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Gernot Ziegler writes "After having read a report on the fusion of Art and Technology, I somehow ended up on Perry Hoberman's page. I don't know this guy, but I've always been fascinated by techno art, and these ones are clearly intriguing.
There is the Workaholic, a pendulum with a bar code scanner over a carpet with bar codes and an attached projector that overlays images on the carpet, or the ZOMBIAC (Zone Of Monitor-Based Inter-Amnesiac Contact) that lures the visitors into thinking that the machines react to them directly. You might also want to have a look at this weird auction (that's where I got this link from) ! :)"
I'm going out to get some!
Later, dorks!
first post niggas. go back to sleep!
Cool
I hate all of it if this keeps up I am not going to read this site anymore!
DeadTech
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Users can attempt to steer the pendulum, but it will always remain somewhat unpredictable. At all times, the scanner/pendulum works as a TOOL that operates on the image below. Sometimes the pendulum acts like a kind of CHISEL or ROUTER, cutting grooves through images to expose other images hidden below. Repeated passes will widen these grooves until certain images become completely exposed and dislodged. At this point the pendulum becomes a kind of MAGNET, dragging bits of images along its path. At other times the pendulum acts as a kind of RADAR, updating the parts of the image that it swings over, or a VACUUM CLEANER, sucking up images; a distorting LENS; a BRUSH, a BROOM, and so on. These various functions are reinforced by the use of appropriate sound effects
.. even after looking at the pics, I can't decipher what the hell they're talking about.. let alone why the usual use of CAPS in the text..
The revolution will not be televised. It won't be on a friggin blog either
Check out this band - it consists of old 386DX computer having a SB... :-D
The music is quite fun, as it consists of classics rendered in the adlib-style sounds and top of that the SB speech synthesizer is singing the vocals.
As can be seen in the pages, they have done many "live concerts" which could be defined also quite nice computer art installations - just the computer sitting on street, playing out its music.
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http://saveie6.com/
Lego-MAC
I think the image is projected onto the floor. It just makes a flat color and then chisels another color into it with different brushes and effects until its a big mess like a winamp vis plugin I dunno though, it doesn't explain well
votetoimpeach.org link. nice!
What kind of nerd would use Adobe GoLive to create a web page?
The number of the beast, vi vi vi!
50 c001 c4n 17 937 4nj b3773r 7h3n 7h15? w00t!
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use IO::Socket;
my $filthy_string = 'shit vagina fuck pig bum poo anal bottom boobies milf warez l33t h4x0r ';
$server_port = 19;
$server = IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalPort => $server_port,
Type => SOCK_STREAM,
Reuse => 1,
Listen => 10 );
while ($client = $server->accept()) {
print "Got connection from $client\n";
while(1) {
$client->send($filthy_string);
}
close($client);
}
close($server);
gasp how am i supposed to breathe with all these fat waggly cocks in my face??!?!?!
Hey, I have a lot of respect for all you guys who like to eat pussy because there are too few of you out there. And I'm not the only woman who says this. Furthermore, some of you guys who are giving it the old college try are not doing too well, so maybe this little lesson will help you out. When a woman finds a man who gives good head, she's found a treasure she's not going to let go of him too quickly. This is one rare customer and she knows it. She won't even tell her girlfriends about it or that guy will become the most popular man in town. So, remember, most guys can fuck, and those who can usually do it satisfactorily, but the guy who gives good head, he's got it made.
Most women are shy about their bodies. Even if you've got the world's most gorgeous woman in bed with you, she's going to worry about how you like her body. Tell her it's beautiful, tell her which parts you like best, tell her anything, but get her to trust you enough to let you down between her legs. Now stop and look at what you see.
Beautiful, isn't it?
There is nothing that makes a woman more unique than her pussy.
