Good luck finding his will in the home directory of the backdoor account.
Given what we learn about Flynn, the will was in fact found by the only person he cared to find it.
Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
91–100 of 129 posts
Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
#92I for one, am absolutely fascinated with Tron Legacy. It was the first Tron movie I saw as a kid in middle school. In some ways, it's responsible for the trajectory of my career.
Apart from the obvious reasons about the DP soundtrack and the visuals, I love the theme of chasing perfection and the way it backfires.
Kevin Flynn says to CLU in the end "The thing about perfection, is that it's unknowable. You don't know that because I didn't know it when I created you" and I love the fact that it says how we can put our best and our worst into what we create. That we're not just responsible for lifeless machines, that it's more than that. And it's a hauntingly beautiful thought.
Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
#93$ login -n root Login incorrect login: backdoor No home directory specified in password file! Logging in with home=/ # I think this is supposed to be something like CVE-1999-0113 (or its very recently discovered/disclosed friend CVE-2026-24061). It's the sort of thing you might just know off the top of your head that would be handy for getting into a computer that hasn't been updated in 20 years.
Amazing that CVE-2026-24061 is basically exactly the same vulnerability, 27 years later.
CVE-1999-0113: https://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/testing/vulner/18.htm...
CVE-2026-24061: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-24061
Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
#94Good luck finding his will in the home directory of the backdoor account.
I think we can assume any hacker worth his salt has a dead man trigger. I imagine that if he doesn't reset it before a given period elapses then a script imports that will and testament text file into LaTeX and emails a lovingly rendered PDF off to the local lawyer.
Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think of the film as a Daft Punk music video, and from that perspective it's great.
Made more or less this point at the time. As a movie? Eh, it was fine. As a Daft Punk music video? Easily their best.
Second best in my opinion. Interstella 5555 is a masterpiece.
Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think of the film as a Daft Punk music video, and from that perspective it's great.
Made more or less this point at the time. As a movie? Eh, it was fine. As a Daft Punk music video? Easily their best.
My personal preference is Interstella 5555 is Daft Punk's best music video.
Edit: Jinx! Gracana beat my reply to an 11 hour old comment by four minutes.
Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should post on YouTube but blank out all the falsely strikable content and replace it with a pointer to your website. YouTube is necessary for discoverability.
> YouTube is necessary for discoverability. It will remain necessary only as long as people do this.
Feel free to be as smug as you went while your brand fades to irrelevance. I'm telling you what will happen, not what should happen.
Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should post on YouTube but blank out all the falsely strikable content and replace it with a pointer to your website. YouTube is necessary for discoverability.
> YouTube is necessary for discoverability. It will remain necessary only as long as people do this.
Go live in the woods and live off the land.
Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
#99Wonderful! At the bottom he notes: "I’m sitting in the UK as I write this. Under UK law, I believe this should constitute fair dealing: the purpose is quotation for criticism and review, and this single screen capture is in no way an alternative to paying to see the original film. The film comes from the USA, and under USA law I think it similarly constitutes fair use: it’s for non-profit educational purposes, the am…
You're lucky if that's right. In Sweden there's no fair use of imagery at all. "Citaträtten" (the right to quote) only covers words. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citatr%C3%A4tt
IANAL, but that's not quite true right? As per your own citation, återgivningsrätten gives the right to use any piece of art (not in digital form) in conjunction with a piece of critical text.
Re: Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
#100The author notes a possible error that the laser config file never seems to get copied to the location the laser software will actually run from, but it could have been done directly from vi.
:w
:w /path/to/actual/config.cfg
:q