Last round of 2019

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With the last two weeks being a bit weak due to "lack of current events" and the Christmas break, we're ending the year with these posts.

USB4 in Linux 5.6

The new version of the universal serial bus standard will start working in Linux from version 5.6. Remember that 5.5 will be marked as stable at the end of next month.

Western Digital delivers the first 18 and 20Tb drives

While mechanical drives are starting to be a rarity in the home environment, they are still alive and well in the business and server world. WD's announcement about these models came in the summer and now they have started delivering the first units: the 20Tb Ultrastar DC HC650 with SMR (Shingle Magnetic Recording) technology and the 18Tb Ultrastar DC HC550 with CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) technology.

6502 Team

As some of you may know, Chuck Peddle, the creator of one of the most famous CPUs, died a few days ago. On this page they talk about the history of the MOS Technology processor that was used in computers like the Apple II, the Commodore PET and Commodore VIC-20 among many others.

Microsoft's notice about the EOL of Windows 7

With this update for Windows 7, a full-screen message will appear indicating the risks of continuing to use the operating system. Remember that from January 15, only those who have purchased an ESU (Extended Security Update) license will receive security updates.

Enve 0.0.0 available

The first test version of this 2D animation program is available. Enve is a recursive acronym that means Enve is Not a Video Editor.

Core i7-9750H

Namiga brings us results in all modes of this Coffee Lake that has been on the market for about half a year. It is a micro-portable from the H series, that is, with a TDP of 45W. It has 6 cores with HT and 12Mb of L3 cache. In general, performance is very similar to that of the desktop i5-9500. In single-thread it matches the results of the i7-7700k. In this case, it partially overcomes the limitations of the U series thanks to higher consumption. In this model, multi-thread performance quadruples single-thread performance, doubling the result of the U series. Let's not forget that this 45W portable CPU has 50% more cores than the 15W edition.