Thursday, July 02, 2009

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Importante libreria dominicana en NY necesita ayuda

 
 

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via www.remolacha.net by remo on 7/1/09

3411103116_89901907c8_mRamon Anibal Ramos
"Deudas económicas obligaron a César González Silverio a cerrar uno de los pocos lugares donde podían reunirse los amantes de la cultura dominicana en el Alto Manhattan. Donde daban la bienvenida cada semana a las obras de autores dominicanos en particular...."[AYUDA AQUI...]

César González Silverio/Dueño
"Ante todo, queremos agradecerles el apoyo que siempre nos han brindado como clientes o apoyando nuestras actividades culturales. Como ya sabran, nuestra libreria se encuentra temporalmente cerrada por dificultades economicas. Para poder salir de esta situacion y reabrir nuestra puerta, un grupo de amigas y amigos ha tomado la iniciativa de realizar un sorteo para conseguir los fondos necesarios.[AYUDA AQUI...]


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Microsoft nos da un paseo por Windows 7

 
 

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Microsoft como parte de su estrategia publicitaria detrás de su nuevo Sistema Operativo, publicó una serie de videos en donde nos entregan pequeños ejemplos del funcionamiento de Windows 7.

En ellos podemos ver a Latika Kirtane (Ingeniero de Microsoft) nos enseña la facilidad con que podemos encontrar archivos o aplicaciones, la facilidad con que podemos armar una red doméstica y la forma como podemos controlar la información que ven los menores de la casa (Control Paterno).

Son videos bastante simples y de corta duración, como para ir calentando los motores.

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Link: Tour Windows 7 (Microsoft)


 
 

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Los increíblemente extraños comerciales del Internet Explorer 8

 
 

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via ALT1040 by Inti Acevedo on 6/30/09

Microsoft sigue haciendo cosas extrañamente locas, en esta oportunidad ha presentado una serie de comerciales para TV (sólo disponibles en Hulu) en los cuales intenta "vender" el uso de Internet usando elementos de la cultura popular de la red, surrealismo, lolcats y chistes bizarros.

Creo que la idea de Microsoft es comenzar una campaña viral con estos videos. Pero los veo como un error gigantesco. Bueno, probablemente me estoy perdiendo parte del chiste pero me suena algo forzado querer ser cool siendo medio loco y hasta desagradable. Aunque el G.R.I.P.E.S. no está del todo mal.

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Los increíblemente extraños comerciales del Internet Explorer 8

 
 

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via ALT1040 by Inti Acevedo on 6/30/09

Microsoft sigue haciendo cosas extrañamente locas, en esta oportunidad ha presentado una serie de comerciales para TV (sólo disponibles en Hulu) en los cuales intenta "vender" el uso de Internet usando elementos de la cultura popular de la red, surrealismo, lolcats y chistes bizarros.

Creo que la idea de Microsoft es comenzar una campaña viral con estos videos. Pero los veo como un error gigantesco. Bueno, probablemente me estoy perdiendo parte del chiste pero me suena algo forzado querer ser cool siendo medio loco y hasta desagradable. Aunque el G.R.I.P.E.S. no está del todo mal.

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¿Usas The Pirate Bay de forma regular?

 
 

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via ALT1040 by Eduardo Arcos on 7/1/09

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Las ramificaciones e implicaciones de la venta de The Pirate Bay (por relamente poco dinero, pero eso será tema de otro post) son bastantes, no solo para el sitio y su comunidad, sino para la larga discusión sobre la legalidad o moralidad de las descargas de contenido con copyright.

The Pirate Bay en muchos sentidos es un ícono y un ejemplo del P2P, es uno de los sitios con más tráfico en todo internet y sus fundadores han sido piezas importantísimas para la lucha por la disponibilidad absoluta del contenido. Con los rumores que dejará de ser un tracker y todo lo que rodea la polémica venta, nos gustaría saber, por parte de nuestros lectores si usan el sitio de forma regular, que es la pregunta del día:

¿Usas The Pirate Bay de forma regular?


