{"id":51,"date":"2001-01-15T00:50:23","date_gmt":"2001-01-15T08:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T19:24:00","slug":"antitrust-hackers-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/01\/15\/antitrust-hackers-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Antitrust (Hackers 2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17112,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005AUDW\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314194840\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005AUDW\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005AUDW\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 08:36:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 08:36:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14696,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0792838467\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0792838467\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7118,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macosx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macosx&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>First things first &#8212; anybody remember when winter in Alaska meant snow? Not that I&#8217;m really complaining, I figure this is just training for when I move to Seattle&#8230;but it&#8217;s sure wierd as all getouts.<\/p>\n<p>I went out to see Hackers 2000&#8230;er&#8230;sorry, make that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005AUDW\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Antitrust\">Antitrust<\/a> tonight. Not a bad little flick&#8230;nothing that&#8217;s really going to tax your brain, but an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours. I do have to give them some props, though &#8212; this is one of the first movies since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0792838467\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: WarGames\">WarGames<\/a> that I can think of that had a realistic computer user interface for the most part. Aside from a few dialog boxes that were pretty obviously mockups made for the sake of movie world clarity, the majority of the screens shown were using some variant of UNIX! I&#8217;m not sure which one &#8212; it&#8217;s pretty tough to tell from a command line, and most of the window managers out there have been ported to most *NIX flavors &#8212; but one little thing made me really wonder.<\/p>\n<p>At one point in the movie Milo (the main character) is accessing a terminal and grabbing a bunch of video clips and stills, using a combination of <acronym title=\"Graphical User Interface\">GUI<\/acronym> and <acronym title=\"Command Line Interface\">CLI<\/acronym> commmands. At one point, he calls up a program from the text prompt called &#8220;grabapp&#8221; &#8212; now, I know for certain that under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\" title=\"Apple: Mac OS X\">Mac OS X<\/a>, the screen grab utility is &#8220;Grab.app&#8221;, ported from the NEXT program &#8220;grab.app&#8221;. Made me take notice&#8230;could these be NEXT boxes? I highly doubt it, there could be any number of grab.app&#8217;s out there, or it could have just been put in to make it look semi-realistic to those of us geeky enough to <em>watch<\/em> the command line, but I thought it was at least a nice touch.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a very entertaining, if predictable flick &#8212; catch a matinee sometime. I may pick it up when it comes out on DVD just to make a custom slipcase for it that actually says &#8220;Hackers 2000&#8243;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to see Hackers 2000&#8230;er&#8230;sorry, make that Antitrust tonight. 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