[Chester LUG] Geeky spot!

[Les Pritchard]

Ah yes, that is a great example!

Dan, you mentioned Spooks - did you see the 'mainframe' interface a couple
of weeks ago which was a combination of a Mac (yes more BBC product
placement) keyboard and random touchscreen actions!

On 25 October 2010 15:26, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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