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Linux, PPP, and the LED CPU meter.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Jul 22 20:00:24 1995
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 14:46:04 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: spberry@iastate.edu (Sean Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Linux, PPP, and the LED CPU meter.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.networking
If you use Linux (or another PC-based Unix) and PPP through Telecom's modem
pool, I may have something for you.
However, it doesn't cost you any money, and may save you some.
A while back, someone wrote a package to monitor the CPU load, and display
it on a parallel port device, usually consisting of LEDs. With the help of
many people, we've merged this package and the pppstats package, yielding a
device which can monitor your PPP usage, and tell you at a glance whether
you are connected or not.
The hardware can be built for less than three dollars, or up to twenty
dollars, depending on how nice you'd like it to look. The software is free.
We'll be putting the software up for FTP on sunsite and other mirrors.
I'll provide technical support on the software and help with hardware
construction. Any input on the project at this stage is welcome, and should
be forwarded to spberry@iastate.edu.
--
Sean Berry @ 42d 02m N 93d 37m W "I do my best work with live wires."
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