After takin' a swig o' grog, 7 belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
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>> | I cannot forget this day in my life. I?ve been granted permission by my
>> | company to use Ubuntu Linux for my work from today. It was like a dream
>> | come true for me. I?ve been using Windows for any serious kind of
>> | development work till yesterday. Today I felt extremely happy when I
>> | booted into linux at my work place for the first time ever to do
>> | development. Hurrah! Ubuntu@Work, finally?!
>> `----
>>
>> http://jamesselvakumar.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/ubuntuwork-finally/
>
> Thats exactly what happened at my place and since then I let it rip
> through work. Its just fantastic - hardly anyone can keep tabs
> on anything because so much gets done and so much information
> is produced that its a full time job just to read all the stuff
> I generate.
Okay, okay, 7, you're beginning to sound like Hadron.
> To make the work environment more productive, I have seamonkey
> installed which has a WYSIWYG editor that keeps all the documentation
> in web format.
> I have 8 megapixel camera with a hand shake reduction and macro down to
> about a centimeter - $200 camera - that keeps photographs on
> everything including documents - no need for scanner - because it
> capatures A4 and A3 with perfect clarity.
> Then I use gambas2 on Ubuntu to script up various tasks into buttons
> and forms. At the click of a button for example, bash scripts run that
> sync up data from local machine to server keeping everyone updated.
> Scripting dumbs down routine tasks into a single button press.
> I've scripted the embedded controller programming so I just press
> buttons to for it to take compiled files and flash them to controllers.
> The reports the controller produces are taken in via optically isolated
> RS232 (soon to be bluetooth RS232) and then archived away by scripts
> attached to buttons.
> Very soon more scripts will also turn them into ODF spreadsheets
> and graphs and file it into the web based documentation system.
> Very soon also, the doxggen tools will be scripted and produce
> their own web documentation that just links into the existing documentation.
> All the while in the background I have two webservers being
> attacked with backtrack running from virtual machine for
> penetration testing. And each of those are headless with ssh
> running so I can ssh -X from my desktop through different
> virtual windows and inspect and modify all their
> files, MySQL server, PHP scripts as if I were sitting in front of those
> machines by rotating the cube display.
You're one busy little beaver.
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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting
things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives,
staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these
security problems, then people will hold back.
-- Bill Gates
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