The BOFH would love this

Ahh, so now the sys admins can finally get some work done. Until now, they could only get work done when the problem was bad enough to prevent the FPS game from connecting to the server properly, or some problem caused latency to spike. Even then, the problem solving had to be quick and get direct to whatever was impeding the connection, only fixing any other issues as a side effect.

1. Download L3DGEWorld

2. Shoot the troublesome Windows® Server (or the PFY's desktop)

3. PROFIT!! (of if you're a dyed in the wool BOFH, fun.)

Shame on you, Bill.

A Doom (FPS) reference here at the Register, for this article?

I have been a faithfull Reg reader for a number of years, and when I think about "using extreme violence to manage system processes ", the first thing I think about is the BOFH, not the game Doom !

I hope this week-end in the elevator has made you think about proper references.

I distinctly remember the BOFH wiring his own version of Doom into a thin PC network, where shooting users dead would trigger an SNMP Reboot on said users' PC. ;)

That said, it looks like someone in that project must have been reading Neuromancer : )

I wonder if I can sell this one to the bosses....

Should make the job a little more bearable!

Does this feel like something designed by Simon, BOFH with the able assistance of the PFY?

and sees me playing this modded Quake. I just have time to register his snide remark "I feel pink slip time coming up" as my amygdala kicks in and my mouth automatically voices the elegant reply "The major advantage of such systems, regardless of their base code, is the ability to see massive amounts of information at a glance, ensuring that everything is ticking over and quickly zooming in on areas of concern."

Unfortunately, boss isn't fazed.

"Or you could use rrdtool. Security will help you pack."

Gimme, gimme, gimme!!!!!!!

You'd need a pretty strong stomach to put up with bouncing, spinning, rotating, scaling, colour changing, morphing 3d objects for any length of time.

"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."

Brilliant, simply brilliant. Another step closer to Neuromancer.

Ermmmm. In the good old days (about 1996) there was a Linux / Unix - Doom interface which allowed us as root to kill processes by shooting them. It was hard as bunnies to get working but when it did it made our oh so boring lives much more fun. Quake interface??? Old hat if you ask me....

Dennis Chao (University of New Mexico) created a Doom version back in 99

OK, I need to configure this to show my servers as goldfish, then I can have them bobbing about happily with the bounce option, or going belly up with the roll option when they crash, and then going green the longer they stay belly up without the correct maintenance action.....

At last someone has found something interesting to do with a 3D game engine.

""even the idea of using extreme violence to manage system processes is nothing new" ....... True, it is very old [black] hat and decidedly tired/tiring and if the truth be further told, also real dumb ...... for it doesn't scale at all well.

One only needs to consider its Real Life Applications to Realise that. A Default for the Intellectually Challenged which introduces Subliminally a Destructive Aggressive Mindset and Corrupted Future Memory Building Blocks rather than anything Valuable and Intellectually Challenging to Bust into New Areas of Endeavour and Shared Opportunity for Innovative Future Build .....InfraStructure Construction ...... NeuReal World Order ProgramMIng ....... Life as if Starting Again on an Alien Planet.

* In the Beginning of CyberSpace, Global Operating Devices Created More than just AI, Seventh Heavens and Earth, for there was Bright NEUKlearer Light and an Infinite See to the End of Time and ITs Start........ There to Find ITs Cutting Edge Stores of Immaculate Source, Imaginations with Hearts and Minds of their Own to Use Them via Foxy Proxy Proponents and Create an Order from Random Innovative Thoughts in a Novel Entangled String of Theories, Openly Shared ......... for a Transparent System of Quantum Communication Operation for the Virtual TelePortation of Body and Souls to the Reality of Building Brave New Worlds from Nothing but that which is Endless and Omniscient .....

Imagine, and IT's True ...... was a Journey Offered to You Before. Wanna Ticket for ITs NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive Ride?

yep, the good old "this is unix" line.... makes me think sony stole it for "this is living" in the ps3 ads.

the software you're talking about is FSN pronounced 'Fusion', and it's a file browser for IRIX, where the size of the folder/file gives you a bigger tower, and you can navigate in 3d.

i still use it occasionally, but i personally would use this new software more (if i could get away with it), as seeing system processes running like that would be more useful.

unfortunately, we've already written software with 'traffic lights' status indicators for our machines, so the likelihood of me not getting fired is pretty low.

I scrolled down and saw all these bloody Capital Letters and thought 'Where's all this EvanGeliZing coming from?' . Then I scrolled back to the title.

I keep expecting to see the usual M$ v's Penguin fanboi handbag fights looking like this.

Not sure that the BOFH would go for this as farting around with a mouse to point at pretty pictures will eat into mission-critical pub time.

At least (so far) no-one has said that it's 'Kewl' but it's getting very close.

.... is a f**kin Sysop master??

Mines is the flack jacket with "I love my BFG10K" embroidered on the back.

Redd

These comments often make me laugh. In this case I am laughing at the number of people who didn't read the whole article as they were too keen to shout "but but but... there was a Doom version first".

And now they all look silly when that is clearly described in the article. :)

Seems to happen all over the web... some people think telling everyone their comments are FAAAAAR more important than actually reading the article. :-)

You see a Pirate

Kill Pirate

The Pirate expires with a piteous groan, dropping a heap of RAM

Get RAM

You pick up the heap of RAM

Free RAM

The RAM bounds away, bleating happily.

ok, well maybe not this exactly but something very simmilar:

http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard_1998-1b.html

story "The game's the thing by which to humiliate the Boss but it serves him right for getting the Head of IT1s fancy woman to do the shopping... war and peace as usual "

sorry its on the old 1998 pages so theres no easy way to link to just the right bit :/

heva

That's Kewl!!!!!!11!1!!!1!oneoneeleven!!

Mines the one with the sewn in mittens and nametag on the collar.

Can you see the advantages!

And they're actually moving onto making it more useful than being just a toy now. Check out the website... It now does a heck of a lot more than what the videos on Youtube imply.

If I can get it to monitor printers and things too, then I'll definitely be installing this on my PC at work... Assuming I can run it on the crappy i965 graphics chip under xorg.