HDD Clicker – HDD Sound Simulator
This reminds me of a script I wrote at work. A lot of us do our compiling in VMs. This means we're left out of all of the fun of hearing fans spin up for large jobs. My script fixes that by polling top over SSH every few seconds and modulating the volume of a looping fan sound by the load average.<p>I think you could make a pretty good product by doing something similar (varying beep, boops and clicks) for database accesses, server reboots, etc. and making an acoustic uptime monitor. Keep it in a pinned tab and you'll notice right away when your web server's RPS goes way down or way up.