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...Gilbert Grape on video and becoming a die-hard fan. The home page was just a hobby, a way to learn how to build a website. Then, on the day Titanic came out, the $20,000 computer that served www.dicaprio.com sank like the great ship itself. "I had to reboot it every half hour," Gaskins recalls. Finally he relocated to more heavy-duty digs donated by a for-profit site that sells Leo-related merchandise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking For Leonardo | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...amid the stresses of daily life, especially so because its insights seem to come in pairs which conveniently cover contradictory situations. When our study group is working well, we can say honestly that two heads (or three or four) are better than one. At other moments, when trying to reboot a computer with friends offering conflicting suggestions (or sometimes just at dinnertime), we realize that too many cooks can spoil the broth. And as far as relationships go, depending on the nature and identities of the persons involved, it's pretty clear that both "out of sight, out of mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Little Proverb, Lots To Say | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

...prey to budget austerity. For all the spending on computers and software ($800 billion in the U.S. during the past five years), the most obvious investment has not been made: ensuring that every schoolchild has a personal computer. Grove himself says this would be the most effective way to reboot education in America, yet he and others in the industry have been timid in enlisting in such a crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: MAN OF THE YEAR | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

STEVE JOBS Mercurial founder is last hope to reboot Apple and stave off Microsoft's 1,000-year reign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 11, 1997 | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...that conventional radio messages couldn't get through. And even though the rules of engagement barred OPFOR from trying to jam EXFOR's electronics, time-consuming glitches bedeviled the high-tech team. "There's so much information coming through that the computers are locking up and we have to reboot," said Oaks. He also complained about the 30 minutes he had to spend offline every time he moved battalion headquarters. "That half-hour we're down could be the half-hour when the battalion dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WIRED FOR WAR | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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