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Subject: FutureCulture Digest #214 To: future-digest@nyx.cs.du.edu Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 11:30:19 MST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 ______________________________________________________________________ |______________ / | | / | | u t u r e <___________ u l t u r e | _______________________________________________________________________| Issue #214 Friday, February 5th 1993 Today's Topics: --------------- Dhalgren #cIRCle AO (was re: writing novel about the net) battle not with monsters... Build your own pirate t.v. station Build your own pirate t.v. station (fwd) coming the other way PASSION Re: Cyberspace syncs Re: Port 21 Re: the edge of info & com the abyss looks back... the edge of info & com Writing a novel about the Net __________________________________________________________________________ Subject: Build your own pirate t.v. station (fwd) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 2:38:16 EST From: Mitchell Porter Forwarded message: ______________________________ Date: Mon, 01 Feb 93 11:43:34 EST From: mal@socpsy.sci.fau.edu Subject: Build your own pirate t.v. station Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 23:16:09 MST From: eiverson@NMSU.Edu Date: 07 JAN 93 22:54:38 CST From: ROBERT ERVIN JONES ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD? 3 ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD? 3 How to Build Your Own Underground 3 3 . . 3 3 Television Transmitter 3 3 S n o w B o x 3 3 Using Commercially 3 3 . . 3 3 Available 3 3. 13-JUN-88 . 3 3 Parts 3 3 . 3 3 ]3:^3]33^3^::]3^:]^ ]^3]3^3]]^] 3 3 Outlaw Telecommandos 3 3 ]3:^3]33^3^::]3^:]^ ]^3]3^3]]^] 3 @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY 3 ]3:^3]33^3^::]3^:]^ ]^3]3^3]]^] @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY 0 1 - 2 1 3 - 3 7 6 - 0 1 1 1 Yes, for some time now it has been possible to construct a clandestine television station, which you can operate from your Telecommando Lair, or modify for Mobile Media Guerrilla campaigns. We have named this device the Snow Box, due to its cool nature, and the snow seen on blank television channels waiting to be commandeered. To put together a TV station you will need this stuff: A VCR or Camcorder with video or RF outputs A Ham Radio 6-meter Band Linear amplifier (This boosts the RF signal from the VCR for broadcasting) (The Linear Amp should have a bandwidth of 6 MHz for best results) A cable television RF distribution amplifier may also be used. Coaxial cable with UHF connectors (Connects the Linear Amp to the Antenna) A cable-TV patch cable with an F-connector and a UHF connector (To connect the RF signal to the Linear Amp) (F-connectors are the small ones used with cable TV) (UHF connectors are the large ones used for Ham Radio) If your VCR does not have RF outputs: An external RF modulator (converts video to channel 3,6,12 etc.) a cable with RCA connectors (a standard stereo cord is ok) A 6-meter Ham radio antenna. If you do not have a pre-made 6-meter antenna: About 20 feet of strong wire 3 ceramic antenna insulators another UHF connector Likely places to get the linear amplifier, connectors and cables is a Ham Radio swapmeet, a Ham club newsletter's classified ads, a Buy-Sell-Trade paper like The Recycler, or at a store specializing in Ham gear. RF modulators are available at specialty video stores, or major VCR dealers. Setting Up the Transmitter: Using a VCR with RF out: [VCR/RF]F----------------------------U[Linear Amp]U------------U[Antenna] weak RF Power RF Using an External RF Modulator: [VCR]R-------R[RF Modulator]---------U[Linear Amp]U------------U[Antenna] video weak RF Power RF Diagram Symbols: U UHF-connectors (Ham radio) F F-connectors (cable TV) R RCA connectors (stereos) --- coax, cables, wires [] devices (name of device in brackets) ceramic insulator (the kind with a hole at each end) Building The Dipole Antenna: wire wire ---------------------++---------------------- | | Short coax | | [U] UHF connector The antenna is set up much like a clothesline with the wires tethered straight out horizontally. The outer insulators are used to isolate the antenna from the tether lines, which should be rope or nylon cords for good results. The inner insulator isolates a gap between the two long wires of the antenna. The length of the wires used for the antenna is critical. Look up the length in feet for the channel you want to use in the table below & make each of the two long wires that length. As a rule of thumb, a wire half-wave antenna's length in feet is equal to 468 divided by the frequency in MHz. **************************************** VHF Television Channel Data ---------------------------------------- TV MHz ---carrier--- antenna channel range video sound lengths ------- ----- ----- ----- ------- 2 54-60 55.25 59.75 8.47ft 3 60-66 61.25 65.75 7.64ft 4 66-72 67.25 71.75 6.95ft 5 76-82 77.25 81.75 6.05ft 6 82-88 83.25 87.75 5.62ft 7 174-180 175.25 179.75 2.67ft 8 180-186 181.25 185.75 2.58ft 9 186-192 187.25 191.75 2.49ft 10 192-198 193.25 197.75 2.42ft 11 198-204 199.25 193.75 2.34ft 12 204-210 205.25 209.75 2.28ft 13 210-216 211.25 215.75 2.21ft (All frequencies in MHz) (Lengths are for half-wave antennas) **************************************** For Further