Network-Monitoring Data Put to Music

StrongGlad writes "Building on the idea that people are naturally attuned to sound, the Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning has created software that translates network and server activity into music. And, their IT department operators can interpret the music to detect problems in the system." Talk about finding the beauty in Spam. From the article: "Last Friday, IT department operators began listening to what sounds like classical music but is actually a precise audio model of system metrics. They are trained to recognize instruments, chords, tempo and other musical elements of music as a translation of e-mail activity from 15 servers over three subnets. Every aspect of the music correlates to information. Probes detect server activity and send about 20 summaries a second to the iSIC sound engine. The data is aggregated and transformed into an audio format."

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Re:Maybe we can finally answer the age old questio

[Anonymous Coward]

No- the correct way to say that is:
If a man speaks in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
Posting as an AC because I know so many slashdotters are not married yet/ in serious relationships, and would not understand the humour in the above statement...