Now this is cool. Basically a bunch of leather elbow-patch clad researches took the decision to start mapping network metrics to objects displayed within a version of the Quake Engine. FTA: ‘The system is called L3DGEWorld, and uses Open Arena, an open-source game based on the Quake III Arena game engine, to render system events [...]
Entries from April 2008
Sysadmins get Quake tools
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Interesting
BBC News, I Hate You
April 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments
As some of you may have experienced, the quality of BBC News’ journalism has decreased exponentially in the last couple of years or so (referring specifically to articles on their website). This is particularly true of their reporting of all aspects of technology. Essentially, the BBC gives the impression that: Computer games make your children [...]
Tags: Rant
Balloon Animals!
April 16th, 2008 · No Comments
My boss, Director of Corporate ICT has a most unusual hobby. He makes balloon animals. I was already suitably impressed, until he mentioned one of his recent achievements through experimentation: A ballon dragon. To show my disbelief, I said ‘Wow. Now THAT I’d like to see’ – and you guessed it, he went ahead and [...]
Tags: Interesting
