Eric Anderson Knihy

This work provides a fresh perspective on the Arts and Crafts Movement, tracing its origins in reformist ideals and its interaction with commercial culture, ultimately highlighting its role in everyday households. Originating in Britain in the 1840s, the movement was inspired by John Ruskin's critique of industrialization. It emphasized simple design, honest materials, and the social value of handmade goods. As the movement spread to the United States, it evolved from individual craftsmanship to a mainstream trend, increasingly adapted for mass production by retailers like Sears, Roebuck and Co. By the early 20th century, the movement's reformist ideals were diluted through large-scale manufacturing and merchandising in department stores and mail-order catalogs. The book features stunning illustrations of furniture and designs by notable figures such as William Morris, Gustav Stickley, and the Roycroft community led by Elbert Hubbard. Additionally, it includes ephemera like catalogs, sales brochures, and magazine spreads that fueled public interest. This perspective enhances the understanding of the Arts and Crafts idea, its geographical spread, and its transformation into everyday design. The publication is associated with the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, coinciding with an exhibition held from February 9 to July 14, 2019.

The emergence of network and System Administration, during the latter quarter century, as a discipline of science and engineering, has culminated in a number of paradigms for managing networks of collaborating machines. These include automatic regulation, policy based management, computer immunology, quality control procedures and even the psychology of the user-system interaction. Techniques based on scripting, declarative languages, empirical measurements, and theoretical models, spanning psychology to game theory have been developed.In this volume, key contributions to the discipline are presented through the words of the authors who contributed them. The forum for this thread of ideas has been the USENIX Association's LISA conferences, originally the "Large System Administration" conference. These conferences have played, and continue to play, a unique role in cementing a relationship between researchers and working network and system administrators.Computer scientists,engineers, system administrators and students will each find something of permanent value here. No matter what developments the future brings, these words represent important conceptual foundations of the field. These papers are reprinted here for the first time in a convenient form, along with a commentary reflecting on their significance within the discipline as a whole.