Pretentious Yet Pointless
Contrasts of summer and winter dominate the foreground of this work.
The adorned figure indicates in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive comprehension. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, empty: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. Such forms, delicately modulated, create disarmingly strong feelings. The doodle shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The artist employs a rectangular grid to shape the colours, which therefore subsist in a world of their own doing. A perpetually changing network, the scale and openness of which is always constant, is always transformed by the essential fact of the outer surface. Sol Aris has not completed the price of this image. The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but in a different form.
``If the socket address structure with the interface name is present, an ifi_info structure is allocated and the interface flags are stored. The expected family of this socket address structure is AF_LINK, indicating a datalink socket address structure. If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the interface name is copied into the ifi_info structure. Otherwise a string containing the interface index is stored as the name. If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the hardware address (e.g. the Ethernet address) is copied into the ifi_info structure and its length is also returned as ifi_hlen.''
[Richard Stevens, Unix Network Programming]