information: Look in the ARRL Handbook published by the American Radio Relay League for detailed plans & theory for antennas, transmitters & linear amplifiers. The info in that book can be used for setting up an underground AM or FM radio station. Uses for a TV Clandestine Station: Public Education: Make a videotape of each step in the process of constructing your transmitter. Show this tape in your broadcasts, "For informational purposes only", of course. Short-burst zipping: From a fixed or mobile base of operation show short snippets of graffiti-like computer graphics, quick subliminal messages, images & suggestions, or brief phreaker manifestos. Commercials are an opportune time to break into TV broadcasts. Live call-in shows: Using a Cheese Box, or other device for receiving untraceable phone calls and a video camera do a live call-in show. Encourage people to call in using Red, Blue, and other phreaking boxes. Cable TV Piracy: With modifications it may be possible to feed the power RF signal directly into a cable TV system, overriding cablecasts or comandeering unused channels. Mobile Operation: Using storage batteries and a 110-volt inverter the transmitter may be modified for mobile use to avoid detection by the FCC during long broadcasts. Battery operated mobile linear amps and portable camcorders are also available. * Please add any anecdotes or new information you discover to this file * ----- Side note . . . This can probably be modified for dishes * aka Frosty ---* | GCMS SotMESC DPMA ACM EFF FP 2600 | * Educating the Masses | CuD NIA Phrack cDc Lutz QSD ICIA | *Fighting for computer rights everywhere | FTA IEEE CPSR ComSec ACLU FSA | * Date: 5 Feb 93 09:34:55 GMT-0100 Subject: Dhalgren > From: fly@geog.buffalo.edu (Paul Fly) > Subject: no subject (file transmission) > To: future@nyx.cs.du.edu (Another Fun Tool) > Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 11:36:48 EST > >> You mean to say someone has actually read _ALL_ of _Dhalgren_??? =) > > I've read Dhalgren a couple times, but it was a while ago. I've also read it twice, in addition to reading selected parts of it a lot of times. Everybody should read it at least once in a lifetime. > All in all, in my mind, the book is a fucking masterpiece. The prose style > is incredible, the work of a craftsman (sometimes so baroque as to be hard > to read too), and the way he deals with the issue of *writing*, of > character, semiosis, all that, on *that* level the book is a huge infinite > and endless process. Amazing. On the level of surface plot, its pretty > strange. > > Paul DHALGREN may very well turn out to be one of the greatest works of art in the western world during the 20th century!! If not THE greatest.... It's an infinite collection of pictures, of signs, it's a river, a stream were the reader should let herself float free.. if you try to swim in it, as you would in an ordinary novel, you will probably drown.... just let it engulf you, let it carry you away, enjoy, and you will most probably get out refreshed at the end.... Reading it the first time was an almost religious experience, compatible to ALL religions (including atheism)... As you said, it's a "fucking masterpiece"..... TB ______________________________ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 21:14:49 +1100 From: Kenneth McKenzie Wark Subject: coming the other way An old koan: If on your travels down the road, you meet the buddha coming the other way, kill the buddha. Disclaimer for the satori impaired. 1. not to be taken literally 2. don t ask what it means. ______________________________ From: "Spam@tin.supermarket.tescos" Subject: Re: Cyberspace syncs Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 12:57:15 +0000 (GMT) Spam, spam, egg and liquored up and horny : => =>Have you ever been listening to the radio, and the DJ says "here's =>so-and-so song by request on whatever-station" and feel the song was =>requested by someone you know? => =>it has to be => =>angst => =>aargh, I can't rememebr if this is her lunch hour or not.... => =>once again, I find the lack of a scream key on my keyboard very =>annoying.... MIME is the answer - include your scream as a sound file ;-> Spam. ______________________________ From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams) Subject: Re: Port 21 Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 09:48:15 -0500 (EST) > > Anybody out there know what *all* the commands on port 21 of a system > do? Some I can't figure out... > > -- > > ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu FutureCulture: In/f0rmation > ahawks@mindvox.phantom.com future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu Most are obsolete and help deal with ancient systems (like Mainframes..). You could dig up the RFC or look at the source code.... sdw -- Stephen D. Williams Local Internet Gateway Co.; SDW Systems 513 496-5223APager LIG dev./sales Internet: sdw@world.std.com CIS 76244.210@compuserve.com OO R&D Source Dist. By Horse: 10028 Village Tree Ct., Miamisburg, OH 45342 GNU Support ICBM: 39 34N 85 15W I love it when a plan comes together ______________________________ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 02:09:56 +1100 From: Kenneth McKenzie Wark Subject: the abyss looks back... Calling andy and rez on the sub-sub-sub-ether channel: Looks like the abyss has