Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Who is Deep Throat?

    Last night I read an article in the December 2003 Smithsonian Magazine about who might be the infamous Deep Throat.  The Deep Throat Uncovered project fingers Fred Fielding, an aide to John Dean as the person who is the infamous Deep Throat of the Watergate Scandal.  I however believe that the true unnamed source to…

  • LOTR

    Fact:Each frame of the Lord of the Rings trilogy requires 12.5MB of storage.  Filmed at 24 frames per second, that amounts to more than 3 million megabytes per episode.Infoworld, 12 January 2004The first IBM-PC XT that the doctor had on his desktop in 1984 when he was the EDP Coordinator at the Radisson Mart Plaza…

  • How to beat Microsoft

    First they ignore you.  Than they laugh at you.  Then they fight you.  Then you win.Mohandas Gandi

  • The drink

    A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.Sinclair Lewis

  • Differences

    Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, you are dreadfully like other people.James Russell Lowell

  • How to do the dishes

    via email from Martha Clark, Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:38:52 -0500

  • Has this guy been living under a rock?

    Microsoft has been running ads like this one trying to get people to install additional crap onto their Windoze servers so that they can connect to servers that are using a real operating system (UNIX).  I don’t think that most administrators have never used Windoze as these ads claim; considering the 70-90% desktop market share…