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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11900389

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I bet she has a bath made of tin.

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Not one mention of the Mac OS/OS X …
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Boats, cars etc. Many everday objects are related to in a female sense.

So basically, no news here.

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On a Windows machine I used at a job I had many years ago, I had a japanese girlie character sitting on the task bar. I’d never thought of OSes like this until today.

Belchingmatt: the cars have all been female. Even Eagle-1.

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I forgot to mention washing machines and dishwashers.

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The operating system on a computer, say Microsoft Windows XP or Linux, is the interface you look at every day.

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On my network , naming convention is that pcs are male, laptops are female.

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<== SUSE.

'Nuff said.

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<== Dos-tan ;)

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<== Dos-tan ;)

D'Oh!

I meant SUSE-tan.

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This is the first I've heard of any of this :oops: :oops: :oops:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan

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I bet she has a bath made of tin.

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<== SUSE.

'Nuff said.


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See, I didn’t know that these girlies were such things. I thought there was some kind of minor transvestite thing going on.

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