hardware

Help with writing to an I/O port in windows?

I'm trying to write a value to IO port 0x0466 in Windows. Normally, it is 0x0000. To change it, I can physically short-circuit two headers on the board, and the value changes to 0x0001. And it will stay 0x0001 even when I open the circuit, until I restart/etc. Now, the problem is, using software/IO port dll, I can write 0x0000 to port 0...

The way to maintain with git different hardware setups with a number of configs and a number of branches

I have the git repository where I am storing 4 different programs based on same code base. Some branches just have the different realization for some features. And others do completely different things(preparing the environment for calculation and calculation itself). There is no problem for me to make 4 different branches for it. But al...

Jumbo Frames on DIR-655

Hello, I am trying to set up jumbo frames on my gigabit home LAN but no luck so far. My setup is: D-Link DIR-655 router, HW Revision A3, Firmware 1.21 EU Synology DS107+, Firmware 3.0-1337 Laptop w/ Win7 x64, external PCIx NIC managed by "Generic Marvel Yukon 88E8053 based Ethernet Controller" The router is supposed to support jumbo...

Minimum specification for Dotnet workstation

How would you go about working out the minimum specification needed for an end-user's workstation to run a rich client Dotnet application? Is buying some low-end hardware and testing the application the only way? ...

Reproducing "Gallery of processor cache effects"

Having read this article I tried to reproduce the example on my Mac. However my curve for the first example looks completely different and I don't understand why.. My code is below: #include <mach/mach_time.h> #include <time.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> void mach_absolute_difference(uint64_t end, uint64_t start, struct ...

How to disable the realtek wireless lan utility

I recently installed windows 7. As a part of this, I was required to install the drivers for my onboard wireless adapter (Realtek 8187). However, with the driver came this annoying management studio called Realtek Wireless Lan Utility. It's not a huge burden, except that every time I log in to my computer (if I've been idle for a whil...

How to use Hardware Cursor in a IMX31L for wince 6.0R3

Dear All I am working on iMX31L project.with WINCE 6.0 r3. I'm planning to improve the display driver performance by implementing the hardware cursor. Now i have IMX31L BSP with me, I want to disable the software cursor. Please help me to implement the HW cursor. Best Regards Akash G ...

Ways to measure a systems hardware requirements

Hi, I was wondering if there is a tool to measure the resources needed to run an app? We have developed an app that runs fine on all modern computers, but I am curious about "how low can we go". The app in question is developed in .NET, so there might be some code analyzer or something, but I am more curious in general if there is a to...

change the USB to parallel port?

hi all I want change the USB port to the parallel port and work with pins? ...

Android: Logging on an android device

Hi, I am no good with hardware concepts. So I have this probably very silly doubt. I want to add Log to my application. When running on an emulator, I know where to see the Log output - it's visible in the Logcat window of Eclipse. I want to know where I can see these logs when I run it on a hardware device. I am using following comma...

How do I access hard drive from boot disk?

A computer, which the hard drive is configured as raid(not sure about the raid number or master or slave), has a corrupt file called stpd.sys which doesn't let me start up windows in normal mode or safe mode. I googled for solutions and the only thing I could do is to rename stpd.sys and see if the windows boot up that way. How do I ac...

mouse becoming "corrupt"?

Hi, This is quite possibly a stupid question, but I want to know if it is possible for a standard USB optical mouse to become "defective" simply by connecting it to the USB port of a PC and using it for a while? Meaning it would stop working properly after a short while of being connected, and the problem would persist from then onwards...

Looking for Benchmark/Performance Tools to test Android Hardware.

Hello Everyone, I am looking for a free or paid (the best in the market you know of) benchmark/performance tools for Android based smart phones hardware. Basically I need some tools to test the performance of CPU, Memory, Graphics etc.. Any help will be appreciated. ...

need to uncompress JPEG on a picoITX / ARM board

Hi all, i want to stream jpeg images to a preferably minimal sized and easy to handle device which will output the video stream via VGA or DVI. Perfect would be a board/system that - should be pico-itx sized ( maximum mini-itx ) - should be gcc programmable ( no fpga .. too complex ) - must have a 100MB / 1GB Ethernet controller on boa...

Windows hardware / device driver report / inventory

I'm trying to figure out, how to create a hardware inventory / report on Windows 7 including: All devices in / attached to a system. Driver / device information per device (Device Type, Manufacturer, Driver Version, Driver Date, Driver Provider, Driver Files, Hardware Ids) If the drivers is digitally signed (WHQL) / has a valid signat...

Problem while using Extended ASCII Values

Hi all, I am doing a project with a PLC, im using sockets to interact with server listening on the PLC.I gave the instructions in the ASCII Format,untill 127 my instructions are working fine,when it exceeds 127 ,the code works but proper values are not sent to the PLC . how to overcome this. s= 130; Query = Convert.ToChar(00).ToString...

sharepoint hardware recommendation for public sites

Hi We have built 2 web sites on MOSS 2007 which have many customizations on pages and many ajax web parts. Currently one of the sites is live and the configuration is as follows Web server Xeon 4 core processor 12 GB RAM 50 GB harddisk SQL Server Xeon 4 core processor 16 GB RAM 150 GB disk space Servers are deployed as virtual ma...

Where are coaxail cable and twisted paris cables used relating to computer and devices interconnection

is there some thing like a coaxail cable can be used to connect same type of computers? and twisted pair cable can connect only computers(all types) ? ...

Can Java applets use API's for hardware?

I've been tasked with creating software that needs to work on Macs and PCs. The software needs to talk to some USB hardware that does bits and bobs. To prevent having to maintain two pieces of software, I thought about the possibility of writing a Java applet, I'm pretty new to Java but am OK at C# and C, and did do a bit of Java at un...

Wrapping my head around hardware representations of numbers: a hypothetical two's complement question

This is a super naive question (I know), but I think that it will make for a good jumping off point into considering how the basic instruction set of a CPU actually gets carried out: In a two's complement system, you cannot invert the sign of the most negative number that your implementation can represent. The theoretical reason for thi...