> Did the computer run Linux? (Please, please, please, somebody help me > find a way to make this thread be somehow related to the mailing list I > subscribed to....*chuckle*) > > Chances are, if FBDO was filmed today, Ferris would be an OS X guy. > I would tend to doubt that. Ferris seemed less concerned with his computer than with having fun; something militant geeks just don't get. He would probably have a Winders PC, but not spend much time on it.
> And if you ignore the timeline discrepency, there are other glaring > issues: > 1) He took the day off to go outside and have fun; very little time was > spent indoors. > Like I said, that computer was a very small part of his life. > 2) He had a girlfriend. And she was hot. > Yes, but that doesn't mean much. I had a hot girlfriend once and she turned into a psycho-ex-wife. > 3) He drove a car without any geeky stickers on it. > He didn't even have a car. This is central to the plot. Remember, Cameron had a "piece of s***," (that's a quote from the movie) and the Ferrari belonged to Cameron's Dad. > 4) His computer worked without a lot of messing around. > No doubt, considering he turned it on for the purpose of playing burp, vomit, and cough sounds through his keyboard. Offtopic to this OT: Cameron's last name was Frye. :-P -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
