Re: new DirectX Oracle online monitor

From: Glen A Stromquist <glen_stromquist_at_no_spam_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:22:49 GMT
Message-ID: <ZYI8c.14244$Ct5.12756@edtnps89>

Howard J. Rogers wrote:

> "Glen A Stromquist" <glen_stromquist_at_no_spam_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3yI8c.14111$Ct5.387_at_edtnps89...
>

>>Billy Verreynne wrote:
>>
>>
>>>lauferb_at_adit-tec.com (Boaz Laufer) wrote
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'd like to invite you to my site to try my new DirectX based oracle

>
> online monitor.
>

>>>>The name is 'SGAgent'.
>>>
>>>
>>>DirectX? Then why does it not look like a 1st person shooter that
>>>allows you to walk around inside the virtual world of an Oracle
>>>instance?
>>>
>>>Where the hell is the BFG (Big Friggen Gun) that you can use to shoot
>>>sessions (alter system kill session).
>>>
>>>Nah.. not interested. Too many grapgics. Not enough substance. IMO. I
>>>have yet to see something GUI-like that gives me what my Unix/Linux
>>>command line ora-ps shell script does. No fancy graphics. Just the
>>>relevant and applicable facts ma'm. To go.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Billy
>>
>>now you got my imagination going, I'm thinkin little google-eyed
>>animated nerds running around doing the parse requests, shared pool full
>>of some bubbling glop that changes color/consistency depending on
>>usage... never mind, slow day ;-)

>
>
> Yup. Oracle as "Doom" or "Castle Wolfenstein". I'd like to see that.
>
> "Captain, the Library Cache Latch is about to blow!"
> "Send in the Bind Variables, number two!!"
>
> A troop of chameleons dressed in leather bondage gear swarm onto the bridge
> and the latch stops melting. Meanwhile, back at headquarters, Miss Quincy
> reports changes to the cursor sharing warp drive.
>
> (The leather bondage gear is optional, particularly for Miss Quincy: see
> Program - Options).
>
> I think Larry would be on to a winner with that one.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>

yup. if you want to win over the MS crowd, make it like a game...

but since I'm the nostalgic type, I'm thinking more a console that looks more like the bridge of the original enterprise, with Scottys voice for the alerts. "Theres only a few wee extents left captain, I doan think she'll hold together much longer"

but then again a full screen animated graphic of T'oppal or 7 of 9 reading alerts/alarms has some appeal as well...

or something like that :-) Received on Thu Mar 25 2004 - 16:22:49 CST