Re: Aleatoric ambientry, CPU usage, and whatnot

An interesting form of instrumentation for monitoring system load is 
LavaPS, available for unix systems at:

http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/

Another really entertaining process management utility using Doom as a 
frontend:

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

	--Tom

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Christian Renz wrote:

> >A specific idea that some clever #perl person thought of was having LEDs 
> >under a translucent case change their color with the CPU activity.
> 
> This idea has "Ambient Orb" written all over it.
> 
> http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/orb/orborder.html
> 
> :) (Outside the US, you would have to use the serial interface thingie)
> 
> Greetings,
>    Christian
> 
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