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- Virak, on 10/10/2007, -3/+90Dugg for hilariously inaccurate portrayal of technology.
- frsrblch, on 10/10/2007, -2/+89Wow, I didn't know a red ACCESS DENIED banner accross the startup screen could tell you somebody was stealing launch codes... I'll have to watch out for that.
- brycelb, on 10/10/2007, -39/+120WOW! You linux guy's get a hard on when someone so much as whispers Ubuntu.
- debuggercll, on 10/10/2007, -0/+62memtest86?! WE'RE DOOMED.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+62What an old version of the kernel.
- manmademark, on 10/10/2007, -2/+51I'm not really into pokemon
- orangeparty, on 10/10/2007, -2/+50A russian missile base in a NATO country running on Ubuntu. God, I love american comics.
- BuckCynnie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30Pretty smart version of GRUB; it knows that you won't have any login privileges before you even load the kernel and try to log on!
- orangeparty, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29Yeah, my missiles aren't supported.
- smurf22, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30I love how every movie that includes a virus it say in big bold letter and a exlamation point 'UPLOADING VIRUS" from some random blue and greed screen.
- MrAnderson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25I'm glad a grub menu with access denied pasted over it can be interpreted as the stealing of access codes.
- timf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23It actually says "Ubuntu, kernel 2.6..."
The comma makes the difference. - TheTankengine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Right, because the computer can be hacked before the kernel is even loaded...
- chaos386, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21I'm glad they dedicated four whole panels to just zooming in on the "ACCESS DENIED" text. I nearly missed the bright red banner and all-caps bold letters.
- cablefish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17lol at the xkcd reference.
- brianherman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Wow, that has got to be the best product placement I have seen since the matrix scene where Trinity uses nmap and a fictional script called "sshnuke" to gain root access on a computer.
http://images.insecure.org/nmap/images/matrix/reload_nmap_f.jpg - soupir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14But spot on portrayal of Lithuanian missile commanders.
- mashw, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Ah, I see the Ubuntu crowd are being segregated from the 'proper' linux users now. You just gotta love the elitism with linux.
- aidanr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12http://i12.tinypic.com/6g31545.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/9617/1185408112656nx2.jpg - TeacherOfHeroes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Other OSs aren't branded that way, are they?
Do you see the name of OS X's kernel anywhere, really? Is it called "OS X APPLE/Mach" Do they give credit to BSD anywhere? "OS X BSD/APPLE/Mach" perhaps? Bit of a mouthfulll.
If Windows ever switches to the Singularity kernel, do you think that it will be called "Windows MS/Singulrity" like some people call Ubuntu "Ubuntu GNU/Linux"?
As far as I'm concerned, I run Ubuntu, an OS that uses Linux as its kernel, and includes the GNU Tools, along with a lot of non-gnu GPL'd programmes.
Not to troll, but I've always been kind of curious, and maybe someone can answer this question. As far as I know, there are a lot of non-gnu apps most distros, even some binary-only stuff like graphics drivers. Most of it is GPL'd but a lot of it isn't GNU (AFAIK). So why do the GNU tools get mentioned out of all of these? Why not KDE/Linux? Or Firefox/Linux? I get that they were basically *IT* 10 or 15 years ago - it was the Linux kernel, and GNU (command line tools, compiler, etc), and that was it. But that doesn't seem to be the case today. I'd really like to know why the GNU folk seem to think that they deserve a mention above everyone else.
Should we acknowledge every contributer, large and small, in the title?
Ubuntu GNU/GNOME/FIREFOX/XFCE/KDE/BEAGLE/RHYTHMBOX/AMAROK/DELUGE/[...]/ABIWORD/OPENOFFICE/GNUMERIC/VI/EMACS/NANO/PICO/MOUSEPAD/LEAFPAD/YUM/APT/Linux
Even more of a mouthfull, and even less practical. - MrTea, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12go back to bed Mr. Stallman
- sephiroth965, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10If you could read you woud see it says:
"Ubuntu, Kernel 2.6.10-5k7" - iMaciMan1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9comics and linux in the same breath? i'm a geek myself but wow...
