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Posted on: Sep, 24th 2010
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Internet allows that any computer cans communicate with any other computer independently of the distance. This is not magic but is thanks to large cables buried in the seabed that ply the seas and oceans around the world. ¿Do you want know the technology of these cables? Surprise yourself with the rest of "The impressive submarine cables (first part)"

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Posted on: Oct, 28th 2012
what is the best computer for you
At the time of buy a PC the first that you have to ask yourself is, what use I'm going to give to it? Depending if you want it for play, do graphic design, edit video, programming or simply surfing internet or write documents, the characteristics of the computer that more suits your needs will be very different. Read more of "What is the best computer for you?"

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Posted on: Dec, 28th 2010
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An investigation team of the laboratory of computational synthesis of the University of Cornell have developed a food printer. They want that one day, will be something common in the kitchen of any person. Learn more about "The food printer"

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Posted on: Oct, 29th 2010
Supercomputer Tianher-1A
Its name is Tianhe-1A, is located in Tianjin (China) and can execute 2.507 petaflops, that is equivalent to 2.507.000.000.000.000.000 floating point operations per second. Is, therefore, the computer that execute more operations with decimals per second, this doesn't implies that is the more fast in the world, as others say, but is the more fast making this kind of operations. Fill your mind with "Tianhe-1A: The supercomputer with more petaflops in the world"

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Posted on: Sep, 28th 2010
Cable
In the prior post I didn't explain some interesting facts about the submarine cables. ¿How is possible its installation on the oceanic ridges? ¿From where comes the electrical source of the repeaters? ¿What occurs when the deep doesn't allow bury the cable? All these questions and a lot of more will be reveal in this post. Read all about of "The impressive submarine cables (second part)"

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Posted on: Oct, 8th 2010
HD break apart
A lot of people have only one partition in the hard disk where is the operating system, the virtual memory paging file and their personal files, because is as usually comes a computer newly purchased with Windows. Often I surprise discover the quantity of technical and people, that say be expert without having basics knowledges of the topic, that recommend have only one partition because, according to them, the hard disk works faster, when really is the opposite. Do you want to know why? Enter into "Partitions of the hard disk. Are good or bad?"