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I'd like to have one of those operative systems we saw in the sci-fi movies.

Which ones do you mean? I have seen three kinds of OS's in films:

- Nerdy gray or green on black text-based DOS or Unix-like things (most prevalent, last seen in Matrix)
- Nutty transparent touchscreens (I remember them from music videos)
- Real-life OS's

You can find an emulation of the Jurassic Park OS online. I think it was actually a real Unix GUI.

Unfortunately, the web emulation hasn't bothered to implement much, besides what's relevant to the movie plot.

http://www.jurassicsystems.com

But it looks like you're quite right:

http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn

I have an O2, an Indy and an Indigo2 R10000 here, I think I know what an IRIX desktop looks like

Quote from: Macallan on 2014-05-10, 11:40:25

I have an O2, an Indy and an Indigo2 R10000 here, I think I know what an IRIX desktop looks like

A collector, eh?

You forgot the major one.
There's a window half the screen with the words "Do you want to hack this?" and a thick button "Yes". Let alone Johnny Stark's one.

Quote from: Jоsh on 2014-05-07, 10:35:57

You forgot the major one.
There's a window half the screen with the words "Do you want to hack this?" and a thick button "Yes". Let alone Johnny Stark's one.

In some films I remember that when the hacker was typing and was faced with password request, then "override" took care of it. In real life it somehow hasn't worked for me.

Frantic speed-typing usually seems to do the trick in movies 

Most intergalactic spaceships that invade Earth are conveniently equipped with a RS232C socket for the hero to use when he hacks into the on-board computer with his laptop.

Looks like the new OS infobit cannot distinguish between Linux and Android. Is it possible to make it work?

Opera/9.80 (Android 4.4.2; Linux; Opera Mobi/ADR-1309251115) Presto/2.11.355 Version/12.10

function user_agent_detect($string, $rules)
{
	foreach ($rules as $key => $value)
	{
		$version = 0;

		if (isset($value['rules']))
		{
			if (strstr($key, '.'))
			{
				$version = explode('.', $key);
				$key = $version[0];
			}

			for ($i = 0, $c = count($value['rules']); $i < $c; ++$i)
			{
				if (($version && preg_match('#'.$value['rules'][$i].'#i', $string)) || preg_match('#'.$value['rules'][$i].'#i', $string, $version))
				{
					return array($key.(isset($version[1]) ? ' '.$version[1] : ''), (isset($value['icon']) ? $value['icon'] : $key));
				}
			}
		}
		else if (stristr($string, $key))
		{
			return array($key, (isset($value['icon']) ? $value['icon'] : $key));
		}
	}

	return NULL;
}

if (!empty($cur_post['user_agent']))
{
	$browser = user_agent_detect($cur_post['user_agent'], parse_ini_file($ext_info['path'].'/rules/browsers.ini', TRUE));
	$operating_system = user_agent_detect($cur_post['user_agent'], parse_ini_file($ext_info['path'].'/rules/operating-systems.ini', TRUE));

	if ($browser || $operating_system)
	{
		$browser_img = ($browser ? '<img src="'.$base_url.'/extensions/user_agent/icons/browsers/'.strtolower($browser[1]).'.png'.'" alt="" title="'.htmlspecialchars($browser[0]).'" />' : '');
		$operating_system_img = ($operating_system ? '<img src="'.$base_url.'/extensions/user_agent/icons/operatingsystems/'.strtolower($operating_system[1]).'.png'.'" alt="" title="'.htmlspecialchars($operating_system[0]).'" />' : '');
	
		$forum_page['post_actions']['user_agent'] = '<span class="edit-post user-agent-post" title="'.htmlspecialchars($cur_post['user_agent']).'" onclick="alert(\''.htmlspecialchars($cur_post['user_agent']).'\n'.($browser ? '\n'.htmlspecialchars($browser[0]) : '').($operating_system ? htmlspecialchars('\n'.$operating_system[0]) : '').'\')">'.$browser_img.$operating_system_img.'</span>';
	}
}

Well, I wasn't previously aware of Oregano.

Quote from: Frenzie on 2014-05-24, 11:37:01

Well, I wasn't previously aware of Oregano.

You know I do have RISC OS on some little ARM boards here

lol, what?