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Monitor a Linux Box With Machine Generated Music
mcappel writes "Linux and Unix admins are familiar with vmstat and top, which are visual tools displaying the health of a computer. chordStats adds a new interface to a system monitoring setup — information passed through tone, timbre, and harmony. IBM's Nathan Harrington, who wrote Knock Some Commands Into Your Laptop, created a simple Perl script to send note events to FluidSynth that forces various system events to be interpreted as a part of a harmonious interval, and looks at options for enhancing a musical system monitor."
Anyone have any audio files of this to give us an idea of what it sounds like?
This guy's the limit!
...someone made a program to "audiolize" system load as raindrops. Couldn't see the point back then, can't see it now.
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
A much more useful instrument would be a microphone (or emf, rpm sensor) on the fans and some software coupled to that that predicts when the fan is about to fail. Also maybe for hard drives. I know sofware is used in cash machines that tracks the activities of the transducers and actuators, then sends a "fix me" notification to HQ, often many hours before a mechanical failure becomes serious enough to disable the machine; and that has been very successful.
That depends on your definition of 'sound':
No, it doesn't make a sound.
Yes, it does make a sound.
Back in the "old" days, we had techs that could tell you the error/fault that had occurred by the sound pattern produced by the line printers. To the very last one, they were upset/angry when the printers where replaced with quieter versions as this now meant they had to look up from playing solitaire/day trading to actually look if there were any significant events.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
These concepts remind me of an old Novell "bouncing ball" screensaver. The ball had a "tail" that grew in length as the load on the server increased.
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that a prison 'manages freedom'
...when you could stick an AM radio on top of the GA16/440, tune the radio to the far end of the band and listen to your programs compile. You could tell when it was sorting it's symbol table, was very melodic.
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