span class = 'RGB6'> Chilling story
of Head
and
accountable to it
PC
(C) Alexey Sviridov
(R) Merlin
This history has occurred on so long, we can say, recently,
but we can say that and does not yet occurred, and is expected
to next week. In a department whose name I will not tell you,
that the CB name of one famous friend, whom, and so everyone
knows, there was a computer. Not "Made Institute Minsk", a
cross between an adding machine with KVN-TV, besides
tarahtyaschaya like a tractor "Belarus", and not the
"Zelenograd Productions DVK-kill-me-better-at once. Machine
design white, yellow building, the keys are gray, and the
screen ... Needless to say, what screen - MEMBERS picture on it
looked nicer than in "Playboy." With porn all started.
Watching her kids at night, when women are no longer
available for home shopping yes, and the time workers are
officially over, so that from this side of the authorities
could not find fault. Looked and went, everything seems as
normal. But bosses He was a man educated, on the one hand, and
on the other hand aware that the formation of two decades ago
now not around to help. And so the head and read a lot of
different, but including magazines Intercomputer "," PC World
"," Kompyuterlend "," ComputerPress ","
Computer-god-knows-what-else, good, salary allowed. And one of
them read of it about a program that, until the picture shows
the erasure of the car valuable information, and then another,
and mocks the screen. In the evening, fortunately, no
suspicious messages did not jump out, but on the condition the
head wound.
Came in the morning and primarily made porn erase, and
two engineers, melenko in this case volokuschih, sat writing
programa, catching all sorts of prestupmye actions without the
knowledge user. Engineers were strange people - normal
people would say at once that such programs and because two
hundred pieces on zabesplatno, and rewrote to his neighbors.
And these two, which communicate with the machine even in the C
language managed to beysikovskim accent, sat down and three
months have made such things, that any attempt something
rewrite or erase fed to the alarm and holding everything,
including the clock.
But not for long rejoiced bosses. Soon the firm announced
nasty virus, a computer course, which was distributed worse
than AIDS, the existing traps can not be reached, showed itself
only once, but fatal, and most despicable, but at the moment
off the machine, using the remnants of energy and inertia of
rotation of the disk, when nothing has been done can not be
manually or software. Panic reigned complete, and the older the
head, the more uncomfortable he was - for any of the problem
with personalkami was solely the result of games of
subordinates coupled with the connivance of superiors, and on
this occasion was has two major call. Someone dials Lozinski,
someone just seal the drive to floppies is strange owl,
and we acted differently.
Now, without knowing three passwords and not having a
specially formatted floppy disk, which was kept at the head of
the table, it was impossible not only his floppy phnut, but the
power is off, and who tried to do it, received serious electric
shock from the body or from the wire with a fork. Did all this
in turn invited three of the cooperative, but how much and what
kind of funds that has gone, knew only the educated and the
head of one of his old friend, comrade, now a modest
zamgeneralnogo on the economy.
True, then again had all the same two engineers to strain to
their previous creations with the current protected dock, but
it was already done in respect of salary, and once again
disturbed friend friend was not required. Employees at first
almost daily received electric shocks, but it used to, and
worked almost as before.
The next threat came from the telephone jack: the department
to install the modem, and about pirates of computer networks in
our time, only deaf did not hear and the blind do not read.
Modem, of course, Pretty thing, I thought the chief, turning
over the instruction manual, the style is more like a cheap
advertising, but dangerous. One thing to simply erase the
information, and more - on the side of her release, it's a
shame.
And he went into the ministry, which had long been turned
into a concern, of concern to the department, from the
department into a joint stock company, and so on, but actually
in the same building are the same people sat at the usual
tables and doing something he is familiar dela.Tam someone to
talk to, some who sat in the canteen, and as a result of
ministerial koekto traveled with a delegation from the Bureau
in a rather nice trip, and the Division stated grim bearded
personality dlioy two meters with a box of diskettes, got to
start the discharge of his fingers and stuck the car, proshipev
that yuzerovchaynikov current hit, though cruel, but, in
general, correct.
