What to see admins during the break between crimping a twisted pair cable and raising the server



    In the life of every person there are times when a free minute is given out at work. Such, you know, that it is possible to watch a movie. System administrators are no exception. And since their professional activities are closely related to the use of computers (who is not right now?), It is not surprising that “free minutes” are usually spent behind the monitor.

    Like all people (almost all), system administrators like to watch movies. Everyone’s tastes, of course, are different, although they cannot do without templates in the style of “system administrators love anime”. But professional preferences often still affect people's preferences, and many system administrators appreciate good films about computer technology, hackers, that's all. Although the same can be said about representatives of many other IT professions, today they are not our heroes. So, when the system administrator has a “free minute”, whether at work or at home, it is necessary to occupy it somehow productively. For example, watch a movie. And just for such cases, we offer you a selection of "Films for admins."

    First you need to roll back the mandatory program, mentioning the works that everyone saw. It’s like secondary education, the minimum necessary to be considered a full member of society. Although the statement “everyone saw it” can be questioned: modern youth didn’t watch Star Wars in large numbers.

    " Hackers ": a touching fairy tale about kulhackers from those times when computers did not yet stand on every table and did not lie in every pocket. Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie are damn young and especially pretty. This is one of the first films in which hacking is not just romanticized, but also equated to some youth hobbies for the daring and courageous.



    " Social network": Today everyone already knows that Facebook was a brilliant creation of the special services of our most likely adversary. It is possible that Zuckerberg really started the project alone, and then the right people noticed him. Or maybe the whole story of the genius half-educated billionaire was really worked out by analysts from Langley. In any case, the film is a curious success story of the postdotcom era.



    " Matrix": A story about the falsity of the world, about high-tech evil and the fight against it. Fans of such films traditionally find in them all sorts of philosophical concepts, supposedly laid down by ingenious creators, which are accessible only to a narrow circle of limited people (which alone is worth Neon Genesis Evangelion). Although there are great doubts about the depths of the design of the brothers (then still brothers) Wachowski. Most likely, the guys just came off and tried to make it cool, stylish and unusual, not trying to build a story with many semantic layers.



    Since the anime and Neon Genesis Evangelion were mentioned , you need to tell a little more about him. So, this is one of the most popular anime series, having a reputation for being a smart and very philosophical piece about fursand the fight against unknown aliens. All this is mixed with the interpersonal relationships of several protagonists, primarily three teenagers with extremely dissimilar psychotypes. It is obligatory for every self-respecting anime admirer to watch the game to be able to discuss with colleagues in the shop which character is more attractive - Asuka or Misato.



    Regarding IT themes in anime, the most popular piece is the umbrella brand Ghost in the Shell". Under this name, several full-length cartoons and series have been released. In the future, cyborgization is actively used. The main characters, employees of the police special forces, also changed their bodies to varying degrees. Their responsibilities include finding an elusive cybercriminal who does not disdain a variety of methods to achieve their goals.



    Back to the cinema. " Pirates of Silicon Valley ": we leave to the conscience of official distributors the question of the correctness of the translation of the name of the film. This is another smoothed Hollywood story, this time about youth and the formation of such superbisons as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. By its reliability, the film is not far from the Social Network, but still there are much more facts.



    " Computer scientists": British cinema, including TV shows, is a specific thing. More precisely, it’s just that we have long been spoiled by Hollywood (it’s good that it’s not Bollywood). The main characters of this series are two IT losers working in the godforsaken basement office of a large company, and an attractive girl who was put in charge of them, trying to show herself as a competent manager and not knowing anything about computers, but about technology in general. A kind of British comedy of situations.



    Continuing the theme of island cinema, one cannot fail to mention the very interesting mini-series “ Black Mirror”". Each series is an independent story. Only one thing unites them: the idea that high technologies that penetrate our daily lives is far from always a blessing. The medal, as you know, has two sides.



    " Thirteenth floor ": an entertaining film about virtual reality. There is a supercomputer in which this reality is modeled. The technology allows not only to put on glasses and wander around the digital world, it would be too boring. No, here human consciousness is transferred to one of the virtual inhabitants of the artificial world. As usual, not without a detective component.



    " Gamer": A curious action movie that shows the idea of ​​combining video games and reality shows when the actions of one person are remotely controlled by another - shooter in real life. To prevent viewers from being indignant, prisoners sentenced to life sentences are forced to participate in these “games”.



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    " Johnny Mnemonic»: Another must-watch movie for high-tech story buffs. In the near future, people learned how to make walking flash drives from people: any information is written to the brain, and then it is extracted. To increase the "capacity" of his head, the main character rubbed and many memories from his life, devoted himself entirely to work, one might say. Once he took up the delivery of a very large confidential order. The amount of information is so great that if you don’t “unload” the data from the brain in time, Johnny will die. And as luck would have it, the Yakuza begin to chase after the information transported by Johnny - including himself.



    " In sight": A curious series about a rich and brilliant developer, as well as his partner, a former CIA agent. In the center of the plot is a monitoring and analysis system created by a rich man for special services. She is able to figure out people who intend to either commit a crime themselves or become a victim. A couple of glorious heroes is engaged in prevention and salvation.



    " Ben X ": a guy named Ben Asperger's syndrome, which is why he is constantly being humiliated by classmates. Having fallen in love with his colleague in MMORPG (the game occupies a very important place in his life), Ben hesitates to meet the girl offline, he simply couldn’t gain strength to approach. And then there's ghouls from school. As a result, the boy, so to speak, leaves his comfort zone, sharply and impressively.



    We invite all system administrators to fill up the list with their favorite films, welcome to comments.

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