Dr Wingnut

Day: September 7, 2004

  • Luxury

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    Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty.  It is not.  It is the opposite of vulgarity.Coco Chanel

  • How times change

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    I just picked up the September issue of Sys Admin (the journal for UNIX and Linux system administrators), and right there on the cover is an article titled, “Using LSD to Sync a Solaris Environment.”  I’m old enough to remember when that acronym (LSD) didn’t mean LDAP Software Distribution, it meant lysergic acid diethylamide (AKA…

  • Utility

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    Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent.  Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.Thomas Edison