Carl Zeiss lenses for Canon SLRs - nice, if Canon now brings a reissue of the 5D with a full-frame chip in the performance class of the Alpha 900 or D700 according to the rumors, it will get really interesting. However, Sony still has the edge because their Zeiss lenses support full AF and not just focus confirmation like with Nikon and Canon.
Archive 15. September 2008
heise online - 15.09.08 - ITU discusses better traceability of IP addresses - "In the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a procedure is being discussed that can help track IP addresses better. According to a preliminary document published by CNET News from the ITU Working Group 17 (SG 17), 'IP Traceback' is intended to help prevent Denial-of-Service attacks or track down network criminals, but also to make applications on the network more reliable overall. Data protection experts, however, warn of possible misuse. Particular mistrust was apparently aroused by the fact that the first proposal comes from the researcher Tian Huirong, who works at the Chinese Academy for Telecommunication Research (CATR), which is under the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry." - of course in the ITU, which has been accused for some time of increasingly and strongly interfering in internet regulation and standardization. And which has often shown that its mechanisms are anything but open - and thus pretty much contrary to the approach of the IETF. It fits perfectly, like the proverbial ass on the bucket, when a goat is made into a data protection gardener.
Luminous Jewel: Leica Noctilux with World Record Aperture - 8000 Euro. For a few pieces of glass. High-quality glass, of course. And with impressive light intensity (and if they have fixed the soft drawing of the old Noctilux, all the better). But let's be honest - not even specialists need this. "Want" - sure. "Need"? No. They should have given the M8.2 a faster startup time, that little darling costs almost 5000 Euro as well ...
The deep heap: Ghost in the Java virtual machine - very interesting article about JVM performance in terms of memory usage and garbage collection and compaction. Also interesting outside of Java.