I watched "The Net" a couple nights ago and I was surprised by how much true
Unix/linux was used.  The main company was "Cathedral Software" and they all
ran Macs with a custom interface.  The main character, Angela Bennett/Ruth
Marx (Julia Roberts), is a debugger and she frequently accesses Cathedral's
mainframe which was running, you guessed it, Unix.  You can quite easily
follow what she is on the mainframe.  This is not the only mention of Unix
however, the villains are also quit versed in the workings of the internet
and Unix and you can follow their conversations about trace routing and how
she hops from router to router across the world when they're trying to find
where she is.  I highly recommend this movie so go out and rent it.  Great
basis on reality with just the right amount of fiction.  Also, read the book
by Tom Clancy.  C'est trés chuoette aussi.


Bryce C.
Network Administrator / Scripting Consultant
CoBryce Communications
Bryce@BryceCo.Net
http://www.BryceCo.Net



-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Carl
Parrish
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 8:18 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: strange movie i saw last year


Your kidding right? the movie was called AntiTrust and stared Tim
Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption), Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions),
Rachael Leigh Cook (Josie and the Pussycats), and Clair Forlani
(Meet Joe Black). If you haven't seen this yet, run don't  walk to your
local video store and watch it. The best geek movie ever made. (though
truth to tell to starts to fall into the Firm formular). Still more real
code and computers than any movie I've ever seen. I don't think a single
montor is running M$ <g>

Carl P.

Nancy Sollars wrote:

> ..
>
>
>
> Whilst we were on the subject of M$ and Linux
>
>
>
> I remember early last year a friend of mine called me up and said there
> was a piss take movie on at the flicks it ran for 1.5 weeks.
>
>
>
> Basically it was M$ headed by the evil Bill Gates ( Not named for
> obvious reasons in the film as such )..
>
>
>
> and the plot surrounded a bunch of militants that would not fit in with
> the M$ plan
>
> ( Commonly known as open source developers )
>
>
>
> and these people were being rounded up and killed in various ways ...
>
>
>
> but of course they expose M$ for what they are doing and cause the
> revault against them.
>
>
>
> the film was very cleverly done not to be too offensive it did'nt star
> anyone famous ..
>
>
>
> Il email my friend and find out what the movie was called il try and get
> in in DivX or summat if anyone is interested ...
>
>
>
> Nige
>


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