#161 2017-07-16 22:32:23

kols

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From: Norway

Registered: 2017-07-16

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Re: What's your day job?

I'm a mechanical engineer, ensuring the doom of the Earth by designing oil platforms=P

ohnonot

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: What's your day job?

Despatch rider.

so your interest in motorbikes is professional!

you do this in greater london?
my deepest respect!

do you use linux on the job (communications maybe)?

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: London

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Re: What's your day job?

you do this in greater london?

Based in central London, yes.

I take jobs all over the place though, my personal "radius" is ~250-300 miles.

do you use linux on the job (communications maybe)?

We use XDAs for the jobs but they are so old that the built-in satnav doesn't know about the Hindhead Tunnel and they run a Windows-based (embedded) operating system...  8.(

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ohnonot

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Re: What's your day job?

they are so old that the built-in satnav doesn't know about the Hindhead Tunnel

2011?
ouch.
maybe you can tinker with one of the devices, install linux freebsd on it?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: What's your day job?

maybe you can tinker with one of the devices, install linux freebsd on it?

If I break it they charge us ~£750 for a new one so I probably won't be attempting that 

Anyway, it's nice to get a break from the keyboard every now and then...

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Muntic0re

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From: USA

Registered: 2016-12-08

Posts: 27

Re: What's your day job?

I am freelancer web designer

mynis

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Re: What's your day job?

I was a network engineer for 5 years and recently switched to storage. I'm super exited about being able to use my Linux skills at work for once!

cog

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From: The Southwest

Registered: 2015-10-27

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Re: What's your day job?

I'm sort of like a paralegal for Oil & Gas attorneys out west.  I run linux on my workstation and my servers which dish up the goods to the attorneys.  Most of my co-workers run MacOS or Windows.  I'm constantly bailing them out through the CLI power of ghostscript and pearl rename with regex as we put together public documents from the 1800's to today in PDF format.

cog

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Re: What's your day job?

the CLI power of ghostscript

I've never figured out how to get it to reduce the size of PDF docs (scanned images) as much as Adobe Acrobat does while still delivering a perfect on-screen viewing experience. Like I know how to get from 20M to 12M with ghostscript, and the images start getting to look like JPEG, but Acrobat spits out a 1.5M file which looks totally fine. Which is why I'm using ACrobat for making PDF files to upload to web sites which have idiotic size requirements like "upload colour copies of all your transcripts and diplomas but stay below 1M".

I know what you mean.  I usually use gs for batch removal of pages and stuff like that.  When it comes to shrinking massive ones down because someone didn’t invest in a good scanner I use imagemagick convert.  Tiff2pdf and pdfunite are also good for other edge cases.

vinzv

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Re: What's your day job?

I work in Marketing/PR, doing graphics, events and Linux desktop customization.

phuturism

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From: Melbourne

Registered: 2016-07-15

Posts: 207

Re: What's your day job?

I guess you'd call me an IT management consultant, apologies to  any devs and tech people I inflict pain upon.   Agile, lean, all that bullshit.  Sometimes it can help, sometimes not :-)

Just moved to Jakarta to do more of the same.  It's command-and-control city over here... but on the plus side Bali is close, as is the rest of Asia.   People are nice, food is good, girls are beautiful.  Can't complain.

gensym

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Registered: 2018-08-31

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Re: What's your day job?

Graduate student working on Algorithms and Complexity Theory. There was a brief period where I worked on network security.