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This was my chief complaint working in a military intel shop. It's insane trusting their products in highly critical situations. I was pleasantly surprised when
by craftinator 6y ago
This was my chief complaint working in a military intel shop. It's insane trusting their products in highly critical situations. I was pleasantly surprised when I got to use a radar workstation that ran on Linux. Everything worked, could do dynamic operations right from the terminal, it was so sweet!
- sandworm101 6y agoI've been in those areas too. What drove me nutz is not being able to automate things. I've spent days doing something by hand that, if I were on a less-restricted system, I could do in literally seconds in a terminal interface. Want to convert a movie file from one resolution to another? "ffmpeg -input -output" No. You have to use a video encoder from 1995 that only outputs into avi, doesn't understand modern audio formats and can only extract screenshots from reference frames.
- craftinator 6y agoYeah, the amount of data entry I had to do by hand was killer. I eventually got a Linux laptop cleared, set up scripts to scrape data and generate briefings, documents, formatted images. My productivity went up so much (a week's worth of work in a couple hours) that my command started an investigation to see if I was siphoning off my work load to other shops. When they figured out I was just automating everything, they shut it down because the "software was not government approved" lol. So much for military intelligence...