Do you log in or log on
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I've never understood the difference between those two terms. :confused:
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
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I've never understood the difference between those two terms. :confused:
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I think it's just down to historical differences used in terminology used by different operating systems, or something. Now what really bothers me is when it's used as an alternative to "visit" I.e. "log on to our website" (usually used by clueless media types unaware that there is on way to log on to their site, as it just displays static information) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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I've never understood the difference between those two terms. :confused:
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
Ya know, I've always wondered that myself. Personally, I use "login" for local authentication and "logon" for remote. No real reason except I get the idea of you can't get in a machine that's not next to you. How techy is that? :) Jeremy Falcon Imputek Excrement escapes everyone - even elders.
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I've never understood the difference between those two terms. :confused:
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
David Wulff wrote: Do you log in or log on Something I have often wondered about but never asked. First off, which do you prefer? I also don't seperate the words, prefering login or logon. Though then I get contradictory as I write logged in or logged on... :confused: In my specs I always do a search and replace at the end of writing to ensure I am consistent with either log in, log on, login or logon. How I decide which to be consistent with I can never figure out :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaPaul Watson wrote: "The Labia [cinema]... ...was opened by Princess Labia in May 1949..." Christian Graus wrote: See, I told you it was a nice name for a girl...
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David Wulff wrote: Do you log in or log on Something I have often wondered about but never asked. First off, which do you prefer? I also don't seperate the words, prefering login or logon. Though then I get contradictory as I write logged in or logged on... :confused: In my specs I always do a search and replace at the end of writing to ensure I am consistent with either log in, log on, login or logon. How I decide which to be consistent with I can never figure out :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaPaul Watson wrote: "The Labia [cinema]... ...was opened by Princess Labia in May 1949..." Christian Graus wrote: See, I told you it was a nice name for a girl...
Paul Watson wrote: First off, which do you prefer? Boxers, on top, and holding hands. What's your asl? :rolleyes:
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
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Paul Watson wrote: First off, which do you prefer? Boxers, on top, and holding hands. What's your asl? :rolleyes:
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
David Wulff wrote: Boxers, on top, and holding hands WAY more than we needed to know :-D On the subject at hand though, I think it all stems back to the old mainframes where some had a login command and some had a logon command. Nobody ever really seemed to decide that one was better than the other... because let's face facts, they're not. Paul Pleasently caving in, I come undone - Queens of the Stone Age, No One Knows
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Paul Watson wrote: First off, which do you prefer? Boxers, on top, and holding hands. What's your asl? :rolleyes:
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
David Wulff wrote: What's your asl? Jail bait/more than you can handle/open your cupboard... :rolleyes: Used to say that to daft buggers who whispered me just "asl?" on IRC without even first saying hello and asking after my health. I thought it was very rude (them asking, not my reply.)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaPaul Watson wrote: "The Labia [cinema]... ...was opened by Princess Labia in May 1949..." Christian Graus wrote: See, I told you it was a nice name for a girl...
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David Wulff wrote: What's your asl? Jail bait/more than you can handle/open your cupboard... :rolleyes: Used to say that to daft buggers who whispered me just "asl?" on IRC without even first saying hello and asking after my health. I thought it was very rude (them asking, not my reply.)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaPaul Watson wrote: "The Labia [cinema]... ...was opened by Princess Labia in May 1949..." Christian Graus wrote: See, I told you it was a nice name for a girl...
Paul Watson wrote: Jail bait/more than you can handle/open your cupboard... :laugh: Paul Watson wrote: I thought it was very rude (them asking, not my reply.) Tell me about it, it seems every private conversation that spawns from a chat room starts with either "asl?" or "14/m/Leeds hot'n'horny cam2cam?" It seems no one's heard of a simple hello anymore... :((
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
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I think it's just down to historical differences used in terminology used by different operating systems, or something. Now what really bothers me is when it's used as an alternative to "visit" I.e. "log on to our website" (usually used by clueless media types unaware that there is on way to log on to their site, as it just displays static information) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
benjymous wrote: "log on to our website" Yah or the T.V. commercials that say "Click on www.ourwebsite.com!" :laugh: "We will thrive in the new environment, leaping across space and time, everywhere and nowhere, like air or radiation, redundant, self-replicating, and always evolving." -unspecified individual
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benjymous wrote: "log on to our website" Yah or the T.V. commercials that say "Click on www.ourwebsite.com!" :laugh: "We will thrive in the new environment, leaping across space and time, everywhere and nowhere, like air or radiation, redundant, self-replicating, and always evolving." -unspecified individual
though I did read the results of a survey a few years ago that revealed that the vast majority of web users have never typed in a url - they either just follow links from the default home page provided by their ISP (probably unaware that the aol portal != the internet) or possibly venture as far as search engines. A friend told me about a helpdesk support call he overheard where the operator was desperately trying to tell the user how to visit the company's website to download a patch > type www.ourwebsite.com (no spaces) and press enter it doesn't work > what did you type www dot ourwebsite dot com > dot? yeah, d-o-t - dot > no, I meant the dot symbol huh? > you know - the full stop - the thing you put at the end of sentances .. and so on .. -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!