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KDE on the NBC Show "Heroes"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-isn't-that-nice-for-them dept.

Vesuv writes "The pilot episode of NBC's flagship drama for the 2006 fall season proudly features a laptop showing a KDE desktop and KDE applications such as Kopete and KMix running on Mandriva Linux. " The show itself looks to have potential for essentially an x-men knockoff. I mean, it ain't written by Sorkin (all hail jesus) so I'll give it a few more episodes to decide if all the angst is gonna kill me or not.

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  1. seems logical, by joe+155 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It does make sense that in TV and films people would use free and open software on computers, they need it to look like people think a computer should look (and KDE does that) and they need to have the right to use it without worrying about being sued because it's proprietry and they like to not have to give thousands of dollars and coppies of the script over to people so the whole show doesn't get pulled for creating a negative image of software.

    The only thing that amazes me is that more people aren't doing this

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  2. Good Artists Borrow. Great Ones Steal. by geoffrobinson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I believe that quote is from Picasso.

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  3. Re:Making a logic board by brufar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I fixed a Server motherboard no more than 6 months ago using **gasp** a soldering iron !!

    Yes it sufferd from the deadly failed Electrolytic Capacitor plague. A replacment motherboard was no-where to be found in a timely manner so I replaced the Capacitors and got the server running again. Mind you it wasn't intended as a permanent fix, but the repair DID include the use of a soldering iron which you claim is impossible.. And it ran long enough to get replacement hardware in. as a matter of fact I think that old server is still running some place around here, no longer in any sort of critical role mind you.

    Don't be so quick to assume the impossible.
    or maybe you just have really bad solder skills ;)

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