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Date:      Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:14:31 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Robert Marella <hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is there a particular order in which things should be done?
Message-ID:  <20050203041431.GB5385@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <1107372084.12736.3.camel@p4>
References:  <5a0922b.c7dc1968.81eb700@ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net> <420118F2.1010203@daleco.biz> <1107372084.12736.3.camel@p4>

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On 2005-02-02 09:21, Robert Marella <hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:16 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>> The computer needs to be able to find "localhost", because that
>> is him/her/itself.  (Does a computer have a gender ... hmm, weird.)
>
> Many years ago, a lady friend of mine said, "Computers are called 'He'
> because they can only do one thing at a time and never stay up".
>
> Do you think she was trying to tell me something? :)

That she was using a virus-riddled, painfully slow, feature-limited
version of a DOS clone?

You should have really shown her UNIX :P

/me ducks and runs



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