Archive 1. February 2011

Ricoh developing M-mount module for GXR system: I ended up with the Sony Nex 3 to revive my Leica lenses. And I am very satisfied with the new firmware for the Nexes. But the GXR with such an M module would certainly also be quite interesting (though probably not price-wise).

Vimari - Keyboard Shortcuts extension for Safari - GitHub. A bit like Vimium for Chrome, but can do significantly fewer tricks (and the links seem to be affected by the page CSS, which is why the QuickLinks look weird on my website)

Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results. Interesting article, if this is true, Microsoft has made a pretty big (and embarrassing) mistake.

Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308. PHP too. The solution to the puzzle in both cases: the number is the smallest representable number in double floats and approximations are determined for the conversion in Java and PHP, but unfavorable values are assumed as starting points - and thus infinite loops result because the target value is never reached. And yes, this is critical because you can send servers into a loop if you enter these number values in input fields that convert to double float. I also tried it with Python (CPython and PyPy), but they don't run into a loop, they simply deliver a slightly different value.