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MUD Shell
TGandalf writes "MUD Shell is a shell for end users- as easy to use as a MUD or a text adventure game. View an example session and download the source (16KB). It translates your filing system into a map, so cd.. becomes gonorth or simply n. File copying via the shell involves moving to one location, taking objects, then moving to another location to drop them. We got the idea from reading a thread on SlashDot." Allright I can't imagine actually using this, but I gotta give props. Very clever.
Isn't this just like the Adventure Shell, which has been around for a long time? Seems pretty MSInnovative to me.
-- Erich
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User: I need to access this directory share on the network.
sysadmin: You must first defeat my evil minions! Muhahaha!!!!
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Gives a new meaning to drag'n drop...or perhaps, dragon drop.
> enter /etc
>look
[listing deleted for brevity]
>look at smb.conf
smb.conf looks interesting. You might be able to write to it and delete it. You definitely cannot execute it
> wield SwordOfDeletion
> attack smb.conf
You hit smb.conf hard.
smb.conf savages you with a death spell.
You feel weak.
You run away to /
> say "shit, forgot to su"
> enter /etc
/etc
>look
[listing deleted for brevity]
>look at smb.conf
smb.conf looks interesting. You might be able to write to it. You definitely cannot execute it.
> wield SwordOfDeletion
> attack smb.conf
You hit smb.conf hard.
smb.conf savages you with a death spell.
You feel weak. You are near death.
You run away to /
> say "shit!"
You say "shit".
/boot looks are you strangely.
> cast SuperUser
> password: *******
> drink healing potion
> enter
> attack smb.conf
You kill smb.conf with a single blow.
> Say "Thats more like it"
You say "Thats more like it"
/init.d applauds loudly.
Here it is. http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.cs.unm.ed u/~dlchao/flake/doom/+doom+shell&hl=en
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For example, the Super Nintendo classic, Metroid.
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Back in the 80s, I'd use DOS and play Infocom games constantly. Whenever I lost my train of thought, I'd do either L or DIR absentmindedly, just to get me restarted.
Of course, half the time, I'd get I don't know the word 'dir.' and the other half I'd get Bad command or filename: L.
Got so bad I made an L.BAT which did a DIR, which helped a little. :)
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You find yourself surrounded by a mysterious blue cloud. You are unable to move.
I saw the movie a while back, and read the book not to long ago.
The thing I thought most stupid about both is how inefficient it would be to browse a database in this VR system! I mean, you have to actually walk over to a cabinet, open it, find the file, then open it and read it? Not the database you want? So now you walk down the corridor to a branch to find the portal to the next DB?
I am a strong advocate of VR - don't get me wrong. But database searching and retrieval doesn't seem to be an ideal app for virtual environments (one thing I found funny about the book - I can't remember it in the movie - was when they were looking at the 3D factory "spec" - what I couldn't understand is why the factory spec couldn't simply be "rendered" around them, instead of as a smaller model, allowing them to see many different details).
Virtual chatrooms - yes. Collaboration - yes. Surgery - yes. Training - yes. Architecture - yes. Trending/Statistics/Number modeling - yes.
All of these could benifit from a DB backend - but searching that DB shouldn't be a human process in the virtual world (ie, why couldn't they just ask the avatar - "angel" in the book - to find what they are looking for?)...
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Heh.