Re: User/administrative testing: $DESKTOP

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

*sigh*

Note to self: Nobody reads past line 22 or so.

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:18:23PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Gregory Merchan">
> 
> >   ~/Public/
> >   ~/Public/ftp/
> >   ~/Public/www/
> 
> "What is ftp? What is www? I just want to put my files somewhere so that
> my colleagues can get to them from the Intranet."
> 
>   (Intranet is a well-understood word, basically meaning "place that is not
>   on my computer that has all our stuff" amongst the users.)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> -- 
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For general consumption, more descriptive names would probably be
 better; though, people do see http://www.... in all sorts of advertisements.

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Whatever,
Greg Merchan