I especially like how she is able to connect to the internet via a dialup connection in 5 seconds... or how she gets LAN transfer
speeds over the same dialup. I want to know who her ISP is. :-)
Bryce wrote:
> 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
>
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