20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
8:18 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Griffith" <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: ATTN: Nerds UK and Down Under: Television Program about, 1980s
For further laughs, I live near Cambridge. The last time I searched for
Cambridge online, I discovered that there is (atleast) one in Canada, and
one in every US state! Since then I always write Cambridge, UK when
referring to Cambridge to avoid any possible confusion.
As far as the original topic goes, I received an email about this on another
email list which points to an article here:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/02/old-school-hacker-movie-set-in-melbourne-…
It seems highly likely that they mean Melbourne, Australia, due to the fact
that they contacted John Ferlito, president of Linux Australia, asking for
help and the fact that this article appears on an Australian website.
I don't like this line in the article though "Because if you use Linux,
chances are there's a long-forgotten Amiga 500 in your fridge.", as I would
never ditch my Amiga's just for Linux and I also vaguely recall a discussion
somewhere (not sure if it was on here or another group) about Linux on
Amiga's about a year or so back.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
>>> A few comments...
>>>
>>> 1) I can find nothing to suggest that this has anythign to do with the
>>> UK. The televisoin company is not a UK one (AFAIK), and while is at
least
>>> one small village in England called
Melbourne, I cna't beleive it had
>>> much of a hacker./cracker community.
>>
>> They are based in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. They must mean
>> Melbourne, Australia.
>
> Sore, I had guessed that. In general 'Melbourne' means the one in
> Australia, just as 'London' would man the one in England (there are
> others in the World). I added the comment in case somebody said
> 'Well, it could be in England, there's a village called Melbourne
there'.
My original quesiton remains. Is three any eeason to think this
production has anythign to do with England?
Just for fun, it could be the Melbourne in Florida. I'm in Bakersfield.
There's a few of those scattered about.