Update: This whole post has just become irrelevant. I put the polish fonts into the reader, which turned out to be a simple task - uncompress cramfs image, replace original fonts with your own, compress again and update Reader sw. All nicely described here. No need to embed fonts anymore (at least until new Reader update comes out)

A couple of weeks ago I bought a Sony Portable Reader. The device is being sold on the other side of the big pond, so it doesn’t quite cater for the needs of us lowly Europeans, needs as frivolous as non-ASCII characters.

Well, things are not as bad as they sound, the Sony PRS-500 supports embedded fonts. By storing the fonts within a file, I could get all the ogonki that I need. Now, the problem is that whereas with only the built-in fonts, a page-turn takes, say, half a second, with embedded fonts, it tops at a couple of secs.
Having no diacritic marks spoils the reading experience, but so do the long page turns. For me the long page turns were the lesser evil, and I actually started to get used to them. There must be ways to optimize the page-turns, say by using a font that need less calculations than Times Roman, I suppose even using a sans-serif font instead, could save some milliseconds. I was planning to devote a weekend to experimenting, but then I realized, that there is a simple and instant solution.

It is not the page turn, that takes so long, but the whole data munging that precedes it - the long delay between pressing the button and the page turn. The only thing you need to do to solve the long page-turn problem, is to stop thinking about page-turning as an atomic operation.

TIP: To get a smooth reading experience with embedded fonts, just press the button a couple of lines (mileage may vary) before ending the page, so that you can finish the page, when the reader does its calculations. It is trivial, but it is against the natural p-book reading habits, so it requires some time to get used to it.

Now, what is it that antivirus programs are supposed to do? Scan for viruses…. Scan for viruses, you say? Read the following and reconsider that:

10. ISSUE:
File operations invoked on IBM’s ClearCase file
system (MVFS) might cause our AV filter driver
to leak memory. Our driver can see folder OPEN
requests but never the CLOSE requests.

RESOLUTION:
The AV filter driver has been updated to exclude
file operations of IBM’s MVFS file system from
scanning operations.

Due to an apparent problem scanning files, our driver was updated not to scan them?!!

Hello? HELLO? I’m wondering if you guys at McAfee are actually reading what you write.

Here’s a link to that embarassing confession: VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i Patch 15 Readme

To be fair, this site is not officially open yet. Still, a forbidden forbidden error handling page looks a tad unusual.

Last year, I had a mischievous plan to go to zoo with my daughter… On a second sunny Saturday (stupid as it may have been, the plan was to avoid a crowd of zoo-hungry fellow denizens, on the first sunny Saturday). It took almost 3 months, before we hit two sunny weekends in a row.

So I did have a gut feeling that something’s wrong with the weekend weather. But now it’s official - the German study proves that during weekends the weather is worse than on working days - temperatures are by 0.2°C higher on Wednesday than during the weekend, rainfall is the highest on Saturday, Sundays are the most cloudy. See this article in Spiegel

Found on toytowngermany.com