{"id":6176,"date":"2011-11-22T17:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2011-11-22T17:20:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:20:19","slug":"using-the-game-doom-as-a-sys-admin-tool-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/using-the-game-doom-as-a-sys-admin-tool-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the game Doom as a sys admin tool – blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Using Doom as a sys admin tool is not new, heck, been around for a few years.\u00a0 But as I was surfing around the net I came across this post and thought.. eh why not, I’ll repost it.<\/p>\n

So here is the basic point for you non sys admins out there.\u00a0 Somewhere, in the deep cess pool of the company office building sites a few guys (and gals) who basically stare at a computer screen all day with tons of windows and text. Looking at bit like the matrix. No pretty icons, hardly ever use the mouse.\u00a0 Just a man and his keyboard.<\/p>\n

They basically watch the network, the traffic loads, the loads on the hardware, various tasks that start and stop.\u00a0 They make sure the system does not get overloaded and tasks that should be running and running, and those that should not, are not.<\/p>\n

However, this is not the most exciting thing in the world.\u00a0 How much more fun would it be to perform pretty much the same tasks but use a video game and your controller!\u00a0 Well a few years back in 1999 someone did it using Doom.<\/p>\n

Pretty cool idea huh?\u00a0 Here is more information the words of the Dennis Chao<\/em> who created it.<\/p>\n

Some of the potential benefits of using Doom as a tool for system administration:<\/p>\n