3D, FPS File Manager 226
An anonymous reader writes "Has your boss pissed you off and left his Samba share open to the world? Looking for something different in a file manager? Brutal File Manager may be for you. I found its Freshmeat page while I was looking for a new filemanager. I thought maybe the Slashdot crowd could appreciate it. So far only the delete function works." That's the only one you need anyway.
Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)
Safety Traps: (Score:2)
(hee haw)
Boss? Samba? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Boss? Samba? (Score:3, Funny)
No! (Score:4, Funny)
I can see it now, insted of "3y3 0wn j00"
We will simply see "pwn'd"
Question though, if your directory uses symlinks, would that be considered a wallhack??
Re:No! (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
Re:No! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No! (Score:2)
Interesting, but... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Interesting, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Jinx (Score:5, Funny)
Date: Saturday 17th of January 2004
We've had some problems with our server the last few days but it should be fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience it may have caused
Back in the day... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Back in the day... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Back in the day... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Back in the day... (Score:2)
You're thinking about this (Score:3, Informative)
New Tron (Score:5, Funny)
This paves the way for us to make a MMOFPSFM.
Defend your files from other users on the network, and break into a coworkers base and share his files....
Capture the Flag ! BOFH Style ... (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe someone should send this link to Simon Travaglia
So, I wanna see a "Capture the Flag", and also the possibility to form teams between services...
For my part, I'll stay warm and cosy playing the same team as the IT guy with ultimate fine tuning access to all corporate network speed and latency 8)
Also, as a new virus, a Bot like Sarge, this file manager and machines fighting across the networks against each others..
I, for one, Welcome our Beowulf Bots Division OverlordZ 8)
Yummy 8)
Re:Capture the Flag ! BOFH Style ... (Score:2)
successfully capture the flag and you get to keep your mp3, if they capture the flag, you will never, ever be able to illegally download that mp3. That would rule!
Re:New Tron (Score:5, Interesting)
I was thinking this myself. It could bring a whole new meaning to the term "cyberterrorism". It would be a whole new Counter-Strike where the Feds actually are the Feds.
Imagine a team of 3L33T FPS players from the Cult of the Dead Cow getting together and flashmobbing CitiBank. They start spawning in a map representing CitiBank's IT infrastructure and scaling the walls looking for an open window to enter (port). Once they get into a window, they might have to pick a couple of locks (crack passwords) or defeat a virtual fingerprint scanner (Buffer Overflow) and then they'd have access to the rest of the building. Real leet0 ninja teams would have to sneak around (hide logs) via thief or hitman to avoid the security (IDS's) to locate the files they were looking for. If they set off a laser tripwire (Snortbox) the Counter-Terrorists (Secret Service) would be notified and they'd start spawning in on the maps a la "The Matrix". It'd be a huge gunfight, file fragments would be flying everywhere, and people would be dropping off-line left and right while plugged into their Nebuchadnezzar-like chairs.
It seems that "The Neuromancer" is closer to actualization than I ever imagined.
Televised Tournament Mode should be a hit on Fox.
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Re:My God (Score:2, Funny)
Speak for yourself...
I've gone through my third tuxedo this week from diving through large glass windows. At least the last window had a pool in the courtyard tw
Re:New Tron (Score:2)
But what if you suck at FPS games? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But what if you suck at FPS games? (Score:2)
What do you expect? FPSs look like the #1 type of game and it is the FPSs that get the most attention on slashdot and geek sites.
Re:But what if you suck at FPS games? (Score:2)
Re:But what if you suck at FPS games? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But what if you suck at FPS games? (Score:5, Funny)
Then don't play games as root, dumbass!
Reminds me of... (Score:2)
Aahhh.. Active aggression therapy.
Then the question is... (Score:2, Funny)
Frag in the file system, or
De-frag the file system.
Gotta be careful... (Score:4, Funny)
"RRRRRRRRGH - " *blam blam blam*
"Nooooo! Not inetd.conf! I didn't mean it!!"
Re:Gotta be careful... (Score:5, Funny)
"Daddy, I was playing your game again, and now the computer stopped working!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
I can see it now (Score:4, Funny)
Now becomes...
