Linux in the theater

log · 10-26-2003, 07:27 PM

Hey, I just watched Scary Movie 3, it was pretty funny if you like that kind of blunt humor.

Anyway, to cut to the chase, whenever there was a computer screen being shown, im pretty sure it was running Linux with the Bluecurve theme and Mozilla. I could be wrong and I dont have a DVD of it since it was just released.

Its cool to see that they are giving a little back to the linux community with some free "brainwash" advertising

hehe

trickykid · 10-26-2003, 08:19 PM

Moved: More suitable in the General forum where General type discussions belong. Regards.

zekko · 10-26-2003, 11:25 PM

Yeah I thought I saw Mozilla running on one of the computers, not sure if it was Windows or Linux though.

Capt_Caveman · 10-27-2003, 12:53 AM

Not sure if this is old news or not, but they also show linux/unix in the Matrix Reloaded. There is a scene where Trinity nmap scans a host looking for services and then runs an ssh exploit against it. Kind of cool. They have blown up picks and details at www.insecure.org [the nmap site].

php · 10-28-2003, 07:04 AM

yeah, thats relatively old haha

js_530 · 10-28-2003, 06:50 PM

The reason they use Linux is they don't have to get permision from microsoft. Cheaper, and more realisitic than those crappy UI's that know every feature the user every could want (Dilbert?) Haven't seen the movie yet, but heard it was funny.

frieza · 10-28-2003, 10:07 PM

yeah i saw the matrix and i thought it was some *nix os, although i thought some of the commands seem bogus (hollywood)

Capt_Caveman · 10-28-2003, 10:45 PM

Actually that scene used real commands and in fact actually used a real canned exploit against SSH. On the nmap site, they make a joke about how they should've patched their system, considering the exploit would be several hundred (thousand?) years old by then.

frieza · 10-29-2003, 08:59 AM

lol, i'll have to watch the scene in slow motion and take some notes.... J.K.

quietguy47 · 10-29-2003, 09:49 AM

In the 'Matrix' it's 1999, so the patch wouldn't have come out yet.

Capt_Caveman · 10-29-2003, 09:55 AM

Good point. Next time I watch it, I'll have to see if that scene occured in the Matrix or in the real world. That would be kind of funny if it was from inside the Matrix. I guess she could have made a bundle working for Symantec.

frieza · 10-29-2003, 10:36 AM

it occured in the matrix, they hacked into the power plant's computer to take it off line

jspenguin · 11-02-2003, 12:19 AM

I saw a movie called "The first 20 million is always the hardest" and in several scenes, they seem to be using an old GNOME or KDE. I'm not sure which, but I think it's GNOME because the console window is labeled "Terminal" (in KDE, it's "Konsole")

Robert0380 · 11-02-2003, 12:25 PM

scary movie was garbage. they even left off a scene that was in teh commericial...

the part where Orfeous says "Im pofisizing.." is not even in the movie.