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A Dog Barks, The Wind Blows, A Server Reboots…

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 4, 2007

[ Thanks to Ross
Brunson
for this link. ]

“You’re in the server room, listening to the sound of a babbling
brook, when suddenly the sound of a fish splashing back in the
water causes you to look at your network monitor application, where
you see a traffic spike that needs your attention.

“Some sort of weird Ridley Scott remake of Hackers? No, one of
several system monitoring tools that lets you use your hearing
senses to determine what’s going on with your
systems and network…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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