Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • What Superhero are you?

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    I am proud to say that I didn’t cheat and ended up as the superhero that I have always wanted to be.  Take the quiz by clicking on the picture:

  • Intentional Leak?

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    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 most at risk is the open-source community and particularly Linux, which are built on the trust among code contributors that…

  • Progress

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    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 Magazine

  • Fear

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    It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.Seneca

  • Getting the most from your IT department

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    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 a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.Don’t write anything down.  Ever.  We…

  • Wrong Solution

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    Advertisement from PCWeek, Page E/1, June 5, 1995

  • Proust

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    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.  "I watched the trees gradually recede, waving their despairing arms, seeming to say to me: ‘What you fail to learn…