I managed to impress someone at the office this week with a cool (read mundane) computer trick.<\/p>\n
I got a call from the secretary, who is a few seconds’ walk from my desk, asking for a scanned version of my hand-written signature. I replied that on my computer at home I have it, and I could easily get it within a few minutes; she replies that it would be faster for her to just walk over with a piece of paper for me to sign, which she would then scan and play around with.<\/p>\n
And this is where I began to impress her: By the time she got to my desk with said sheet of paper, I had already VNC’d into my home server’s desktop and was in the process of doing the same from the server to my main computer’s desktop (gotta finish the process of giving it a static IP and setting it up so that I don’t have to go through my home server. \ud83d\ude42 ) I finished logging into my desktop, and looked in the likely directory, and voil\u00e0 ! I fired up my home email client, and within a couple of minutes, she’d received my scanned signature.<\/p>\n
Beyond the fact that the Gnome desktop is set up standard to do VNC — and the fact that I installed TigerVNC instead of using the standard Gnome Remote Desktop Viewer — too bad that I can’t really claim that this is a cool Linux trick, since my computer at work is Windows, and you can set up Windows boxes to “pick up the phone” too ….<\/p>\n
She was still impressed, though. And it took about as much time as the whole process of signing a piece of paper, scanning it, cropping it, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I managed to impress someone at the office this week with a cool (read mundane) computer trick. I got a call from the secretary, who is a few seconds’ walk from my desk, asking for a scanned version of my hand-written signature. I replied that on my computer at home I have it, and I … <\/p>\n