been looking back into you guys. You've both posted some powerful net-lit lately. Its as if the emergent form of the net itself speaks through you both every now and then, when you go to the edge and allow the energent forms of writing to come unselfconsciously. IT takes nerve and madness, but the resulting documents i for one will store and share for a while to come. Don't stop. Break on thru to the other side. Don't stop - and don't get too self conscious about it. Just do whatever it takes to overcome programming in previous info-genres and create new ones. Infohack into the future. There's some of us out here with nets to capture it with. Someday we'll catch up. "It began with all boorishness, behold it ends with angels of flame and ice." "My wisdom is as much despised as chaos." "Inventions from the unknown demand new forms" "Now is the time of the assassins." - Rimbaud ______________________________ Date: 05 Feb 1993 09:58:37 -0600 (CST) From: "free agent .rez" Subject: the edge of info & com andy: > This is all bullshit until you reach that relative point, >relative to yourself in society and all your information, so I can't >write this crap down and say "don't go over the edge, don't live on >this edge". I don't even want to hand out those warnings. > However, I hav come to a self-realization that states this: > Turn around, dumbass. Stop hanging out over here. Walk the >other way. Instead of definining yourself as you, define yourself as >part of the whole, are define the whole. Togetherness, Community are >important things to you, being a product of them of course. > For myself then, I will start at forums like IRC, as far as >the net is concerned, and turn 180 degrees in the opposite direction. >When I encounter other people from now on, walking the opposite >direction towards the Edge, I will saw "Walk with me, please. Join >me. Let's go this way. I know you're walking that way, but let's >just retrace our steps back this way. Together." This is how we >begin to forge a new community, the Community. This is what i want >to do. My trajectory is set. ...mind if i join you...? this is the thing, see, the Thing i've got to tell myself, the thing i'm hacking out in flux.fix, The Thing: when i speak of the Edge (on leri it's called the Tremendum), of the Attractor and the Singularity and the veins of isolation tracking each and every virtual soul into its fold, the thing i've come to tell myself is "fuck chaotic fractal determinism." in between now and the Singularity lies me & my arrow. i can rush the Attractor, i can storm the thing, *i* define its shape. and right now, part of doing that is saying that there's to be a *WE* which defines its shape. it cannot be any other way. i choose the path with heart. .rez ______________________________ Date: 05 Feb 1993 10:41:23 -0600 (CST) From: "free agent .rez" Subject: PASSION steve: | Even better yet is _Passion_Sources_ the music left-over after | production of the same film. brian: >So where might I get a copy? Is this a "Peter Gabrial" release, or is it under some other category? >Do you have a copy, and if so, what is the release date? it (SOURCES) was released in far smaller quantities a year after PASSION proper... it's currently out of print. it's going to be re-released soon, "word has it." i actually "like" PASSION proper a *wee* bit more than SOURCES. i want to compile a 100 min comp tape splicing the "best" of both into one unit. i'll keep you posted... ;) >Its really strange, I guess "Passion" was 3 or 4 years ahead of its time. I >bought it when it first came out, but didn't hear anything about it until >recently. Now my sister has it and everyone is talking about it. Whatever... yeah... i qualified "like" and "best" in the above because they just don't do justice to the way in which this album (PASSION proper) has influenced my whatnot. (life? soul? whatnot.) that album, imnsho, was somehow spawned not 3 or 4 years AHEAD of its time, but rather *OUTSIDE* of time itself, above and beyond time. HyperTemporal Aural.Intensive Care for the Dying Soul.Thingie... if i had a godzillion dollars, i'd make a project of buying a copy of PASSION for every single person i even remotely give a damn about. >ENTHUSE off.< .rez ______________________________ Date: 05 Feb 1993 10:46:36 -0600 (CST) From: "free agent .rez" Subject: #cIRCle >I'm heading over there now, 8:45pm Iowa time, and I hope to see you >there.... wasn't on last night, but i wouldn't miss it TONIGHT (fri) for All The Memes In The HyperSphere. i'm posting this to fc because i wanna see how MANY we can get on... ;) hoo, boy, tinker tinker tinker... i could abort the message now, and save us from the onslaught... oopsihitthebuttontoolate--hbn4578#$%E ______________________________ Date: 05 Feb 1993 10:58:52 -0600 (CST) From: "free agent .rez" Subject: AO (was re: writing novel about the net) mitch: >Now, my point in mentioning this to FC is _this_. I have ben rushing to >get the thing written for a competition which closes in 3 weeks' time, but >I can't see myself doing it. So instead I wonder: what if "the Net " - ie >some group of people from the Net who were interested - worked on it >together instead, and began its circulation _here_? It could be made >anticopyright, so it could be reprinted anywhere; it could be constantly >updated, a la the FC