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Help me out on SEGMENTS of Instructions( MC68000) programming

Please can someone explain to me how i can write a short segments of instructions to move the most significant byte in register D7 to the memory location $8000. this is how i understand it, but i m not sure i am doing it write...please can you help me correct it... Lets assume that D1= 31; BTST D1, D7; MOVE.W SR, ($8000) ...

MC68000: Divide by 3

I'm using shift operations to divide a long word in register D3 by three and storing the result in memory address specified by A2: Move.L D1, D2, D3, -(SP) CLR.L D5 MOVE.B #1, D4 Loop LSR.L D2, D3 ROXR.L #1,D5 BCS DONE SUBI.B #1, D2 BLT Loop CLR.B D4 DONE ...

Tired of programming GUI/Business Applications, what to do next?

As the title suggests, I've been making little GUI widgets and business web applications recently and I'm getting pretty bored of creating them. I'm more interested in the theoretical stuff they teach in school such as data structures and algorithms. I really enjoyed the operating systems course and networking course that I took. I wo...

In terms of programming, what do semantics mean?

This is a sentence from Eric Lippert's blog: Given that unfortunate situation, it makes sense to emphasize the storage mechanism first, and then the semantics second. It's easy to get a dictionary definition of what "semantic" means but what does it mean in terms of computer jargon? ...

Duplicate Logon Script

ok, so I'm writing a duplicate logon "worker" class in C# and I've ran into a bit of a snag. My logic behind it, I thought, was flawless! :( But, I can't for the life of me figure out why it's triggering on the first occurence rather than on just duplicates :( namespace Lab.Core.BackgroundWorker { using Lab.Core; using Lab.Core...

My computer isnt listed under the domain List

My computer comes under the ABC domain. Whenver i use the following code to list all the computers under the ABC domain, my machine is not listed. Am I missing out on something ? Kindly help using System.DirectoryServices; public void PrintComputersInDomain (string domainName) { DirectoryEntry de = new DirectoryEntry ("LDAP://" + ...

Are computer language copyrighted? Can I make a compiler or ide or anything for any of them?

Are computer languages copyrighted or have some restrictions imposed on them how they can be used? What does that mean in practice? If so, what can be done or what cannot be done? Could I make a compiler or ide or anything for any of them? For example for Pl/Sql? ...

What topic or idea would you suggest for an MS Computer Science thesis?

What topic or idea would you suggest for an MS Computer Science thesis? ...

Is The Art of Computer Programming worth it?

Possible Duplicate: The Art of Computer Programming - What Can I Get From Reading the Lot? I'm an experienced developer that is trying to buy books that will help her become a better programmer and aid her in solving complex problems. I'm considering The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth (the first 4 volumes). I know that th...

Job prospects for an MS in CE (need to act fast)?

My bachelors unfortunately was not a hard CS but rather CIS (I was trying to graduate early and I did but I wish I just finished up the CS). Anyways, I've been in a cool tech company for about 1.5 years doing something close to development (for the sake of privacy I won't mention my position). I was now accepted into a MSCE program and w...

Logic question (universal and existential quantifications)

Hi there, I have a logical statement that says "If everyone plays the game, we will have fun". In formal logic we can write this as: Let D mean the people playing. Let G be the predicate for play the game. Let F be the predicate for having fun. Thus [VxeD, G(x)] -> [VyeD, F(y)] V is the computer science symbol for universal quantifi...

how could I load a bitmap file in a video feed?

I am using artoolkit to create an augmented reality based project.I can load vrml 3d objects in the video feed using openvrml. Now I wanted to load a bitmap or any other image file like jpg,png etc file on the marker in the video feed.How do I go about achieving this? ...

In Natural language processing, what is the purpose of chunking?

Does anyone know? Is this a place to ask Computer science questions or just programming? ...

Patterns in Binary Numbers

Consider an n-bit binary number in the following form: bn−1bn−2bn−3...b0 Each bi is a single bit in the n-bit binary number. Each bi has one of two possible values: 0 or 1. An example of a 6-bit binary number is: 110011. Inside the computer, integers are represented as binary numbers. For example, the integer 43 can be repre...

least square solution to camera matrix [numpy]

I would like to use use numpy's least square algorithm to solve for a camera matrix from 6 known 3D -> 2D point correspondence. I have been using this website as a reference: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/LOCAL%5FCOPIES/OWENS/LECT9/node4.html Currently my camera matrix seems to have very small values: [[ -1.01534118e-11 ...

ports on computer and firewall and it's purpose - 101 question

Ok, computers have ports for applications to transfer data from the outside world into a firewall and then into a computer. Then how does firefox and internet explorer use the same port on the same computer? And why can't we use port 80 to pass all traffic from all places into the computer. So why do we need specific ports? ...

C# Query a remote computer for resource usage (i.e. cpu load, ram usage)

Is there some simple way to send out a ping-style message to a remote PC and get back some general facts/figures about the PC in C#? I'd be mostly interested in CPU Load, RAM usage, current running processes, etc. but the more information the merrier (extra info like CPU specs would be cool)! I imagine in an ideal situation it'd be as ...

Access virtual folder under My Computer

When I connect my digital camera, it creates a folder under My Computer named Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS. Using the File Explorer, I can browse this folder and its subfolders to access the pictures on the camera. Can anyone tell me how to access this folder and its subfolders programmatically? From within my software, I can drill down i...

How to run the computer browser and server services automatically?

How to run the computer browser and server services automatically? When I start my computer browser from services.msc,it stops after 2 or 3 hours.I dont want this to happen because,my applications use the network and need this service to be running continuosly. ...

Can basic Geometry ever come useful to a Beginner to Intermediate skilled Java coder?

Just Curious. I'm currently foraying into the world of Java coding, and, was wondering weather Geometry can come useful in the kind of programming a Beginner to Intermediate Skill level Java coder has. ...