Sysadmin via a First-Person Shooter lolwut?

[Tuna]

Jim March wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Tuna <tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
>> http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/l3dge/tools/l3dgeworld/
>>
>> "L3DGEWorld 2.3 is a data visualisation utility based on Open Arena, a
>> GPL'd game that makes use of the Quake III Arena (Q3A) game engine. It
>> was initially designed to be a network monitoring and control
>> application, but can be easily used for other purposes by developing
>> other input and output daemons. The daemons provided with L3DGEWorld 2.3
>> allow monitoring and control of a live network to take place from within
>> a virtual world created by the L3DGEWorld engine."
>>
>> Has anyone heard of this?
> 
> Holy...
> 
> Um.  Yeah.  I can see one problem: getting fired when the
> pointy-haired boss thinks you're gaming on company time...
At least it would be slashdot-worthy.

> 
> Ghaaa.
> 
> Anybody remember the movie "Johnny Mnemonic" and the user interface
> where you "flow through" stuff in 3D?  It sounds like that's what
> they're trying to kludge together out of game parts...
Ha! Remember on Jurassic Park? "*gasp* It's a Uuuuunix system! I know 
this..."
> 
> Jim
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