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Monitor a Linux Box With Machine Generated Music

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can-duh dept.

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."

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  1. From the Article by Orrin+Bloquy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted," lead engineer Bruce Peart commented shortly before being arrested by the RIAA for accidentally reproducing "I Want It That Way" on his desktop. Under the DMCA, monkeys are no longer allowed near typewriters, unless under contract to reality television producers.

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  2. Re:Great.... by cyber0ne · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want minor chords when something is failing, and business as usual should play "Walking on Sunshine"...

    Your ideal server condition is to be playing "Walking On Sunshine" _all the time_? God, I'd WANT things to fail after a while if that was the case :)

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  3. I can just picture it now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My boss hears about this "great" idea, and suddenly, I'm having conversations that sound like this with upper management....

    Big Boss: "What's the status of our servers right now?"
    Me: "Well, sir, it's like this. The web server is all light classical, but the mail server has gone a bit blues; we'll try to upgrade it to something jazzier once the new shipment comes in."
    Big Boss: "Any word on how Joe's doing with the corporate intranet issues?"
    Me: "Well, sir, it was death metal when we arrived this the morning; he's trying to make it perkier, but so far it's still stuck at atonal screechings..."
    Big Boss: "It's not going go all John Cage on us, is it?!!"
    Me: "No sir. Not this time. I swear!
    Big Boss: "Well, okay. Keep up the tempo!"
    (thinks)Hey, managing this technology stuff is easier than I thought!"
    Me: (thinks) Must stop bosses from reading slashdot. :-(