Monitor your Linux Computer with Machine-Generated Music
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Nov 2006 19:58 UTC, submitted by BlueVoodoo
Linux "Use Perl and FluidSynth to create a real-time musical composition of your system status. Learn how to integrate various system monitoring data into a harmony-producing, MIDI-controlled audio synthesis. Explore audible information methodsconfigurations monitor and manage your computer."
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wow...just...wow
by Flatline on Wed 15th Nov 2006 20:46 UTC
Flatline
Member since:
2006-03-06

Do some developers just have too much time on their hands or what? I mean, it's pretty cool and all, but...

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RE: wow...just...wow
by Almindor on Wed 15th Nov 2006 21:16 UTC in reply to "wow...just...wow"
Almindor Member since:
2006-01-16

Yes, all OSS devels do otherwise there'd be no OSS.

And I mean this, it's not ment to insult or a sarcasm.

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RE[2]: wow...just...wow
by grfgguvf on Thu 16th Nov 2006 18:11 UTC in reply to "RE: wow...just...wow"
grfgguvf Member since:
2006-09-25

Actually, this saves time.

Problems can be discovered earlier and you dont need to spend time reading log files, the background "music" can go on while you do other more important work.

If this is configured right, probably the gains from it outweight the time taken configuring it. Which can't be said of most other fancy new software out there.

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RE[3]: wow...just...wow
by setuid_w00t on Fri 17th Nov 2006 01:01 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: wow...just...wow"
setuid_w00t Member since:
2005-10-22

The hum of fans and air conditioning, the clicking of hard drives and the clacking of keys is enough background noise for me.

I don't see how the usefulness of this could outweigh the annoyance and distraction.

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RE: wow...just...wow
by startxjeff on Wed 15th Nov 2006 21:36 UTC in reply to "wow...just...wow"
startxjeff Member since:
2006-09-29

Now taking bets on how long it takes MS to imitate this incredible demonstration of developer creativity, since MS doesn't have any.

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RE[2]: wow...just...wow
by stephanem on Wed 15th Nov 2006 21:40 UTC in reply to "RE: wow...just...wow"
stephanem Member since:
2006-01-11

> Now taking bets on how long it takes MS to imitate this incredible demonstration of developer creativity, since MS doesn't have any.

Sorry but MS app developers are too busy developing apps like Sonar and Cubase ;)

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Hmmm
by Sphinx on Wed 15th Nov 2006 22:43 UTC
Sphinx
Member since:
2005-07-09

Mine keep playing, "Smoke on the water", is that a good sign?

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What's the sound of...
by korpenkraxar on Wed 15th Nov 2006 23:43 UTC
korpenkraxar
Member since:
2005-09-10

Code: 0f 0b 90 00 b7 1a 2c c0 89 d8 2b 05 90 01 39 c0 c1 f8 03 8d
kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:144!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 1
EIP: 0010:[<c0144294>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: c02f6f00 ebx: c2d583e0 ecx: 00000000 edx: cbaa16d4
esi: 00000000 edi: c02f6e58 ebp: 00020d5f esp: e191fddc
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process cron (pid: 30220, stackpage=e191f000)
Stack: 00000003 c02f7524 f403d480 f403d480 f403d480 c2d583e0 c015078e 00000000
c2d583e0 00000000 c2d583e0 c02f6e58 00020d5f c014399d 00000c80 000001d2
00000020 00000020 000001d2 c02f6e58 c02f6e58 c0143bb3 e191fe50 000001d2
Call Trace: [<c015078e>] [<c014399d>] [<c0143bb3>] [<c0143c0c>] [<c0144889>]
[<f8b35718>] [<c0144b91>] [<c01381d2>] [<c0138dff>] [<c011fa34>] [<c0163b0b>]
[<c0165561>] [<c013cb35>] [<c013c934>] [<c01c6ada>] [<c01ae9d1>] [<c011f74c>]
[<c010b598>]

===
The broken chorus of 10,000 IDOL winners screaming in pain from the dark pits of hell?

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The User
by Doc Pain on Thu 16th Nov 2006 06:41 UTC
Doc Pain
Member since:
2006-10-08

Does anyone remeber "The User - Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers"? 8086 PCs connectted via ethernet and serial to a NeXT UNIX control server?

http://www.aec.at/en/archives/prix_archive/prix_projekt.asp?iProjec...

And if you like it:

% dd if=/dev/kmem of=/dev/dsp
or
% cat /dev/random > /dev/speaker

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timofonic
Member since:
2006-01-26

This weird thing with some nice filters and mixing over samples could be nice ;)

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