JURASSIC PARK HACKER GIRL, if the movie were remade: This computer is running UNIX! I know this! EVERYONE: *stares at her* It’s a Mac
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
You gotta wonder why their user interface for “turn on park” was so arcane
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Replying to @mssilverstein
Well, running it on UNIX made sense back then just like it does now, but the only other person THEN who would have understood UNIX was eaten. It actually made sense in 93
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mssilverstein
That it was running Unix made total sense. That's we used in high school when I took c++ classes in the late 90s What made it arcane is that their "unix" inexplicably, suddenly had a weird 3D interface just for basic-ass functions instead of the command prompt Nedry used
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Irix perchance? It was weird. 20 years ago I had a job or we had a mix of operating systems, including a few Unix flavors, mostlyHP-UX, Solaris and Tru64. The Chemistry department had an SGI running Irix and sometimes needed our help with it.
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Yeah, but nobody with any sense would build a clunky 3D interface that - on top of just being 3D shapes on a 2D plane - was essentially just a folder hierarchy It's like if the Windows Control Panel made you navigate a Doom level to set up your printer
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After learning about psDoom it ceased to be so far fetched to me that someone did it. Using it might be a different story depending on the Unix person in question - they tend to be very specific about it. I had a sr sysadmin who enforced terminal window color scheme on all users.
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Replying to @AmericasSweeth8 @FartCaptor and
It sort of makes sense when you look at the situation where Nedry is deliberately wasting time and fucking with his boss the whole time he's there, because he's pretending to try to fix a technical problem he himself caused via a backdoor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmericasSweeth8 and
The book has some stuff about Harding revealing he has a keylogger on Nedry's terminal and finding out Nedry wasn't even logged in as a superuser, just fucking around browsing the interface as a frontline employee, until the moment came to create the power outage
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Hammond sees how short the keylogger transcript is and is all "That's it? That guy was here for hours!" "If there's one thing Dennis was good at it was wasting time"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmericasSweeth8 and
He didn't have internet, so that did take some skill.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
maybe they had the version of MS Word with the hidden Doom game
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