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Welcome to Douglas Thrift's Computers Website

This is my computers page!

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Windows

Note: Some of the stuff listed in Programming works in Windows.

Unix

Note: Some of the stuff listed in Programming works in Unix.

Programming

Note: You can find some other programs I have made in download.

Daily Jargon

Here is the Glossary definition for Monday, February 8, 2010:

funny money: n.

1. Notional ‘dollar’ units of computing time and/or storage handed to students at the beginning of a computer course; also called play money or purple money (in implicit opposition to real or green money). In New Zealand and Germany the odd usage paper money has been recorded; in Germany, the particularly amusing synonym transfer ruble commemorates the funny money used for trade between COMECON countries back when the Soviet Bloc still existed. When your funny money ran out, your account froze and you needed to go to a professor to get more. Fortunately, the plunging cost of timesharing cycles has made this less common. The amounts allocated were almost invariably too small, even for the non-hackers who wanted to slide by with minimum work. In extreme cases, the practice led to small-scale black markets in bootlegged computer accounts.

2. By extension, phantom money or quantity tickets of any kind used as a resource-allocation hack within a system. Antonym: real money.

From My Blog

Unicode Christmas and Other Holidays ☃

Tags: christmas, stuff, tree, unicode

Britta and I launched Unicode Holiday Xmas Tree, a web app that lets you decorate and send Unicode Xmas trees, on Monday. On Tuesday I submitted it to MetaFilter Projects and before long it was on MetaFilter as SEVEN SYMBOLS...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 2:03 AM

Moar Pictures from Google I/O

Tags: conference, google, googleio, insanity, io2008

Apparently Google has released its pictures from Google I/O, so much like previously in I/O, I/O, It's off to disk I go I've compiled their pictures of us:...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 2:02 PM

I/O, I/O, It's off to disk I go

Tags: conference, google, googleio, insanity, io2008

On Tuesday, after the CCS All College Meeting, Jay asked me if I wanted to "go to the Bay Area". Phill's web design class had left to go San Francisco for Google I/O earlier that day, missing the meeting. Anyway,...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 10:52 PM

The Future Is Now!

Tags: c++, database, dooom, freebsd, software, terminal

[douglas@slowhand:~]$ uname -a FreeBSD slowhand.douglasthrift.net 6.2-RELEASE-jc1 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-jc1 #0: F ri Feb 16 19:33:37 PST 2007 user@jail14.johncompanies.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/s ys/jail14 i386 [douglas@slowhand:~]$ █ Yep, you guessed it, you are looking at my blog served from my new virtual FreeBSD server with John...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 6:31 AM

Coder's Workshop Rescheduled

Tags: dooom, insanity, teach

My course, Coder's Workshop, has been rescheduled. Hopefully, this means more people can be there for the whole time....

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Monday, April 16, 2007 at 1:31 PM

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Cyrket 2.0 -- Developer's Cockpit for Android Market
It's always funny to see what various journalists get wrong about Jay.
to android personal stuff fun ccscslab … on Feb 6, 2010 at 12:36 AM
History - Autoconf
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy!?
to history insanity documentation unix linux freebsd solaris perl ccscslab … on Nov 25, 2009 at 3:15 AM
cyoa · zork
to games history computerscience via:britta … saved by 1087 other people … on Nov 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Why can't I access the administrative shares or remote administrative functions from a remote computer?
to windows documentation insanity … saved by 13 other people … on Oct 29, 2009 at 9:06 PM
A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database « Jon Udell
to history database calendar insanity fun infrastructure propaganda tz ccscslab via:straup … saved by 79 other people … on Oct 24, 2009 at 4:15 AM
Python port of Unidecode
to documentation python perl unicode … on Oct 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Elkhound and Elsa
to c++ computerscience documentation algorithms via:saurik ccscslab … saved by 6 other people … on Oct 21, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Small Bridges (to Proximate Spaces)
to flickr geo stuff trains infrastructure fun ccscslab … saved by 24 other people … on Oct 19, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Machinarium
to fun games art via:britta ccscslab … saved by 1323 other people … on Oct 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM
suggestify (alpha)
to flickr everything geo ccscslab via:britta … saved by 20 other people … on Oct 6, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Official Gmail Blog: New in Calendar: Sports schedules and contacts' birthdays
I'm not sure I believe that Ian actually wrote this blog entry, but he did make the new features.
to stuff personal calendar google ccscslab … saved by 18 other people … on Sep 28, 2009 at 7:34 PM
ISO Recorder v 2
I've been using this in Windows XP for years, good to see it supports Vista and Windows 7.
to windows stuff ccscslab … saved by 2765 other people … on Sep 21, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Python Keyring Lib
to python documentation unix linux windows freebsd ccscslab … saved by 26 other people … on Sep 2, 2009 at 2:26 PM
nss-ldapd: NSS module for name lookups using LDAP
to ldap documentation unix linux freebsd ccscslab insanity … saved by 3 other people … on Aug 21, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Download Subversion | Slik SVN
to windows versioncontrol … saved by 198 other people … on Aug 12, 2009 at 4:16 PM

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