RE: audio blip for each web server hit

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:-/

I can Imagine the 300 servers in the room we used to have for our servers.
Ear plugs in hand! I guess the next evolution of the dumb action response
would be AI that would shout out, "DOWNLOAD <file name> COMPLETE!". I kinda
tend to like the AI approach better for one reason! So I can shout out loud
to all of the noisy servers, SHUT UP! I knew AI was good for something!

Cheers,

David.

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Subject: audio blip for each web server hit


I was just reading this article on Matt's weblog:

   Attention management now
   http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/?id=488

which mentions:

   Back in 2000, I saw a poster at WWW9 in Amsterdam on
   "Sonification of Web servers" [1]. The premise was that an
   application could be built to allow sysadmins to monitor the
   performance of their servers by sound. A Geiger-counter-like tick
   would be registered for every satisfied request; errors or other
   problems could register a different sound. With this, admins who
   couldn't spend every moment watching for denial-of-service
   attacks could listen for them instead. They could even measure
   how many of their users were on Internet Explorer versus Netscape
   if they liked. And all while focusing on other tasks. I thought
   it was brilliant. In fact, the conference judges did too: it won
   the best poster prize.

I don't remember seeing that at WWW9, but I happened to write
something like that a year earlier: a kludgy little shell script
(attached) that would play a blip for each pageview on one of
W3C's web servers. I forget where I got the idea for that...
(nowadays, it could only blip once for each 20 pageviews or so,
or it couldn't keep up)

oh, I think this is where I got the idea: when Netscape was first
released,

   jg hacked up an impromptu script that played the sound of a
   cannon shot each time a download successfully completed.
   We sat in the dark and cheered, listening to the explosions.
       -- http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html

[1] http://www9.org/final-posters/poster22.html

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