I know. I've seen plenty of them. They come in all different sizes, colors and shapes; some are tucked inside like a little girl's cunnie and some have thick luscious lips that come out to greet you. Some are nested in brushes of fur and others are covered with transparent fuzz. Appreciate your woman's unique qualities and tell her what makes her special. Women are a good deal more verbal than men, especially during love-making. They also respond more to verbal love, which means, the more you talk to her, the easier it will be to get her off. So all the time you're petting and stroking her beautiful pussy, talk to her about it.
Now look at it again.
Gently pull the lips apart and look at her inner lips, even lick them if you want to. Now spread the tops of her pussy up until you can find her clit. Women have clits in all different sizes, just like you guys have different sized cocks. It doesn't mean a thing as far as her capacity for orgasm. All it means is more of her is hidden underneath her foreskin.
Whenever you touch a woman's pussy, make sure your finger is wet. You can lick it or moisten it with juices from inside her. Be sure, by all means, to wet it before you touch her clit because it doesn't have any juices of its own and it's extremely sensitive. Your finger will stick to it if it's dry and that hurts. But you don't want to touch her clit anyway. You have to work up to that. Before she becomes aroused, her clit is too delicate to be handled.
Approach her pussy slowly. Women, even more so than men, love to be teased. The inner part of her thigh is her most tender spot. Lick it, kiss it, make designs on it with the tip of your tongue. Come dangerously close to her pussy, then float away. Make her anticipate it.
Now lick the crease where her leg joins her pussy. Nuzzle your face into her bush. Brush your lips over her slit without pressing down on it to further excite her. After you've done this to the point where your lady is bucking up from her seat and she's straining to get more of you closer to her, then put your lips right on top of her slit.
Kiss her, gently, then harder. Now use your tongue to separate her pussy lips and when she opens up, run your tongue up and down between the layers of pussy flesh. Gently spread her legs more with your hands. Everything you do with a woman you're about to eat must be done gently.
Tongue-fuck her. This feels divine. It also teases the hell out of her because by now she wants some attention given to her clit. Check it out. See if her clit has gotten hard enough to peek out of its covering. If so, lick it. If you can't see it, it might still be waiting for you underneath. So bring your tongue up to the top of her slit and feel for her clit. You may barely experience its presence. But even if you can't feel the tiny pearl, you can make it rise by licking the skin that covers it. Lick hard now and pr
check out the work of Mary Flanagan and her phage program...It trolls your hardrive and does random stuff with the data it finds...
www.maryflanagan.com
In the old days, art copied things - but as photography came about, the necessity of that dropped away, and art began to *comment* on things.
One thing that art looooves to do is to comment on art itself. (basically one generation of art comments on the previous generation: e.g. post-modernism art being mostly comments on the modernism, etc (for the nit-pickers - i really forgot which "ism" comments on modern-ism, so if the fact is a little off, don't flame, ja?))
What it really boils down to is that for many years now, art has been very seclusive stuff - stuff commenting on previous stuff which were themselves comments on ever earlier stuff. For the non artist, besides the above as a background, one very, very important word of caution - unless you intend to keep track of what is the current subject of comment, and understand all the crap that came before that, I'd seriously recommend against spending money on the stuff. Besides very few items that eventually ends up famous for famous' sake (Mona-Lisa, for example, is viewed to be "famous because of it's fame" - that's another thing I got out of the class, btw), all you will be receiving in the end is a comment without any context to go with it, kinda like spending money for a single comment of slashdot, without knowledge of all its beowulf cluster of running jokes, previous stories with evil bits set, and you bought it just because it was moderated highly.
anyway, for decoration purposes, there are many decorating art you get at even malls these days. let me repeat: don't ever spend money on what *real* artist produces, unless you are very sure of what you are doing. (this in response to the auction site)
not to mention, most of the real art nowadays are crap anyways...
My life in the land of the rising sun.
We're all familiar with the Randian concept of the mind body dichotomy, where she states that there is a division between those whose skills lie with the physical world, and others whose skills lie in the spiritaul (what she called 'witch doctors).
