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February 14, 2016
Welcome to CJMoseley.co.uk
I’m CJ Moseley a British independent author of science-fiction, fantasy and horror (speculative fiction) stories and books […]
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theverge:
THE MALWARE MUSEUM SHOWS THE CUTE COMPUTER VIRUSES OF…
THE MALWARE MUSEUM SHOWS THE CUTE COMPUTER VIRUSES OF THE PAST
The creators of the viruses of the past often set out to destroy computers, and trumpeted their activities with garish splash screens, showing scrambled code, animated pot leaves, or laughing skulls.
The vast majority of these viruses are gone now, the security holes they exploited patched out of existence by Microsoft or by the inexorable march of time making the very machines they worked on obsolete, but a new collection on the Internet Archive allows us to get a glimpse at an important part of computer history. The Malware Museum is an online collection put together by Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen, chief resource officer at Finnish security firm F-secure, featuring emulated versions of a number of MS-DOS viruses from the 1980s and 1990s.
Visitors can download defanged versions of the viruses in question, each of which has had the destructive bit of code at its core removed, leaving only the visual effects.
Back during the 80s and 90s virus coders were anarchists and graffiti artists, spraying colours over your screen while they ripped apart your hard drive and destroyed. These days viruses are largely boring corporate tools for extracting cash, processor power, or just a connection for a DDOS from unsuspecting downloaders…
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February 13, 2016
angua:
Introverts (x)
Looks about right…
Introverts (x)
Looks about right…
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Introverts (x)
Looks about right… appeared first on CJMoseley.co.uk.
February 12, 2016
thevaultofretroscifi:
Peter Andrew Jones
“I think you made…
Peter Andrew Jones
“I think you made that tortoise angry.”
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Peter Andrew Jones
“I think you made… appeared first on CJMoseley.co.uk.
February 11, 2016
Naptime Cthulhu Softee
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. - H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
A knitted Cthulhu… So very cute, or Cthute…
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February 10, 2016
Nasa’s space tourism posters
As I promised on my twitter, the images from Nasa’s space tourism posters… Gleaned from: […]
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Okay, looks like poltergeist activity to me
Okay, looks like poltergeist activity to me
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February 9, 2016
scificity:Noticed something was “off” at the end of the movie…
Noticed something was “off” at the end of the movie Argo… (Great movie, btw)
Suddenly Tusken Raiders got a lot less scary…
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February 8, 2016
I’m sure they must be helpful, if you get blocked.I…
I’m sure they must be helpful, if you get blocked.
I don’t get blocked,but I do get jammed, sometimes…
Too many ideas try to come out of my fingertips at once, even with three books in development at once, I now have another three that want to get written soon.
These just made it worse…
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And we have a new site
Well after a few weeks of terrible service, one phone call and several emails I have […]
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