Tras seis meses de invierno, se destapa la naturaleza que ya no es tan virgen. Hablo de la zona del lago Leman, donde lindan los Alpes, el Rodano, Lausana, Ginebra, Evian, y una multitud de otras pequeñas ciudades repartidas entre Francia y Suiza. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2006
“You’ve got Mail!”
Cuando AOL (America On Line) alla a fines de los 80, le puso a su sistema de correo electronico una voz de chabon que decia “You’ve got Mail!” cada vez que llegaba un nuevo mensaje, poco se imaginaba Ginebra de que diez años mas tarde hasta los gorriones tendrian direccion de e-mail. Continue reading
Microsoft losing its focus?
You knew Microsoft Reporting Services, Microsoft Excel Services, Microsoft Services for UNIX, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, and of course, the Service Packs.
Well, let me introduce you Microsoft Catering Services (aka Service Pack for human beings, or the Microsoft Stomach Update Services):
Baguala de Juan Poquito, de Maria Elena Walsh
Me parece que hay un grillo en la noche tucumana que no canta con el pico pero llora con las alas.
Juan Poquito se lamenta que su novia la chicharra de repente y sin aviso se le ha ido para Salta.
Yo lo escucho Juan Poquito canta mucho. Continue reading
grafitti en rosario
cortesia de fede.
Bola de nieve
Parece mentira, que en un pais como Suiza, la gente sea tan torpe sobre la nieve; bueno, si uno lo analiza detenidamente, no es tan raro. No nacimos para caminar sobre hielo, basicamente, y el hielo no es tampoco la mejor superficie para caminar o conducir un auto. Y la nieve, en ultima instancia, es hielo. Continue reading
About Operating Systems and Networks
“The true operating system is the net itself”
This phrase, common marketing argument in the late nineties, made me remind that in the eighties, Sun Microsystems’ founder, Scott McNealy, used the slogan “The Network is the Computer” to describe his vision:
Source: http://www.csg.is.titech.ac.jp/~mich/photos/visitsun/13/full/13004.jpg
But, can we safely mix both concepts? Continue reading
Hardware Polymorphism
Since data and instructions are stored in RAM in pretty much the same way, a priori the CPU cannot distinguish each other, but by the cycle in which the binary chunk is fetched from memory. In the case of instructions, it then needs to decode the operation codes into instructions, with the added problem that if the operation is performed on data that is not implied by the operation code, the results are wrong or even catastrophic.
The question is: would it be useful if in hardware, each cell of data would carry its own type designation? I will discuss here the pros and cons of this approach, in respect to hardware and software architectures. Continue reading
My next computer is a Mac
Not only because of the fact that I love my Macs, but because now Apple supports booting in Windows XP from it as well!
That did make my jaw drop on the floor. Definitely.
pequeños lugares donde todos se conocen
steven paul jobs nacio el 24 de febrero de 1955 en san francisco, california, de un doctor en ciencias politicas sirio (abdulfattah “john” jandali) y de una maestra de escuela (joanne carole schieble) que, no pudiendo o no queriendo tenerlo en su regazo, lo entregaron en adopcion a paul y clara jobs, abogados de la ciudad de mountain view, en el condado de santa clara, california. Continue reading