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Ironically, Josh (the author) references The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo when criticizing Hollywood's choice of using nmap almost ubiquitously.


Yeah, but he also criticized Jurassic Park despite the fact that most of Jurassic Park's OS views were genuinely Unix (SGI's IRIX, to be precise):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y12_WrlPaw

In that clip, you can see fsn, which is a genuinely real 3D file manager for IRIX:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaRHU1XxMJQ

Granted it's fair to say that the average theme park wouldn't be running IRIX, but Jurassic Park wasn't the average theme park (movie quote: "no expense spared"). So I think some of his criticisms are completely misplaced.


I did see that, but like in the original Matrix, I think it was one of the few times it was appropriate.




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