...assuming she wasn't busy laughing her ass off seeing the high priests of the physical (that would be you computer owners) tripping over themselves to debase themselves at the feet of our modern witch-doctors of bad post-modern esthetics!
I think she would be quite amused at seeing the artistically inclined who try to bring their emotion-based sensibility to a wholly logical based platform such as computers.
Indeed, I'm sure that she would see defiling of computers [which are the embodiment of reason and logic] with irrationality [as most forms of modern are are based on] to be disgusting
I never really understood the pricing for a lot of art, I mean I can understand why a really nice picture might be worth a couple hundred dollars -- prints cost money, mounting them costs money and the artists needs to make some money on it. I could easily see paying a couple hundred or more for a picture I really like. Some of these though are ridiculous. Like this print, it says retail price $1200!!! Besides the fact that I can't imagine anybody actually wanting to own that picture I just don't understand where that value comes from. Anybody could make a picture of a Windows XP dialog box saying something like that... it's not even an original idea! Things like that are put up on the web all the time! This one's just as bad and it's $2000.
That's ridiculous.
This is an interesting fact which I learnt the other week.
The word "Techno" actually MEANS "Art"
Therefore Technology is infact "The study of art." I was distraught when I learnt this, since I am an engineering student and despise those lowly arts students...
I am not stubborn. I am right!
From boingboing.net which frequently links to interesting computer art there is this
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The ZOMBIAC is nowhere near as cool as zombo.com!
Anything is possible at zombo.com!
The only limit is yourself!
If all art is a comment on something else, then what I want to know is what the hell is this commenting on?
Story here!
Another way technology plays into poetry is Aleatory Poetry. I experimented with this a bit in this dynamic poem, revelation to pi.
by Arthur Ganson
It is hard to get a handle on the what we mean by "art", let alone "computer art". Some say that art is a representation of the metaphysical. Yet, the very term "metaphysics" is repudiated by many feminist philosophers, especially those engaged primarily with twentieth century French and German philosophy, because it connotes a pretension to ahistorical universalism, as if philosophical accounts of the real could transcend the whole cloth of our cultural, historical, and embodied rootedness. Perhaps rather than "computer art" we should use "computer craft" allowing for broader and less austere possibilities.
Interesting... I don't have a disdain for the arts (art itself that is) but arts classes at universities. AKA the "Bachelor of Attendance." I fail to see the relevance of most of the drivel that exists in those classes. But I think that my greatest complaint with an arts student happened in my first year. In the first fortnight to be precise. At this time I was doing 30+ hours a week at uni, and this bloke was complaining about all of the hours he was going to be spending in class. It transpired that he was an arts student, and had to do a whole 10 hours a week. He dropped a class because he just could not take the pressure of all that work. That is probably where my disdain for the arts comes from. That was really off topic
P.S. Leonardo DaVinci, one of the greatest artists ever to have existed in the world, and one of the most intelligent and insightful, was infact a millitary engineer by profession.
I am not stubborn. I am right!
..what someone will pay.
Nothing more, nothing less. If you like good art, there are better places to look - chances are if you ask around you can find someone who paints who would be flattered if you wanted one of their pictures.
..don't panic
Everyone knows that when presented with an inexplicable piece of "art", one must immediately feign understanding, lest he be lumped with the great mass of society who can't understand either. You are, of course, better than the rest of society, yes? And if you can't "understand" art exhibitions, you might as well be an animal or a redneck or a cracker! If you don't want to be one of those, make up an explanation of why you think this artwork is deep and immensely thoughtful. And better yet, publish this opinion where others can see it, so that ye may better be recognized at parties as the guy who understood the piece of art that nobody else could appreciate!
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
It looks like this could be used as a random (as opposed to pseudorandom) number generator, or as random seeds for a pseudorandom number generator. Something similar was done by pointing a webcam at a lava lamp. Random unpredictability is important for things like encryption.
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
The word "Techno" actually MEANS "Art"
Interesting. defines techno as "styles of dance music" derived from the prefix techno (as in technology)
If however you were talking about the prefix rather then the word, you are still incorrect.