Broke away from the screen that a hacker only late at night,
took box and disappeared, but since divisional modem was
impregnable strength for all attempts to connect, even without
cause, at least in the case. Head decided that it quieter, and
bearded longer cause.
A six-month lull, and then in the department occurred
additions: a young man with a diploma, short-sighted and
well-developed sense of self-esteem, and even appeared plotter,
a scanner and a television arm, which after mining whether the
satellite was supposed to supply, then whether to suspend the
submarine, but it is possible that both inside Chernobyl
sarcophagus of his stuff. For space modifications and then
again and a solar panel added, having pressed for this on the
window box with evergreen tomatoes.
All of this is again working under computer control, and the
young man talking to two strange engineers in their spare-time
taught one of the patrol programs manipulator is not pleasing
to pull out floppy disks, and then drive away from the keyboard
undesirable. This caused a healthy laughter gathered on
performance, particularly comical look with narrowed eyes as if
in anger camera and flapping a la butterfly wings solar panels,
and trying not to fall under the arm, and optimum angle of
inclination to save.
And then disaster struck. Floor above the toilet tank leaks,
and who came on Monday, the first young man had the horrifying
picture - the deep puddles on the floor, inflated paper on the
tables, and swollen particle board tables. And amidst this
flood was the computer and himself played in the "Starkontrol
"(*), forgot to turn off on Friday. Young man was not stupid,
and remembered the teachings of senior colleagues, one of which
makes sense about this: if something happened, better if it's
something the first to discover the head and he will take the
same action. He is the person responsible, he and the cards. In
According to this young man closed the door and went into the
smoking room.
When he returned half an hour later, he found a picture of
the same flood but now the door was a small crowd. A second
engineer category, who played on Friday last, at times
struggled to come up and turn off the car, but the sparkling
bits of arm casually grabbed him by the first available part of
the body and dragged through puddles at a safe distance.
Tried together, but the vertical rack plotter
dealt a blow to one of the brave and the arm began to work
twice as fast. The same misfortune befell a boss who
pulled from the table soaked password floppy and tried to shove
her into the drive. Employees of the department were afraid to
go - squinting camera did not seem funny. Then the chief of the
next room to get through to the electricians, and all over body
Turn off the power but the wings of solar batteries and
accumulators "Damn piece of iron" made it useless.
By lunchtime, the tank was repaired, the floor of the
department began to dry out, but to go there, you can still
only had a risk - any approach to the switch or outlet computer
perceived as an attack and act accordingly. Six-foot bearded
man came and tried to bring the car to life via a modem, but it
turned out that his program, too, have adapted and are abutted
improvised, and as a result he himself was unable to penetrate
through his own defense, but only got to the screen insulting
professional pride messages.
Stating that "users-dummies generally need to kill," the
bearded left. A suggestion was made to break anything car or
even a television camera, but the chief recalled from memory,
how much each component of the complex and offers had subsided.
And now has to be the following situation: staff
seated in another room; they pose a health risk having produced
necessary documents, continue to implement the plan and make
quarterly premium.
Head of the same almost from the police is looking for one
of the strangest retired engineers and traces of at least one
of the cooperators, to bring it to the hacker from the
ministry, a young man which is also on leave for child care,
while his wife in the commercial department at the bread and
butter, earns, and a strange engineer who quit have not yet
thought up, maybe with something so think of. A computer still
costs in the department, menacingly waving at each incoming
manipulator and plays with himself is a "Starkontrol.
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* For those who do not know. "Starkontrol" - this is nice
game which the spacecraft can operate, fight or two
rights against each other, or a person against the machine, and
can be for the sake of the car itself with a bleed - this is
not a game of course, but the spectacle Neskuchnoye. There is
also at the Spectrum.
*
