KDE on the NBC Show "Heroes"

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.

seems logical,

[joe 155]

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

Noticed. Was another example too.

[mbadolato]

I watched Heroes the night it was on and loved it (I missed the Linux part; as someone mentioned earlier in this thread, there were better things to be looking at in the scene).

I didn't delete it from TiVo because my wife missed it. Last night she was watching it, and I sat down right as the camera was pointing at the desktop, and my eyes noticed the blue in the window's title bar and I laughed and said "they're using Linux".

Later on when they showed the Japanese guy's friend screwing around on his computer at work, I noticed his desktop was also not Windows or Mac, but didn't recognize the theme (and no, I wasn't going to pause and try to figure it out :)) The site above did not mention/post about his desktop, but I'm sure someone can get a capture of it.

Good Artists Borrow. Great Ones Steal.

[geoffrobinson]

I believe that quote is from Picasso.

Tech reference on "Kidnapped" as well

[Phishcast]

I was watching "Kidnapped" last night (I don't recall which network it's on) and they were looking at someone's computer and "31337" was on the screen. The lead character went on to say that this meant "elite" in the hacker community. This didn't impress me much, but he went on to say, "Also, 31337 is the UDP port that the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow uses to access Windows 95 PCs using Back Orafice."

A little dated, but I thought that was a pretty impressive reference for a television show to make.

Re:Making a logic board

[brufar]

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 ;)