Doom as a system admin tool?

[St. Jarvitude]

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

I can't believe this guy was able to write off two days of non-stop FPSing as "research" :crazy:

Still a cool (albeit useless) idea, though. A funny read.


I am proposing a new mapping for managing system loads. As mentioned above, people frequently talk about "blowing processes away", and the Unix command to destroy a process is "kill". This suggests a metaphor for process management. Each process can be a monster, and the machines can be represented by a series of rooms.
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A few of the problems of using Doom as a tool for system administration:

* Certain 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.