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RMIT firewall update: ITS sent back a reply basically saying “Get your lecturer to tell us what you need/why you need it” so it looks like it will be some bother trying to get real net access. Which is a shame because…

Blogsome: I don’t think I want to stay with blogsome, they are slow and keep having outages. So I was thinking I’d host something on my own machine. In addition to ssh and VNC there is a new remote screen access technology called NoMachine which is awesomely fast. I have set it up on my LAN at home and used a test account on a machine in Italy. Here is a picture of my desktop with a small window logged into the Italian test machine. It doesn’t lag too much going to europe fullscreen, and it can handle video over LAN (although there is no sound transport layer). It would be very nice to be able to access my home machine like that.

This is all quite asides from the fact that there is a truly free (no advertising) wordpress hosting being offered by RMIT which Warren and Peter are on.

Felt ill after riding in for class yesterday, I think it might have been the peak-hour car fumes. The first reading, from Mitchell, would have been good to discuss in class too. I have been trying to get a better grasp of the network theory stuff for a while now and that gave me a better view. I am still not utterly convinced as to the utility of network theory over and above using tools like Foucault’s governmentality. As I see it, many of the network theorists have come to the point where they deny the “natural” power of “organic” networks as some did in the beginning and have come to call them a new form of practice and focus on what constitutes the “nodes” and the “routing logic” of the networks if you will. But I see this as already having been done by some of the work surrounding governmentality, the network is the discursive environment in which we make decisions and the locus of decision is what we can call the “actor” (which is perhaps more flexible than the node/individual in some ways). I suppose it’s good to have a different angle on things.