Any Spooks (ABC) fans? - Geek warning

[Captain_Rightfoot]

Does anyone out there watch Spooks on the ABC? It is a BBC spy show on Friday nights. Generally quite excellent.

However, last night they had a computer crime show, anyway, one of the actors was describing a piece of computer hardware called a router. It is called that because it directs traffic around a network through routes. ie. the route from a to b.

Anyway this guy keeps calling it a rooter as in shagging ops: Some great lines...

"It's a popular model rooter"
"He's rooting through this bank"

Laughed, I nearly cried... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

for people out there that have no idea what all the above is about.. don't worry, you are a normal person, not a geek [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]

[incisor]

well fsck me...

nearly all poms i have ever conversed with on the subject pronounce them as rooters....

wait till you hear the subcontinental version... that had me in stiches for a while....

[Bytemrk]

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My old man is a pom.... and we almost had an agument over this subject!...

I work with them regularly and am Cisco cerfified..I reckon it's a router.... (Could be cause Cisco are yanks though....)
.......he swore it's a rooter..... he's a pom and over 70... so I figured I'd never win anyway... :?

And yes Captain.. I watch spooks if I happen to be around..... good show 8)