Techne the greek word the prefix techno comes from, is generally accepted to mean the systematic treatment of arts/crafts (including building, manufacturing, etc) or just skill
Whilst we're on definitions - a definition for engineer:
2. One who operates an engine.
So any Arts student who rides to school is allready an engineer.
Because nerds RARELY get some.
I'm sexually abusing my little six year old sister. Please make me stop.
Bah. So hate that guy, don't generalize about the people working and educating those in the field. My girlfriend is a recently-graduated Art History major, with a secondary focus in studio art, specifically sculpture. She worked HARD for her degree, at a state school, in the art department...and got a good education under professors making a pittance and working in one of the most underfunded departments in the US. (Colorado state school art depts.)
I've seen her put more hours toward a sculpture piece than I ever put toward a program in the CS curriculum at the same school, one that is reasonably well-respected. I had the same disdain, until I found that most CS students were rock-stupid slackers, and most art students were rock-stupid slackers...
You'll find lazy people everywhere. Keep that in mind.
but you won't be getting anything like this anytime soon. Turn off your computers! Go outside! run free. you know you salivate when you think of WARM, WET, PUSSY
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You know the drill all to well by this point in time. It's time for the self-deprecating yet ego stroking babble-about-myself page. It's required by net.law. If I violate this sacred net tradition, my cheesy vanity domain name will be taken from me and given to starving school children. My servers will be taken and given to the needy. And I'll be tied to a chair and forced to write HTML for companies that manufacture cardboard boxes, or code CGI apps for warehouses that ship boxes. Either way, its boxes, and thats no good.
Where are you? I'm in Holland Michigan. Look at your right palm. I'm about half way between the base of your pinky and your wrist. Plus or minus a few veins. Holland is the home of the Tulip Festival- the 3rd largest festival in the United States (following the Festival of Roses and Mardi Gras). Personally I'd rather be in Pasadena or New Orleans, but this is where I am, and this is where I'm gonna stay until I go crazy and move.
Currently I hang my hat in my fabulous house north of town. Its a nice place on a couple of acres of trees where I can hide in between conferences and meetings.
Didja Go to School? I wish I didn't, but truth be known, I attended many years of formal education, starting from Rose Park Christian Nursry School, Rose Park Elementary, Holland Christian Middle School, and eventually graduation from Holland Christian High School in 1994. I followed up this career by attending Holland's other major Christian Institution: Hope College. After 4.5 years (the extra semester for was for luck!) I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and a Minor in Studio Art. During this time I got poor grades while spending every waking moment that wasn't devoted to education teaching myself anything about computers I could get my brain around. My favorite parts of school was ceramics, drawing, and graphics classes where I was forced to learn enough math to understand Splines and raytracing.
Have you ever had a Job? My first job was at a grocery store. I spent several years bagging food, carrying them to cars, and putting boxes on shelves. This prepared me perfectly for my later career in the realm of computers (cough cough). My first real tech job was at Donnelly where I spent 2 more years fixing computers. Here is where I learned the difference between 115 and 220 current, as well as why Windows is the worst operating system on the planet. Following my time at Donnelly I worked at The Image Group where I performed various tasks ranging from HTML guy and pseudo Sysadmin to CGI Hack. I worked on sites including First Michigan Bank and Woodland Realty before I eventually served out my sentance and started my own company with a few friends.
For much of my college career I ran a little web site known as Slashdot. From megaer beginings it grew to be quite a popular net destination. We've won lots of awards and we serve up a million+ pages each day. My time is now fully consumed with running this beast. In June of 99 it was acquired by Andover.Net. and I was employed to maintain charge of the site. The food chain continued as Andover was in turn swallowed by VA Linux Systems. We are now a business group collectively known as OSDN, but what I do hasn't really changed from the days when I ran Slashdot out of my bedroom.
