JoshuaRL
October 8th, 2009, 03:33 AM
So, I just saw the new movie "Surrogates" featuring Bruce Willis among others. If you go see this movie, please pay careful attention to the end.
At the end, there's some footage of a sweet multiple monitor control room, and when the story gets intense, there are a couple of terminals open. Usually in movies like this, that is just crappy made-up stuff in there. And one looked like maybe hex code running on a loop, and another one I couldn't get a good look at.
But the middle one intrigued me the most. Instead of made-up commands, I saw a part of a path I recognize. It flashed a couple times, but really fast. Here's what I caught:
/usr/[blah]/[blah]/a11/[blah]/[blah]
At least, that's how I remember it. It could be a little different. But I know that the first directory, and the fact it was using slashes instead of backslashes are correct.
[Spoiler Alert]
So the question remains, is the surrogate grid running on Linux? And if so, why would a virus drop the system? What are everyone else's thoughts?
At the end, there's some footage of a sweet multiple monitor control room, and when the story gets intense, there are a couple of terminals open. Usually in movies like this, that is just crappy made-up stuff in there. And one looked like maybe hex code running on a loop, and another one I couldn't get a good look at.
But the middle one intrigued me the most. Instead of made-up commands, I saw a part of a path I recognize. It flashed a couple times, but really fast. Here's what I caught:
/usr/[blah]/[blah]/a11/[blah]/[blah]
At least, that's how I remember it. It could be a little different. But I know that the first directory, and the fact it was using slashes instead of backslashes are correct.
[Spoiler Alert]
So the question remains, is the surrogate grid running on Linux? And if so, why would a virus drop the system? What are everyone else's thoughts?