 
 

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How to lose your data

 
 

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via Ask The Admin by Joe Glessner on 6/22/09

destroyed_computer

See that picture? When it happens to you, it may not look quite that bad (or be quite that obvious), but data loss sucks. And it does happen. I've been working with computers for 10+ years, and I've had it happen a couple times myself. Did I mention how much it sucks?

I'm not going to spend a couple pages telling you why you should backup, I'm just going to be straight about it, unless you really couldn't care less if that happened to your computer, you are flat out stupid if you are not backing up your data on a regular basis.

Instead of telling you why to backup, I'm going to tell you how to ensure that you are not going to get your data back, even if you think you are backing it up.

Method 1: I'll just back the data up to CD/DVD.

Well sure, this will work for a bit, but:

  1. Ever try to save 20GB to CD? Or 250GB to DVD? Ugh.
  2. How long do you think that optical desk is going to be readable?

Going this route, you can quickly end up trapped behind a small mountain of plastic. Or lets say you manage to somehow keep the optical disks to a manageable quantity, will the marker you labeled it with make the disk unreadable in a year, or is the dye layer unstable, rendering your disk unreadable in six months, or will the glue on the label you made for the disk make it worthless in a year or two? These are just a couple of examples of why optical media should not be considered an archive grade solution.

Method 2: ok then, I'll just copy the data to a USB hard drive.

Sure it's better than nothing, but single HDD solutions are not going to keep your data safe. Hard drives fail. In fact it will happen to every single hard disk you will ever come across. The only question is; when? It's not a matter of if, or of MTBF (mean time between failure), it is more a matter of "you never know, it could fail in ten years, or in ten seconds".

Don't get me wrong, if this is the only way you can back the data up, then it is your only choice, and it's better than nothing. Just be aware, as soon as you copy the data to that USB HDD, the "Clock of Death" is ticking.

Much better would be to copy the data over to a machine with a RAID storage system (preferably RAID5).

Method 3: I bought actual Backup Software (or use a vetted Open Source solution), and run Incremental Backups (to tape!) every single day!

Ok, so you spent some money on a tape backup solution, spent hours reading the manual and configuring your backup. Congratulations, I bet you think your data is safe! Until you find out how Incremental Backups really work (this usually happens after a disaster, and the tapes is all you have left of your pr0n, illegal mp3's downloaded movies warez mission critical data).

Let's pretend for a minute that your backup tapes look something like this:

Full_backup_tape (tape 1 – doesn't matter what you tell it to be, the first backup is always and without exception, a full backup)

Incremental_backup_1 (tape 2)

Incremental_backup_2 (tape 3)

Incremental_backup_3 (tape 4)

Incremental_backup_4 (tape 5)

Incremental_backup_5 (tape 6)

And then you have a catastrophic failure. So you're sitting there at 2am merrily running the restore, and you hit a snag: tape 2 won't read. Doesn't matter why, the tape could be bad, maybe you left it out of the tape safe overnight, and the radio station next door managed to erase it with the magnetic waves they transmit (this actually happened), the data is gone. So is all data after it. See Incremental backups require that all tapes since the last full backup be present and working. So tapes 3-6 may as well be empty, because you are never getting the data off of them. Ever.

If you can't run full backups every day, use Differential backups instead of Incrementals. Let's say that in the scenario the user had been running differentials rather than incrementals. They could then restore to current using just the original full backup, and the last differential.

Method 4: Now I'm running differential backups to tape every single day!

But you fail to check the backup logs every day, and the backup job you though had been running for the last year actually failed 273 days ago, and has been requesting the "correct" tape since then. I've seen this one a lot (in fact, I think this would be the most popular reason for data loss if you have backup software running).

You've got to check your backup logs. It sucks, and it's boring, but it's one of those things you just have to do.

Method 5: Alright, I'm running differentials to tape, and have been checking my logs for the last 2 years every single day!

