[ale] Computer centric Movies/TV Shows

[Jim Kinney]

Excellent!! Sometimes people really need to accept their personal
limits and just get out of the way.

On Mon, 2018-10-01 at 17:37 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
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> A few years back I went to a Solaris admin boot camp aimed at admins
> who already knew UNIX but needed to come up to speed on Solaris’ way
> of doing things  
>  The pre-requisites made it clear only experienced UNIX admins should
> attend owing to the fast pace (and long days).   Despite that, a
> consultant who only knew MS Windows signed up and slowed the class
> down with questions like “What does ls do?”.   
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> Solaris had a command called “spray” where you could send noises to
> another workstation.    Many of the attendees took turns doing
> “write”, “spray” and other commands to this guy’s workstation.   If
> he looked at who he thought was the culprit someone else would
>  start doing it.   It wasn’t very nice but it was funny.
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> From: Ale [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]
> On Behalf Of Elliot Holden via Ale
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> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2018 11:33 AM
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> To: DJPfulio at jdpfu.com; ale at ale.org
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> Subject: Re: [ale] Computer centric Movies/TV Shows
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> Wow definitely can't leave out
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> Blackhat (2015)
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> Whether you like Chris Hemsworth or not I actually learned a few
> useful commands from that movie like the "write" command (fun one to
> use at work) - plus this movie is dark and edgy and none of the
> MovieOS stuff, lol. Actual command line
>  stuff.
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> The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) 
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> she's writing really SQL queries (in MySQL I believe). Another dark
> and edgy movie.
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> Elliot
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> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 2:55 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
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> > At ALE-NW yesterday, we were discussing some Computer-related
> > movies
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> > because "The Net" was on TV at the time.
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> > A few came up:
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> > * Hackers (1995)
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> > * Tron (1982)
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> > * WarGames (1983)
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> > * Hacker (2016)
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> > * Her (2013) - set in the near-future
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> > * CitizenFour
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> > * Snowden
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> > * The Circle (2017)
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> > * Antitrust (2001)
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> > * The Pirates of Silicon Valley
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> > and that PBS documentary _The Triumph of the Nerds_ with an insider
> > view
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> > from an early Apple employee
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> >  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX5g0kidk3Y
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> > Hackers and WarGames are the worst in the list. The Net was
> > terrible and
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> > so was the sequel. The last 3 are worth a watch if you haven't seen
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> > them. These are historical and current year movies.
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> > There have been many recent TV series about computing. Silicon
> > Valley
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> > and Halt and Catch Fire come to mind. The IT Crowd and Chuck are
> > always
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> > funny.
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> > Many are on APV or Netflix or Youtube (free).
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> > We avoided all the Hacking-centric shows.  Mr. Robot S3 will be on
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> > Amazon Prime next month. S1 and S2 are there already. Real hackers
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> > validate that everything they claim on the show is possible, BTW.
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> > Antitrust and The Circle show how far fictitious companies are
> > willing
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> > to go. I suspect they aren't far from reality at all.
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> > What movies in the same "computing startup" vein did we miss?
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