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I think the correct techo vernacular spelling is 'putar but the plural
is commonly misspelt as 'putas, dropping the trailing r. <br>
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The slang has a curious link to Radoslave Putar, a media artist who
presented report on a 1960's exhibition called "Cybernetic
Serendipity". Perhaps his writings prophesised a choking NT and hinted
at the birth of an OpenSource movement.<br>
<blockquote>"the machines have, as it were, proposed the possibility of
assignment and solutions which the followers of the New Tendencies did
not take into account. Everything has been shifted sideways and
everything has being illuminated by a new light we had not expected.
And yet, there are threads linking the events within the frames of the
NT and the new stage dominated by computers. Although it might seem
that a tradition choked in its own projection of futurity has been
brutally stopped, its positive negation is possible: in a new effort of
organised penetration into unknown."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.akademie-solitude.de/stuttgart1960/3_text_matko.html">http://www.akademie-solitude.de/stuttgart1960/3_text_matko.html</a><br>
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Fascinating stuff...<br>
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Maggie Iaquinto wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Did you actually write: 'putas' ?
Maggie
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<pre wrap=""><!----><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theopencd.org/">http://www.theopencd.org/</a>
Give this cd to all students that enrol in your school. The software
could also be installed on all school putas
Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">MozOO.org <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://mozoo.org/"><http://mozoo.org/></a> is a set of productivity tools for home
and small business users who "just want to get on with work" but are
tired of expensive office package upgrades. The package includes a
Windows installer for Firefox, Thunderbird, NVU and the OpenOffice
suite. This sounds like a better way for schools to distribute some
leading OpenSource software applications to students than dishing out
multiple bits of software on different cd-roms. Download the free ISO
to try out and order an online MozOO coffee mug at the same time. :-)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mozoo.org">http://mozoo.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://mozoo.org/"><http://mozoo.org/></a>
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Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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