But you've never run a test restore. If you haven't restored data from the tape successfully, there is no data on the tape. The tape was bad, the backup software failed (silently of course), the gremlins ate it.

Method 6: Ok, now I spend two hours reading the log and then randomly restoring files from my backups (before putting the tapes in the tape safe) every single day!

And then your server room catches fire. All machines, and the safe holding the backup tapes are destroyed. You never took any offsite, because you have a tape safe. It happens. It's unfortunate.

Method 7: Enough, I give up on tape! Now I run a full backup to a RAID5 NAS every single day!

But you ordered your NAS with the drives form the manufacturer, and they used 4 HDD's from the same batch, and two failed. This is the one that always gets them! The strength of RAID5 is that more than one drive has to fail before the RAID is unrecoverable. The weakness is that hard drives from the same batch tend to fail at the same time (or thereabouts).

To strengthen your RAID system, always make sure that you have drives from different batches, if not from different manufacturers (this is not always the best idea, but that is an argument for another time). For instance: to take care of my backup needs at home, I bought a Buffalo Terastation. Unfortunately, Buffalo sent me a Terastation with 4 drives from the same batch (you can usually tell if they all have the same date on them, sometimes there will be a batch code on the drive). I bought 3 more of the same model drive from 3 different manufacturers, and now have the most healthy RAID I can.

These are not the only ways to lose data, but they are by far the most common. How would I know? I was the Worldwide Manager of Technical Support for a backup software company for several years. And I always got to be the one to explain to the customers why their data is gone.

So what do I do?

There are as many answers to that question as there are IT shops with backup systems. Here is how I protect data at my office:

I backup all data every day (full backup) to a NAS configured in RAID5, with a hot spare. I check the health of the RAID every day (it takes about two minutes). Once a week I backup the entire RAID to LTO3 tape, and take the tapes offsite (currently I am taking them home, where they go into a DATA rated fire safe (there is a difference, do your homework), and then into my large safe where I keep all my other valuables. My ideal would be to have them delivered to a bank safety deposit box, but that costs money.

At home, I back up all my data to the aforementioned Terastation. Once per month, I copy all the data off to a USB HDD (actually two of them), and take one to work where it goes into the tape safe.

Is it perfect? No. Does it stand a much better chance of keeping that data alive through a catastrophic event? Absolutely. You don't have to go to these lengths to protect your data, but you should be aware of the risks.


 
 

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via Ask The Admin by Joe Glessner on 6/22/09

destroyed_computer

See that picture? When it happens to you, it may not look quite that bad (or be quite that obvious), but data loss sucks. And it does happen. I've been working with computers for 10+ years, and I've had it happen a couple times myself. Did I mention how much it sucks?

I'm not going to spend a couple pages telling you why you should backup, I'm just going to be straight about it, unless you really couldn't care less if that happened to your computer, you are flat out stupid if you are not backing up your data on a regular basis.

Instead of telling you why to backup, I'm going to tell you how to ensure that you are not going to get your data back, even if you think you are backing it up.

Method 1: I'll just back the data up to CD/DVD.

Well sure, this will work for a bit, but:

  1. Ever try to save 20GB to CD? Or 250GB to DVD? Ugh.
  2. How long do you think that optical desk is going to be readable?

Going this route, you can quickly end up trapped behind a small mountain of plastic. Or lets say you manage to somehow keep the optical disks to a manageable quantity, will the marker you labeled it with make the disk unreadable in a year, or is the dye layer unstable, rendering your disk unreadable in six months, or will the glue on the label you made for the disk make it worthless in a year or two? These are just a couple of examples of why optical media should not be considered an archive grade solution.

Method 2: ok then, I'll just copy the data to a USB hard drive.

Sure it's better than nothing, but single HDD solutions are not going to keep your data safe. Hard drives fail. In fact it will happen to every single hard disk you will ever come across. The only question is; when? It's not a matter of if, or of MTBF (mean time between failure), it is more a matter of "you never know, it could fail in ten years, or in ten seconds".

