Sound of Traffic is a Java "application" which converts TCP/IP header information into midi notes via the Java Synthesizer. The purpose is to listen in on network traffic in ordered time, via a tempo, rather than realtime, which could be more chaotic. In this sense it becomes closer to music then noise.

Play back of traffic is sorted by source and destination addresses and ports. Ports are assigned individual midi instruments and played on odd or even ticks depending upon whether it is a source or destination packet. The note played by the port is based upon the number of hits (amount of traffic) occurring on the port.

Development is on hold while I develop a new package for converting numeric data from any data stream into audio (MIDI, Sampled, FM Modulation.)

Sound of traffic is kinda neat.

Sound of Traffic

Comparison of dynamic web frameworks to J2EE/JSPs.

Better Web Application Framework - Google Video

Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop

History of the Amen Break.

YouTube - Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop - The Amen Break

A new Peachtree for $1 billion
Details emerge on proposed overhaul to add streetcars, parks

By PAUL DONSKY, MARIA SAPORTA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/14/07

More than 50 years after streetcars vanished from Atlanta, a group of business and civic leaders have a $1 billion, 20-year plan to bring them back along a dramatically revitalized Peachtree Street corridor.

Unveiled Tuesday, the recommendation envisions an overhaul of the city's signature thoroughfare to include new sidewalks and bicycle lanes, improved lighting and landscaping, buried utility lines and a string of small parks and plazas, about one every quarter-mile. The plan, which is being fine-tuned, would be financed in part with new taxes on property owners along the street.

This would be so cool.

A new Peachtree for $1 billion | ajc.com

The job isn’t finished yet, until all of Apache and MySQL and PostgreSQL and PHP and Python and and Ruby and Rails are in the package, all optimized for Solaris, all stuffed with DTrace probes, and all with developer and production support available. It won’t be long.

God bless Sun. This will make scaling our application much, much easier.

ongoing · AMP R Us : DTrace in AMP stack

Cool Stack is a collection of some of the most commonly used open source applications optimized for the Sun Solaris OS platform. By using these binaries you will enjoy the best levels of performance from your system, while also reducing your time-to-service.
Cool Stack features

Cool Stack includes several Sun Solaris OS packages, so you can install just the ones you need. Some of the applications in Cool Stack already ship with Sun Solaris OS 10, but these are either older versions and/or not built with full optimization. Cool Stack is built using Sun Studio (TM) 11 Compiler using the -xO4 option (SPARC version) and gcc with -O4 (x86 version) for high levels of optimization. This results in anywhere between 30-200% performance improvement (depending on workload/application) over standard binaries.
Cool Stack contents

The following sections provide more details on each of these packages.

* CSQamp. This package includes Apache HTTP Server 2.0.58, MySQL 5.0.22 and PHP 5.1.4 built to work together. Apache httpd is built with MPM pre-fork and modules to support PHP, SSL and Perl. PHP has support for MySQL. Note, to work with PHP, MySQL included in this package is a 32-bit version for client-side use only. For the database server, install the CSQmysql package which is a 64-bit version, allowing the use of larger caches to deliver improved performance for large databases. Note that the CSQamp package will work with the CSQmysql database server.
* CSQmysql. This package includes a 64bit version of MySQL 5.0.22 and is built with innodb. See the README file in /usr/local/mysql for details.
* CSQperl. This package includes Perl 5.8.8. Note that Solaris 10 ships with the same version of Perl. However, CSQperl is compiled with optimization and the Sun Studio 11 compiler and will provide better performance. To use this version of perl, rather than the default one, include /usr/local/bin in your PATH before /usr/bin.
* CSQphp. This package provides a FastCGI version of PHP 5.1.4 and installs in /usr/local/php5_fastcgi. This PHP is meant for use via FastCGI from a web server other than Apache. This package should not be confused with the version of PHP in CSQamp - that version installs in /usr/local/php5 and is only for use with Apache HTTP Server.
* CSQsquid. This package includes Squid 2.5.STABLE14 Web Proxy Cache. Squid is a single-threaded application and as such does not scale well on SMP platforms. You may need to run multiple instances to achieve scalability.
* CSQtomcat. This package includes Apache Tomcat 5.5.17 which is a pure Java application. It is provided for convenience as it is no different from the one on tomcat.apache.org.

Apache, MySQL, Perl, optimized for Sun/Solaris: cooltools: Cool Tools at OpenSPARC T1

"...can I have editorial control?"

"No."

Cafferty Cracks a Funny

Good info on how to compile DBD::mysql on Solaris 10.

How to compile DBD::mysql on Solaris 10 Perl

I misconfigured swap which killed server number 1.

Server number 2 is supposed to be pre-loaded with 6/06, but it fails to boot, nor will it boot the Solaris DVD.

My Macbook died too. It will not let me login. I login, it logs me out before I can do anything. Very clever.

We have this great software and five web demos next week, and all my computers just died, so I can't show it to anyone. Brilliant. I just have this Sony VAIO running windows XP, for IE testing and gotomeetings. But there is no server, so there can be no gotomeetings.

I am so screwed.

So I'll be waitlisting at the Apple store all day tomorrow, if anyone wants to come buy me coffee.

God Hates me Because I am a Bad Person

Come and learn about a recent Sun innovation - the Sun Blackbox. We'll host the OpenSolaris Meeting and have informational presentations on the Blackbox and the Sun technologies that are available with the Blackbox.

We will also be showing a tour of the actual Blackbox in the parking lot so you are able to see and hear about the details of the inner workings of the Blackbox. When:
2/20/2007 Agenda:
6:30 PM To 8:30 PM Pizza, Refreshments, Presentation & Tour of Project Blackbox
Where:
Sun Microsystems, Braves Conf. Room
3655 North Point Parkway
Suite 600
Alpharetta, GA
30005

I admit to being a sucker for Sun. But this is cool. They're gonna tour the shipping container data center things.

Sun Microsystems Project Blackbox Atlanta Tour