Dr Wingnut

Category: Computer

  • Wonderful World

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    What a wonderful world this is!  I click a mouse somewhere, bits fly through fiber optics, go to some undisclosed place, money electronically changes hands, and then atoms in useful arrangements are flown in airplanes and hand-carried to my doorstep.  When you think about it, this is miraculous.from “My New Laptop” by Robert W. Lucky,…

  • Little Typo

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    I got the following card in the mail the other day which had a little typo in the return address for the town of Maple Grove, Minnesota.  I thought that you might enjoy it.

  • Kill SMS! Die! Die!

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    So, you’re at the airport and you notice your Treo has gone missing, along with thousands of contacts and emails and plans for the latest acquisition.  After you stop hyperventilating, wouldn’t it be nice to just borrow a fellow traveler’s phone, text your number with one password and know that all your sensitive data was…

  • Unintended webnames

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    Maybe these companies should have thought a little more laterally about their domain names:Firstly there is Who Represents, a database for agencies to the rich and famous: www.whorepresents.comSecond is the Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views: www.expertsexchange.comLooking for a pen?  Look no further than Pen Island: www.penisland.netNeed a therapist? …

  • Putt’s Law

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    Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.Putt’s Law

  • And the problem is?

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    To recap: Making it possible for consumers to illegally swap music is very bad.  Making it possible for hackers to illegally hijack your computer, however, is just an average day in the record business.Robert X. Cringley column in Infoworld, 14 November 2005Thanks Sony!

  • OS X on E10000

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    Can you imagine what a great PC you could have if Apple were to partner with Sun and ported OS X to run on the SPARC chip and you had an E10000 at your disposal?  WOW!Give Apple’s predilection with not being locked into a single chip architecture, I wouldn’t be suprised if this has happened…