[TAG] One for Ben

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ben Okopnik (ben at callahans.org):

> Oh, I don't know. That one example of FVWM eyecandy you showed before
> was _very_ impressive....

Surely no desktop is complete without the Moaning Goat Meter (which used
to lurk^Wreside at http://www.xiph.org/mgm/):
   
  MGM, the Moaning Goat Meter, is the ultimate sixty-ton cast iron lawn
  ornament for the desktops of today's hacker set: A gorgeous, highly
  configurable load and status meter written entirely in Perl. Serious
  pink-flamingo territory. For evil geniuses only.

  Disclaimer:  MGM will not get your whites whiter or your colors
  brighter. It will, however, sit there and look spiffy while sucking
  down a major honking wad of RAM.

A review on taint.org states:  "Silly: The Moaning Goat Meter, by
xiph.org -- a load meter written in a proper[1] programming language, and
with an inexplicably spinning fish that stares at you. 

Je suis desol?, desol?, that the Web pages for this procmeter3-like 
(but much prettier) mostly-ornamental system-monitoring widget have
disappeared.  The FAQ in particular was priceless, not to mention the
pictures with those pink flamingos in them.

-- 
Cheers,
Rick Moen                                            Potestatem capite!
rick at linuxmafia.com