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Linux Used To Make "Star Trek, Nemesis"

Posted by timothy on from the don't-you-mean-dilithium-kernel dept.

Mike McCune writes "The "Linux Journal" has a nice article about the switch from Irix to Linux at Digital Domain and the use of Linux in 'Star Trek, Nemesis.' I guess this means that Linux is finally ready for 'The Enterprise.'"

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  1. No by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 5, Funny

    ``I guess this means that Linux is finally ready for 'The Enterprise.'''
    No. It means the Enterprise is finally ready for Linux.

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  2. Data... by coryboehne · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if Data runs on an advanced version of the Linux kernel... It would explain his lack of humor....

    1. Re:Data... by kalidasa · · Score: 5, Funny

      My idiot friend recently installed RH 8 and jumped on IRC with a client rinning from root. It gave him the verbatim "Running IRC from root is stupid" message, and he wouldn't shut up about it for the next few weeks: "Linux called me stupid"

      Gee, artificial intelligence in Linux. If only there were natural intelligence in users.

  3. Grooooaaannn! by RavenDarkholme · · Score: 5, Funny



    I guess this means that Linux is finally ready for 'The Enterprise.'

    Urge ... to ... KILL ... rising.

    For that, you should surely be PUNished.

  4. Sequel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    and for the sequel - the use of Linux in making
    M$, Nemesis :)

  5. I can see it now... by Yiddishkite · · Score: 2, Funny

    "From Red Hat to Red Shirt"

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  6. The big question by Fembot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can it automaitcaly re-modulate the phase buffer to route power to the primary shields without someone having to crawl through dark monster infeseted tunnels?

    1. Re:The big question by cioxx · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes. With a kernel patch codenamed "Omega 9".

    2. Re:The big question by TheQuantumShift · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought that was the purpose of the Omega 13 device... Oh wait, that was Galaxy Quest...

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    3. Re:The big question by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 5, Funny

      ``Can it automaitcaly re-modulate the phase buffer to route power to the primary shields''
      Nope. The manufacturer refused to release specs for the hardware, so no driver has been written yet. Reverse engineering is in progress, though.

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    4. Re:The big question by RPoet · · Score: 4, Funny

      Leela: I didn't wanna leave them either, Fry, but what were we supposed to do?

      Fry: Well, usually on the show, somebody would come up with a complicated plan, then explain it with a simple analogy.

      Leela: Hmmm... if we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and reconfigure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure.

      Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon!

      Fry: Of course! It's all so simple!

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    5. Re:The big question by Cid+Highwind · · Score: 2, Funny

      ``Can it automaitcaly re-modulate the phase buffer to route power to the primary shields''
      Nope. The manufacturer refused to release specs for the hardware, so no driver has been written yet. Reverse engineering is in progress, though.

      Not so fast!
      The data stream between phase buffers and any output device (including the primary deflector antenna) must be encrypted as required by the QMCA (Quantum Millennium Copyright Act). Since the act also makes it illegal to decrypt that content, or exposing the encryption algorithms publicly is banned by the same act, any hope of having open-source drivers is pretty well stuffed! Besides, the phase bufferes would never allow output to an untrusted device, like the deflector dish; no part of the shield system has the proper Palladium4 technology to ensure content security.

      This is what you get, for allowing unlimited "soft money" donations to Federation Council members! And yes, "Steamboat Willie" is still under copyright, until at least the year 4300.

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    6. Re:The big question by Billly+Gates · · Score: 3, Funny
      "Can it automaitcaly re-modulate the phase buffer to route power to the primary shields without someone having to crawl through dark monster infeseted tunnels?"



      No but emacs can.

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  7. Ready for the Enterprise by Kong+the+Medium · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought,Linux was ready for the enterpise since Kernel 1.7.0.1-D.

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  8. pfff by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Rendering pretty pictures is oh-so-boring. I'd like to sit in front of a mic at a console, utter the command "Make it sew!" then watch a beowulf cluster of Singers make the whole crew wardrobe in 4 minutes, including the time needed for Troi's custom boob expansion panels.

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  9. Does this mean there is less chance by dubbayu_d_40 · · Score: 4, Funny

    of it crashing at the box office?

  10. Hmmm by fizban · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess this just give more validity to the "Microsoft as Borg" line of thinking...

    and giving plenty more tag-lines to Linux PR - "Who's handling your Enterprise software these days? Linux, where no company has gone before."