# Use the BFG in /
i do this, kinda (Score:5, Funny)
while `sleep 900`;do kill -9 $RANDOM;done
Every 5 or 6 days I'll hear him screaming at the top of his lungs and going "HOW IS THIS BETTER THAN WINDOWS?!" And I just snicker at him... screw this advocacy stuff, sometimes you gotta enjoy life!
Re:i do this, kinda (Score:5, Funny)
Re:i do this, kinda (Score:5, Funny)
It's not a real "file manager" (Score:4, Informative)
Except it doesn't. When you shoot a file, it removes it from the display, but not from the drive. This was just someone's program for a school project.
Aside from the fact that it seems very hard to navigate (ie: find what you're looking for), I would think that actually implementing this would be dangerous (whoops, I accidentally shot a file) and not very user friendly (crap, I've got to delete all of the
Re:It's not a real "file manager" (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It's not a real "file manager" (Score:2)
Re:It's not a real "file manager" (Score:5, Insightful)
The videogame industry has been selling titles that don't involve much more than that for years. More enemies is more fun, right?....Right?
Re:It's not a real "file manager" (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's not a real "file manager" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's not a real "file manager" (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's not a real "file manager" (Score:2)
Re:It's not a real "file manager" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's not a real "file manager" (Score:2)
So, you better be SURE you're willing to do such a thing, so making more effort involved is helpful.
Re:It's not a real "file manager" (Score:2)
In the case of deleting all files, all that is needed to remain intuitive is an "are you really sure?" prompt, which is not asked for during normal operations.
Yeah, okay, sure.... (Score:3, Funny)
Precisely what i want some kid to be thinking whilst he's running extremely new (and possibly dangerous) software on the network looking for things to destroy with his new spear, shotgun, or sniper rifle. Just in time for Monday - horray.
Re:Yeah, okay, sure.... (Score:2)
Obligatory Jurassic Park Reference (Score:4, Funny)
Except in my version the next line in the script is
"Look out, VelocirAAAAAIGHH!" [munch munch...]
Browsing Inbox (Score:5, Funny)
psdoom is more fun! (Score:5, Informative)
http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
The original idea for psdoom was by Dennis Chao:
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
(And reported on slashdot sometime recently"h tml ).
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/20/1110242.s
I think this line from David is hilarious:
Imagine using the BFG to shut your system down.
Great links (Score:2, Informative)
Those are great links, but please use HTML <a href="..."> tags to make them clickable, like this:
That way people can just click on them instead of creating new tab, copying, pasting, remembering to rem
This looks like some thing we've seen before. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:This looks like some thing we've seen before. (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html [sgi.com]
A good replacement is the open-source fsv:
http://fsv.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
Re:This looks like some thing we've seen before. (Score:3, Insightful)
i ran this on my mac... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:i ran this on my mac... (Score:2, Funny)
Right after you get your e-mail client reinstalled?
Funny, but... (Score:2)
more ideas (Score:5, Interesting)
They should try doing this with the Quake engine to have more realistic worlds.
Is there a prompt option to confirm deletion? e.g. Do you really want to blow up this file?
Even Better (Score:2)
The down
Re:more ideas (Score:2)
I think you just gave reality TV a last-ditch idea. Interesting, but absolutely prone to abuse.
What if.... (Score:5, Funny)
It is a bit weird shooting a computer game, at least the computer game you are playing at the moment.
Oh, yes, this game comes with self-centered violence
Re:What if.... (Score:2)
Re:What if.... (Score:2, Informative)
The game keeps going - until you quit, but then you can't launch it again.
(at least this is the behavior on Mac OS X)
Re:What if.... (Score:2)
For those of you who prefer text mode... (Score:3, Interesting)
Sounds like MUD Shell [xirium.com], only graphical.
"Beneath Steel Sky" (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:"Beneath Steel Sky" (Score:5, Informative)
Re:"Beneath Steel Sky" (Score:3, Informative)
The game designers created a beautiful and consistent interface just for the game sake and I always wanted to have a real file manager like this. There's a screenshot gallery here, with sample screenshot from the VR UI.
