RE: Happy New Year!

> From: Vernon Hamberg
> 
> i wondered about that, too. Maybe he means, get it OUT of Windows?

Get the Windows out of WDSC.  While defenestrate typically means tossing
something out the window, you can stretch it to mean remove the windows,
the same way "depilate" means to remove hair.  In fact, Dictionary.com
says it is computer jargon: "the act of exiting a window system in order
to get better response time from a full-screen program".


> BTW, the 30 years War was touched off by what is called the
Defenestration
> of Prague (1618). A couple vice-regents of the Austrian emperor were
> thrown out a window in the castle in Prague, over an issue of
religious
> freedom.
(...)
> So this looks like a Czech tradition - what's your heritage, Joe?

I'm Polish/Italian.  A fine bloodline for defenestration.

Joe