sure how long ill be keeping it running and if I play with the laptop and dont turn off the script I guess it will upload pictures of me.

Well for anyone interested the important code to take a picture is: [sourcecode language="python"]os.system(‘gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! pngenc ! filesink location=’ + filename)[/sourcecode] and I would love to hear what you have been doing with your XO.

I doubt after the novelty wears off that I will use the computer much but I still think it was a good purchase for the following reasons:

• I donated to a good cause and providing children in the third world with computers to access knowledge is a great thing.
• Its a bit of geek history, I think that the XO really kicked off the micro computer market and is responsible for other computers like the eeePC.
• Its really good fun watching people try to open it (I saw a great video of this and will add it in later if I can find it) and makes a great conversation peace.

I know I haven’t posted much lately and I do have something else I’m working on I promise to try and post soon.

For me I think its a little peace of history (as well as a cool toy), despise the ups (could not find a link where they signed a country) and downs that the OLPC project has had I feel that they it has been largely responsible for the classmate pc and has even lent some credibility to walmarts gOS, and to a lesser extent Asus’s Eee PC.

So to me its a great offer and it only lasts till November 26 just in time for Christmas. I promise to post more when I have it.