Dr Wingnut

Category: Computer

  • Windows 7

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    My friend wanted a free copy of the OS, so he hosted a “Windows 7 House party” tonight… the best thing I can say is that it didn’t crash; I liked the way you make all the current windows invisible so you can see the desktop, but there wasn’t much else that impressed me.Of course…

  • Daddy, how was I born?

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    A little boy goes to his father and asks, “Daddy, how was I born?”The father answers, ‘Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway!  Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo.  Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we…

  • Stuck in the snow…

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    I’m at work and what I really want to be doing is backing up my machine and installing Snow Leopard… my friend Tony is already working on upgrading his machine.

  • I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!

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    Just like in the movie, Network, where Peter Finch as Howard Beale yells into the camera, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”; some people in IT are feeling the same sentiment.Infoworld is starting the Slow IT Movement with the slogan, “Do less with less”They even have a ten…

  • Get ready for the biggest thriller of the decade

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    via email from Nat Forbes, Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:17:28 -0700

  • Is it magic?

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    Yesterday during the fiber optics demo at the Corning Museum of Glass they revealed that the secret sauce (dopant) in fiber optics was titanium.  That’s the same secret sauce in the new memristor that was recently synthesized.  What else might titanium do?

  • Ultimate definition of Windoze

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    Windows: A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can’t stand one bit of competition…via Steel White TableMight properly be: A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen…