Movie Antitrust- linux question

Desslok

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When Ryan's character was in the day care he got a command windows to pop up from behind the kids GUI that the system was running. Is that even possible in Linux? Another thing, is there such a command as "hide all"?

Thanks from a Red Hat newbie
 

notfred

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If you phrase this in terms of what you want to do, rather than a reference to some movie I haven't seen, I might be able to help you. I have no idea what you're talking about right now, though.
 

Nemesis77

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Originally posted by: Desslok
When Ryan's character was in the day care he got a command windows to pop up from behind the kids GUI that the system was running. Is that even possible in Linux?

I would think so.

Another thing, is there such a command as "hide all"?

Hide all what? Where?
 

Desslok

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He used the command hideall when he heard someone coming and wanted to hide his "tracks". I have personally never heard or seen this command, but I am just starting out in Linux so I was curious if there is such a command.
 

MainFramed

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thanks to you Desslok i am now going to rent this movie :p




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Nemesis77

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Originally posted by: Desslok
He used the command hideall when he heard someone coming and wanted to hide his "tracks". I have personally never heard or seen this command, but I am just starting out in Linux so I was curious if there is such a command.

I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know what "tracks" you are talking about. But the commend "hideall" could simply be a custom-made shell-script that does what he wants.
 

Desslok

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I thought about that too, but he didn't have time to write a script and it didn't show him writing one in the movie. Thanks for the info though.
 

Beattie

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you can get to a command line even if X is running. try ctrl-alt-f# and see what happens. as for hideall, that is not a standard unix/linux command, though there is no reason why you/he could not have written a shell script or a small C program.
 

rh71

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Interesting that you guys are trying to determine the validity of computer tasks in a movie.

I still laugh when the FBI dude told Giovanni Ribisi in BOILER ROOM to "backup your whole harddrive to a floppy".
 

n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: rh71
Interesting that you guys are trying to determine the validity of computer tasks in a movie.

I still laugh when the FBI dude told Giovanni Ribisi in BOILER ROOM to "backup your whole harddrive to a floppy".

Ive heard stories....

How about the C:\ prompt on the Mac in Office Space, or whatever that was... :p

Anyhow, I saw the movie but cant remember that scene well enough to remember what was going on. "hide all" does not exist. Command prompts are easy to get to no matter where you are in linux.
 

silverpig

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I've seen most of that movie, but don't know the part you're talking about. He could have just killed X...