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LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (1995)

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Re: LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (1995)

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Post by schoen »

siliconunit wrote: post #4

I relish when something gets a thoughtful graphical representation.. would be nice to have it in a more advanced 3d shape...maybe something like that could be done in unreal engine/blender, driving isosurfaces blobs. Too bad software inventions are so emepherals.. won't have it working in 30 years , or less though.

I wonder how the 3D rendering would affect top's own resource utilization -- for example, if it might cause the visualization to always be present as a large blob inside its own visualization.

Re: LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (1995)

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Post by jsilence »

jtwaleson wrote: post #10
jsilence wrote: post #5

There was also a project called peep: the network auralizer ( http://peep.sourceforge.net/intro.html ) which would transscribe server load, service events and network events into a natural soundscape like for example the ambiance of a forest with a small creek. Sometimes when load was high, it would rain. On crunchtime the rain turned into a thunderstorm. The reasoning behind it was that the network crew could listen…

I've been playing around with this idea for a couple of years and have built some prototypes. This was mostly triggered by my experiences in running thousands of production servers. Just curious: in what kind of setting would you use it and would you pay for it?

Would love to use this for monitoring a small private VPS and a couple of SBCs spread in the house. Not sure whether I'd pay for a service tho. Would not like to have someone else get all the raw monitoring information. Self hosted would be better IMHO.

Re: LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (1995)

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Post by kroltan »

Eikon wrote: post #2

I deeply love these old fashioned personal web pages from way back then. When I stumble accross one, I always feel really grateful that the content is still hosted after all the years. The almost always crazy looking by today standards stylesheets makes the content very personal.

One of my favorite websites of this kind is the homepage of Anim8or, a free 3D modeling software. It even has a similar purplish-blue color scheme.

http://www.anim8or.com/

Back then, the home page was an animated "ENTER" GIF button, with a bunch of webrings on the bottom, and a logo fit for a vaporwave album cover.

EDIT: For your enjoyment: https://web.archive.org/web/20050924162818/http://www.anim8o...

Re: LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (1995)

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Post by jtwaleson »

jsilence wrote: post #12
jtwaleson wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been playing around with this idea for a couple of years and have built some prototypes. This was mostly triggered by my experiences in running thousands of production servers. Just curious: in what kind of setting would you use it and would you pay for it?

Would love to use this for monitoring a small private VPS and a couple of SBCs spread in the house. Not sure whether I'd pay for a service tho. Would not like to have someone else get all the raw monitoring information. Self hosted would be better IMHO.

Makes sense, thanks!

Re: LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (1995)

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Post by Zancarius »

pepijndevos wrote: post #13

This looks really cool, but on Arch it does not compile because libgnomeui is not a thing that seems to exist anymore. Hasn't anyone made some modern port of this?

libgnomeui is in the AUR[1]. Does it not work with this version or does libgnomeui also not build?

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libgnomeui/

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