make music out of the network traffic....
ie compose their own.
If they can produce the audio of a boson particle, i am sure teksavvy could find a simple cost-effective way to have the network traffic digitized into a melody and use that.
Researchers have come up with new software that translates network and server activity into music. The geeks at Canadas Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning say this lets IT operators interpret the music to detect problems in the system. WebTech reports that starting last Friday:
IT department operators began listening to what sounds like classical music but is actually a precise audio model of system metrics. They are trained to recognize instruments, chords, tempo and other musical elements of music as a translation of e-mail activity from 15 servers over three subnets. Every aspect of the music correlates to information. Probes detect server activity and send about 20 summaries a second to the iSIC sound engine. The data is aggregated and transformed into an audio format. The information moves through a rack-mounted Yamaha synthesizer, which streams it out as music.
But why classical? Why not something easier like say speed metal for when you get SlashDotted, Barry Manilow for a DNS attack and Hank Williams for when its time to pull in the plug and pray.
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