Looking busy

[doodab]

My current fave is to get a terminal session with lots of scrolling output like you see in films.

How do you do it?

 

[Mich the Tester]

My current fave is to get a terminal session with lots of scrolling output like you see in films.

How do you do it?

Three terminal sessions using two different command line tools. Console's quite handy for that. Always have a Notepad++ editor or ultra-edit open.

If you find a really interesting story on the web, just copy and paste it into a word doc and read it there, or of course into notepad++.

And never have less than two empty coffee cups next to you.

You could download Selenium and record some happy flow tests in a browser then let them run continually, just to exaggerate how busy you are.

 

[RasputinDude]

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
       cat dummyLogFile.txt
       sleep 5
done

put whatever you want into dummyLogFile.txt and away you go.

 

[darmstadt]

My current fave is to get a terminal session with lots of scrolling output like you see in films.

How do you do it?

tail -f a_log_where_lots_happens (i.e. Websphere or ITM)

 

[doodab]

How do you do it?

I mean how do you like to keep busy btw, I'm not asking for shell scripting tips.

I wrote a shell once don't you know.

 

[MarillionFan]

My current fave is to get a terminal session with lots of scrolling output like you see in films.

How do you do it?

By actually doing some work. Try it sometime.

 

[doodab]

By actually doing some work. Try it sometime.

I save that for the 30 minutes of quiet in the morning before the phone jockey gobtulipe blatheronerus whinging permies get in. After that my brainwaves get disrupted so I just drink tea and wait till home time.

 

[RasputinDude]

I mean how do you like to keep busy btw, I'm not asking for shell scripting tips.

This is what comes of badly defined requirements. Now if you had created a proper UML model with use cases, test descriptions etc, you'd have got the exact answer that you want *and* be able to invoice for a few days work.

My *work* currently consists of watching scrolling grey lines to make sure that the update rate is correct and that the updates are happening.

So basically, I'm staring at a screen with 45 second intervals.

 

[Bunk]

tail -f a_log_where_lots_happens (i.e. Websphere or ITM)

WHS

I was going to suggest the exact same thing, tail a log file and leave it going, lots of important looking stuff scrolling past. They'd be mad to let you go

 

[Bunk]

I mean how do you like to keep busy btw, I'm not asking for shell scripting tips.

I wrote a shell once don't you know.

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