Today I shot a few pictures with my new camera. Wow. It’s very nice. It performs pretty much as explained on dpreview. Conditions were not ideal for photography. It was very cloudy and rainy. There was a thick layer of clouds and the landscape was still covered in (melting) snow. This is difficult for the [...]
Tagged photography, reviewsI first began considering buying a new digital camera around 2004. Forever drooling over dpreview and other sites I ultimately decided not to buy the Canon powershot A90, 520, 620, IS, IS2. Reasons varied from “I don’t really need one right now”, “camera X sure looks nice but lets wait for camera Y” to “my [...]
Tagged Software in GeneralDesktop Earth 2.0
I installed this yesterday. Totally useless but quite fun.
It’s now a few days after my previous post on the vista delay. The rumour machine on the Vista delays is now rolling. A few days ago this wild claim about 60% of vista being in need of a rewrite started circulating. Inacurate of course but it woke up some people. Now this blogpost [...]
Tagged microsoft, Software in GeneralOuch, Forbes unleashes some criticism on Microsoft. Well deserved IMHO. I don’t see the result of six years of development by thousands of software engineers reflected in the currently marketed featureset.
A few small predictions:
Vista and office 2007 (or whatever it is called) are going to go into history as the two releases that reversed the [...]
Tagged google, microsoft, Software in GeneralAn event I’ve ignored for years and tactically zapped around on the TV is the eurovision song festival. When I was in Sweden, Sweden happened to win it (1999?). I heard about this while partying in Bågen, a very lousy night club in Ronneby. This year, I might keep an eye on the TV because [...]
Tagged finland, Odd stuffOver the years I’ve encountered, and resolved many annoying software issues with Microsoft. This one surely counts as one of the more annoying ones.
The problem is that my previous PC had a beautiful suspend to ram feature, which basically means that whenever you put the machine in stand by mode the system turns of almost [...]
I read this interesting article on mathematics and software engineering. Like many software engineers, I’ve had extensive mathematics training during my computer science education and of course in high school. The problem is, I don’t seem to remember much of it. I passed courses on statistics, probability theory, linear algebra, discrete mathematics 1 & 2, [...]
Tagged Software EngineeringOne of the innovative features in Mac OS X is support for DNS-SD, a.k.a. rendezvous. I was reading about the Java API for this by apple on onJava. Then I wondered if there was a pure Java implementation, because I dislike using native stuff in Java (complicates deployment).
That’s why I like google: “+rendezvous apple pure [...]
I’ve finally found some optimal settings for my system. The number of objects in the view determines the framerate. X-plane includes an option to display render statistics including number of objects and framerate.
As a benchmark, I start x-plane, take off from jfk and make a turn towards Manhattan. As I make the turn, the worst [...]
