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To: Still Thinking
I don’t, however, like being patronized, like when they named the local computer icon on the desktop “My Computer”. How precious!

That's minutia.

However, did you ever think that there might be a reason for that name/tag? "My Computer" denotes, things that are resident or pertinent to that particular computer, or "your computer", as opposed to, stuff that resides on other computers, which might reside on other computers on a network, which "your computer" might be a part of.
30 posted on 05/08/2012 6:33:54 PM PDT by adorno
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To: adorno

Whatever the old label was, denoted that clearly without being pedantic. Now I just rename the damn thing “Local Machine” and I’m happy.


31 posted on 05/08/2012 7:22:09 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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