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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Nokia E90 camera image sample, or “The bullshit of megapixels”

The camera of Nokia E90 communicator is “3.2 megapixel”. Here is a cut of an image, made with this camera at best light conditions possible (even sunshine, not too bright). Close your eyes, photographers: you may get sick.

Such quality is not just ashaming; I’m now happy that I’m not working at Nokia any more [...]

Gnome has an idea about screen parameters different from Xorg.conf

I rebooted my home computer after a long uptime and suddenly the screen is terribly flickering. Reason? “I did not do anything” I installed software updates, added and removed users, but never mangled with the screen, as it was already tuned once and forever.
My Xorg.conf file has only one mode line, the one [...]

Almost a winter day

We managed to get out for an almost real snowbiking on a weekend. Suomusjärvi – Karjaa, about 60 km on gravel roads.

One forest road was not cleaned of the snow, and we had to drag bikes for several kilometers. What a joy! That was the first – and I’m afraid the only – day in [...]