One small step for a developer, one giant leap for sysadmin's everywhere...

"No, Mr. Boss, sir, I'm not wasting valuable company time and resources
playing a game.  No sirree, not me.  I'm doing useful work, taking care of
system problems.  Yup, Mr. Work-Til-Me-Hands-Fall-Off System Administrator,
that's me.  'Scuse me now, Mr. Boss, sir, but there's a runaway daemon
hiding inside the system that I have to hunt down and destroy.

THERE IT IS!!!  BEHIND THE PAGE TABLES!!!!!!!

DIE, YOU MISERABLE PROCESS, DIE!!!   YAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<BLAM-kachunk-BLAM-kachunk-BLAM!!!  BOOOOOOM!!!!!!  splat-splatter-glop>"

:-)

Bob Jarvis
The Timken Company

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tim Rowledge [SMTP:rowledge at interval.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 21, 1999 1:13 PM
> To:	Squeak mailinglist
> Subject:	Doom as a user interface (fwd)
> 
> Yeah! Now this is the UI paradigm for system admin. Add in the ability
> to capture processes and drag off to the interrogation chamber( aka
> Debugger). Remove some of the gratuitous blood and gore. Implement in
> SqueakAlice.
> Actual work left as an exercise for the student (at gatech :-) )
> 
> tim
> 
> -- 
> In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.  - Brian Reid
> Tim Rowledge:  rowledge at interval.com (w)  +1 (650) 842-6110 (w)
>  tim at sumeru.stanford.edu (h)  <http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Subject: Doom as a user interface
> 
> Most serious computer users on Unix and Windows machines are familiar with
> the
> process of killing a program.  It's a pretty pedestrian activity, with a 
> minimum of user-interface savy.
> 
> Now a researcher at Univ of New Mexico has used the Doom game (a shoot 'em
> up game with lots of blood) as the GUI for killing programs.  A soldier
> is created for each process and you just have to shoot the one you want.
> It's
> described at
> 	http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
>