Nokia VS Apple

From: Nokia broadens patent claims against Apple

Nokia is broadening its legal fight with Apple , saying almost all of the company’s products violate its patents, not just the iPhone.

Somehow, I feel, Nokia is in a desperate situation. Suing/throwing whatever they can find to stop the rise of Apple into the smart phone market. So basically, this is a case of, if you can’t win them by making better smart phone, sue them for stupid patent violation.

The Coming of Firefox Mobile

From the source:

Mozilla: Firefox Mobile will kill off app stores

Mozilla claims that its new Firefox Mobile browser could be the beginning of the end for the hugely popular app stores created by Apple and its ilk.

Mozilla is releasing the first version of Firefox Mobile (codenamed Fennec) on Nokia’s N900 handset, with versions for Windows Mobile and Android set to arrive next year.

An exaggeration of claim does not imply it would be true. Though, to simplify the development of mobile application and to make it platform/device independent is not a bad idea.

Hmm… I thought Opera has done a pretty good job on Javascript support.

Oh… Another April Fool…

April Fool is the day where one cannot trust anything he read from the web.

My Lineup

Since I grew obsession into photography, I have gotten myself quite a number of lenses.

Camera: Sony A900 (primary), A350 (backup)

Lenses:
Sony

• AF DT 18-70mm F3.5-5.6
• AF DT 18-250mm F3.5-6.3
• AF 50mm F1.4
• AF 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 G SSM
• AF 70-400mm F4-5.6 G SSM

Carl Zeiss

• Planar T* 85mm F1.4
• Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm F2.8 ZA SSM

Sigma

• 105mm F2.8 EX DG Macro
• 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO Macro

Minolta

• AF 80-200mm F2.8 APO HS
• AF 17-35 F2.8-4 D
• AF 135mm F2.8
• AF Reflex 500mm F8

Tamron

• SP AF 17-50 F2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical

Sold:
Tamron 200-400mm F5.6
Sigma 10mm F2.8 EX DC HSM
10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC
Minolta 16mm Fisheye F2.8
Minolta AF 80-200mm F2.8 APO non-HS
Minolta AF 100-400 F4.5-5.7 APO

Updates:
1. Upgraded to A900 and sold a few APS-C lenses.

I think, I need to cut back spending on lenses.

Giving up on Solaris 9

Solaris 9 is a weird OS. I need to do some programming in communicating with a modem. The code works fine in Linux. But, when I port it over to Solaris 9, there is always some intermediate of lost characters when reading the modem status. The most strange and unexplainable thing is, if I add logging statement in between the reading and processing of read buffer, there is no lost characters at all. Timing problem? I thought all these is suppose to be done in the lower OS (hardware level) for flow control? Increasing the read timeout in “select” does not fix it.

Thank goodness my main platform is Linux.