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Wow, that's impressive.
I think you win the thread.
- Inside the Cuckoo's Egg (Stohl) - Great tale of chasing a hacker in the early micro/mini days
I stumbled upon this not too long ago -- it's a great story.
You can watch the entire NOVA epside online here (starring Cliff Stoll as himself): The KGB, the Computer, and Me (Complete) - YouTube
And 30 years later, Cliff Stoll did a hilarious TED talk here: Clifford Stoll: The call to learn | TED Talk | TED.com
He also designs and sells Klein Bottles. Really unique dude.
There must be some "old farts" stories about those that worked on the first computer anti-virus software..
What would computer history be without a reference to those first virus attacks and the great guys that stopped them.
Unfortunately I can't specifically recall when I had to buy my first AV software.
...... My latest business is cloud based execution of radiation oncology systems, we're treating about 12K patients a day. ....
There must be some "old farts" stories about those that worked on the first computer anti-virus software..
What would computer history be without a reference to those first virus attacks and the great guys that stopped them.
Unfortunately I can't specifically recall when I had to buy my first AV software.
I stumbled upon this not too long ago -- it's a great story.
You can watch the entire NOVA epside online here (starring Cliff Stoll as himself): The KGB, the Computer, and Me (Complete) - YouTube
And 30 years later, Cliff Stoll did a hilarious TED talk here: Clifford Stoll: The call to learn | TED Talk | TED.com
He also designs and sells Klein Bottles. Really unique dude.
You left out the fact that his Doctorate was in optics, specifically correction of spherical aberration, when the Hubble space telescope was first launched. You know, the incorrectly ground mirror. He was involved in the design of the "space glasses" that corrected it.
That TED talk is amazing... makes me want to teach grade school science.I stumbled upon this not too long ago -- it's a great story.
You can watch the entire NOVA epside online here (starring Cliff Stoll as himself): The KGB, the Computer, and Me (Complete) - YouTube
And 30 years later, Cliff Stoll did a hilarious TED talk here: Clifford Stoll: The call to learn | TED Talk | TED.com
He also designs and sells Klein Bottles. Really unique dude.
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Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.
Baloney....
Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn't—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.
I read that book around 1990-91. A couple of years later, I was working with one of the guys mentioned in it.Soul of a new Machine (Kidder) - Classic reading of the inside story of building a new OS for Data General's hot new machine