First off Jurassic Park is one of favourite films, so allow me to retort.
Myth: Dennis was the only programmer
Dennis was the only programmer left on the Island as all the others had left for their vacation.
Jurassic Park was set during a vacation period hence why there were so few people and why
the load speakers were telling people they had to make it down to the ferry. Dennis had
purposely waited until there was only skeleton crew as this would allow him access to the
cold storage.
Myth: The girl hacked into the system
No. The power had been shut off then turned back on. She accessed the system as it booted up
the next time. It seems that they hadn't gotten around to setting a root password yet (the place
was still in development after all). All she really does is:
realise that its UNIX
probably touch a key and have the screen come out of power save
fire up Irix's 3D file manager (maybe she pressed the up arrow and executed the last command in the shells history).
start a few programs using said file manager
All things that could be done by anyone who thinks they are a "hacker".
Off-topic but does anybody know whether the Apple used by Dennis is
running Mac OS or Apples Unix A/UX
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First off Jurassic Park is one of favourite films, so allow me to retort.
Myth: Dennis was the only programmer
Dennis was the only programmer left on the Island as all the others had left for their vacation. Jurassic Park was set during a vacation period hence why there were so few people and why the load speakers were telling people they had to make it down to the ferry. Dennis had purposely waited until there was only skeleton crew as this would allow him access to the cold storage.
Myth: The girl hacked into the system
No. The power had been shut off then turned back on. She accessed the system as it booted up the next time. It seems that they hadn't gotten around to setting a root password yet (the place was still in development after all). All she really does is:
All things that could be done by anyone who thinks they are a "hacker".
Off-topic but does anybody know whether the Apple used by Dennis is running Mac OS or Apples Unix A/UX