linux :: the power of a free os

i had a real experiance of the power of linux

job was simple. had to take few printouts of addresses, for the councelling work. all we wanted to do is take printout of four addresses together. and most important sort the addresses according to the ranks, which are written in a file. so how do i do it in windows. ok i cannot do the sorting work in windows, to i did that throught linux, using a very simple perl script. i would had preferred a shell script, but nir wrote a perl script. anyway now jp had a software to take four images togehter and print them together using that. it gave kinda wired results. nothing was configurable. and most important needed some manual work. so we switched to linux. ImageMagic did all the work. we joined 4 images together. the command was pretty simple
"montage -sharpen 5x2 -tile 2x2 -geometry 346x185+5+5 4inputimages outputimage".
something important no note is that sharpening is being done, which is improving the image quality. so we again used windows for the printing stuff. it was going ok till the printer was stopped for a while. after we started the printer again, it started printing with some 10 times more speed. and we realised that the printer can print that fast, but its not getting data that fast. opened http://localhost:631, added the printer to my sys. and gave the lpr commannd. really took no time to do all this, and the test page came out successfully. and we were amazed to see the difference. it was printing about 10 times faster. we finised the job in no time.

all i can say is "linux gives me the power"

i love linux

b/w i am not feeling like sleeping. i already wasted time doing all this stuff. so i think i will do some work now. i'm in serverroom. so plan to work here only. :)