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**PUBLIC LIBRARY**

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## <a id="infrastructure"></a>Public Library (as infrastructure) ##
### Context ###

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## CONTEXT ##

It’s a simple idea: public library is one of those almost invisible infrastructures that we start to notice only once they go extinct. A place where all people can get access to all knowledge that can be collected. In the past it relied on the limited resources of rich patrons or unstable budgets of (welfare) states. With internet, as in many other instances, the dream about universal access got much more imaginable. It seemed just an issue of interpreting when the trajectory curves of global personal computer distribution and internet access penetration would finally make universal access to knowledge a reality. However, the actual trajectory of development of public libraries in the age of internet are pointing in the opposite direction – that the phenomena we people are most proud of are being undercut and can easily go extinct.

Public libraries now cannot receive, and sometimes not even buy, the books of some of the largest publishers. The books that they already hold they must destroy aft

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What

books. soon.

Requirements

• a server with a public ip (1.2.3.4 in this document)

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#!/usr/bin/env python2

import commands, pynotify, sys, os, time

while 1:
    lines = commands.getoutput('sudo ps_mem.py').split('\n')
    total = [float(str(l).split(" ")[-2]) for l in lines if l.startswith("                ") and l.find("GiB")]
    progs = [str(l).split("=")[1].strip().split(" ") for l in lines if l.find("GiB") != -1 and not l.startswith("                ")]

    for prog in progs:

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import os

mypath = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print mypath

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for i in *; do jpegtopnm $i > $i.pnm;done
for i in *.pnm;do pnmtops $i > $i.ps;done
for i in *.ps;do ps2pdf $i $i.pdf;done

gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=contract.pdf -dBATCH contract002.jpg.pnm.ps.pdf contract002-1.jpg.pnm.ps.pdf contract002-2.jpg.pnm.ps.pdf contract002-3.jpg.pnm.ps.pdf contract002-4.jpg.pnm.ps.pdf