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 Thursday, July 24, 2008:

broken arrow: n.
[IBM] The error code displayed on line 25 of a 3270 terminal (or a PC emulating a 3270) for various kinds of protocol violations and “unexpected” error conditions (including connection to a down computer). On a PC, simulated with ‘->/_’, with the two center characters overstruck.
Note: to appreciate this term fully, it helps to know that “broken arrow” is also military jargon for an accident involving nuclear weapons....

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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