[ale] Computer centric Movies/TV Shows

[Elliot Holden]

That's funny. Looks like the AIX box I'm on has the "spray" command
available, interesting...



Elliot

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 1:37 PM Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> 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?”.
>
> 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
> *Sent:* Monday, October 01, 2018 11:33 AM
> *To:* DJPfulio at jdpfu.com; ale at ale.org
> *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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> Also,
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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:
>
> At ALE-NW yesterday, we were discussing some Computer-related movies
> because "The Net" was on TV at the time.
>
> A few came up:
> * Hackers (1995)
> * Tron (1982)
> * WarGames (1983)
> * Hacker (2016)
> * Her (2013) - set in the near-future
> * CitizenFour
> * Snowden
> * The Circle (2017)
> * Antitrust (2001)
> * The Pirates of Silicon Valley
>
> and that PBS documentary _The Triumph of the Nerds_ with an insider view
> from an early Apple employee
>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX5g0kidk3Y
>
> Hackers and WarGames are the worst in the list. The Net was terrible and
> so was the sequel. The last 3 are worth a watch if you haven't seen
> them. These are historical and current year movies.
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> TV
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> There have been many recent TV series about computing. Silicon Valley
> and Halt and Catch Fire come to mind. The IT Crowd and Chuck are always
> funny.
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> Many are on APV or Netflix or Youtube (free).
>
> We avoided all the Hacking-centric shows.  Mr. Robot S3 will be on
> Amazon Prime next month. S1 and S2 are there already. Real hackers
> validate that everything they claim on the show is possible, BTW.
>
> Antitrust and The Circle show how far fictitious companies are willing
> to go. I suspect they aren't far from reality at all.
>
> What movies in the same "computing startup" vein did we miss?
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