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Was Tron using Ubuntu? lol http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj6wytUwrf1qdhhtjo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1302360062&S

• pohl 16y ago
  In addition to visual effects, I was asked to record myself using a unix terminal doing technologically feasible things. I took extra care in babysitting the elements through to final composite to ensure that the content would not be artistically altered beyond that feasibility. I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble…. In Tron, the hacker was not supposed to be snooping around on a network; he was supposed to kill a process. So we went with posix kill and also had him pipe ps into grep. I also ended up using emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t. The team was delighted to see my emacs performance — splitting the editor into nested panes and running different modes. I was tickled that I got emacs into a block buster movie. -- Josh Nimoy Source: http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178 http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178 P.S. I love the word "greeble": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble