[TriLUG] OT: Firewall The Movie.

Cristobal Palmer cristobalpalmer at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 19:08:54 EST 2005


I'm pretty sure you got the numbering wrong. There is no rule 6.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_6:_There_Is_No_Rule_6

-CMP

On 12/21/05, Chad Thomsen <chad.thomsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >7)  All system administrators must have at least two major character
> >flaws, of which one must be pomposity.  The other is recommended to be
> >some sort of physical defect, including obesity or poor eyesight.
> >
> >And I'm not really confident as to whether #7 is a law of Hollywood or
> >a Law of Nature.
>
> Pretty much going to have to agree with Shane on this oen except for number
> 7.  Surpisingly enough my only "Law of Nature" charcter flaw is the need to
> kill some stupid user who pisses me off by asking me if there password is in
> caps or not.  8-)
>
> Chad
>
>
> On 12/21/05, Shane O'Donnell <shaneodonnell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Haven't you guys ever seen a Hollywood-created high-tech blockbuster?
> > There are a few key rules that must be followed:
> >
> >   1)  Must show blinking command prompt.  Preferrably, command prompt from
> > a VAX
> >   2)  All commands must be actual commands in DOS 3.3+
> >   2a)  One exception to rule 2 is that "login" is a universally
> > acceptable command
> >   2b)  "login" has only two possible responses:  "Access Denied" or a
> > half-screen ASCII art banner of the system name or government
> > department to whom the system belongs
> >   3)  Regardless of the year, all screen shots must be of a Macintosh
> > Classic running any of System 6.8 through 7.2
> >   3a)  This is especially critical of system errors or if the system
> > has been hacked, in which case, the screen shot must be of the "system
> > bomb" from System 6.8
> >   4)  All computers are capable of accessing and  freezing full-motion
> > video streams.  Preferrably, all graphical images are viewed in a new
> > window created on top of a monochromatic full-screen command-line
> > interface (See #1 above).
> >   4a)  All graphics, regardless of original source, can be "zoomed in"
> > and the smallest, blurriest detail in the original image can be
> > expanded by at least 10x at greater clarity than the original image.
> >   4b)  This should be used as much with license plates and taxi cab
> > badge numbers as possible--even if it's not central to the plot
> >   5)  All Wide-Area Network technologies should be referred to as a "T-1".
> >   6)  Any data, regardless of how or where it's been stored and how it
> > has been deleted, is at least partially recoverable.
> >   7)  All system administrators must have at least two major character
> > flaws, of which one must be pomposity.  The other is recommended to be
> > some sort of physical defect, including obesity or poor eyesight.
> >
> > And I'm not really confident as to whether #7 is a law of Hollywood or
> > a Law of Nature.
> >
> >
> > Shane O.
> >
> >
> > On 12/21/05, Chad Thomsen <chad.thomsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > No no no... Ya see Microshaft is too easy to hack due to the amount of
> > > patches folks forget to put on there systems.  Cisco will throw there
> > > product in there and as a sub plot of the movie there will be thieves
> > trying
> > > to get a hold of the cracked cisco IOS that made the headlines many
> > months
> > > ago.
> > >
> > > On 12/21/05, Barry Gaskins <barry.gaskins at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >    Except I bet that microsoft probably paid them to have these secure
> > > > systems running on windows.  The linux community does not have any
> > money
> > > > to
> > > > pay for product placement in movies.  So I bet you will not see any
> > > > pengiuns
> > > >
> > > >    - Barry
> > > >
> > > > On 12/21/05, Ian Meyer <ianmeyer at mac.com> wrote:
> > > > >
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> > > > > See, here I was thinking, wow, Firewall The Movie! Now I can finally
> > > > > see, in cinematic quality, what like as iptables is really like!
> > > > >
> > > > > Rats.
> > > > >
> > > > > ~ian
> > > > >
> > > > > On Dec 21, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Alan Porter wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Chad Thomsen said the following:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> http://firewallmovie.warnerbros.com/
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Looks interesting.  Wonder when it will be out?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'll wait for the sequel, "OpenVPN".
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Denzel Washington must generate a 1024-bit SSL certificate
> > > > > > to tunnel into the intranet of his former employer, a defense
> > > > > > contractor that is about to sell the US Air Force a shipment
> > > > > > of missiles that have a serious Y2K software glitch.  Meanwhile,
> > > > > > terrorists from Tajikistan have planted spyware on his laptop.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Can he close the endless stream of pr0n pop-ups in time to
> > > > > > restore mouse focus on his Putty session?  Or will he get
> > > > > > distracted and order some Human Growth Hormone from a phishing
> > > > > > site?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > <gag>
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Alan
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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> > Shane O'Donnell
> > shaneodonnell at gmail.com
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