Comments on: Visual Notifications: X10 and Lava Lamps http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/11/visual_notifications_x10_and_lava_lamps/ Nerds are for Dorks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:04:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicole http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/11/visual_notifications_x10_and_lava_lamps/#comment-2733 Nicole Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:42:02 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=980#comment-2733 We're just becoming self-referential. :) Soon we can catch everyone in our tangled web and they will travel in circles and never escape. We’re just becoming self-referential. :) Soon we can catch everyone in our tangled web and they will travel in circles and never escape.

]]> By: Jonathan M. Hollin (DarkBlue) http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/11/visual_notifications_x10_and_lava_lamps/#comment-2732 Jonathan M. Hollin (DarkBlue) Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:27:24 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=980#comment-2732 Yep. I knew I'd seen it somewhere! :-) Yep. I knew I’d seen it somewhere! :-)

]]> By: JC http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/11/visual_notifications_x10_and_lava_lamps/#comment-2731 JC Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:22:35 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=980#comment-2731 wow, Nicole, that ForeverGeek place is a pretty cool website, huh? lol wow, Nicole, that ForeverGeek place is a pretty cool website, huh?

lol

]]> By: Nicole http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/11/visual_notifications_x10_and_lava_lamps/#comment-2730 Nicole Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:19:00 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=980#comment-2730 JC, you probably read it <a href="http://forevergeek.com/gadgets/the_ambient_orb.php" rel="nofollow">ForeverGeek</a>. That entry includes a link to an article on setting up the ambient orb to monitor project status. Someone also left a comment with a link to a tutorial similar (maybe the same one? I didn't check) to the one above. JC, you probably read it ForeverGeek. That entry includes a link to an article on setting up the ambient orb to monitor project status. Someone also left a comment with a link to a tutorial similar (maybe the same one? I didn’t check) to the one above.

]]> By: Jonathan M. Hollin (DarkBlue) http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/11/visual_notifications_x10_and_lava_lamps/#comment-2729 Jonathan M. Hollin (DarkBlue) Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:38:58 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=980#comment-2729 I'm sure I've read that the Ambient Devices' Orbs can be configured to respond to server status. I've never seen Spotlight on Webservers or Funnelweb. We use a system based on <a href="http://www.geocities.com/latompa/ha/apache_heartbeat.html" rel="nofollow">heartbeat and mon</a>, which works very well. Even so, I would like to rig up something like the lava lamp system simply because of its "cool value"! I’m sure I’ve read that the Ambient Devices’ Orbs can be configured to respond to server status.

I’ve never seen Spotlight on Webservers or Funnelweb. We use a system based on heartbeat and mon, which works very well.

Even so, I would like to rig up something like the lava lamp system simply because of its “cool value”!

]]> By: JC http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/11/visual_notifications_x10_and_lava_lamps/#comment-2728 JC Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:27:44 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=980#comment-2728 heh. I remember reading something about this... not sure if it was this one or another... but they'd put some kind of sensor or something in the lava lamp... the lamp kicked on if you tried to compile and it failed... and if you didn't fix it by the time the lava lamp warmed up enough to start moving, the sensor chimed or buzzed or something so everyone could see who'd screwed up... encouragement to check before you tried a compile or something. I wonder if those nifty glass ball things from <a href="http://www.ambientdevices.com" rel="nofollow">Ambient Devices</a> could be set up to monitor webservers and so on. At any rate, have you ever looked at <a href="http://www.quest.com/spotlight_on_web_servers/index.asp" rel="nofollow">Spotlight On Webservers</a> from Quest? And the rest of their stuff, of course. Funnelweb is great, and free now... but spotlight's the one that does kinda what you were talking about for webserver status heh. I remember reading something about this… not sure if it was this one or another… but they’d put some kind of sensor or something in the lava lamp… the lamp kicked on if you tried to compile and it failed… and if you didn’t fix it by the time the lava lamp warmed up enough to start moving, the sensor chimed or buzzed or something so everyone could see who’d screwed up… encouragement to check before you tried a compile or something.

I wonder if those nifty glass ball things from Ambient Devices could be set up to monitor webservers and so on.

At any rate, have you ever looked at Spotlight On Webservers from Quest? And the rest of their stuff, of course. Funnelweb is great, and free now… but spotlight’s the one that does kinda what you were talking about for webserver status

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