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Doom as a tool for system administration

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    carrotflowerr
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    I found this research project on wiby. The idea is that you can interactively kill processes represented by enemies in DOOM.

    I found this research project on wiby. The idea is that you can interactively kill processes represented by enemies in DOOM.

    8 votes
    1. zod000
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      I believe you are talking about PSDoom , which has been around for more than a decade. It's a hilariously fun hack/tool, but I would definitely not use it for actually managing processes. The...

      I believe you are talking about PSDoom , which has been around for more than a decade. It's a hilariously fun hack/tool, but I would definitely not use it for actually managing processes. The funniest part is that you can get processes to fight each other like in the actual game. There is a high chance of locking up your system when you play it.

      5 votes
  2. scherlock
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    Lol, I remember running this back in college. It made the rounds in my CS department back in the late 90s. It was all fun and games until you killed your shell process or a more important process...

    Lol, I remember running this back in college. It made the rounds in my CS department back in the late 90s. It was all fun and games until you killed your shell process or a more important process and crashed the machine. It was like a game of Russian roulette, you kill the demons until the machine or you crashed.

    4 votes
  3. Cyder1
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    There used to be sites that make reddit look like excel or outlook, now doom is the gui for sys admins.

    There used to be sites that make reddit look like excel or outlook, now doom is the gui for sys admins.

    3 votes
  4. jredd23
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    The dEVil is in the details.

    The dEVil is in the details.

    The mapping of abstract operations to an intuitive environment is a difficult problem.

    2 votes
  5. Dangerous_Dan_McGrew
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    This is obviously the superior method.

    This is obviously the superior method.

    1 vote