Carlfish wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:41:19 GMT, Mike Koenecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> somehow managed to type:
>
>>Agreed. I'm afraid that all that Microsoft "My Pictures," "My Files,"
>>"My Documents," ad nauseum makes me want to puke. I keep my data in a
>>directory called "Data".
>>
>
> Wow, that's organised. I currently have a "stuff" directory, sitting
> alongside "stuff2", "morestuff" and "stuph". When is someone going to come
> up with a better way of organising filesystems? Surely you could do pretty
> cool things if the fs kept a database of arbitrary file attributes, with
> pluggable modules by MIME-type so you could have the filesystem
> do things like auto-index mp3's by their id tags, or HTML files by
> their meta-tags... But I digress.
>
> That said, the "My Foo" syndrome deserves to die. After the explosion
> lf "My" websites ("My Netscape", "My Yahoo"), and dating back to
> everyone's favourite tech-support nightmare, "My Computer" ("Click on 'My
> Computer'." "But I can't see your computer from here!"), the whole concept
> has just become overused, old and tacky.
>
> Charles Miller
>
I got some real, live stories about clients and the "My Computer" and
the "any key" thing but nobody would believe 'em. Hey look, I've had to
make an emergency service call to plug the power cord back in the wall
socket so the computer will "turn on" .......
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