FAQ... ...i'm game, i'm trying a similar schtick with flux.fix; perhaps it could be a chapter... or whatever else. the idea's aces with me (the net writing it)... won't you get nixxed from the competition for having other people write it, though? or you could say it was you, or... anyway, whatever, i'm game; give us more. .rez - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "...bits of puzzle, fitting each-other..." ______________________________ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 18:47:12 +0100 From: Mikael Cardell Subject: Writing a novel about the Net Mitch, the idea of yours to make the net write a novel about itself is great. I hope you all would like spunk press to "publish" this thing and spread it to every place possible in a net.universe! I'm with you! mikael cardell S P U N K P R E S S ______________________________ Date: 05 Feb 1993 11:48:37 -0600 (CST) From: "free agent .rez" Subject: battle not with monsters... kenneth: >IT takes nerve and madness, but the resulting documents i for one >will store and share for a while to come. Don't stop. Break on thru >to the other side. thanks... you actually don't gnow how good it feels to see that the channels are open. i've got flux.fix.4 on the boards now, gonna post it to alt.cyb.chatsubo too. >:) been thinking about this Lady, the Lady of the Net. she'd have a few personality problems, seems to me... maybe i can hack into her meme.space... .rez - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "one's noise is another's information... there IS no noise, only signal. there IS no signal, only noise." ______________________________ Date: 05 Feb 1993 12:01:18 -0600 (CST) From: "free agent .rez" Subject: Re: the edge of info & com > rez } FreeSide > this is the thing, see, the Thing i've got to tell myself, the thing i'm > hacking out in flux.fix, The Thing: > when i speak of the Edge (on leri it's > called the Tremendum), of the Attractor and the Singularity and the veins of > isolation tracking each and every virtual soul into its fold, the thing i've > come to tell myself is "fuck chaotic fractal determinism." > > in between now and the Singularity lies me & my arrow. > > i can rush the Attractor, i can storm the thing, *i* define its shape. and > right now, part of doing that is saying that there's to be a *WE* which defines > its shape. it cannot be any other way. i choose the path with heart. }I've always had a problem with anything not grounded objectively }(yeah, never mind the immediate objection to that) and all this }subjective vocabulary, referring to Events which must be felt to }be understood, induce in me a yawing tumble. }I *felt* something that night. I'll be writing about it. But my }insistence upon strict formalism takes away a lot of the poetry }I would love to insert. }You're probably not in the mindset for this right now, but ... }What's the Edge? }What's the Tremendum? }What's the Singularity? }I'm calling it a Fugue. Yes? could be... in d minor...? the Edge, the Tremendum, i consider to be instances when the effects of the Attractor/Singularity are felt, *gnown.* highly subjective, and there-in lies the rub. because if the info coming in through my "Me" is all i have to go on, how can i POSSIBLY trust THAT? well, i have no other option. besides, people seem to be capable of experiencing similar things. the Attractor/Singularity are the important ones here. i use them interchangeably, and they are grafted in from fractal chaos mathematics. in chaos, the ATTRACTOR of an iterative graphic is the point to which all of the information tends. the point itself is like a center of gravity, it's invisible, it can only be posited because all of the plotted data TENDS towards this ONE SPOT of "oomph." when i speak of the Attractor here on fc, i speak of the time when the beings within the world will have the capacity to OBSERVE events as quickly as they HAPPEN, and communicate that to each other likewise. the Attractor would be the time when the accelleration of technology/culture/memetics climaxes. after that? we don't know, CAN'T know, until we get there. but in the process of getting there, or even PREPARING for it, we bring it about. how do *I* keep up with the accellerating pace of the Net, of VIRTUAL CULTURE? easy. i get a mac.handler with 2 windows instead of one so i can go read more mail while the other mailer idles, sending out a post. i prioritise and maximise my use of time. but in the PROCESS, i call upon instruments which themselves SPEED UP that accelleration process. getting any clearer? .rez - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "C/c/c/c/c/catch the wave..." _________________________________________________________________________ | | | That's all for today! | | To send a message to the list: future@nyx.cs.du.edu | | To subscribe/unsubscribe/change format: future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu | | All other requests: future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu | | List Maintainer is: (andy [aka hawkeye]) ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu | |_________________________________________________________________________| | | | The opinions expressed in FutureCulture are those of the individual | | author only. | |_________________________________________________________________________|