- Duggan360, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9=| Oh my god
- Warptera, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7They're such drama queens. Pshhh.
- zachninme, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You can set a username and password for GRUB, so maybe they failed there ;-)
- wburglett, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6access denied what? I've been trying for 6 hours!
- paradexes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Dugg because I am a fan of both Linux and the Avengers. Altho in this particular story Ultron had it easy. He (or she or whatever) just has to log into single user mode.
Type sudo /etc/init.d/emptyallmisslesilosaimedatUSA start
And bam or boom the world goes. But with all the heroes around we should be all set. Well at least in the Marvel universe. If that happened here we'd be screwed. - Ladon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6What the Kernel serves is always finger licking good, no matter how old he is. How dare you!
- moocow1452, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Use the freaken boot disk!
- Computer_Kid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Skip the blog
mirror: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=910361381&size=l - BHSPitMonkey, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Even I have to think there's better distros for running Lithuanian missile bases than Ubuntu...
- oobuntu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4not to mention
1) the little beeps you hear when there is text output to the screen. a sysadmin's regular screenful of tailed logfiles would make you think you had tinitus
2) password prompt that takes up an entire screen, then echoes the password in clear text
3) more eye candy than compiz-fusion just to send/receive an email (ref: mission impossible) - thatashguy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5your face is photoshopped...
- BuckCynnie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Damn it, I hate when people know more than me!
LOL, good catch. - barbobot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2347 that's a real exploit she was using though.
- dhughes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Wordpress: ACCESS DENIED!
- BHSPitMonkey, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4How often do you see a [insert distro name, not ubuntu] user who doesn't know how to read a manpage?
- djGentoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3OMG IM A COMMIE!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111 What are you going to do about it?
- spacebar14, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm actually surprised at how technically accurate that is, except for the fake sshnuke.
- jax9999, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You're right, it should be a hello kitty screensaver...
- bruenig, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4You don't understand the history of the free software movement which is why your analysis is poor. GNU worked for decades on replacing every single program of a unix system and even began work on a kernel. At the very end, Linus completely unrelated to the project wrote his own kernel for his own stuff and it passed it around to some people and it took off. Without GNU, linux goes nowhere, it is nothing but a play thing for a computer nerd. Without linux, GNU is still fine, they were as I said already working on a GNU kernel. So GNU is the essential pin in the whole creation (they did the bulk of the work) of GNU/Linux and linux really serves no unique purpose. That is why the insistence on GNU/LINUX. Your other stuff is absurd, of course you don't mention those because those having nothing to do with the core of the operating system.
- cleverboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Whuuuh--? You don't like Frank Cho's artwork? Excuse me?
Well. Hope Satan has a cozy place for you, as you both can't recognize a god when you see one.
http://freakcomics.com/images/BP18wraparoundcover.jpg
Anyway... both books are excellent. You're both on crack. G'day. - smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2not everything has to be a dicksizing contest.
- sephiroth965, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's not memtest. It's GRUB.
- whencowsattack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2They look British
- skinfitz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Why are people assuming it's inaccurate because they see what they assume to be the GRUB loader in the background? Obviously the words 'ACCESS DENIED' would never be displayed over that screen - the very idea is ridiculous.
The GRUB screen is obviously their password protected screensaver. Behind the screensaver is a screen that displays their launch codes, therefore if someone is trying to remotely control the machine and guess their screen saver password, then they are looking for access codes.
There you go - suspension of disbelief maintained. - noamsml, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Someone obviously hacked into their computer and changed their grub configuration so that it uses a background image with the words "Access Denied" plastered on it in red.
Stupid super-pranksters. - supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2And may I note that Ubuntu Linux is getting PWNED in that comic. The launch codes have been comprimised.
Should've used OS X like the rest of the White House. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, i just got a chubby
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