Welcome to Douglas Thrift's Computers Website

This is my computers page!

Windows

Windows XP FAQ My answers to questions about Windows XP.

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

Unix

Spectre My Samba Mounter program for FreeBSD and/or Linux.
Unix: History, Philosophy, Influence CCS Computer Science 10 Unix: History, Philosophy, Influence, a student colloquium on Unix led by me at UCSB.

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

Programming

My HTML Style My style of HTML Coding.
Search Engine My search engine CGI program.
- Historical The historical background of my search engine CGI program.
- Bug Report Report a bug in Douglas Thrift's Search Engine.
Zoe An AIM Away Message RSS Feed Generator that I built from inspiration by Seth K.
Coder's Workshop CCS Computer Science 10 Coder's Workshop, a student colloquium on programming led by me at UCSB

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

Daily Jargon

Here is the Glossary definition for Friday, July 3, 2009:

drop on the floor: vt.
To react to an error condition by silently discarding messages or other valuable data. “The gateway ran out of memory, so it just started dropping packets on the floor.” Also frequently used of faulty mail and netnews relay sites that lose messages. See also black hole, bit bucket.

From My Blog

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

Coder's Workshop

Tags: dooom, insanity, teach

So, regarding my class which I first mentioned in a blag entry, Coder's Workshop has been scheduled. In other news, Britta and I discovered the problem with the Tagometer Thingy. Apparently, it only shows tags that are shared between more...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Monday, April 2, 2007 at 2:22 PM

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