Use Perl to create graphs from your network logs, then have your friends fire packets at you so they can “draw” on your log graphs.Nifty stuff, although it looks to be three years old!
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a neat idea, but I’ve often wondered why people don’t consider it slave labor the way they might a Nike sweatshop. (Nike settled.)And then High Scalability has a post about getting work done for free albeit this time to fight spam.
Stephen Dolan, a student at Trinity College Dublin, has written an article about internal link connectedness in Wikipedia. It’s worth a read anyway, but I was particularly tickled by a throwaway link he includes at the end.
Stephen’s software needs to run a quadratic-time algorithm on the two million or so Wikipedia entries, so he uses lots of servers in parallel to crank through all the work. And he includes a graph of CPU temperature on one of the servers he’s using. It’s pretty clear which 4-day period his job was running on…
If you have any other interesting examples of system-monitoring output, let us know in the comments, or drop us an email on sysmonblog@googlemail.com.
