About systhread
This site is about operating systems and hobbyist programming. The site is designed more for the casual Open Source user, administrator and/or programmer. This site's written material hinges on programming and administration. That is all - nothing else. Even the code available here pretty much reflects code for administration (which makes perfect sense). It is also somewhat of a personal site, I keep my resume here along with a (very) few facts about myself.
About the Owner (Jay)
I have been involved with technology starting with electronics and programming since 1988 as a hobbyist student (although I had worked on computers before then just not a lot). Computing became a career starting in 1990. Since that time I have worked on mainframes from UNISYS; microcomputers from DEC, HP, and Sun - of course Intel/AMD-based platforms as well. The programming environments I have worked on vary from nothing but assembly up to various BSD-Unix, UNIX variants and Linux. More detailed information can be found in my resume also available in plain text.
System Info
It isn't much, but here are the system specs of the hardware and software behind all this great stuff.
The rest of this document discusses where this site came from. For other information, visit the following links:
A Brief History
In 1998 I became interested in writing online content. I started
with a meager site called i2t which meant internet information
technologies
. I decided to narrow the content of i2t based on a
recommendation by a good friend. I bought a domain called
diverge.org. The diverge site hosted subsites
: a search
engine, my personal site, and a site called The OutRider Computing
Journal. OutRider was similar to this site. The main difference
between this site and OutRider is the maturity of technical
writing. In 2004 I wanted to get back into writing online again and
I saw that Dave Whitinger (a great inspiration)
had started a newswire over at LXer. The name came from a
somewhat abstracted name such as Kernel Thread ... systhread was
available.
