We're pleased to announce the availability of version 0.4.1 中国 (zhong guo) of the ANGEL APPLICATION.

This is a pure bugfix release over version 0.4 and essentially fixes a network blocking issue in the maintenance loop.

More detailed information can be found in the CHANGES file.

A download is available at http://angelapp.missioneternity.org/index.py/Download.

We're pleased to announce the availability of version 0.4 中国 (zhong guo) of the ANGEL APPLICATION.

Important improvements are:

• a new file-based meta data store which (i) removes storage constraints imposed by the previous xattr-based solution which apple ships with twisted, and (ii) in principle allows the angel-app to run on windows-based systems.
• GUI/web interface improvements.
• stability fixes
• dyndns support

More detailed information can be found in the CHANGES file.

A download is available at http://angelapp.missioneternity.org/index.py/Download.

To support the testing efforts and to celebrate this release, etoy.MANAGEMENT agreed to open up its archives and re-release selected copylefted content from the TOYWAR era into eternity. For a start, the infamous TOYWAR.lullabies have been committed to the ANGEL APPLICATION, and are available for public consumption at:

http://missioneternity.org:6221/var/toywar/TOYWAR.lullabies/

iTunes users: no need to explicitly download the tracks. The ANGEL APPLICATION supports WebDAV. Simply hit Command-K in the finder, and connect to the above URL to say hello to the post-browser web (no software installation required):



As of this release, the ANGEL APPLICATION is a fully functional personal publication platform. As a proof of concept, I am hosting a complete darcs repository on the angel-app (IPv6 required).

Plans for the next release 0.5 "Bozen" include one or more of:

• networking performance improvements (currently, to validate a file with N clones, it is transferred over the network N times)
  
• improved backward compatibility mechanisms (currently, the repository still needs to be nuked for each upgrade)
• a forward-compatible encryption mechanism (we still rely on ezPyCrypto, the current mechanism does not allow multiple owners for a given resource)
  
• throttling support (if you choose to mount someone else's repository, you will currently backup all of the data contained therein)

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(SPANISH version below)

DR. TIMOTHY LEARY'S AFTER LIFE CEREMONY No. 2
Soundtrack by TIM & PUMA MIMI

Today the LEARY TERMINUS II, which was produced on February 14th in Madrid, was successfully inserted into the MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS.




Dr. Timothy Leary passed away at the age of 75 on May 31, 1996 in California. He qualified as a test-pilot for MISSION ETERNITY with his reputation as a pioneer of the information age and his last book "Design for Dying".

Leary left the art group etoy a massive body of personal digital footage (photos, video, text, sketches, research papers, etc.) and his mortal remains (ashes) for experiments. In a series of totally four performances his ashes are incorporated into art objects, so called LEARY TERMINUS (I-IV). Each TERMINUS is a bridge that links the physical and digital remains of MISSION ETERNITY PILOTS.

TODAY at exactly 19:35 the LEARY TERMINUS II, an updated TEST VERSION by Adrien Rovero and Augustin Scott de Martinville, was plugged into the left SARCOPHAGUS-WALL. The hybrid between sculpture, cargo-container, organizational art, archive, mortal-remains-storage-solution, is a digital memorial for up to one thousand PILOTS. The SARCOPHAGUS connects tangible and non-tangible existence - biomass and data - and is the moving "resting place" and access point after physical death and cremation.




The digital data of Thimothy Leary is stored in the ARCANUM CAPSULE. This digital portraits as well as the SARCOPHAGUS are designed to travel planet earth forever together with millions of other cargo containers and TCP/IP Particles on the Internet.

Integrated into the immersive display of the SARCOPHAGUS each TERMINUS assumes the role of a dead pixel. The mortal remains replace the light and the displayed information. A unique RFID tag, identifies and assigns each TERMINUS to its corresponding ARCANUM CAPSULE online. A status LED on each TERMINUS indicates visitor traffic, the back-up status and distribution factor of the digital ARCANUM CAPSULE. In case of risk of data loss the LED and a very minimal sound system generate attention and call for help.

The key to the long-term project MISSION ETERNITY is a DISTRIBUTED DATA-STORAGE based on millions of computers of internet users - so called MISSION ETERNITY ANGELS.

This is just the beginning of an infinite voyage. Leaving reality behind...

--------SPANISH VERSION------------

CEREMONIA N° 2 DE LA VIDA POST-MORTEM DEL DR. TIMOTHY LEARY
con actuación en directo de TIM & PUMA MIMI

Hoy el LEARY TERMINUS II, que fue producido el pasado 14 de Febrero en Madrid, será insertado en el MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS.

El Dr. Timothy Leary murió en California el 31 de mayo de 1996 a la edad de 75 años. Fue seleccionado como piloto de pruebas del MISSION ETERNITY por su reputación como pionero de la era de la información y por su conocido libro "Design Dying"

Leary dejó al colectivo de artistas etoy un cuerpo masivo de información digital (fotos, vídeos, textos, bocetos, sketches, artículos de investigación científica, etc...) y sus restos mortales (cenizas). A lo largo de una serie de cuatro performances las cenizas de Leary están siendo incorporadas a objetos artísticos, llamados LEARY TERMINUS (I-IV).