Don't get me wrong, if this is the only way you can back the data up, then it is your only choice, and it's better than nothing. Just be aware, as soon as you copy the data to that USB HDD, the "Clock of Death" is ticking.

Much better would be to copy the data over to a machine with a RAID storage system (preferably RAID5).

Method 3: I bought actual Backup Software (or use a vetted Open Source solution), and run Incremental Backups (to tape!) every single day!

Ok, so you spent some money on a tape backup solution, spent hours reading the manual and configuring your backup. Congratulations, I bet you think your data is safe! Until you find out how Incremental Backups really work (this usually happens after a disaster, and the tapes is all you have left of your pr0n, illegal mp3's downloaded movies warez mission critical data).

Let's pretend for a minute that your backup tapes look something like this:

Full_backup_tape (tape 1 – doesn't matter what you tell it to be, the first backup is always and without exception, a full backup)

Incremental_backup_1 (tape 2)

Incremental_backup_2 (tape 3)

Incremental_backup_3 (tape 4)

Incremental_backup_4 (tape 5)

Incremental_backup_5 (tape 6)

And then you have a catastrophic failure. So you're sitting there at 2am merrily running the restore, and you hit a snag: tape 2 won't read. Doesn't matter why, the tape could be bad, maybe you left it out of the tape safe overnight, and the radio station next door managed to erase it with the magnetic waves they transmit (this actually happened), the data is gone. So is all data after it. See Incremental backups require that all tapes since the last full backup be present and working. So tapes 3-6 may as well be empty, because you are never getting the data off of them. Ever.

If you can't run full backups every day, use Differential backups instead of Incrementals. Let's say that in the scenario the user had been running differentials rather than incrementals. They could then restore to current using just the original full backup, and the last differential.

Method 4: Now I'm running differential backups to tape every single day!

But you fail to check the backup logs every day, and the backup job you though had been running for the last year actually failed 273 days ago, and has been requesting the "correct" tape since then. I've seen this one a lot (in fact, I think this would be the most popular reason for data loss if you have backup software running).

You've got to check your backup logs. It sucks, and it's boring, but it's one of those things you just have to do.

Method 5: Alright, I'm running differentials to tape, and have been checking my logs for the last 2 years every single day!

But you've never run a test restore. If you haven't restored data from the tape successfully, there is no data on the tape. The tape was bad, the backup software failed (silently of course), the gremlins ate it.

Method 6: Ok, now I spend two hours reading the log and then randomly restoring files from my backups (before putting the tapes in the tape safe) every single day!

And then your server room catches fire. All machines, and the safe holding the backup tapes are destroyed. You never took any offsite, because you have a tape safe. It happens. It's unfortunate.

Method 7: Enough, I give up on tape! Now I run a full backup to a RAID5 NAS every single day!

But you ordered your NAS with the drives form the manufacturer, and they used 4 HDD's from the same batch, and two failed. This is the one that always gets them! The strength of RAID5 is that more than one drive has to fail before the RAID is unrecoverable. The weakness is that hard drives from the same batch tend to fail at the same time (or thereabouts).

To strengthen your RAID system, always make sure that you have drives from different batches, if not from different manufacturers (this is not always the best idea, but that is an argument for another time). For instance: to take care of my backup needs at home, I bought a Buffalo Terastation. Unfortunately, Buffalo sent me a Terastation with 4 drives from the same batch (you can usually tell if they all have the same date on them, sometimes there will be a batch code on the drive). I bought 3 more of the same model drive from 3 different manufacturers, and now have the most healthy RAID I can.

These are not the only ways to lose data, but they are by far the most common. How would I know? I was the Worldwide Manager of Technical Support for a backup software company for several years. And I always got to be the one to explain to the customers why their data is gone.

So what do I do?

