Okay, sounds like we all want vintage looking meters. I will try to
see what I can come up with. It would be especially perfect if we could
come up with a meter that has a backface that says Memory Usage. hmmm...


    - Jme






On Sat, 5 May 2001, Austad, Jay wrote:

> Vintage!  
> 
> My friend has a Harman Kardon amp with a blue backlit vintage meter on the
> front.  Unfortunately, I can't find it on their site.  Having something like
> that would prompt me to get a nice dark red stained piece of burled walnut
> for the front of my box to mount it in.  :)
> 
> Jay
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jamie Ostrowski [mailto:jamie at getsetnet.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 6:34 PM
> > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Analog RAM meter Q
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 5 May 2001, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 5 May 2001, Yaron wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > First:  are we measuring used RAM?  Free RAM?  Swap?  what?
> > > > 
> > > > analogmeter -c measures CPU, -r measures RAM, -s measures 
> > swap, pipe to it
> > > > from other programs... whatever we want.
> > > > 
> > > > > Second:  this is only going to be a crude indicator, 
> > probably, because we
> > > > > have to scale it onto the face of the meter.
> > > > 
> > > > I thought it'd be percentage, yeah... unless it does Load 
> > Avarage...
> > > 
> > > OK.  Then we'll do the driver on a flopping DTR, if someone 
> > can write
> > > that, and the rest can be handled by software.  Really need 
> > those meter
> > > specs, though...
> > 
> > 
> >     It is going to depend on what kind of meters everyone is 
> > interested
> > in. Personally I would like one that is rather 
> > vintage-looking, but thats
> > just MHO. Different meters are probably going to have 
> > different specs. It
> > would be best if we all had the same meters, would make the project
> > easier, I would think anyway.
> > 
> >     Maybe we should have a seperate list for this project because
> > something tells me there is going to be a lot of 
> > communication required
> > that isn't going to really interest other TCLUG list subscribers.
> > 
> >     So what kind of meters would we want? Vintage looking? 
> > Newer? Doesn't
> > matter? Let me know and I will try and find some that we will 
> > all like and
> > will have reasonable specs.
> > 
> >       - Jme
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
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