On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:15 AM, metatech wrote:
Wireshark is staged in a comics album called Climax "Le désert
blanc" by Brahy, Corbeyran and Braquelaire (page 26)
As you can see from the attachment it is a real screenshot of a true
Wireshark session.
You can see that the network card name is "eth0" and that it looks
like Linux KDE
The image appears to be largely full of Wireshark windows; presumably
the KDE is indicated by the window titlebars? It's a little too fuzzy
for me to tell.
(which version ?)
Well, if it came out in 2008:
http://www.alapage.com/-/Fiche/Livres/9782505003465/LIV/le-desert-blanc-corbeyran-braquelair.htm?donnee_appel=GOOGL
it could in theory be KDE 4, but my guess would be KDE 3.
Volume 2's coming out in September:
http://www.alapage.com/-/Fiche/Livres/9782505004714/LIV/vostok-braquelair.htm?id=9691217541130&donnee_appel=GOOGL
maybe it'll have KDE 4. :-)
You can see that the IP address is 147.210.9.15 which resolves to
raoul.labri.fr at Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique.
Which appears to be where one of the authors works:
http://www.speedylook.com/Achilles_Braquelaire.html
the other being
http://www.speedylook.com/Eric_Corbeyran.html
(both of which look suspiciously as if they were mechanically
translated from French to English - in fact, the page for Braquelaire
looks like his French Wikipedia page).
It is nice to see that a hacker story contains some real tools and
no Hollywood OS :-)
As for "ninth art", see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Belgian_comics
"Indeed, the distinction of comics as the "ninth art" is prevalent in
Francophone scholarship on the form (le neuvième art), as is the
concept of comics criticism and scholarship itself. The "ninth art"
designation stems from Claude Beylie's extension of Ricciotto Canudo's
seven arts manifesto (television was viewed as the eighth art) from
1964."