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In that vein, I was way too excited to see Mark Zuckerberg hacking in Emacs in The Social Network. It's so rare that movies get this stuff right that when they
by necubi 16y ago
In that vein, I was way too excited to see Mark Zuckerberg hacking in Emacs in The Social Network. It's so rare that movies get this stuff right that when they do I can't help but smile.
- sho_hn 16y agoIt was also pretty nice to see all those KDE 3 desktops in the film, especially since it were the historically correct versions for the timeframe of the story.
- gaius 16y agoIf you look at see what SunOS version the Grid is running, when Sam sits down at his dad's old workstation, it doesn't match up with the timeline.
- arethuza 16y agoIf you look really carefully you can see that it is actually running "SolarOS" not "SunOS". I paused one of the trailers at 1080p and captured the workstation desktop and I've been using it as a desktop background - quite a few people have told me that I really need to clean my monitor...
- ndespres 16y agoWould you mind sharing that wallpaper?
- arethuza 16y agoNP I'll do it first thing tomorrow.
- thecoffman 16y agoAwesome, I'd also love that
- arethuza 16y agoHere you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1401686/tron.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1401686/tron.png END OF LINE
- ndespres 16y agoThanks very much! It looks great on my desktop.
- rbanffy 16y ago> it doesn't match up with the timeline. A couple seconds later in the movie, the hero is disintegrated by a laser cannon behind his back, scanned and transfered to virtual reality environment where programs break apart when they hit hard things. Suspension of disbelief is a requirement. OTOH, I am quite surprised Disney got to name its first Tron villain the same as Burroughs mainframe OS. It's worth noting MCP's sidekick name sounds a lot like MARC (the Menu Assisted Resource Control).
- dfj225 16y ago> the hero is disintegrated by a laser cannon behind his back, scanned and transfered to virtual reality environment That bit always made me laugh. Tron leads you to believe that the exciting/magical part is the virtual world, while I always thought the laser was the real world changing invention.
- rbanffy 16y agoIt's like Iron Man. The guy creates a compact, cheap, abundant and unlimited power source and a form of non-reactive propulsion and what does he do with it? He builds a suit!
- alanfalcon 16y agoTo be fair, it's Tony Stark.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoActually, he didn't build the suit. The robots he invented built it for him, controlled by the AI system he also invented. The part I found unbelievable: in spite of the fact that Stark Industries is prepared to sell us everything we need to live in an Asimovian future, their stock price is tanking because Stark wants to stop building weapons.
- nitrogen 16y agoAnother movie that did reasonably well was Antitrust, using Gnome desktops for all the systems, though IIRC some of the commands used to undelete files may have been made up.
- rbanffy 16y agoI once wanted to undelete some files out of an ext4 filesystem and I can assure you there is no such thing as an undelete command...
- logic 16y agoNot as-such, but the data is still there to be recovered, depending on how motivated you are. :) http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html It took him three weeks to develop it for ext3, so you might want to give yourself a week or so to add in support for ext4's changes: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/New_ext4_features https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/New_ext4_features (Also, note the second-last item on the list of new ext4 features. :)
- pchristensen 16y agoLoved TSN for that part too. Another awesome one (less technical but a spot-on acknowledgement of tech culture) was the 30 Rock spoof of the iPhone launch keynote: http://www.hulu.com/watch/67267/30-rock-the-keynote http://www.hulu.com/watch/67267/30-rock-the-keynote I laughed for two minutes straight and my wife missed it completely.