FROM THE ROOM 28 TO NEW YORK TIMES. BULGARIANS LINKED TO COMPUTER VIRUS. Bulgaria has become the breeding ground of some of the world's most lethal computer viruses, programs that are maliciously designed to spread through computer memories and networks and at times destroy valuable stored information like bank and medical records.
"We've counted about 300 viruses written for the I.B.M. personal computer; of these, 80 or 90 originated in Bulgaria," said Morton Swimmer of Hamburg University's Virus Test Center, who specializes in diagnosing and curing Eastern European computer viruses. "Not only do the Bulgarians produce the most computer viruses, they produce the best.
" One Bulgarian virus, Dark Avenger, has infected American military computers, said John McAfee, who runs the Computer Virus Industry Association, which is based in Santa Clara, Calif., and tracks viruses for computer hardware and software companies. "I'm not saying that any super-secure computers have been infected," he said. "But the U.S. Mr. Mr. Mr. Dark Avenger. Dark Avenger was a pseudonym of a computer virus writer from Sofia, Bulgaria.
He gained considerable popularity during the early 1990s, as some of his viruses spread not only nationwide, but across Europe as well, even reaching the United States. Background and origins[edit] In the late 1980's and early 1990's, personal computers in Bulgaria were relatively rare, with only the wealthiest citizens able to afford one. Nevertheless, Bulgaria had a blooming computer hardware industry, which specialised in providing large numbers of PCs for educational purposes. Iron Maiden Official Website. Musem ~ Pravetz 8D. The Pravetz 8D was a Bulgarian clone of the Oric Atmos featuring a Bulgarian version of the 6502 processor called CM630, 16 KB of ROM and 48 KB of RAM The keyboard was almost the same as the original Atmos version, including a MK key, similar to the CTRL key, a C/L key allowing to display Cyrillic or Latin alphabets, and cursor keys.
As in Pravets 82 (etc), the original lowercase characters were replaced by cyrillic characters and the C/L lock key, was the CAPS LOCK key of the Oric Atmos. Like the original Atmos, The 8D had two modes of recording : Fast mode at 2400 bits/sec. and slow mode at 300 bits/sec. The computer also featured a parallel Centronics interface and a user port. Pravetz provided a local dot matrix printer called "Petritch" but the popular Epson printers could be also connected to the 8D.
Floppy drives, modem and joysticks were also available. There were in fact two ways to have floppy disk drives for the Pravetz 8D. Peter Petrov reports: Виртуален музей на българските компютри Правец. Musem ~ ISOT EC-1035. What means to program a VIRUS. Hirst. VIRGILIO. Bruce Sterling. Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author who is best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology.
This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre.[2] Writings[edit] His first novel, Involution Ocean, published in 1977, features the world, Nullaqua where all the atmosphere is contained in a single, miles-deep crater. The story concerns a ship sailing on the ocean of dust at the bottom, which hunts creatures called dustwhales that live beneath the surface. It is partially a science-fictional pastiche of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. From the late 1970s onwards, Sterling wrote a series of stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe: the solar system is colonised, with two major warring factions. He recently contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. From April 2009 through May 2009, he was an editor at Cool Tools.[5] Projects[edit] Neologisms[edit] Personal[edit]
Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling. Ad and do that, I am giving you express permission right now.
Enjoy yourself. You can put the book on disks and give the disks away, as long as you don't take any money for it. But this book is not public domain. You can't copyright it in your own name. I own the copyright. References fresco about youth, riot and technology. American Graffiti. The film was released to critical acclaim and financial success, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Produced on a $775,000 budget, it has become one of the most profitable films of all time. Since its initial release, American Graffiti has garnered an estimated return of well over $200 million in box office gross and home video sales, not including merchandising. In 1995, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. Plot[edit] In August 1962 recent high school graduates and longtime friends, Curt Henderson and Steve Bolander, meet John Milner and Terry "The Toad" Fields at the local Mel's Drive-In parking lot. Steve and Laurie break up following a series of arguments, and John inadvertently picks up Carol, an annoying teenybopper who seems fond of him. Cast[edit] John Milner (Paul Le Mat) is confronted by Officer Holstein (Jim Bohan)
Quadrophenia (film) Back in London, Jimmy becomes increasingly depressed.
He is thrown out of his house by his mother, who finds his stash of amphetamine pills. He then quits his job, spends his severance package on more pills, and finds out that Steph has become the girlfriend of his friend Dave. After a brief fight with Dave, the following morning his rejection is confirmed by Steph and with his beloved Lambretta scooter accidentally destroyed, Jimmy takes a train back to Brighton. Synth Britannia Documentary.