On Mon, 30 May 2005 20:20:22 -0700 Eric Van Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You know one of the Geek things I like to do is watch Movies and TV > and see if I can identify the Hardware and Software they are using > when computers appear. > > First time I noticed this was Mathew Broderick in "Wars Games" having > his Radio Shack TRS-80 war dialing in search of other computers to > connect to. But soon the movies seemed dominated by Apple who had the > product placement thing down to a science. Sandra Bullock in "The Net" > was a prefect example. Apparently every major system in the world was > a Mac and Sandra was plugged into them all. The first time I noticed a > big variation of this was Swordfish when Dell made there big screen > mark. > > Now in television it seemed like a different story. It was usually > some generic box with some made up, fictionist operating system on it > that only required one click of a mouse to start the count down to > destroy the world. <side bar>Why did bad guys always put a count down > before launching the huge bomb from a remote deserted island to > destroy some country. </side bar> > > But I've noticed this trend changing of late. Now those generic boxes > on television and even in the movies seem to have made the move to > Linux. A few of the shows I watch clearly are using various Linux > Distribution. CSI Las Vegas, where they originally were an Apple shop > but the last few shows had them using a GNOME desktop. In the season > finale, where the only link they had to their comrade was through the > computer, the entire interaction was clearly going on through a > Konqueror browser. Another show, also on CBS, is NUMB3RS, where the > math genius and the FBI seem to have standardized on the GNOME > desktop. NCSI another GNOME group. > > There are a couple of things you can figure out about this. One, I > need a better hobby. Two, I watch a lot of cop shows. And three, CBS > seems to like Linux. But then I noticed it make its first jump, at > least the first one I noticed, to the big screen. OK, let's call it > the medium screen because it was after all and Independent film. In a > movie I watched this weekend on the Sundance channel called "DOPAMINE" > <http://www.sundancechannel.com/home_entertainment/product.php?ixContent=5601> > where one of the main characters is a developer and the game he is > creating. It all happens on various Linux systems. > > So I was wondering what other shows and movies people might have > noticed Linux desktops on. And things like "Revolution OS" don't > count. I mean normal shows and movies. What else is out there? > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list Alias has had terminal windows with some Linux looking text (i.e. output of ls -l), and one of the laptops seemed to be running windowmaker, I didn't really get a good look at it. The laptops are powerbooks with the logo covered, which is something i see often nowadays. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
