Monthly Archives: September 2008

Software patents: How bad they are, and how big companies love them

20 September, 2008 – 11:37 am

This post on software patents and copyrights and everything else in between is a means of letting off steam caused by reading news that Apple is taking ideas from commercial softwares being actively sold and trying to get patents for those ideas posing as concepts of their own. Yes: Ideas and concepts Apple has not [...]

By ayaz | Posted in Linux, Rants, Regrets, Unix, Windows | Comments (10)

Symbian: Folded descriptor contents, and case-insensitivity

6 September, 2008 – 10:26 pm

UPDATE: I found this page from Symbian docs online that describes folding and collation in detail.

In Symbian jargon, the term “folded” means “case-insensitive“. If you grope throughout the Symbian docs and API looking for the term case-insensitive, you will be hard-pressed to find anything.
If you have dabbled with descriptors enough, you may be familiar [...]

By ayaz | Posted in Programming, Symbian | Comments (1)