The 2 TB SSD units have just been announced, but anyone any idea what the older 1TB SSD units cost?
–jeroen
via: Foremay claims to have the first 2TB, 2.5-inch SSDs.
Archive for January, 2013
Why can’t I find Foremay 1 TB 2.5″ SATA SSD prices online?
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/31
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Nette foutmelding op “Pakket zoeken – MijnPakket”
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/30
Soms zijn storingsmeldingen zo ingewikkeld.
PostNL laat zien dat het ook eenvoudig kan:
Door een storing toont MijnPakket tijdelijk geen actuele zendinginformatie, excuses voor het ongemak. De bezorging van de pakketten heeft geen last van deze storing.
Ofwel: het pakje dat ik zoek is onderweg, en wordt afgeleverd. Als de site weer werkt kan ik zien hoe laat en waar.
–jeroen
via: Pakket zoeken – MijnPakket.
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Immensely insightful answer on “syntax – Is C++ context-free or context-sensitive?” at Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/30
Thanks Warren Postma for this Google Plus mention: both the question and answer are incredibly insightful.
And indeed: the code from the answer is not possible in with Generics Delphi (:
–jeroen
via: syntax – Is C++ context-free or context-sensitive? – Stack Overflow.
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Impossible: Property using Generics in Delphi. Interfaces/classes/methods/fields/constraints/type inferencing are
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/30
Just in case you wonder about Property using Generics in Delphi, they are not possible.
Thanks David for mentioning it, Hallvard for mentioning it even earlier and Rudy for confirming it.
These are supported with Generics in Delphi:
- Generic interfaces
- Generic classes
- Generic methods
- Generic fields
- Generic type inferencing
- Generic constraints (a bit buggy in Delphi 2009)
All of the supported aspects are linked to articles from excellent authors. There is far more on the internet about Delphi and Generics, but those are a good start.
Thanks Malcolm, Phil, Barry, Hallvard, Jolyon and many others for posting all those articles!
Note that this is not possible in C# either, Julian Bucknall organized a chat and explains why, but there is a workaround which I might try to port to Delphi in the future.
–jeroen
via: Property using Generics in Delphi – Stack Overflow.
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BBC News – BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29
BBC News – BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?.
Old BMI: 23, new 22.
If it is worth anything, that is.
–jeroen
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iOS 6.1 Software Update: unlike 6.0.2 it works on my iPod touch too
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29
The iOS 6.1 Software Update is available. Whereas the 6.0.2 didn’t install on an iPod Touch 4th generation, this one does and seems to promise better battery life.
6.0 and 6.0.1 seemed to have shorter battery life, so I’m looking forward to see how much better 6.1 is.
–jeroen
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Gloegg@Bonn: Delphi and Sleepsort
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29
If Gloegg@Bonn has posted a few nice Delphi entries over the last couple of years, so he should be added to DelphiFeeds.
His last one was a very funny post on the Delphi implementation of Sleep sort.
It uses Generics, so you need at least Delphi 2009 or better.
–jeroen
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Nikkor 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR lense + 1.25x teleconverter to make it 1000mm F7.1; wow
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29
Some boyish part in me screams “want this, want this, want this” (:
AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR AF-S TELECONVERTER TC800-1.25E ED with a lots of glass with a combined weight of about 5 kg.
Then he realizes the prize of the combination (close to USD 19k)…
–jeroen
via: Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED and 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR lenses officially announced | Nikon Rumors.
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START: Start a program, **even if it is not on the PATH** ideal to start various versions of apps from DOS
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29
A while ago, I had to adapt a DOS app that used one specific version of Excel to do some batch processing so it would support multiple versions of Excel on multiple versions of Windows.
One of the big drawbacks of DOS applications is that the command lines you can use are even shorter than Windows applications, which depending you how you call an application are:
- 32767 characters when you call CreateProcess (the limit is UNICODE_STRING structure)
- 8192 characters when you use Cmd.exe
- 2048+32 characters when you use ShellExecute or ShellExecuteEx (the limit is INTERNET_MAX_URL_LENGTH)
- 260 characters for the Windows 95 family of products (the limit is MAX_PATH)
- 127 characters for DOS (the upper limit of a signed byte) often excluding the length of “cmd.exe” or “command.exe”
This is how the DOS app written in Clipper (those were the days, it was even linked with Blinker :) started Excel:
c:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\excel.exe parameters
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890
1 2 3 4
The above depends on 8.3 short file names that in turn depend on the order in which similar named files and directories have been created.
The trick around this, and around different locations/versions of an application, is to use START to find the right version of Excel.
The reason it works is because in addition to PATH, it checks the App Paths portions in the registry in this order to find an executable: Read the rest of this entry »
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.NET/PowerShell: Get-Host, quick way to get CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/28
A quick and easy way of getting the CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture is to use the get-host cmdlet from PowerShell.
This is what PowerShell 2.0 shows on my system:
C:\Users\jeroenp>powershell get-host Name : ConsoleHost Version : 2.0 InstanceId : 1ce173fb-70a7-403b-a2bd-3800fe740f7c UI : System.Management.Automation.Internal.Host.InternalHostUserInterface CurrentCulture : en-IE CurrentUICulture : en-US PrivateData : Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost+ConsoleColorProxy IsRunspacePushed : False Runspace : System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalRunspace
The SeaTools from Seagate can’t cope with that because they don’t manage the Resource Fallback Process properly.
My machine is on en-IE, as it is English, and USA as location.
The main advantage for me is to use the that it is a good mix between English and Dutch settings:
- English language (so you get proper error messages that you can find back using Google)
- USA as location (to force more search engines to use .com domains)
- EUR money settings (most software in Western Europe expects EUR, but displays USD when using en-US)
- decimal dot (far easier import/export with non-Dutch stuff)
- DD/MM/YYYY date format (I tried ISO 8601 YYYYMMDD, but that breaks too much software)
- 24 hour clock format (just as it should be)
- comma list separator (too much software is not configurable to use a certain separator for CSV, especially Excel depends on the system settings for list separator and decimal)
- metric system (just as it should be)
–jeroen
via: Get-Host.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 