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Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by wruza »

walrus01 wrote: post #12

One could also do a "make world" on an entire FreeBSD system, if you want a lot of stuff scrolling past the screen.

Or build ports/ruby, it usually takes longer than the whole system. I remember one popular but non-DE-requiring package that required perl, ruby and(?) python among others. Building it could take a half a day mostly spent in ./configure scripts. I wondered why didn’t ports or autotools guys just pre-configure everything once for a specific machine and skip this annoying step. My strdup(3) won’t go away right after they finish yet another iteration of it.

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by hakaneskici »

fragmede wrote: post #50
hakaneskici wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Creative use case for a TSR :) The classic "fun" TSR use-case was to make an app that installs an interrupt vector to decode mouse hardware "events" directly from the RS232 port before exiting via 0x21h, so that DOS screen would display a pointless "native" mouse cursor that doesn't do anything :) When I say mouse cursor, I mean an ASCII block character with the blink bit on.

why was it pointless? it worked in the text guis of the time

You're right, TUIs had mouse support. This is a TSR, and exits to shell after running, so there's a mouse cursor visible without any app running. Like, there's nothing to "click" :)

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by 9dev »

Seriously, they should use something like this in movies when showing hacker screens. Those are so ridiculous, sometimes I think it’s a deliberate inside gag to display an HTML page on a terminal when someone purportedly „hacks“ into a government computer.

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by bitmasher9 »

In all satire there is some truth. The coder running nix, neovim, and a terminal heavy workflow will stand out compared to gui and ide heavy workflows. The thing is both sets of tools create essentially the same output with very similar time consumption.

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by ycuser2 »

Notepad++ has a "sticky note" mode (F12 key): it removes all borders from the window, only the text box itself being left.

Some years ago I used to copy reddit threads in Notepd++ and move the window on top of Visual Studios output window tonread reddit half on the day.

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by andra_nl »

I run i3wm (poorly :P). Does anyone know whether it would it be possible to trick i3lock (or something similar) into showing the output of this "tool" instead of a static image?

Would be a fun look, with the added bonus of some colleagues potentially being tricked into thinking they have an opportunity to mess with my machine. :D

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by _cenw »

padolsey wrote: post #47

I remember working for a small agency in London with a bit of a top-heavy management structure. Many times would my shoulder be subtly gazed over to "check on progress". I ended up using IRSSI to chat with friends, wgets to read my fav blogs, and my twitter stream pouring into what looked like an excel spreadsheet UI . I always got my work done in the first couple hours of the day. I will always resent those managers…

They just don't get that some people can't spread their time into perfectly equal slices of productivity. Remote work and flexible time has allowed me to work a big productive burst in the morning and in the late evening, spaced way more than 8 hours apart, with busywork somewhere in the middle. Probably wouldn't work this well if I had to do that in an office, in a single 8 hour (or 4+1+4) segment.

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by genezeta »

9dev wrote: post #54

Seriously, they should use something like this in movies when showing hacker screens. Those are so ridiculous, sometimes I think it’s a deliberate inside gag to display an HTML page on a terminal when someone purportedly „hacks“ into a government computer.

Someone already mentioned hollywood [0]. From its homepage:

  Hollywood was created in 2014 and has been used by NBC News, CNBC, on Saturday Night Live, the Netflix series Unit 42,  Yahoo Finance, and in TV commercials for Experian and SentinelOne,  the DEFCON music channel,  Full Frontal by Samantha Bee, an episode of  Map Men, a parody music video by SUSE, the Spy Ninjas series on Youtube, and magazine articles such as this one from Texas A&M University.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43377030
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