Log o' Rhythm?

[gnomi]

[Poll #1858981]

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I prefer to log on to the system, myself.

[byrne.livejournal.com]

Um. I log on to the system.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Yes. I log on, with my login name and password. I'm sensitive to the lack of symmetry between log on, and log out...

Somehow, though, I'm reminded of the QA joke about a machine with a button on it, and and a display that says "Press and Hold To Start". If you pressed and held the button, the display changed to "Release To Detonate".

Log on to the system and....

[china_shop]

I might log in to the system. I don't think "login" is a verb, but I'm not convinced about "into" (or, as above, "onto") being the right preposition.

But I'm far from certain.

[swashbucklr]

I've always used my login to log on.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I'm precisely in your camp on this one.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

That's what I was going to say.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I use my login to log in to the system. You didn't have that one!

[tapuz.livejournal.com]

It depends on what year we are in when creating the sentence.

[madfilkentist]

I also prefer "log in to." "Log on" sounds odd to me, though I do hear it a lot.

[dpolicar]

Thirded. "Login" is a noun, "log in" is the relevant verb. Or "inlog", were we still using German-style infinitives.

[china_shop]

I just realised that it becomes more obvious when you use the past tense: "when you have loginned to the system" is never going to fly. :-)

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

Old IBM systems had you "log on" and then "log off" the system. I used to hate those systems so much (forced to use them by the school).

As a good old DEC fanboy, I repudiate those terms and side with DEC and Bell Labs (Unix) using "log in" to the system and "log out" of the system. Not exactly the choices in this poll, but close enough for me. ;-)

[madfilkentist]

In fact, German does have the word "einloggen."

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

In my mind, "login" is a noun, and "log in" is a verb. I expect this will change at some point, but that's how I feel right now.

[glishara.livejournal.com]

I'm with those who vote for log on. However, I will take either of your options over "login into" which I had to lead a campaign against with my last company, since they SWORE it was correct.