Month: February 2004

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Computer

Intentional Leak?

02/16/2004 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Intentional Leak?
Did Micro$oft intentionally leak portions of it’s source code to the Windoze operating system to cripple the open source movement?  It seems like a distinct possibility when you read quotes like the following from eweek:Perhaps […]
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Progress

02/16/2004 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Progress
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld […]
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Quotations

Fear

02/15/2004 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Fear
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.Seneca
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Getting the most from your IT department

02/14/2004 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Getting the most from your IT department
When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and children’s art.  We don’t have […]
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Quotations

Proust

02/14/2004 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Proust
Proust describes rounding a bend in the road: he sees a stand of trees he’s seen before, but whether he first saw them in a dream or in the distant real past, he can’t say.  […]
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Humor

Crocodiles love dogs

02/14/2004 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Crocodiles love dogs
A dog barks nearby.  "Crocodiles love dogs," [Mark] Read [Biologist, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service] tells me.  "To crocs their barking is like the jingle of an ice-cream truck to a child."Smithsonian, page 92, November […]