[TAG] One for Ben

[Ben Okopnik]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:45:10PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> 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.
 
Must... have. Feel... irresistible... urge.

> 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.

Therefore, all give thanks to the Wayback Machine. /Voila/:

<http://web.archive.org/web/20020613175800/www.xiph.org/mgm/faq.html>

I have downloaded The Beast itself. Should you hear mad laughter, the
sound of screeching gears, and the moaning of tortured souls, it's just
me doing the installation.


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