Side question: I saw a project similar to this, but display\ntop in your terminal/browser with a beautiful visual dashboard. I remember seeing it here on HN recently but I can't find it. I mention that because it has a non-ascii visual component. I am interested in looking at the two source codes and see if I could make pretty dashboard out of it...

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Thanks for finding the, HNers. I also think it is possible to look at IPythoNoteBook integration.