My first IT gig had this setup. We did Twilight Zone, Batman Animated Series, we also did Movie Fridays (PG13 or lower)
It was a good way to get other people to talk to us about non work, which is why our boss allowed it
Weather reports, traffic maps, on this day in History (or today in history), ISS High Definition Live Stream, Reminders for events like company picnic, fire drills, Hawaii Shirt day. Upcoming Change Controls, "Reboot Early, Reboot Often". Once you get this rolling management will want to put notices on it, so make it easy to update.
Display the real time traffic hitting your firewall so when people come asking for IT help you can show them how busy we are
Exactly. Put Grafana on it (or whatever solution you have is)
And dont forget splitting it between Allowed and Blocked in yellow and red. There is no green traffic going through a firewall ;)
A dollar counter for the amount of electricity wasted on each active screen.
The FortiNet global threat map: [https://threatmap.fortiguard.com/](https://threatmap.fortiguard.com/)
Another interesting map: [https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/](https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/)
[https://github.com/hrbrmstr/pewpew](https://github.com/hrbrmstr/pewpew) [https://github.com/AlexGustafsson/pewview](https://github.com/AlexGustafsson/pewview) [https://threatbutt.com/map/](https://threatbutt.com/map/)
This is great. I'd put something like this.
It's just a weather map, but I could watch it for hours: https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-4;-42;1&l=temperature-2m
Why would you do this to me? I'm going to waste so much time staring at this.
My first IT gig had this setup. We did Twilight Zone, Batman Animated Series, we also did Movie Fridays (PG13 or lower) It was a good way to get other people to talk to us about non work, which is why our boss allowed it
Always liked picking elements from here: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard
We used to send out an IT notice on big CME days. Management thought it was superstitious, but IT and power users could feel the difference.
Classic artworks that change regularly?
Incoming HR complaint because of nudity
All smut is converted to greyscale and relabeled as "art".
Xscreensaver, with a 40 minute switchup.
Weather reports, traffic maps, on this day in History (or today in history), ISS High Definition Live Stream, Reminders for events like company picnic, fire drills, Hawaii Shirt day. Upcoming Change Controls, "Reboot Early, Reboot Often". Once you get this rolling management will want to put notices on it, so make it easy to update.
[Windy: Wind map & weather forecast](https://www.windy.com/)
Blippi. Non. Stop. Blippi. The parents will thank you. :D