[Chester LUG] Geeky spot!

[Michael Crilly]

That is just genius!

As you said, even things like the CSI series don't have genuine applications/screens flashing up - it's all 3D CGI stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ&feature=player_embedded

The above video is a classic case of this.

I don't think you looked into it too much at all. I would have done the same.

I wonder why they choose to use actual commands and actual computer systems, as opposed to more "visually pleasing" CG graphics and fictional OSes?

Good spot Les :P

On 25 Oct 2010, at 15:19, Les Pritchard wrote:

> My son was watching a TV programme called 'Lazytown' this morning. For those of you without kids, it's a mixture of actors and puppets living in a comic style world (I'm sure the programme makers explain it far better!).
> 
> One of the puppet characters on it is a techie and has a room full of gadgets and monitors. The monitors all have the usual fancy graphics flying around the screens looking hi-tech. I spotted that one is actually showing SETI at Home on it. Then a further look I spotted one monitor running DOS and a dir /s. Already having sunk into serious geek levels I was looking for evidence of other real systems. There was something that looked a little like it could have been a kernel boot screen but I thought I was maybe looking a bit too much into it.
> 
> The story line of the episode was that the guys website was being attacked by the bad guy (yes kids TV has changed since 'our day'). Lots of wizzy screens were appearing until the character said he'd have to write some code to stop it. To my surprise we then brought up a Linux terminal and started typing genuine commands! There was a kill -9, pipping of commands, a make command and even a /etc/init.d/network stop!
> 
> Ok that is nerdy, but when adult TV programmes always show unrealistic GUIs it's funny to see a kids programme showing real computing. Naturally I now approve of this programme :-)
> 
> Les
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