Este TERMINUS es un puente que une los restos físicos y digitales de los pilotos del MISSION ETERNITY.

El TERMINUS está conectado al SARCOPHAGUS. Este híbrido entre escultura, contenedor de carga, arte organizacional, archivo, almacén de restos mortales, es un homenaje multimedia a más de mil pilotos. El SARCOPHAGUS conecta la existencia tangible y la intangible (biomasa y datos). Es un lugar en movimiento para el "último descanso" que sirve como punto de acceso después de la muerte física y la cremación.

Los datos digitales de Thimothy Leary son almacenados en la ARCANUM CAPSULE. Este retrato digital junto con el SARCOPHAGUS están diseñados para viajar por el planeta Tierra por siempre junto con millones de otros contenedores de carga y partículas de TCP/IP en Internet.

Incorporado a la pantalla del SARCOPHAGUS cada TERMINUS asume el papel de un píxel muerto. Los restos mortales sustituyen a la luz y la información mostrada. Una única marca RFID, identifica y asigna cada TERMINUS a su correspondiente ARCANUM CASULE on line. Un LED en cada TERMINUS indica el status del tráfico de visitantes, del back-up y de la distribución del ARCANUM CAPSULE digital. En caso de riesgo de pérdida de datos el LED y un sistema de sonido minimal genera atención y pide ayuda.

La clave del proyecto MISSION ETERNITY a largo plazo es una unidad distribuida de almacenamiento de datos basada en millones de ordenadores de usuarios de Internet, también llamados MISSION ETERNITY ANGELS.

Conviértete en un ANGEL on line y ayuda a asegurar la vida digital post-mortem del Dr. Timothy Leary y otros pilotos que le seguirán en las próximas décadas: www.missioneternity.org

Este es tan sólo el comienzo hacia un viaje infinito. Deja atrás a la realidad...

etoy recommends Bei Babette.

We are very pleased to be able to announce the immediate availability of the maintenance release of ANGEL APPLICATION version 0.3.2 code-named "VIDA".

This update consists of cleanup and stability fixes since 0.3.0.

Changes:

* stability fixes (resource initialization & redirect handling)
* rolling clone list
* optimizations in maintenance loop
* test cases
* minor fixes

Get it from the Developer WIKI

Code-wise, eternity seems to look like a graph. At least this is what the ANGEL APPLICATION looks like in python:

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of ANGEL APPLICATION version 0.2.0.

This update is mainly a major rework of the underlying networking code. For more in-depth information about what has been done by the development crew, see this blog post from Vincent. Also, more information is available on the M∞ ANGEL-APPLICATION Developer Wiki.

One important thing to note: if you are upgrading from an older version, you will have to purge/empty your local repository once before being able to help safeguard MISSION ETERNITY data forever. This can be done with a single mouse-click in the File menu -> "Purge repository".

Grab your copy now and become an ANGEL in the global social memory network!

Dear all,

the ANGEL APPLICATION source code has reached a point which we think is good for creating a new public release for m221e ANGELS.

To make sure things go well, we kindly ask that each etoy.AGENT running MAC OS X or a Unix-ish operating system downloads the RELEASE CANDIDATE of the software, which is available at

http://angelapp.missioneternity.org/index.py/Download

All we ask for is starting it and checking the following things:

- does it crash?
- does the "p2p process" run continuously?
- do all the icons and images show up correctly?

If you encounter problems, you can do the following:

- purge the repository via the new File menu command and see if the problem persists
- remove all previous data like so:

    rm -rf ~/.angel-app

    rm ~/.angelrc

and see if the problem persists
- report the operating system version
- for mac users, consider copy pasting output from Console.app (it shows the logging of angel-app)

For a list of changes, I suggest looking at agent Vincent's blog post at:
http://www.etoy.com/blog/archive/2007/10/27/angel-application-approaching-beta.html

It would be nice to get feedback (also positive ;-) ) during the weekend.

thank you!

It turns out that adding IPv6 support to the twisted library is rather straightforward. Originally, I just hacked up a few changes to get my prototype running with teredo, resulting in a few lines of changes to the twisted networking code (patch available). It turns out that the resulting code seems fully backwards-compatible with IPv4. Unintended, but highly welcome ;-) YAY (IPv6 required)!

Anyhow -- if you're a hacker, give teredo a try. Turn your laptop into a server in a few minutes. It's a sexy piece of technology which I think will greatly change the way we think about and work with the internet.

One thing to keep in mind are security issues: teredo provides you with a globally visible IP address, meaning you're directly addressable worldwide. NATs and many in-between firewalls are tunnelled through. If you're using a mac, add something like the following ipfw firewall ruleset (thanks POL) to your miredo startup command (see /etc/miredo.conf) to protect you from unsolicited and possibly dangerous traffic:

#!/bin/sh  

LOGFILE=/dev/null 
exec > "$LOGFILE" 2>&1 

echo "Starting miredo hook for setting up firewall rules...." 
echo "$0: $$" echo "uid: $UID" 
killall -HUP lookupd DirectoryService  

/sbin/ip6fw add 1000 allow log tcp from any to any 6221 
/sbin/ip6fw add 1001 deny log tcp from any to any