If you take the time to read the thriller Spy Game, action or crime movie, you will be in my mind clearly outline the way a hacker sitting in front of computer screen: rows of fast-moving code, a large number of matrix sixteen hexadecimal digit code that flew like rain the same.
Perhaps there is a map of the world, there are some luminous dots and some charts to quickly update above, maybe there will be three-dimensional geometry. If possible, all this can be displayed on multiple monitors above, in the movie there is a hacker hacker uses both seven monitors.
Of course, our technical staff quickly realized that this is complete nonsense. While many of us who have dual monitors (or more), but the data is often flashing and focus on work runs counter to this purpose. Write code, manage projects and different management systems and stock trading. In most cases we have encountered a lot we need to think of trying to solve problems, good communication with stakeholders, conduct some research and organize information, then there is very little work accounted for fast typing.
But that does not mean we do not want the movie as hackers. Sometimes, we just want to look "efficient."
Sidenote: Of course I'm kidding. If you really need to be evaluated look how busy, then there is a very serious cultural issues your company. For busy and hectic culture is a toxic culture, almost certainly the culture of the company and its employees are not helpful.
In other words, let's have some fun with some of the old-fashioned meaningless data and code fragments to fill our panel screen (okay, these data may have some significance, but no context). Although there are many fancy GUI, but why not just use the standard linux terminal it? In order to look more old-fashioned, consider using Cool Retro Term: a cool retro terminal. Now I will use Cool Retro Term, because it looks really cool 100%.
Genact
The first tool we want to see is Genact. Genact simply play back a sequence of your choice, in the tea break, when you go out slowly, indefinitely "compile" your code. It is determined by the sequence of play you, but default it includes a currency encryption mining simulator, composer php dependency management, kernel compiler, downloader, memory management, and so on. However, my favorite is the display settings simcity loaded messages. Therefore, as long as no one checked too carefully, you can spend the whole afternoon to wait for the computer to complete the progress bar.
Genact have linux, os x and windows versions, Rust can find the source code on github.
Hollywood
Hollywood has taken a more direct way. It is essentially created in the terminal a random number and configuration of the split screen, and starts a busy look applications, such as htop, tree, source code files, and other application programs, and every few seconds for switch. It grouped together to form a shell script, so it can be easily modified to suit your needs.
Hollywood's source code can be found in the apache 2.0 license on github.
Blessed-contrib
My personal favorite is the Blessed-contrib, but it is not a show designed specifically for this application. Instead, it is based on a presentation terminal dashboard node.js build the library, which library called fordated contrib. With two other commands it is different, I actually used fulded contrib library to do something practical, not just pretend to work. It is a very useful library, there may be a set of command line display widget information. But it is also very easy to fill in the dummy data to achieve a similar dream "WarGames" in.
Blessed-contrib can be found in the source code github.
Of course, while these tools are very simple, but there are many ways to get your screen full of gibberish. You will see one of the most common tools in the movie is Nmap, which is an open source security scanner. In fact, it is often used in Hollywood movies demonstrate hacking tools on the screen, a lot of movies, from "Matrix Reloaded" to reload "The Bourne Ultimatum", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", even "Die Hard 4 "which also used it.
Of course, you can create your own combinations, such as using a screen or the like tmux terminal multiplexer to start any program you want to display the data you want.
Or you can view the log file tail -f.
So, how do you make your computer look busy it?
via：https://opensource.com/article/18/2/command-line-tools-productivity