After seeing some benefits of it and listening to a lecture by Linus Torvalds on Git I was persuaded to switch to Git, at least to try it out in one project. I’m using GitX as a GUI, and I’m quite liking the process. It’s very easy to create branches, and to save the current working condition and go back to the previous state (git stash).

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After all the exams are finished I will be posting the thesis here, together with some SuperCollider code.

Everyday Life

Everyday Life was made during a field recording workshop led by Justin Bennett at the Institute for Sonology in Den Haag, December 2009. The assignment was for the participants to document the sounds from their personal environment during a period of 24 hours. A group of the participants “reconstructed” their day by playing back the recordings according to an accelerated clock that counted through the 24 hours in about 30 minutes.

The DVD in Geluidpost is a live recording of the performance.

Performed / Recorded by: Gerben Kokmeijer, Tania Sikelianou, Yiannis Tsirkoglou, Pablo Sanz, Lucas Sancho, Matteo Marangoni, Miguel Negrao, Juan Cantizanni, Belinda Li, Bjarni Gunnarson, Baldur Bjornsson, Jakob Leben, Jasper Braet, Jasper Vanpaemel, Anna Mikhaylova, Jan Nieuwenhuis

Te beluisteren: 31 mei - 18 juni 2010
Open: di-zo, 13-17u

IPv6 would solve all this, because there are almost an unlimited number of IPv6 adresses and each computer could have it’s own, becoming a first class citizen in the internet.

Now let’s think for a moment, who wouldn’t want what ? But off course, all the business operating on the internet that are based on the centralized model (such as the media industry, etc.). It’s not in their interest to adopt IPv6, because it’s not in their interest to have end users be in parity with the big business. And thus a whole bunch of excuses are being made to keep on using IPv4, and to cripple even more the capabilities of p2p traffic.

Further reading:
IPv6 and NAT… Again !
The Future Without IPv6

ps: I’m not such a techie for internet protocols, so please forgive any technical inaccuracy…

To change this trend we will need to do cloud computing and social networks in a decentralized way. This could be done by having standard protocols that can be implemented by anyone, much as e-mail has functioned for a long time. If you want to have a mail server, it’s easy just install one on your server machine. It can send and receive mail from any other mail server. The same should be true of social networks or cloud computing. This is the idea behind the facebook substitute wannabe, diaspora.

So basically what is needed is that the user itself has it’s own server running, and inside it there is  the social network service, the bookmarks sync server, the calendar sync service, the contacts sync server, and mp3 and video streaming service.

There are two big difficulties here:

1 - Most people don’t know how to setup a server.

2 - Most people don’t have reliable connections with good enough upload speed and a static ip.

Problem number two could be solved by better internet connetions, and in the future we are surelly going to go in that direction (30Mbps in Europe by 2020 is the goal).

Problem number one could be solved by plugcomputing, tiny boxes that you connect to the power socket and to the network and that just work, configured out of the box. See for example tonidoplug . We could then have this little servers pre-configured and it would be just a  question of entering a couple of informations in a simple web page to get it up and running. It would then sync with all computers and mobile devices that we happen to have. This would guaranty total independence from third parties, would protect our privacy much better and give our digital data the same protection from unwarranted searches that the home already had for a long time. It’s a lot easier for the authorities to just “ask” the kinds of yahoo mail or gmail to give them your e-mails than to bust the door of your house down (they will need a warrant for that)

Now it’s a question of making it happen !

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• Custom layouts, which can be created both in an interface builder and programmatically, and can be altered on the fly via OSC.
• Several pages of layouts. Easy ways to change pages.
• zeroconf, aka, bonjour for easy network configuration.
• Scripting of UI actions.
• Physical Modeling.
• More complex UIs than faders and knobs.
• Multitouch UI widget with TUIO support.