whatsmyip
ifconfig -- all info on all network interfaces
ping
traceroute,whois
filezilla -> ftp
shell access
login to a.pass server
filezilla -> ftp
shell access
software
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commands, syntax..
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notes
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Pierre: "I would like to practice reading things that are alien or alienate me"
Reni: part of mur.at (independent server network in Graz), working free software
Martino: Shift of the question of governance from state to commercial
Artistic practice as a space for discussions that cannot work elsewhere.
Sven: Can't get enough of reading at APASS
Starting point:
servers are computers and computers are servers (connected to a network).
how can they be addressed? how they start to behave?
it is impossible to understand the server as a machine when it is not connected with the network
a server only makes sense if it is on some type network
we have a hegemonic network that we call the Iinternet
it is a way to understand the conditions and assumptions and systems that come with talking about servers
internet = US. Initial structure 'distributed'
- Baran's images of different types of centralized, decentralized and distributed networks
- eventually there is this polarization between servers and clients
- the best way to understand is to start by being hosts
- to see the switch
- internet: inter-network, network of networks
- originally, the idea would be that everyeone can see each other on the network
- the router creates an internal network and puts us on an external network
- a way to pass to the outside world
- we pass through the router which symbolizes us in the world
- there were European and American proposals to the Internet
- but history of networks...longer topic
- from the router we get an internal IP
- it identifies the devide with which we are on the network
- and then there is the IP of the router
- private IP, how the machines in the room can see each other
- the network name of these machines
- each machine will have a private IP
- and then there is the IP of the router, which is how we are seen from the outside
- APASS 3rd and 4th floor have different routers
- the command that shows the settings of the network
256 is the range of addresses -- binary
IPv4, attempts for 20 years to a more efficient protocol, but there are so many machines that still use IPv4, that they cannot change to IPv6
inet vs. broadcast address?
- inet is a symbolic ip
- when you send to broadcast, you send to everybody in the subnetwork
TTL:
The time-to-live value can be thought of as an upper bound on the time that an IP datagram can exist in an Internet system. The TTL field is set by the sender of the datagram, and reduced by every router on the route to its destination. If the TTL field reaches zero before the datagram arrives at its destination, then the datagram is discarded and an ICMP error datagram (11 - Time Exceeded) is sent back to the sender. The purpose of the TTL field is to avoid a situation in which an undeliverable datagram keeps circulating on an Internet system, and such a system eventually becoming swamped by such "immortals".
all ips with 192.168 are the convention for local IP addresses
the economy of ip-addresses: some parties received a lot of IP addresses at the beginning and can now sell those
vi /etc/hosts
- allows you to set up your own name look up for hosts
Joke: "so all of this is programmed? It looks human logic?"
Seda: "what do you mean human"
Joke: It is not chemistry
Martino: Technology is always techno-social
Demystification of layers of complexity
a chain of delegations.
"I get emotional because I feel my computer can think many things, faster than I can do. But it is not so intelligent actually".
$ vi /etc/hosts
where in the world is the apass server?
we can find who owns an ip address
two kinds of geographies -- local / adminstrive
research center for proxy politics
http://rcpp.lensbased.net
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
are you being served?
Martino
http://192.168.254.182:8000
Seda
http://192.168.254.209:8000
Hamburg Server Club
???
https://filezilla-project.org/
https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/agb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdatenschutzgesetz
https://folk.uio.no/lee/oldpage/articles/Germany_TDPA.pdf
- Web Host: http://www.hetzner.de/
- Location: Germany, Sachsen, Falkenstein
- IPv4 Address: 78.47.94.204
- IPv4 Hostname: apass.be
- Nameservers: ns-93-c.gandi.net, ns-37-a.gandi.net
- ISP: hetzner online ag
- Last Update: 2018-02-04
whois
Domain: apass.be
Status: NOT AVAILABLE
Registered: Mon Jan 12 2009
Registrant:
Not shown, please visit www.dnsbelgium.be for webbased whois.
Registrar Technical Contacts:
Name: Gandi admin1
Organisation: Gandi SAS
Language: fr
Phone: +33.143737851
Fax: +33.143731851
Email: support@gandi.net
Registrar:
Name: Gandi Sas
Website: https://www.gandi.net/domain/buy/result/
Nameservers:
ns-155-b.gandi.net
ns-37-a.gandi.net
ns-93-c.gandi.net
Keys:
Flags:
clientTransferProhibited
=========== AFTERNOON DISCUSSION ===========
Why did we select the texts we selected?
Invisible Committee: gives a frame of radical critique of the shift of governmentality from state to technical forms
Simondon tries to understand technicity and a technical approach, questioning the relationships between society and technique. The way in which technical objects are somehow always involved with collective relations.
They have different understandings of technique. Pull in different directions. Give enough time to both.
We wanted both because of their differences. Both are somehow calls for action. It is interesting to see the different kinds of calls for action.
One is academic and philosophical text. The other is a political pamphlet.
Simondon:
technical activity: something that is positive, an activity that would allow people to disallienate themselves from work
- he was also against design and wanted to see the engine of the cars etc.
marxism: the rupture of the relationship: the ownership vs its conditions of use
It is missing the capitalist activity...We own the computers, but we cannot access what is inside.
Simondon: many people wrote books about his work and what he missed and where it could be found. He also sometimes contradicts himself.
hylomorphic schema: being defined by matter and form, and historically, the christian understanding of arstotle, matter is something that is forced by form. Simondon undoes this.
alienation:
this layering of delegation
the cascade of delegations
we are alienated because we delegate
we are also used as laborers without us noticing that we are laborers
we think it is leisure but in fact we are working
critique on cybernetic:
- he criticizes philosophically the failure of cybernetic to have assembled psychology and sociology
- he is seaching for an axiomatization
- psychology and sociology should be the same ...
- cybernetic dreamt of unifying these two, but he criticizes their failure
Pierre: "The inventor has problems all the time"
Simondon replaces critique by problematisation
critique reduces, problems opens up/represent potential
permanent crisis (you mean: capitalism?)
less alienating? non-alienating?
we can not make technical activity de-alienate when the political economy is removed
"we are not alienated but delegated": forms of delegation being imposed with the current accelerated mode of production, as well as us partaking in it.
[disappearance of/no awareness the active act of delegation; no options for other forms of delegation]
IC: "exercising individual freedom"
Simondon drawing together use, maintenance, invention (user, maintainer, inventor)
Leaving people behind, contributing to the struggle.
"you should leave" / "you are expensive"
labor and technology together
detachment to detachments
we found the engineer (again) on page 18 of "To Our Friends" in the Invisible Committee. H/She is said to be sad and servile.
the hacker that breaks as a form of maintenance...