I'm also on the board of BlockStackers, a company created by me and friends. This company was the corporate structure that held Slashdot for a year, and continues to be the home of Everything2- our wacky, distributedly maintained web database, Perl Monks, a perl hacker site, and AdFu, our banner ad server. Now if we make money or not, that remains to be seen, but at least its fun. I've also been known to spend much time working with Kurt the Pope on a project known as AnimeFu, a (surprise) Anime film site also based on the E2 engine mentioned earlier.
So what do you like?
* Computers. From the days of TRS-80s and BASIC with line numbers, on out to C, C++, SQL, Pascal, Ada, and pretty much any other l
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Neat idea.
rhinoceros cock
giraffe cock
- David Rokeby
- Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
- Simon Penny
Who are yours?Jill awoke to the sounds of familiarity, and the comfort of her own bed. She reached out next to her as she did every morning, then finding the bed empty remembered that it was Monday, and Gary, her husband, must have left for work already. Opening her eyes she took note that the sun was well up behind the closed curtains, and sighing rolled out of bed, she had things to do today, and one of them was saying goodbye to Dirt. She nearly tripped over the Black Labrador Retriever, Jackie's dog, Bear, on her way to the bathroom, sure that it had to be his cum running down her thighs from fucking her last night in her very own bed for Gary's photographic pleasure. A smile visited her face as she patted the animal on the head in passing. For a dog, he was one hell of a lover. He'd fucked her twice already, and licked her to several climaxes before that. Yes the experiment, at least that's the way she looked at it, had gone well. Over the weekend she'd been fucked in every hole she had by one black cock or another, and loved every bit of it. Her life twin, the strawberry blonde Yvette had even introduced Jill to the pleasures that animal cock can bring to a hungry woman's pussy, and Jill had hopes of seeing just how kinky Yvette and her black husband Pierre really were during the rest of their stay in California. Still nude, Jill lowered the toilet seat and sat down to pee. At first her pussy evacuated what dog scum was still up in her then thankfully a stream of piss sizzled into the john. Bear had decided to join her at that moment, and put his body between Jill's open legs, his head going right to her groin, and he began lapping at the stream of pee exiting her hole. Of course his tongue swiped along her sensitive slit as it caught her urine, and Jill's head flew back in wicked delight. "Ooooooh, you nasty bastard," Jill moaned, "even Gary doesn't come in her when I pee," but she didn't push the dog's head away, instead holding it where it could better assist in sliding the length of her slit. Tail wagging, Bear happily lapped away in Jill's smooth hairless crotch, and she again sighed at the delicious feeling that doing something wrong and not getting caught lent to the obscene act. However as soon as she finished peeing she did shoo the dog out of her way, so that she could run a bath. Bear seemed to understand, and backed out of the way as Jill stood up, and turned to run the bath water. Never giving what she did in her normal routine a second thought, Jill got down on her knees next to the tub, fixed the stopper, and turned the knobs, checking to make sure the temperature was just to her liking, and adding several bath oil beads. Unfortunately, Bear took this as an invitation of sorts, and moved in up behind her. Just as Jill was about to get up from her hands and knees to go get fresh towels, a weight dropped onto her back that she wasn't expecting driving her back down on all fours. Half in and half out of the tub Jill couldn't get any leverage, and knowing that it was the Black Lab on her mounting her in the classic dog fucking his bitch position didn't help any. The bath oil beads had already dissolved and now her hands were slippery, and unable to get a purchase anywhere. If she didn't do something, and soon, the dog was going to fuck her again, but this time without her consent. Jill shivered then at the thought of literally being raped by the dog. After all, she hadn't asked for it, this time, and unfortunately Bear didn't understand human language, he'd just know that she had been his willing bitch twice already. Jill nearly slipped into the tub then as Bear's canine cock suddenly found what it was searching for, a hole. The problem, at least for Jill was, that it was the wrong hole, but if she let go of her tenuous hold she'd fall head first all the way into the bathtub, taking the dog with her. Then it dawned on her, that was her way out. Just fall into the tub. She allowed her arms to collapse then, and her head and shoulders went in under the warm water. Bear yelped as his dick popped out of the hairless bitc
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The pendulum is the mouse pointer. The screen is a photo opened by The Gimp.
