Dr Wingnut

Month: July 2013

  • No one needs more that 640K of RAM

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    If I could, I would repeal the Internet.  It is the technological marvel of the age, but it is not — as most people imagine — a symbol of progress.  Just the opposite.  We would be better off without it.Robert J. Samuelson, Opinion, 2013-06-30, Washington PostA new front runner for the dumbest technology quote ever.

  • Locking my Mac

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    For quite some time, I’ve used Quicksilver to host a trigger that allowed me to lock my Mac with the option-l keystroke, but recently I decided that that wasn’t good enough, so I wrote a little AppleScript that I tied to the trigger that also pauses iTunes.  This way I can lock my machine, and…

  • Work

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    The only way to do great work is to love what you do.  If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.  Don’t settle.Steve Jobs