Most of those make it look more like Microsoft Bob than any useful sort of file manager. In general, 3D doesn't have a foundation for efficient file management. Current 2D technology involves direct manipulation, and users will not be drawn to a system that makes you run around to do
Re:"Beneath Steel Sky" (Score:3, Interesting)
My own preference would be a simple rooms metaphor, but files are represented as columns. The shape of the column base indicates file type (triangle for regular file, square/rectangle for char/block device, hexagonal for pipe/socket), the height indicates file size (log2), the color indicates permissions, and the texture indicates detailed file type (text, image, binary, etc.). Symlinks are partially transparent.
The color of the room indicates permissions
Re:"Beneath Steel Sky" (Score:2)
You could tell a lot about a file in a single glance.
No, you couldn't. You make the same mistake that everyone who struggles with 3D makes. You go for the "oooo-ah" whiz-bang factor instead of the "oh yeah" eureka factor. You need to sit down and think about what people actually do with files before you bother to work out a better way.
My own preference would be a simple rooms metaphor, but files are represented as columns.
Already a mistake, because you turn moving between directories into t
Re:"Beneath Steel Sky" (Score:2)
Okay, I'd figured the north wall would have the "door" back to the parent directory (possibly more than one if you followed a symlink to get there). The east wall is textured with a 2D map of the filesystem (zoomed in a bit, most likely) showing "you are here". The south wall has "doors" to the subdirectories. The west wall
Re:"Beneath Steel Sky" (Score:2)
Watch your back (Score:2, Funny)
Oooh... (Score:2, Funny)
This, combined with a virus detector would really bring a whole new dimension (literally) to virus protecting!
I imagine little green disgusting creatures... and worms, there'd have to be worms, eating away your Stuff and then you'd
Re:Oooh... (Score:2)
Re:Oooh... (Score:2)
Note to self, write a map generator for this... (Score:3, Interesting)
On the other hand, generating a WAD file from a bitmap was tricky enough... ack.
Kids these days... (Score:3, Interesting)
From the Unix haters' handbook [idge.net]:
I wasn't around back then, but I would argue CDE is nearly as unusable :)
Bah! Real Men Use a CLI (Score:2)
This could be dangerous... (Score:2, Funny)
Poor files... (Score:2)
All kidding aside, it could be useful (Score:2)
Extend it to network devices.. you have a really useful tool..
Jurassic Park... (Score:2)
Re:Jurassic Park... (Score:2)
Perhaps computers are finally fast enough. (Score:2)
First Person Browser (Score:2)
"This is a Unix system. I know this." - Lex, _Jurassic Park_ [monash.edu.au]
Re:First Person Browser (Score:2)
Perfect for my boss... (Score:2)
And let me guess... the bigger the file, the more times you have to shoot at it to kill it...
They should allow you to kill running programs, too.
When you're deleting spyware... (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory Jurassic Part quote (Score:2, Funny)
Strike back (Score:2)
Of course, playing it in /sbin or /etc will have a kind of shooting back in the long run, but that would be more like pacman type game eating poisoned pills than an FPS.
Thinking more on this, maybe a gaming interface could be good for some task like file management, but... what kind of game would be? An FPS have not the right analogies, something like Mario (i.e jump over a file to destroy it, but you can wa
seriously, this could be useful (Score:2, Interesting)
The article said that this made it easier to keep track of things, because humans have good 3D memory, so remembering that you are working on the budget proposal on the workspace that is in the middle of the far wall in the third room on the
Re:seriously, this could be useful (Score:3, Funny)
3D file manager (Score:2)
Check out the screenhsots [comcast.net]
Now why didn't I make the front page of slashdot?
email? (Score:2)
Heh (Score:2)
This one quote... (Score:2, Funny)
Setup & usage Before you run Bfm you should setup bfm.conf and change the settings the way you want. It is recommended to enable safe mode unless you really want to remove files and before you know how Bfm works. The shotgun for instance spreads its shots in a cone which you should be aware of.
unedited...
This reminds me of Gibson (Score:2)
Alot of science fiction is more visionary than you may think. For example Arthur C. Clarke, author of '2001', put the concept of the satellite in a short story in the 1940s, and now he's credited with being the first to suggest the possibility.
Solution (Score:2)