There are as many answers to that question as there are IT shops with backup systems. Here is how I protect data at my office:

I backup all data every day (full backup) to a NAS configured in RAID5, with a hot spare. I check the health of the RAID every day (it takes about two minutes). Once a week I backup the entire RAID to LTO3 tape, and take the tapes offsite (currently I am taking them home, where they go into a DATA rated fire safe (there is a difference, do your homework), and then into my large safe where I keep all my other valuables. My ideal would be to have them delivered to a bank safety deposit box, but that costs money.

At home, I back up all my data to the aforementioned Terastation. Once per month, I copy all the data off to a USB HDD (actually two of them), and take one to work where it goes into the tape safe.

Is it perfect? No. Does it stand a much better chance of keeping that data alive through a catastrophic event? Absolutely. You don't have to go to these lengths to protect your data, but you should be aware of the risks.


 
 

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Gadgetwise: Microsoft’s Free Antivirus Software, Coming Soon

 
 

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via NYT > Personal Tech by By RIVA RICHMOND on 6/24/09

Microsoft has set June 23 as the launch date for the much-discussed beta version of its free anti-malware service.


 
 

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State of the Art: Decoding Battery Life for Laptops

 
 

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Why doesn't someone invent a standard for worst-case/best-case duration? Actually, they have. It's called MobileMark, but there are a few problems.


 
 

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Q & A: From DVD to the iPod

 
 

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I have several old home movies that were digitized and copied onto DVD. How can I convert the disc into a file that can play on my iPod Touch?


 
 

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Hace 100 años nació un luchador y protector de los olvidados

 
 

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Celebramos el centenario del Profesor Juan Bosch publicando su biografía, así recordamos lo grande que fue este hombre y los aportes que hizo a una sociedad que busca un líder que pueda revivir y aplicar sus ideales.

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Juan Bosch nació en La Vega, República Dominicana, el 30 de junio de 1909 y murió en Santo Domingo el 1 de noviembre de 2001.

El profesor Juan Bosch, narrador, ensayista, educador, historiador, biógrafo, político, ex-presidente de la República Dominicana, inició su carrera literaria con un pequeño libro de cuentos, Camino Real (1933), donde narraba en gran parte lo que había visto, escuchado y vivido en su pueblo, La Vega. De esa misma época, es su primera novela breve La Mañosa (1936), donde el personaje central es una mula y el narrador es un niño enfermizo.

Después, antes de salir al exilio, donde viviría durante más de veinte años, el precursor del cuento dominicano publicaría sus cuentos en periódicos y revistas dominicanas. De aquella época son «La mujer» (cuento que ha sido seleccionado por casi la totalidad de las antologías de cuentos de Hispanoamérica), «Dos pesos de agua» y «El abuelo».

Pero cuando el profesor Bosch regresó a la República Dominicana, apenas los más viejos conocían que era cuentista. A su llegada, se reunieron sus cuentos en dos volúmenes: Cuentos escritos en el exilio (1964), que incluía «Cuento de Navidad» y «Manuel Sicurí», publicados en ediciones independientes en el extranjero, y Más cuentos escritos en el exilio, (1964), donde se incluyeron, también, cuentos publicados en ediciones independientes, como «La muchacha de la Güaira», publicado en Chile, en 1955.
Pero Bosch ya había publicado libros, en el extranjero, no precisamentede cuentos, que lo habían dado a conocerer en otros países como biógrafo y ensayista, antes que en su propio país, como Hostos, el sembrador (Cuba, 1939), Judas Iscariote, el calumniado (Chile, 1955).

Aunque dejó de escribir cuentos desde los años sesenta (el último o escribió para una antología de cuentos para niños, preparada por el pianista, poeta y dramaturgo Manuel Rueda), el profesor Bosch es reconocido como el precursor del cuento y, sobre todo, de la narrativa social dominicana.).