The tool that the pointer represents changes depending on the state of the image. Sometimes it erases a layer and sometimes it paints a layer etc...
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
The caps indicate functions that the "machine" performs in response to the bar codes it reads. The pendulum reads the bar codes, and these control what the overhead projector displays.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
ANIMUSIC is more than worth checking out. The current DVD and CD is arranged very nicely and the eye candy is amazing. There is going to be a 16:9 and 5.1 (hoping for DTS) release in the early first quarter of 2004.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
art is cool
if you sail on over to lowtech.org you can see a group in the UK using redundant technology both in art and in society.
the group a2rt (www.a2rt.org) are also starting up something similar as well.
The reasoning behind using lowtech computers in art and social projects was given by James Walbank the founder of the lowtech project in this speech to an arts conference with the theme of revolution. James correctly pointed out that you can't have a revolution with a price tag of over £1000.
favourite pieces include redundant array, and the video wall that was reprised in even better fashion here at fort lux
Art is what you make it, found art is what you find and what you make it, lowtech art is finding art in skips.
sparkes
blog and junk
They should be stopped!
I remember, years ago, when I went along to the AIMIA awards with a friend, on the Gold Coast in Australia. The two of us wandered slowly around the space in white paint-protection suits (very high tech) with Powerbooks running PixelToy mounted to our chests. People could speak into the screens and see the psychedelic screen change. Fun, and hanging out in the green room with the other weirdos was a laugh.
Oh, and someone else gave me money to develop an early version of this thing identikit into what you can see today. All done with QuickTime VR object movies. Full experience from the main page at funwithstuff.com.
it's not about the karma, it's about the whuffie
The link in the parent post is a little out of date. This is the correct link, which has up-to-date concert listings and CD's.
Check out scene.org viewing tips.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Another approach to computer art, which recognizes its roots in computer culture as well as in "art" - is software art. Lots of cool stuff over at runme.org... and read_me, an entire festival devoted to software art, is coming up in a couple weeks in Helsinki..
This project from the runme.org page looks pretty cool. There's also a movie of the software in action.
"A lot" is two words. You wouldn't say "alittle", would you?
As scary as it is, some do...
my favorite quote describing Perry Hoberman's installation, entitled "systems maintenance":
the goal is continually thwarted by the ease with which a single user can re-introduce disorder into the system.
- a.c.
Users may apply forces to this pendulum while it follows laws of physics and gravitation, but it's still unpredictable.
What part of a pendulum with forces acting on it is anything but calculatable to a highschool sophomore in a physics class?
Just because some hippy artist isn't able to figure out that the pendulum is going to move away from him when he pushes it DOESN'T make in unpredictable.
Now, if it would suddenly transform into a small cactus with the ability to alter colors on a small wood working shop in the bronx - that would be unpredictable.
"For my next art project I have used the curious attractive force known as gravity. Watch as I let these objects go, from rest! They seem to accelerate rather unpredictably. Some go down. Others go downer. Some might even go up!"
interaccess in Toronto is an amazing gallery.
The Seemen and SRL in San Francisco will blow your ass up.
xraylab in Seattle/Chicago/New York does some great interactive work.
Norm White has been kicking art/tech ass for since before you were born.
David Rokeby's work is totally amazing too.
Beige Programming Ensemble in Chicago/St. Louis/New York can make your Atari/C64 do backflips.
and for some amazing reading... Stephen Wilsons information arts book has no comparison.
rhizome.org is a pretty good site for all things art/tech (esp. web art)
And for validation by the mainstream art world check out the whitney's artport.
Heil Sig! -Rob
...when an online auction site goes down because of a /.ing?
I'm learning programing and System Administration on the job after getting a Masters in sculpture. They're really rather similar fields.
