EXE TXT Electronic Mediations Gordon Faylor, Series Editor GPDFE014 : Tom Comitta : First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011-2014 GPDFE013 : Chris Sylvester : caps 0w - 146w, iPhone 6+, 0w 2015, Provider/Processor ‘Chris Sylvester’ GPDFE012 : Andy Martrich : Blackmar-Diemer Gambit GPDFE011 : Angelo V. Suárez : Philippine English: A Novel GPDFE010 : Dylan Hansen-Fliedner/Seth Schimmel : TEH/THE? GPDFE009 : Buffy Cain : (n+1)+1 GPDFE008 : Kieran Daly : 7 CLOSET DRAMAS GPDFE007 : Angelo V. Suárez : Poem of Diminishing Poeticity GPDFE006 : Angela Genusa & Benjamin Laird : Composition GPDFE005 : Stephen McLaughlin : Puniverse GPDFE004 : Peli Grietzer : Amerikkkkka GPDFE003 : Astrid Lorange : FOOD TURNS INTO BLOOD GPDFE002 : John Paetsch : brnt ghst vlnt GPDFE001 : Andy Sterling : Supergroup 2 EXE TXT Danny Snelson Gauss PDF 2015 http://gauss-pdf.com/ 3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Snelson, Daniel S., 1984– EXE TXT / Danny Snelson. p. cm. — (Gauss PDF ; Vol. 15) Includes python script, Textz.com collection, and readme.exe.txt. ISBN: 978-0-8166-5043-9 (POD : alk. paper) ISBN: 3-518-41378-3 (Txtz : ascii. txt) 1. Textwarez. 2. Computer networks. 3. Dissertation protocols. 4. Variable formats. 5. Media poetics and the little database. Printed on demand by Lulu.com through Gauss PDF 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 4 Contents Autonomous software agents make choices and execute 1 actions on behalf of the user. But I√ɬ≠m getting my texts mixed up. 35 Get your terminal software to insert carriage returns. 81 It is still possible to run a lot of software at this point. 125 It’s a swarm text. 171 “What civilizations and peoples leave us as the monuments of 215 their thought is not so much their texts as their vocabularies, their syntaxes, the sounds of their languages rather than the words they spoke; not so much their discourse as the element that made it possible, the discursivity of their language.” 5 6 Autonomous software agents make choices and execute actions on behalf of the user. Echoes of other texts (by Faulkner, Joyce, Eliot, and Burroughs) resound from page to page. Through some representational medium, they’re being represented to us in terms of text, as strings of numbers or words turned into images. Egyptian priests used it in their shrines, as so many texts inform us. “The recombinant text in hypertextual form signifies the emergence of the perception of textual constellations that have always/already gone nova.” The Evolver software optimizes the broadest possible profile for the largest number of patients by trying a description of a typical patient, then testing how many fit that description, then tweaking the profile in a multitude of directions to see if more patients fit it, and then varying, selecting, and varying again, until a maximum number of patients fit the profile. Foley told Izenberg that Terminus had been acquiring hot software through his, Izenberg’s, machine. The media text is not concerned with the secret intentions lurking behind an information transmission. A minuit ils se retir√ɬãrent dans leur chambre, dont on laissa, sous pr√ɬàtexte de surveillance, la porte ouverte. They claim this is due to the Hacker belief that software should be free combined with festering resentment of Apple’s commercial success. That text has caused an unspeakable amount of misery in the world, for all sorts of people have imagined that they have committed the sin against the Holy Ghost, and though that it would not be forgiven them either in this world or in the world to come. Software “patches” represent new, untried un-“stable” software, which is by definition riskier. “Boy, that is one mean piece of software.” It funds that by collecting more than $25 million from customers, who benefit from having that software exist and be reliable and widespread. For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes make exceptions for this. (Ex: 713-684-6xxx) These systems are usually controlled by the same type of hardware/software. This is the text of the leaflet which vindicated the prank by listing the artists whose portrait was on the card: “The LUTHER BLISSETT project is open to all: anyone can look in the mirror and see LUTHER BLISSETT.” The protean quality of software is one of the great sources of its fascination. The free software movement-- which is based on the idea of the complete open-endedness of software’s code and the belief that the chance innovations of open collaboration outstrip the battened-down defensiveness of private R&D--should, in this respect, be considered tactical. Once the quote is pulled out of its context and perverted, magic words sprout