Would you broadcast your OS process list live? Would you like to see other people's process lists?

To be honest, this doesn't interest me in the least. It fills me with deep unmoving apathy. I don't think that the information gathered would be useful outside of an initial voyeuristic kick. Overall statistics might be neat as well, but not on a continuing basis. I'd much rather have an actual discussion about tool usage and work flow.

Unlike broadcasting your computer display say, there is less of a privacy issue with process lists. And maybe people can learn something from each other's process list broadcasts.

For example, you can get some idea as to what your friends are up to all day, what sorts of tools they use, etc.

You'll find tons of process lists on virus support forums. Some people would be helped if they could check their processes against a clean list if it could help them discover problems and have an easy way to fix them.

From /etc/services:

netstat 15/tcp

Now I feel like an old guy - I remember when you would occasionally find people leaving that open.

my process list looks something like this:

1) firefox 2) top 3) a hundred processes owned by root. boring.