Re: Any nice system visualization packages?

From: Jan Sevelsted (NOsevelstedSPAM_at_vip.cybercity.dk.invalid)
Date: 10/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:26:18 +0200

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:03:49 -0700, Cyde Weys wrote:

> I have a dual-monitor, dual-PC setup right now. One of the PCs runs
> Gentoo Linux, and I'm often not doing anything on it, so its screen
> just sort of sits dead. I was wondering if there was any sort of
> visualization package that works off of network activity, disk access,
> processor utilization, or hell, even /dev/random, that will make my
> screen look pretty when I'm not otherwise using it for anything. And
> no, SETI@home isn't pretty enough, though I wouldn't mind using some
> distributed project if it was pretty.

Hi.
A thought - think of the nice power bill you get by switching it off when
it's not in use :-)

If the PC is chewing happily away at whatever you made it do the last time
you were on it, then save a bit on the bill.
SETI doesn't need a display to do something useful BTW. My file-server has
it running too...

Another solution could be a KVM-switch (Keyboard-Video-Mouse). I use that
with good results (4 PC's).

Jan.

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