On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 00:01, Ken McAllister wrote: > Ken McAllister says: Mozilla and Konqueror at first sight I took to be > the addictive gorilla game and the > fire-rockets-off-the-top-of-the-screen-and-they-appear-at-the-bottom-of-the >-screen star wars game.
LOL That's exactly the reason why the shortcuts on my wife's KDE desktop are labled "Wordprocessor" (launches oowriter), "Email" (kmail), "Browse the web" (mozilla), "Play music files" (xmms), "Play audio CD" (kscd), "Rip an audio CD" (grip) and so on. > Programming and teaching in DOS, years ago, I tried to warn people > that silly names haunt you. Name an object CASHBOOK and it is > gratifying to type the word. Name it CSHBK01 and it is a constant > irritation. I discarded an entire language because every one of its > scores of commands was ugly, for example "page break default", which > could have been PAGEBREAK DEFAULT, was PG_BRK DFLT. My favourite thing when I ditched DoS was long filenames. I first encountered long filenames in OS/2 and never looked back. (This was six months before Windows 95(tm) came out. Windows 3.1(tm) was still confined to 8.3 DoS/CPM filenames IIRC). -- Yuri -- This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurrs. Thanks.
