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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."
Are mods especially thick today? Who on earth modded this down?!?
You should lose your points, but go ahead and use your last one on me so no one sees me calling you on it. Sometimes I wish moderation was not invisible. </rant>
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