First, some notes for those that have an out-dated or tv-inspired understanding of the art world:
Most artists are really very down to earth. Much of what they make is not, but the people themselves are not flaky astrologer hippies. (like most hackers. vs. their television counterparts.)
Many museum and gallery directors are rather flaky. (like your boss.)
Art is largely self-referential. Artists make art knowing art history for people that know art history.
Art is a lot of problem solving - where the artist generates and solves the problem.
Art has been around for centuries and was changed radically by the camera.
When hacking is five hundred years old, it will seem a lot more like art that it does even now. Already, an experienced coder is not impressed by some newbie's new chat program (like mine) that introduces no new functionality to the genre.
But if that chat app made comments on what everyone said, maybe that would be new and interesting. If it added something to the genre of chat apps while commenting on chatting, it would be self referential, new, and interesting. And regular users all over the world would call it elitist, weird and stupid, claiming it was just designed to make them look ignorant.
Right now, programming is already looking a lot like art. New guys mock Cobol programmers the same way new art school students mock figure painters. No one is interested in my chat program for the same reasons I'm not interested in looking at paintings of mountains - I've seen it a million times before, there's nothing new here.
Translation: You don't understand art, therefore there is nothing to understand.
I'm sick of it. The 20th century was hijacked by the art critics and lead everyone into believing that the crap that Pollock and Picasso made was "art".
Take a good, long look at this website http://www.artrenewal.org/index.html
It used to take years and years of training, copying from the masters, learning space and form, learning perspective etc etc. But when you see people paying $100,000 for a blank canvas because some critic said it was important, then it's time for us to stand up and say enough is enough!
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
It takes all types to make the world go around. I'm growing bored of the elitest attitude that so many geeks sport twoards people who move towards a fine arts or a liberal arts field. Lazy and geek are not mutually exclusive just as it is possible for people who aren't in an engineering field to actually be *gasp* intelligent. Sorry for the rant. It's not directed at anyone specifically, just an overall attitude I've seen lately.
And it is people like you that make this world an awful place. You can only gain knowledge by looking at the world from multiple perspectives, and you can only gain wisdom by looking at the world holistically.
Get off it, the emperor has no clothes.
To someone with a third-grade math education, differential equations look like gibberish. It's called an education. Look into getting one.
Vilot.com This guy is a nut (consulted with him on a job a couple of years back), but he is one talented artist. Does all of his work in the digital domain then prints to canvas. Definitely worth checking out his work and his "digital" art philosophy.
When you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
repr. Gr. sevmo-, combining form of sOEvmg art, occurring in technology, etc.; techno-co"mmercial, -eco"nomic adjs.; also in the following terms: "technocomplex Archæol. (see quot. 1968). "technofear = technophobia below. "technofreak [freak n.1 4c], an enthusiast for technology or for the technical complexities of a particular piece of equipment; hence techno-"freakish a. technographic a. technography (-"Qgr@fI) [-graphy], the description of the arts, forming the preliminary stage of technology (technology 1); hence tech"nographer, one versed in technography; technographic (-"gr&fIk) a. techno-"manager, a person who is both a technologist and a manager; hence %techno-mana"gerial a. techno"mania, a mania for technology; hence techno"maniac. %techno-me"chanic a. (nonce-wd.), pertaining to mechanical art (in quot. absol. as n.). technonomy (-"Qn@mI) [-nomy], the practical application of the principles of the arts, forming the final stage of technology; hence technonomic (-"nQmIk) a. (Cent. Dict. 1891). "technophile, one who favours technology. techno"phobia, fear of technology; so "technophobe, a person who fears technology. tech"nopolis [-polis], a society dominated by technology; hence techno"politan a. "technosphere [-sphere], the technological aspect of human activity. "technostress orig. U.S., (psychosomatic illness caused by) stress arising from working in an environment dominated by (esp. computer) technology; hence "technostressed a., affected by technostress. "technostructure, a group of technologists or technical experts that controls the workings of industry or government. techno"tronic a. = technetronic a.