I want to practice programming code for future hardware. What are these? The two main things that come to mind is 64bits and multicore. I also note that cache is important along and GPU have their own tech but right now i am not interested in any graphics programming. What else should i know about? -edit- i know a lot of these are in ...
I was wondering, what kind of HW should i get for general programming purpose. I heard my apps dont run correctly on multicore vista. So what i was thinking is A) 64bit OS, B) multicore CPU and thats pretty much all i have unless i want to program with GPUs and i dont. Do you guys have any suggestions? PS: I have a machine that is big e...
I've been recently informed that my development team will be upgraded from our standard issue Lenovo (IBM) T60 to the R400, specifically the 7439-1BU model. First: Yes, I know... we should have desktops. Unfortunately, I don't control the hardware decisions so there's little I can do about that. All I can do is try to squeeze as much p...
Hi, I want to make a kernel debugging session, and im using vmware Workstation to do that. How can i make a virtual 1394 connection between my VM and the host so I can debug the VM ? OR How can i make a usb connection between the VM and the host ? Thanks! ...
I would like to try some iPhone development but am not a Mac user. I'm not keen to spend a load of cash on a new mac, so if I were to buy an old Mac on ebay, what system should I look at as a minimum for an acceptable iphone dev machine. Cheaper the better obviously. Note: Not keen on running mac os on a pc so really looking for an appl...
I am dealing with an circa 80's era machine controller. A program is being downloaded to the operator's control panel and for the life of me I can't figure out what it is written. The machine is a Cybermation 700A plasma cutting machine and here is a snippet of what being download. Note that this is use to manage the download of cnc f...
how we can work on timer deals with milliseconds (0.001) how we could divide second as we want ?? how we could we deal with the second itself ??? ...
how does clock control various events(operations) from being occurred in desired sequence?what is the significance of a clock cycle time(i've heard that many operations can be issued in a single clock cycle)? or simply,how does CPU controls operation ordering? ...
We're going to purchase some new hardware to use just for a Hadoop cluster and we're stuck on what we should purchase. Say we have a budget of $5k should we buy two super nice machines at $2500/each, four at around $1200/each or eight at around $600 each? Will hadoop work better with more slower machines or fewest much faster machines? ...
Programaticly, how can I modify the brightness of the backlit keyboard on a Macbook or Macbook Pro using Python? ...
what is the difference between flip-flops and latches? ...
I want a VHDL source codes website that provide a ready to use component source code. for example: full adder vhdl source code. ...
Hi, Is there any way to read the CPU cache contents? Architecture is for ARM. I m invalidating a range of addresses and then want to make sure whether it is invalidated or not. Although I can do read and write of the range of addresses with and without invalidating and checking the invalidation, I want to know whether it is possible to ...
In this article Jonh Dvorak calls Itanium "one of the great fiascos of the last 50 years". While he describes the over-optimistic market expectations and the dramatic financial outcome of the idea, he doesn't go into the technical details of this epic fail. I had my chance to work with Itanium for some period of time and I personally lov...
If you have seen a Dell XPS in actions you probably have noticed its nice media buttons above the normal keyboard: They are flashing when the notebook is starting and when you touch them. Does anybody know how to make these buttons flash programmatically? ...
I have a device that takes low current 3-12v input signal to do it's magic and I would like to interface it to my linux box. What kind of options do I have on this? It would be great to have some low-cost possibly user-space solution. ...
How can i send and receive data though parallel port using C# .net? Also can u guys please explain how to use parallel port to receive data? ...
I've got a potential client who wants a database driven app, either in Java or Python driving MySQL or PostgreSQL, but we need to get input from an external machine, such that every time this external machine closes a microswitch, a value in the database gets decremented and it shows up on the app. Also, when that value in the databas...
Hi, I know, I am propably way out of line here :-) I want to control my Display from within a .NET application. Background is simple: There is a really nice Tablet which should become my little helper. For this reason, it will be always on. But the display can be switched off if not needed, and switched on when something interesting ha...
Hi, How do I go about building digital signage (the screens seen everywhere with advertising, or information), Which piece of hardware should i use to connect multiscreens to my computer? Does anyone know how and if there exists a managed framework for connecting to an amount of these monitors? Is it by IP or how does it work? /H4mm3rH...