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Why does he have an issue with Jurassic Park? Lex was using fsn, which would have been available at the time for IRIX - although not used in any serious product

Why does he have an issue with Jurassic Park? Lex was using fsn, which would have been available at the time for IRIX - although not used in any serious production environments that I'm aware of.

scott_karana 14y ago
I suspect it was more the "I know UNIX!" child hacking that threw him off. :)
- newman314 14y ago
  Exactly, I cringed at that scene.
  - atdrummond 14y ago
    I'd be surprised if there weren't more than a few HN users who'd installed a Linux distribution by age 12.
    - ynniv 14y ago
      Probably not when the movie came out in '93 tho. The easiest Linux install was a sad chore until at least '95 or '96.
      - loudandskittish 14y ago
        But...her grandfather clones dinosaurs. Why is so beyond belief that she'd have used Unix at some point?
        nthj 14y ago
        Because it's a click-and-point graphical 3D maze-like diagram thing. If she'd piped ps through grep into kill then nobody would have ever mentioned it again.
      - druiid 14y ago
        shrug I was using one of the first versions of Slackware at that time. I can't remember exactly how easy it was to use as it has been a while. Probably I'm just blocking it from memory as it was Slackware :P.
      - primitur 14y ago
        Not strictly true, really. Ygddrasil was a bootable Linux distro on a CD which was available during the '93/'94 period .. I was always pretty sad that they stopped the project. It could've been a contender ..
      - arethuza 14y ago
        "The easiest Linux install was a sad chore" It really wasn't that bad - not quite as super slick as OS installs these days but most of the grief tended to come from having to do things like install it from a stack of floppy disks.
- SeppoErviala 14y ago
  Maybe she hadn't used fsn ever but could tell from the file system structure that it was in fact a UNIX system. Then she concluded that she need to find the correct file - which is how UNIX does things. I did find the scene ridiculous at the time but it was because I didn't know UNIX or fsn. Now I find it very plausible.

Why does he have an issue with Jurassic Park? Lex was using fsn, which would have been available at the time for IRIX - although not used in any serious production environments that I'm aware of.

scott_karana 14y ago

I suspect it was more the "I know UNIX!" child hacking that threw him off. :)

newman314 14y ago
Exactly, I cringed at that scene.
- atdrummond 14y ago
  I'd be surprised if there weren't more than a few HN users who'd installed a Linux distribution by age 12.
  - ynniv 14y ago
    Probably not when the movie came out in '93 tho. The easiest Linux install was a sad chore until at least '95 or '96.
    - loudandskittish 14y ago
      But...her grandfather clones dinosaurs. Why is so beyond belief that she'd have used Unix at some point?
      - nthj 14y ago
        Because it's a click-and-point graphical 3D maze-like diagram thing. If she'd piped ps through grep into kill then nobody would have ever mentioned it again.
    - druiid 14y ago
      shrug I was using one of the first versions of Slackware at that time. I can't remember exactly how easy it was to use as it has been a while. Probably I'm just blocking it from memory as it was Slackware :P.
    - primitur 14y ago
      Not strictly true, really. Ygddrasil was a bootable Linux distro on a CD which was available during the '93/'94 period .. I was always pretty sad that they stopped the project. It could've been a contender ..
    - arethuza 14y ago
      "The easiest Linux install was a sad chore" It really wasn't that bad - not quite as super slick as OS installs these days but most of the grief tended to come from having to do things like install it from a stack of floppy disks.
SeppoErviala 14y ago
Maybe she hadn't used fsn ever but could tell from the file system structure that it was in fact a UNIX system. Then she concluded that she need to find the correct file - which is how UNIX does things. I did find the scene ridiculous at the time but it was because I didn't know UNIX or fsn. Now I find it very plausible.