    Urghh.... Must... Stop... Stupid... Puns... Kill... Timothy... for... starting... it...

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  11. Re:I've said it before... by tortap-0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "so please cut the bullshit and post real news stories"

    You are new to slashdot, right?

  12. Worst pun EVER! by DarkVein · · Score: 5, Funny

    Allow me to present this as timothy should have.

    Mike McCune writes "The "Linux Journal" has a nice article about the switch from Irix to Linux at Digital Domain and the use of Linux in 'Star Trek, Nemesis.' I guess this means that Linux is finally ready for ------[Pun censored, humanity saved]."
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    I'm as mimsy as the next borogove but your mome raths are completely outgrabe.

  13. Re:./ away by Textbook+Error · · Score: 4, Funny

    btw...anyone know if it would be possible to ./ data?

    Uh, no. You see, web servers are from real life. Data is a character on a TV show.

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  14. Anyone notice the date of the pLJ posting? by thewils · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Posted on Wednesday, January 01, 2003 by Robin Rowe"

    Er, would that be Stardate 2003.1

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  15. Linux Used To Make Star Trek, Nemesis? by jobber-d · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well then who makes it now?

  16. Re:L-Cars Skin by saskboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Data:
    Captain, I'm unable to complete your command. I mistakenly typed in www.abcnew.com when researching current events, and now my console is flooded by what 21st Century humans called "Pop-ups". They are replicating faster than I can close them. I recommmend a complete LCARS shutdown.

    Captain:
    DAMNIT! I told them we should have installed Adaware at spacedock!

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  17. That makes sense by SensitiveMale · · Score: 5, Funny

    It does seem as if the plot and story were created on a 286.

  18. Re:The deeper meaning of switching from Irix to Li by Loki_1929 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Who knows what it will be next year?"

    I've got money on OS/2.

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  19. Klingons use BSD by Stephen+VanDahm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which OS would the Klingons use? Klingons have long hair and beards and live in dark dirty rooms, so we know that they're UNIX users. But are they Linux users? They certainly have bad tempers, which means they'd feel right at home on the Linux kernel developers list. But take a look at Klingon ships. They're pretty simple and a little rough around the edges, but at the same time really tough and secure. With these design priorities, it's pretty safe to say that they're running OpenBSD.

    Not convinced? Consider this additional evidence. On TNG, the Klingons are worried that their traditional values are dying. On Slashdot, the crapflooding trolls declare daily that BSD is dying. 'Nuff said. :-)

  20. Not in 2.4.20 by KPU · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quoting the 2.4.20 changelog, "replace end user confusing 'on fire' joke with real info"

  21. Re:introduction... by saskboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's been a long code,
    Getting from IRIX to here,
    It's been a long time,
    But Linux time is finally near.
    I see Torvalds dream come alive at last,
    Kissing Irix'es goodbye,
    And they're not gonna hold me down no more,
    No they're not gonna change my mind...
    yadda yadda you get the idea...

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  22. That explains by notlameness · · Score: 4, Funny

    so by this communities standards, everything trek that has gone before sucks and everything going forward is uber cool because the drawings were rendered on a nice open operating system, using closed source software on closed source hardware to make a movie for profit rather than a closed operating system on closed rendering software on closed hardware .

    Such a fickle bunch.

  23. Re:Ho hum, whatever.... by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 4, Funny

    What sorts of specific things about the linux GUIs (KDE? Gnome? The widget sets?) compared to OS X are a problem?

    KDE, Gnome, the widget sets. Yep, that pretty much covers it. ;-)

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  24. This just in... by raytracer · · Score: 4, Funny
    Significant quantities of caffeinated cola beverages were used to enable the delivery of effects on Star Trek: Nemesis. Lead technical director I. M. Tyred was quoted as saying:
    If it weren't for Coke, Jolt and No-Doze, there is no way we could have finished this stuff on time. We also credit various snack cakes, particularly those made by Hostess, except for those Pink Snowballs, they suck.
    Industry insiders claim that improvements in snack cake and cola technology will soon make the delivery of films with entirely synthetic cast members possible in the next decade, eliminating the need for traditional actors entirely.
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  25. you joke but by IRNI · · Score: 3, Funny

    in the 25th century, the 14.2.22 kernel is used in the warp drive controller. Linus' frozen head was the lead developer on the warp engine software. You didn't think you could get from here to the other side of the galaxy on Windows did you? :)

  26. That explains why..... by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    the Bird of Prey is now a Giant Penguin

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