October 2003
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Primer chip de señales digitales ópticas
Una compañÃa israelà ha desarrollado un procesador de señales digitales ópticas (ODSP) que alcanza velocidades 1.000 veces superiores a los actuales microprocesadores.
http://www.telepolis.com/centrales/marco/informatica.htm?path=/tec/hemeroteca/informatica/20031031/113744_modulo10023.htm
¿Sabes cuál es el logotipo de los hackers?
Al igual que Linux tiene su conocido pingüino Tux, BSD a su demonio, Perl un camello o la FSF su Ñú, los habilidosos de la informática han decidido adoptar un sÃmbolo identificativo.
http://www.telepolis.com/centrales/marco/informatica.htm?path=/tec/hemeroteca/informatica/20031031/111702_modulo10024.htm
Microsoft anuncia mejoras en la seguridad de Windows XP
Varios medios de comunicación se han hecho eco de las modificaciones que Microsoft ha anunciado que introducirá próximamente en Windows XP para aumentar el nivel de seguridad. Entre ellas destaca la conexión por defecto de Internet Connection Firewall y la desactivación de Windows Messenger Service.
http://www.iblnews.com/txt/noticia.php?id=90870
Microsoft pretende aproximarse a Google
La firma Microsoft está buscando poner un pie en el negocio de las búsquedas en Internet, y se aproximó a Google en los últimos dos meses para proponerle una asociación o inclusive una fusión
http://www.iblnews.com/txt/noticia.php?id=90876
Linux-based Motorola phone to use Intel chip
Motorola’s upcoming Linux-based cell phone will be its first phone to use a processor from chipmaking rival Intel.
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5099767.html?tag=nefd_top
Microsoft Research Packs ‘Wallop’
Microsoft Corp. themed this week’s Professional Developers Conference along the lines of the company’s advancements in presentation, storage and communications, and Wednesday Microsoft showed how its research arm is enhancing these areas and more.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1367661,00.asp
OpenBSD 3.4 Released
The OpenBSD folks are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.4. This is their 14th release on CD-ROM (and 15th via FTP). They remain proud of OpenBSD’s record of seven years with only a single remote hole in the default install. As with previous releases, 3.4 provides significant improvements, including new features, in [...]
Improving the FreeBSD SMP implementation
Free UNIX-derived operating systems have traditionally have a simplistic approach to process synchronization which is unsuited to multiprocessor application. Initial FreeBSD SMP support kept this approach by allowing only one process to run in kernel mode at any time, and also blocked interrupts across multiple processors, causing seriously suboptimal performance of I/O bound systems. This [...]
Microsoft’s Whidbey: Something For Everyone
Microsoft’s pre-beta version of its Visual Studio .NET platform, “Whidbey”, is offering a trove of new simplified tools and features that should make developers jobs easier, while giving Microsoft critics new fodder, attendees at the Professional Developers Conference here said. In the meantime, Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2004-2005 were posted, and also the new CLR [...]