Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:22:01 -0700 From: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it ok to use the FreeBSD name in a cyberpunkish fictional story? Message-ID: <19990512112201.C15703@dub.net> In-Reply-To: <199905121816.LAA07231@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 06:16:43PM %2B0000 References: <002801be9ca0$f0ef0810$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> <199905121816.LAA07231@usr08.primenet.com>
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On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 06:16:43PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Everyone knows that you use macintoshes to fight evil. The hackers/crackers > > really appreciate its GUI interface (click here to transfer virus). Didn't > > you see Independence Day? > > > Ugh. As if we can write software to automatically identify the display > hardware and sound cards on machines produced by humans, let alone the > ones manufactured by aliens (or Apple... same thing). > > > Kieffer Sutherland had a NeXT machine in "Flatliners". > > The computer that saved that day in "Jurrasic Park" ran IRIX (favorite > quote: "Hey! Iknow this! It's UNIX!"). > > The computer that the Bad Guys(tm) had to overcome in order to > steal the goods in "Die Hard" claimed to be running "BSD 9.2" > on it's graphical login screen (note to Jordan: defaulting to a > graphical environment: A Good Thing(tm) for accumulating mindshare). > > And, of course, Keanu Reeves would never have triumphed in "The Matrix" > had it not been for the FreeBSD special effects generating boxes that > were on his side. > > 8-). > Don't forget the alien entity in "The Sphere". In slow motion you can see that the "garbage" that is spews to the humans in an attempt to communicate starts with a shell prompt :) -Bill -- -=| Bill Swingle - <unfurl@dub.net> -=| "I hate quotations." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -=| FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! - http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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