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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