Dr Wingnut

Category: Computer

  • How the internet started

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    In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy.And Dot Com was a comely woman, Large of body, broad of shoulder and long of leg.  Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.  And she…

  • Project management

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    Some days, it just seems like this is the tao of project management.

  • How times have changed

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    Just the other day as I was uploading the new additions from my CD collection into the Amazon Cloud Player I saw a file go by that was 10MB.  The first IBM PC that I worked on when I was at Radisson Mart Plaza Hotel in Miami had a 10MB drive; and that was a…

  • 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…

  • Computers

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    Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.James Magary

  • What Information Technology Staffs Want More Than Salary

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    So what does matter to CIOs? Well, among the 340 CIOs who took our survey, the top answers for “what matters most to you about your job” were, in order: My opinion and knowledge are valued; Involvement in setting company strategy and determining goals; My work (job) is important to the company’s success; Challenge of…