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Idea: pipe stdout and stderr through a text-to-speech program. Programs with noisy logs would be running around screaming like lunatics.

andrewchoi 12y ago
Somewhat related: "The best ping story I've ever heard was told to me at a USENIX conference, where a network administrator with an intermittent Ethernet had linked the ping program to his vocoder program, in essence writing: ping goodhost | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | vocoder He wired the vocoder's output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting "Ping, ping, ping..." once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that's how he found the intermittent failure." [0] http://www.askapache.com/hacking/ping-unix-darpa-muuss.html http://www.askapache.com/hacking/ping-unix-darpa-muuss.html
- INTPenis 12y ago
  The FreeBSD game collection had some tunes you could play on the PC speaker around 2004-2005. So I once found myself playing the simpsons tune on the PC speaker of a server (yes it had a pc speaker) on repeat, and going into the server room to find the damn thing.
dtjohnnymonkey 12y ago
I've been thinking of a similar idea, but instead of text-to-speech, doing something like choir.io and playing positive, negative, or neutral sounds. The resultant noise would give you enough information to get a feel for what's happening.
- digi_owl 12y ago
  Read an article a while back about a guy setting up his phone so that any wifi APs detected while wandering around town would play certain sounds to his headphones. This based on signal, encryption etc. Since then i found myself pondering how we limited our computing interaction to our visual sense, where as interacting with mechanical devices also involve auditory and tactile feedback. A fridge moment was when i was waiting for my coffee machine to do its thing, and how i instinctively responded to changes in the noises made. Never mind the analog modem days where i got into the habit of leaving the sound on for the handshake, as i could then tell if i got a good or bad connection based on the sounds heard.

andrewchoi 12y ago

Somewhat related: "The best ping story I've ever heard was told to me at a USENIX conference, where a network administrator with an intermittent Ethernet had linked the ping program to his vocoder program, in essence writing: ping goodhost | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | vocoder He wired the vocoder's output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting "Ping, ping, ping..." once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that's how he found the intermittent failure." [0] http://www.askapache.com/hacking/ping-unix-darpa-muuss.html http://www.askapache.com/hacking/ping-unix-darpa-muuss.html

INTPenis 12y ago
The FreeBSD game collection had some tunes you could play on the PC speaker around 2004-2005. So I once found myself playing the simpsons tune on the PC speaker of a server (yes it had a pc speaker) on repeat, and going into the server room to find the damn thing.

dtjohnnymonkey 12y ago

I've been thinking of a similar idea, but instead of text-to-speech, doing something like choir.io and playing positive, negative, or neutral sounds. The resultant noise would give you enough information to get a feel for what's happening.

digi_owl 12y ago
Read an article a while back about a guy setting up his phone so that any wifi APs detected while wandering around town would play certain sounds to his headphones. This based on signal, encryption etc. Since then i found myself pondering how we limited our computing interaction to our visual sense, where as interacting with mechanical devices also involve auditory and tactile feedback. A fridge moment was when i was waiting for my coffee machine to do its thing, and how i instinctively responded to changes in the noises made. Never mind the analog modem days where i got into the habit of leaving the sound on for the handshake, as i could then tell if i got a good or bad connection based on the sounds heard.