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Posted on: Jan, 11th 2011
According to the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), the organization that assign the IP addresses, in February of 2011 all the IP addresses will be occupied. The solution to this problem is being implanted, approximately from the year 2000 and will follow implanting during a lot of years more. This consists in replace all the software and hardware that use the IPv4 protocol to another that use the IPv6 protocol. Learn more about "What will happen when the IPv4 addresses will be exhausted?"
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Posted on: Aug, 6th 2010
At present, we find a lot of beachs that has Wifi. Go to the beach to surf by Internet can make us seem a bit geek, although this is not the motive to quit. However, there are others that produces more serious problems. In this post I'm going to deepen in these. Fill your mind with "Problems of Internet on the beach"
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Posted on: Nov, 9th 2010
We absorb massive doses of WiFi radiation all the days, is important that we ask us if the WiFi signals are or are not harmful to the health. In this post I'm going to explain some known facts and in the next one I will deepen about the scientific studies that talk about this topic. Don't left of read the rest of "Are WiFi Networks healthy? (I)"
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Posted on: Apr, 21st 2011
Often the programmers hide surprises in its programs, hided by key combinations or strange actions. These surprises usually consist in unusual functionalities, credit titles or any other rare thing. The name that recieve these surprises is "easter eggs". Follow reading "The best easter eggs"
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Posted on: Oct, 19th 2010
Never I watch television, but all that is related to the digital technologies I find it interesting, so, today, I'm going to talk about the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT).
Here you will discover all the advantadges and disadvantages that have the DTT. Read the rest of "How works the DTT?"
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Posted on: May, 15th 2011
The uncanny valley, is a theory of the japanes expert in robotics Masahiro Mori that says that the emotional response of a human to a humanoid robot, will be empathic and positive as much more it's the resemblance to a human, but will arrive a point before that the similarity and the movements of the robot be totally human, in that the response will be of aversion. Overcomed this valley, when the robot is indistinguishable from a human, the response becomes so empathic as to any other human. Follow discovering "Explanations of the uncanny valley"
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Posted on: Apr, 27th 2011
Because of the close of the last factory of typewriter (Godrej and Boyce), I'm going to talk about the distribution of the keys on a computer keyboard, because they have inhereted the distribution of its keys. This is a fateful contribution to the computer world, do you want to know why? Continue discovering "Why that position of the keys?"
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Posted on: Sep, 7th 2010
The hypothesis of that we are in a universe simulated by big supercomputer can't be proven because, if true, never will could see outside of the simulation, although is a funny mental experiment do speculation about this. Surprise yourself with the rest of "How would be our universe if it would be generated by Matrix?"
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Posted on: Dec, 10th 2010
The next week is the world release of TRON Legacy the adaptation of the old TRON, a cult film of the science fiction that launched Disney in July of 1982, being the first movie in the world that used animated computer graphics in a intensive way, in a epoch where begins to appear the first personal computers. Show more of "TRON - The beginning of the computer graphics in the movies"
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History of the at sign
Posted on: Mar, 1st 2011
When Ray Tomlinson invented the e-mail in 1971, surely he didn't thought that the at sign, will convert in an Internet symbol (Arpanet in that moment). Surprise yourself with the rest of "History of the at sign"
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Posted on: Jan, 4th 2011
To identify any device in Internet, this must have a IP assigned (is something similar to a telephone number that identifies uniquely every computer). But these numbers, that use the format established by the protocol IPv4, are running out, making that in a few months would be necessary the use of numbers more large, whose format was established by the protocol IPv6. Don't left of read the rest of "2011: the end of IPv4 addresses"