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Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)
- CarolineW 11y agoAnd its follow-up: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/after.html https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/after.html
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoAnd the paper, which that page links to: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/papers/p152-chao.pdf https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/papers/p152-chao.pdf
- jle17 11y agoIf someone wants to try it out, a modern version is available here: https://github.com/keymon/psdoom-ng https://github.com/keymon/psdoom-ng. I made a PKGBUILD of it for ArchLinux some time ago. You'll need freedoom or something else to have the game datas (yaourt -S psdoom-ng freedoom1; psdoom -iwad /usr/share/games/doom/freedm.wad).
- Esau 11y agoMight be worth while if it lets you kill SystemD.
- treebeard901 11y agoThat would make a good boss battle.
- mynameislegion 11y ago!gniretteoP tranneL ,em llik tsum uoy emag eht niw oT
- digi_owl 11y agoClearly the spider mastermind...
- anthk 11y agoIt would be cool to hack frotz + inform6 (now you can as is Artistic 2.0 license based) as an awesome psheudo shell and parser for system commands. Think natural language for users. Heaven.
- PakG1 11y agoThis finally sounds like the user interface used in Jurassic Park, which I recall was actually a real thing. Which all in all is funny to me for unexplainable reasons.
- CarolineW 11y agoFsn: an experimental application to view a file system in 3D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555327
- nsajko 11y agoThese work on modern systems: https://github.com/mcuelenaere/fsv https://github.com/mcuelenaere/fsv https://github.com/3dfsb-dev/3dfsb https://github.com/3dfsb-dev/3dfsb
- bsharitt 11y agoThese attempts at 3D UIs never really caught on, but I wonder if they might make a comeback with VR.
- dinkumthinkum 11y agoI feel like they are more likely with Augmented Reality, which doesn't take over your entire visual environment.
- kreetx 11y agoCertain processes are vital to the computer's operation and should not be killed. For example, after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire from behind, possibly by tcsh or xv, and my session was abruptly terminated. Haha, this is nuts :)
- NelsonMinar 11y agoI wondered what became of Dennis, the author. He got his PhD in 2004 and is now doing computer modeling of infections diseases. http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/resume.html http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/resume.html
- passwordreset 11y agorelated, admin your server with minecraft: https://github.com/simplyianm/sysadmincraft https://github.com/simplyianm/sysadmincraft
- bennofs 11y agoAlso, this: https://github.com/docker/dockercraft https://github.com/docker/dockercraft. Manage your docker containers in minecraft! (Arguably a much better fit for the block-based world!)
- jlg23 11y agoAwww, we played this on a projector at Systems '99 in Munich - probably the most important selling point for Debian, which we were promoting. (And 3 months later I discovered FreeBSD and never looked back, but such is life ;)
- fizixer 11y agoMind elaborating what's good about FreeBSD compared to Debian/Linux. I've heard such statements before. Btw, I think bloat of linux distros (huge number of similar packages with slight differences have to be installed just because e.g., out of two of the tools I need, one uses libxml and the other perl module XML::Parse, etc, etc) is a problem, which has made me think about minimal cohesive distro that has minimum duplication. Wondering if FreeBSD can help in that regard.
- pjmlp 11y agoFor one thing, it is a real UNIX in terms of lineage and not a clone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds77e3aO9nA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds77e3aO9nA http://www.informit.com/store/design-and-implementation-of-the-freebsd-operating-9780321968975 http://www.informit.com/store/design-and-implementation-of-t...
- mpnordland 11y agoJust why is being a "real" UNIX that important?
- jlg23 11y agoIt is not at all important. Just ignore everyone who tries to lead you down that lane.
- pjmlp 11y agoThe overall culture among the OS users, developers and the respective architecture design decisions. Personally, I don't care that much. With time I became increasingly interested in the Xerox PARC world and how much better our current developer experience could have been if those systems had won the market instead of AT&T ones.
- sandebert 11y ago"I beat Linux. The end process was hard."
- cdevs 11y agoI started thin Thinking about this all over again lately now that all the easy to mod minecraft clones are popping up, voxel.js or python minecraft in 500 lines for examples. In a minecraft environment it would look a bit less like a employee playing a game and the possibilities are really helpful if you think about them, virtual server rooms you can actually walk into, punch a rack and get a menu, actually punch a connection to take a node offline. Wouldn't mind a way to physically see memory and cpu usage of processes mapped to the size or color of objects in this type of environment either.
- paperkettle 11y agohttps://github.com/docker/dockercraft https://github.com/docker/dockercraft
- wlesieutre 11y agoHow about this? http://i0.wp.com/bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/59481-hackers.jpg http://i0.wp.com/bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp...
- noir_lord 11y agoYou could certainly do some interesting 3D 'dashboards' once VR gets cheap enough, would be cool to look out over a grid of boxes where size was related to memory load and color temperature. Not sure it's practical in that it's damn hard to beat the informational density of good 2D graphs and text but it would certainly be cool (which is often the best reason to do something).
- jrcii 11y agoYou could round it out with that 3D "Unix" file browser from Jurassic Park.
- justin66 11y agoAka fsn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
- talles 11y agoThat's what I call gamification.
- gsmethells 11y agoThis was originally on Slashdot in 1990's and has been on HN before.
- Scarblac 11y ago1. Browse old Slashdot archives for their best links 2. Post them to HN fifteen-twenty years later 3. ??? 4. Profit!!!
- fibo 11y agoVery nice idea, it could be combined with an IPv4 Space visualization. I am working on it https://github.com/fibo/netvision https://github.com/fibo/netvision