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On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:16 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:

<big snip>

> 
> 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? :)

Robert

P.S. Nice post Kevin.