How old is our reliance on technology?

[BakerMikeRomeo]

Good choice on UPS selection, Gewehr. Powerware, ftw!

~GnSx

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My dad works for Powerware

[Gewehr98]

Thanks.  Now if I could just find the right data cable and software to go between that stack of Powerware Prestige UPS units and my computer, so it could do a graceful UPS-initiated shutdown...

[roo_ster]

Howdy:

I was a little bored and decided I wanted to download some of these programs (Connections, DUC).

Being the lazy b@st@rd I am, I automated the task after some judicious grep/sed/awk.  Those of you fortunate enough to be running linux or cygwin (under Windows) can download the attached tar file, untar it, chmod a+x the *tcsh files, and execute the tcsh scripts in the background(0).  If you get to the net via a proxy server, man wget to see how to modify the scripts.

To see how things are going, tail -f the *log file(s).

Those of you sadly without useful command-line tools can download the Conections & Day the Universe Changed with the urls below:

http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/yesterday-tomorrow-and-you.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/countdown.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/eat-drink-and-be-merry.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/the-long-chain.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/thunder-in-the-skies.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/the-wheel-of-fortune.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/faith-in-numbers.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/distant-voices.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/death-in-the-morning.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/the-trigger-effect.mp4


http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/worlds-without-end-changing-knowledge-changing-reality.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/making-waves-the-new-physics-newton-revised-.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/fit-to-rule-darwins-revolution.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/what-the-doctor-ordered-social-impacts-of-new-medical-knowledge.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/credit-where-its-due-the-factory-and-marketplace-revolution.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/infinitely-reasonable-science-revises-the-heavens-.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/a-matter-of-fact-printing-transforms-knowledge.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/point-of-view-scientific-imagination-in-the-renaissance.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/in-the-light-of-the-above-medieval-conflict-faith-and-reason-.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/the-way-we-are-it-started-with-the-greeks.mp4


(0) As always, before running a script on your box, at least give it a quick look-see in a text editor to make sure it isn't something harmful.  These are one-liners, fortunately.

[slzy]

i read once the YMCA[pre-village people] was founded in 1841,because with the advent of the Steam Engine,that people were atrophying and getting out of shape. the thought just occured to me as i write this,sports for the common man as opposed to nobility may have became possible. if they had became couch potatos by 1841, their grandfathers who were in wellingtons army must have been formidable. i have also read doc hollidays decline came with the railroads,one author said commuted like a modern urban dweller,where formally he had to take care of the horse and endure hard living on the trail.

[Perd Hapley]

Wiki's entry gives the impression it had more to do with providing working-class young men with an alternative to dens of iniquity.  That would seem more in line with the name "Young Men's Christian Association."  Especially since the first one was founded in London.  It seems to me the steam engine would have had little effect on the musculature of urban folks. 

[slzy]

the steam engine took the work out of the fields and began the urbanization that continues.the idea of sports as healty work was formalized in 1865,so it must have been part of the program for some time. i looked up football in britain,and it starts picking up momentum in the early 1840s' even to the point of having home and away matches made possible to steam. i don't know much about the textile industry,but i imagine improvements in machinery caused some layoffs. it may also be no coincidence marx wrote the manifesto railing about the capitalists changing the means of production.i guess the talking heads were right about it being all stuck together.