I think the hidden feature is summoning the second desktop where Nedry is taunting you. There is a fun level of detail in the keychecks command: if memory serves it shows exactly the output that's given in the book.

man access

Movie directors were deliciously non IT savvy at the time, I remember as a teenager growling every time an actor switched off the monitor when he meant to switch off the computer.

But I guess taxi drivers still growl today at all those characters leaving the cab without paying in movies!

Do any taxis allow you to swipe your credit card and select a tip during the middle of the ride, rather than waiting until the end? You could just set up the whole transaction and then when the taxi stopped the fare+tip+tax would display and you could just hit "approve". Seems like such a waste for people to twiddle their thumbs during the ride and then spend 60 seconds checking out while the cab is blocking a lane. (Not to mention that Uber/Lyfts don't have this downside, which puts taxis at a disadvantage.)

> Do any taxis allow you to swipe your credit card and select a tip during the middle of the ride, rather than waiting until the end?

In NYC you can use some apps (e.g. Arro or Curb, which are apparently sort of the same thing) to connect to your current ride so that it pays when it is over

Thanks!

man access

access main please

I'm not sure if there are special system names. Both access and system commands seem to respond the same way to nearly any string given as the system name.

Can't seem to find if it runs FSN or not https://github.com/jonathanlyonmoore/3d-file-system-navigato...

>hinv

>>hinv: command not found

this is phoney

Re-watching Jurassic Park after working in the corporate world was eye-opening. The entire park is controlled by a centralized computer system maintained by one extremely disgruntled guy and Hammond just tells him to suck it up. Worst management ever.

And a notorious mail thief, at that...

Mad scientists are infamous for their bad management skills.

He's not a scientist, he's a businessman who spared no expense (except, apparently, on his main systems staff salary)

Hammond's justification is that he is not responsible for Dennis Nedry's gambling debts

If you listen to the dialogue closely, Nedry was a contract employee who apparently set his own lowball price ("for what I bid on this job").

Just speaking from personal experience, never take a job that makes it sound like living on-site is a "perk".

I assumed that it was non-negotiable. Like, part of the secrecy of the project was being onsite.

You're right but that doesn't contradict GP. Having to live onsite in not a perk no matter how the employer frames it and should be priced in accordingly unless you're desperate.

The risk to be spat on in the eyes by some sort of venomous reptile is just too high

I feel that an egotistical businessman not seeing the obvious single point failure of an essential disgruntled contract employee is one of the most believable parts of the movie.

The book goes into a lot more detail. Hammond is much more evil in the book. He basically has no respect for IT so he shits on Nedry constantly.

No respect for biology either, which is why everything went to shit in the first place.

He could not have been a kindlier villain. The guy had terminal Narcissism.

I only just realised after reading this comment that Nedry is an anagram of Nerdy.

Huh. Today I learned. And it’s a pretty low effort anagram too!

One can only hope that everyone learned their lesson: If you disregard IT, dinosaurs will eat your investors.

> He basically has no respect for IT so he shits on Nedry constantly.

Well, hiring Nedry's prosperous company and bringing it to bankruptcy due to a constant stream of fraud is more than enough. The movie cuts that part out.

Hammond did spare some expense it seems.

The guy who constantly had to claim he’s sparing no expense turns out to be a cheapskate. No surprise.

When I watched Jurassic Park recently I felt that this was a subtle dig and commentary. As a kid you just think he's Willy Wonka Santa Claus magical adult figure who makes dinosaurs because none of the characters ever show anything other than respect for him. As an adult you can see how they might just be giving him the benefit of the doubt and handling the crisis gracefully. I had my own set of character criticisms that weren't just handed to me by the creators. Good stuff, really.

Hard agree - it's fun to go back as an adult! On rewatch I kind of took Hammond to be either so swept up in the romance of his dinosaur-revival that he didn't notice the glaring safety risks in the nuts and bolts of the operation, or possibly that he just lacked respect for/interest for those fields. He seemed to dote on the science and the 'fun' parts of the experience (dinosaurs, ice cream and safari aesthetics), while the logistics of it all was probably more like an annoying chore. He certainly did spare some expense on security and the IT.

Everyone in the main cast probably were inclined to give Hammond a lot of benefit of the doubt on the disaster because one, he'd just wowed them with the scientific miracle of living dinosaurs, and two, he's promising loads of funding for their work in the future.

> Everyone in the main cast probably were inclined to give Hammond a lot of benefit of the doubt on the disaster

What do you mean? They were telling him the obvious problem with the park before the dino tour started ("the only one who agrees with me is the blood sucking lawyer!"). As soon as the TRex gets out Malcom says he hates be right all the time. Then after the raptor encounter at the visitor center, the first time they see him Grant tells Hammond he's not endorsing the park, and Hammond agrees that's the right call.

Well, I don't mean to imply that they're ignoring problems, but I think they're being very charitable about Hammond's part in the shitshow.

Even before everything goes sideways, it's clear that the animals aren't really thriving in this 'new' environment yet, as we see with the sick triceratops. Evidently they're having to artificially juice the animals up with medical cocktails to keep them spry. From the opening the audience knows there's already been maulings of workers at the park, which Hammond doesn't bring up when asking for expert assessment of the park. Even before the storm comes in, he's basically Tiger King, except he's riding in on a wave of dino-glamour and wealth.

Once the T-Rex busts out and people get eaten the gloves come off sure, but they could still have gone a lot harder on Hammond's personal responsibility IMO - he's been extremely reckless about both the process of bringing back dinosaurs, and the execution of putting them on show.

What's notable to me about this is that he clearly does believe he is sparing no expense because he's shelling out so much money on tech and everything, he just doesn't view human labor as valuable.

He also doesn't think about bus factor and that lack of respect for safety / quality ends up undoing the whole company. Leaders can't buy quality if they don't want it

It seemed intention to me. If leadership had been competent and thought about safety, there wouldn’t have been much of a movie. ;)

The subsequent movies all paint the picture that no matter what they did, the dinosaurs get out. Life finds a way…

As pointed out by Pitch Meeting: he invites his young grandchildren to the under construction park where a worker was just eaten. He's pretty terrible as a person, not just as a manager.

I would imagine all the other sys admins were evacuated?

It's a unix system. I know this.

Clever girl

They’re problem solving smart.

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