Dr Wingnut

Year: 2005

  • Why everyone hates Qwest

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    The date: 31 January 2005The time: 11:00 HoursThe event: Our T1 starts to act flaky and then dies.The resolution: 19:00 HoursIt’s not like telco circuits never die, it’s just that you don’t expect them to.  That’s why the telephone industry if famous for having five nines of reliability (99.999% uptime, or five minutes of downtime…

  • Where is the rake?

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    If I’m not mistaken, its right here.via email from Eric Diedrich, Tue, 02/01/2005 14:35 -0600

  • Happiness

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    If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.Edith Wharton

  • Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0

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    LetterDear Tech Support:Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a slowdown in the performance of the flower and jewelry applications that had operated flawlessly under the Boyfriend 5.0 system.  In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs such as Romance 9.9, but installed undesirable programs such as NFL 7.4,…

  • Happiness

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    When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.Hellen Keller

  • Norwegian Fire Department

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    One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink it exploded into massive flames.  The alarm went out to all the fire departments from miles around.When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief…

  • DirectX

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    Microsoft Windows XP has a command line utility called dxdiag which allows you to test your video card for Directx compatibility.Charles Klopp