BBC News – BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?.
Old BMI: 23, new 22.
If it is worth anything, that is.
–jeroen
Archive for January 29th, 2013
BBC News – BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29
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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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