Heck, I do dual monitor all the time on my laptop, with a 128MB card using native ATI drivers and have no problem at all…
The crazy ass Frankenstein monster my SO uses can run six right now without thinking twice, but then again he has two graphics cards in there on top of onboard graphics–that thing scares me a bit…
I can give this one a bye under the same rationale as all movie phone numbers being 555-XXXX–you wouldn’t want to give a real IP address onscreen, would you?
you don’t have to give a real one, just one that looks real. when Class C and D addresses are created, whole ranges of addresses become “invalid”. Pick something that only a truly geeky person who’s got the whole subnetting theory memorized could spot. don’t go with something so blatant.
No, but they could have used something like 192.168.43.71.
See, now you’re assuming the movie people have some great understanding of what they’re doing–they asked some geek friend of theirs what they oughta use, got a complicated explanation which caused blank looks and this —> 
so the geek just sighed and said “Make it start with 300, okay? You’ll be off the hook for lawsuits that way.” Then the movie people went like this —> 
and all was well…
That’s how I picture it, anyway! 
IIRC, the final “attack” involved her entering “UPLOAD VIRUS” 
:smack: That’ll teach not to verify stuff on Wikipedia before posting.
Or 192.168.1.1
Anything in the private range for any class would be preferable. Something like 172.21.4.65 would work great.
Damn, beat me to it.
I saw one on CSI once that I could’ve sworn had five octets.
My desktop has dual monitors, I found that I ran out of screen space with my recording software so I got a dual monitor video card. What I REALLY want, but will probably put off until I get rich is a Zenview Powerscape monitor which you can see here, it’s at the bottom.::drool:: I’ll probably end up with a triple screen though.
IIRC, the X-Files and Millenium generally got the computer stuff sorta correct.
Slee
“She’s in the way!”
My dad’s problem with the movie is that they don’t have to press the phone into the cups on the modem, they just set it down and it works!
Maybe it was IP v. 4-and-a-half
friedo, I kinda love you now.
Yeah, that’s so unrealistic! Everyone knows girls don’t know how to hack!
Independence Day.
'Nuff said.
It’s not really hacking, but one classic hilarious computer moment is from Revenge of the Nerds, where Gilbert, purely by typing super-fast, first converts a text-only display into graphics mode, then draws and animates cartoons, with no interface or feedback of any sort.
In at least one episode of Alias, the IP address of a computer controlled by some “evil organization” was actually displayed, and it was a real one. The address was owned by Disney.
My favorite recent example of fake hacking in movies is in Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis. The reason it’s so funny to me is that they got so close to being realistic. One person at a computer was writing code in a text editor, saved it, then ran a command from an Xterm, which started spewing out text output. It looked, for a moment, quite realistic. Until you looked at the actual text generated. It looked like this
Very obviously someone just banging away at the home row of a keyboard.
I was thinking your answer to “Location” would have been a good choice.
In The Matrix Reloaded, Trinity used an existing exploit tool for an actual, real-world bug in the SSH daemon, which was still unpatched on lots of machines at the time that the movie came out (and probably still today). Rather classy, that.
It could have been a joke about how nobody in movies hits the space bar, but I doubt it.
At least 6 years ago a guy I worked with at PGE had a Win98 machine running 8 monitors simultaneously, just to see if it’d work.