Con una prosa imitada por pocos narradores dominicanos de hoy (por lo díficil, aunque se trate de decir lo contrario), en los cuentos de Bosch la problemática social (la preocupación por el hombre y por la fuerza de los procesos sociales que ejercen sobre el individuo) es tratada desde diferentes ángulos, sin hacer, casi siempre, alusión a sistemas o gobiernos determinados.
Pero no sólo los cuentos del profesor Bosch son guías para el cuentista, si no que sus Apuntes sobre el arte de escribir cuentos es un texto para los estudiantes de otros países como Cuba, llegando a llamar la atención del narrador colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, quien ha declarado más de una vez que Bosch es su profesor).

La última creación narrativa del profesor Bosch, la novela El oro y la paz (Premio Novela Nacional de Literatura, 1975), aunque escrita en dos versiones, a primera en 1957, mientras el escritor se hallaba viviendo en Cuba, en su primer exilio, y la segunda versión en Puerto Rico, 1964, donde estuvo pasando su otro exilio, es una obra maestra en a Literatura dominicana).

Las obras de Bosch comprenden, también, ensayos y biografías de grandes figuras de la historia sagrada.
Es difícil, por no decir imposible, resumir los temas en los cuentos de Juan Bosch. Hay, sin embargo, dos preocupaciones que aparecen en sus mejores cuentos: los problemas sociales, y la preocupación flosófica (por no decir, existencial). Ahí están «La nochebuena de Encarnación Mendoza» (para nosotros, su cuento más perfecto), «Los amos», «Luis Pié», «La muchacha de la Güaira», «Dos pesos de agua» y «La mujer» para probarlo.

Obras:
Narrativa:
Camino Real (1933)
Indios (1935)
La mañosa (1936)
Dos pesos de agua (1941)
La muchacha de la Güaira (1955)
Cuentos de Navidad (1956)
Cuentos escritos en el exilio (1962)
Más cuentos escritos en el exilio (1962).
El oro y la paz (1975

Ensayos:
Mujeres en la vida de Hostos (1938)
Hostos, el Sembrador (1939)
Apuntes sobre el arte de escribir cuentos (1947)
Judas Iscariote, el Calumniado (1955)
Trujillo, causas de una tiranía sin ejemplo (1961)
David, biografía de un rey (1963)
Breve historia de la oligarquía (1970)
Composición social dominicana (1970)
Tres conferencia sobre feudalismo (1971)
Breve historia de la oligarquía (1971)
El Napoleón de las guerrillas (1976)
El Caribe, fronterra imperial: de Cristóbal Colon a Fidel Castro (1978)
Viaje a las antípodas (1978)
Conferencias y artículos (1980)
La revolución de abril (1980)
La guerra de la Restauración (1980)
Clases sociales en la República Dominicana (1983)
Capitalismo, democracia y liberación nacional (1983)
La fortuna de Trujillo (1985)
La pequeña burguesía en la historia de la República Dominicana (1985)
Capitalismo tardío en la República Dominicana (1986)
Máximo Gómez: de Monte Cristi a la gloria (1986)
El Estado, sus orígenes y desarrollo (1987)
Textos culturales y literarios (1988)
Dictaduras dominicanas (1988)
Póker de Espanto en El Caribe. Temas económicos (1990)
Breve historia de los pueblos árabes (1991).

Fuente: www.literatura.us


 
 

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La lista de los 102 jugadores que consumieron esteroides

 
 

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Exclusiva:revelan la supuesta lista de 102 Jugadores que dieron positivo de Esteroides 2003 en MLB

Pedro Martínez, Alfonso Soriano y otros 18 dominicanos figuran en la lista de peloteros que usaban esteroides para aumentar su rendimiento en el terreno de juego en las Grandes Ligas.

Lea aquí la lista completa.


 
 

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Videos del arsenal de armas de un delincuente de San Francisco de Macorís

 
 

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La Policía Nacional detuvo un hombre que poseía en su casa un arsenal de armas cortas y largas además de poseer uniformes de la Policía Nacional y la dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas.

Miren el video.

Tenía balas y pistolas para acabar con medio pueblo.

Video de la edición estelar de Telemicro con Félix Victorino.


