Matthew Dillon wrote: Yah, it came from O'Brien's work (who else would put 'undermydesk' in the link identification string?)... The story (as I heard it) is that someone once sneered at desktop computers as being hopelessly-and-forever inadequate to run a real *nix OS. This prompted the reply that 'my computer is *under* my desk, not on top'... Urban legend, perhaps -- dunno.