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Instead of presenting lots of specific info on running processes in digital form, lavaps tries to present certain important information in graphical analog form. The idea is that you can run it in the background and get a rough idea of what's happening to your system without devoting much concentration to the task. Kudos to the author for providing a mostly-complete freebsd port for his software! Submitted by: John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu>
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DESCRIPTION
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Lavaps is an interactive process-tracking program like ``top'',
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but with a much different attitude. Rather than presenting lots of
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specific info in digital form, it tries to present certain important
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information in a graphical analog form. The idea is that you can
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run it in the background and get a rough idea of what's happening
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to your system without devoting much concentration to the task.
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Lavaps was inspired by Mark Weiser's idea of calm computing in
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this paper:
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``The Coming Age of Calm Technology'' by Mark Weiser
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and John Seely Brown. A revised version of Weiser &
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Brown. ``Designing Calm Technology'', PowerGrid Journal, v 1.01,
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http://powergrid.electriciti.com/1.01 (July 1996). October,
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1996. http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/acmfuture2endnote.htm.
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(This program dedicated to the memory of M.W.--I hope you would have
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thought it a good hack.)
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