 
 

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A 100 años de su nacimiento Leonel olvidó ideales del maestro

 
 

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Leonel Y Bosch
Mientras tanto los dominicanos esperamos alguien retomé los ideales justos y buenos del profesor Juan Bosch.


 
 

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Todo sobre el bachatero Yoskar Sarante

 
 

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Pre-venta de Windows 7 ya es un éxito

 
 

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via FayerWayer by Alexander Schek on 6/29/09

A pocos meses de que exista en la vida real, las versiones de actualización (upgrade) del sistema operativo Windows 7, ya encabezan los primeros lugares de los productos más vendidos en Amazon.com.

Desde el viernes pasado, Microsoft comenzó a ofrecer las versiones upgrade al Windows 7 Home Premium a tan sólo USD$49, menos de la mitad del precio sugerido de USD$119, y la versión Profesional a sólo USD$99, exactamente a mitad de precio.

Durante el fin de semana, la versión Home Premium se encontraba en el #1 de ventas y la versión Pro en el segundo lugar no sólo en la categoría de Software, sino que en toda la categoría de electrónica y computación.

Siempre se ha usado a Amazon como indicador de ventas, dada su popularidad y por ser considerado una de las tiendas en Internet que más ventas genera en el año, especialmente en libros y artículos electrónicos.

La campaña de pre-venta sólo estará disponible hasta el 11 de Julio, y la versión final llegará el 22 de Octubre de este año.

Link: Windows 7 Pre-Orders Top Amazon Sales (Silicon Alley Insider)


 
 

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

¿Usted no vio el programa de Nuria?

 
 

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via sacandomelao by sacamelao on 6/27/09


No se preocupe, le tenemos el extenso reportaje-completito- sobre lo que Nuria destapó en la CDEEE...

!Ay mis cuartos!

Por eso es que hay tantos apagones..... mientras al pueblo se lo lleva el demonio....en la CDEEE hay muchos cobrando sin hacer nada......familiares de la esposa y del mismo Radhamés Segura cobrando sueldos altísimos.....

 
 

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VIDEOS: Escándalos en la CDEEE - Nuria destapa "viejos altares"

 
 

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via sacandomelao by sacamelao on 6/28/09

Bueno, estoy indignado... no quiero comentar nada....., mejor vean los videos

1ra parte



2da parte


3ra parte...en breve...

 
 

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Figureo Competencia Freestyle...

 
 

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via mendyenfigureo by The Paparazzi on 6/28/09

WE BRING IT...
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Por primera vez en la República Dominicana, disfrutamos de un evento de esta magnitud, como lo es Los Freestyle Motocross, que tuvo como escenario en Centro Olímpico Félix Sánchez. Leer Más...



 
 

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Futurología: Microsoft venderá Windows 7 en flash drives

 
 

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via FayerWayer by VJ on 6/27/09

Considerando lo ligero que es en comparación con Vista y las importantes mejoras en materia de usabilidad que presenta frente a XP, Windows 7 parece dirigirse a ser uno de los sistemas operativos preferidos para correr en el creciente mercado de netbooks, salvo por el pequeño detalle que estos pequeños dispositivos carecen de unidad óptica, requisito casi fundamental para instalar una versión legítima de Windows (a menos que sepan como se hace una instalación por red).

Al parecer la posibilidad de perderse este mercado sería demasiado grande para Microsoft según un informante anónimo de CNET, quien afirma que la compañía está sopesando la posibilidad de ofrecer una versión en flash drive (pendrive) de Windows 7 para llegar no sólo a netbooks, sino también a tantos otros dispositivos recientes que por sus restricciones de tamaño simplemente optan por no tener lector de DVD, como algunos nettops, thin clients, etcétera.

De cualquier forma este "informante" no da muchos otros datos de este gran cambio en las políticas de distribución de Microsoft, por lo que su credibilidad está en juego.

Link: Thumbing Windows 7 onto Netbooks (CNET News)


 
 

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