Dr Wingnut

Month: March 2005

  • Bye bye Carly

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    In consumer PCs, HP is still getting punished by Dell, which just reported record numbers.Time, 21 February 2005, Pg. 36The consumer PC’s at HP were not Carly’s problem, they sucked way before she took the reins at HP.  They don’t work very well, they break more than comparable business PCs and they cost a fortune…

  • By the numbers

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    59% Proportion of 10th-graders in 1990 who said they expected to graduate from a four-year college.80% Proportion of 10th-graders in 2002 who said they expected to graduate from a four-year college, attributed to increased encouragement from teachers.Time, 21 February 2005, Pg. 19That increase in the number of kids who think that they will graduate from…

  • A Million Monkeys

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    We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference

  • Compassion

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    Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us.Marsha Sinetar

  • Thoughts on an Honored institution

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    You have two choices in life: You can stay single and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead.At a cocktail party, one woman said to another, “Aren’t you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?”  “Yes, I am. I married the wrong man.”A lady inserted an ‘ad’ in the classifieds: “Husband…

  • Too bad. So sad.

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    I feel horrible that, once again, someone has invaded my privacy.Hotel heiress and professional celebrity Paris Hilton, in an interview with US Weekly magazine, on the posting of the contents of her cell-phone address book on the Internet

  • Stuff that runs at Windows startup

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    In addition to the applications that are in the startup folder, there is another place that contains startup applications.  These items are stored in the registry in the My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key.  This is a good place to start looking when you can’t figure out where some spyware or other application is being launched from.When you look…