from the textual remainder: imploded universes that do not even need to be unfolded. If we can evolve software, we’ll be way ahead. The immediate cause of the July 1 Crash was a single mistyped character: one tiny typographical flaw in one single line of the software. It positions itself within the Net, inside the software and wires. Reviewing the texts, you find that from as early as 1936, the Institut articulated its analysis of domination around the psychosociological structures of authority. Finally, with the pre√¢¬â¬†text that it was cooler in his concubine√ɬ≠s house, he transferred the small office in which he handled his business. This monster program, then, had calmly proceeded to wipe out all administrative memory and all student and academic software, and then to restructure the Operator to suit Virgil’s purposes. I recommend you 2 hack onto the root or bin directory, since they have the highest levels of privs, and there is really not much you can do (except develop software) without them. It only takes four to six seconds for a troubled 4ESS switch to rid itself of all its calls, drop everything temporarily, and re-boot its software from scratch. Of course, computer scientists claim, “software is different.” Along with his hard-won credentials as one of the rare original thinkers who is able to implement his thoughts via the craft of software design, Kay also has a reputation as a lifelong insubordinate. Tout le texte semble dire: oui, et tout le texte semble dire: compl√ɬàtez de vous m√ɬçme. They’re the world masters at organized software piracy. Rather more likely, an arms race between on the one hand the software companies and the development of passivity, gullibility, and curiosity as a culture of use of software. On Management and the Maginot Line the original “Cathedral and Bazaar” paper of 1997 ended with the vision above -- that of happy networked hordes of programmer/anarchists outcompeting and overwhelming the hierarchical world of conventional closed software. We’re proving not only that we can do better software, but that joy is an asset. C’est ce que j’appellerais un d√ɬàcodage et une d√ɬàterritorialisation de plus en plus pouss√ɬàe des flux; mais en m√ɬçme temps, cela va √ɬçtre recouvert par autre chose : √¢¬Ä¬° savoir plus on approche de la 17√ɬãme p√ɬàriode, l√¢¬Ä¬° o√ã¬ò la multiplicit√ɬà accrue est la plus proche de sa limite (plus on approche de la 17√ɬãme p√ɬàriode et plus la multiplicit√ɬà croissante et sa libert√ɬà de flux va √ɬçtre compens√ɬàe par une combinatoire des √ɬàl√ɬàments formels au point o√ã¬ò - dit Stockhausen dans la suite du texte — Sometime in December 1988, a 21 year-old Atlanta-area Legion of Doomster named The Prophet cracked a Bell South computer and downloaded a three-page text file which outlined, in bureaucrat-ese of surpassing opacity, the administrative procedures and responsibilities for marketing, servicing, upgrading, and billing for Bell South’s 911 system. Sous pr√ɬàtexte de quelque chose √¢¬Ä¬° dire aux enfants, Julien alla dans leur chambre, et √¢¬Ä¬° son retour il se pla√ɬÅa √¢¬Ä¬° c√ɬôt√ɬà de Mme Derville et fort loin de Mme de R√ɬçnal. People of this sort may have a set of windchimes and a dog with a knotted kerchief ‘round its neck, but they’re also quite likely to own a multimegabyte Macintosh running MIDI synthesizer software and trippy fractal simulations. So a psychologist was brought in to consult about those parts 3 of the system that weren’t found in the circuitry or software, but in the thoughts and relationships of the people who were building and using the system. The 4ESS switch used its new software to monitor its fellow switches as they recovered from faults. DTP software allows the perfect sizing and styling of lettering to infiltrate and redirect the target. Also, for each author’s protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. I leave Kapor and his networking employees struggling cheerfully with the promising intricacies of their newly installed Macintosh System 7 software. For example, telling a person of color who has just been beaten by the police that “the officers were only reacting to a racist textual construction that links people of color with the sign of criminality” is probably not going to have much resonance. Kay worked on FLEX -- his first personal computer software design -- from 1967 to 1969. However, if you want a chip to do something new, all you have to do is change its software, which is easy, fast and dirt-cheap. Like Ada, Alan Turing’s unconventionality was part of his undoing, and like her he saw the software possibilities that stretched far beyond the limits of the computing machinery available at the time.