Seeking most efficient method for retrieving the GPU model in Objective-C or Carbon. I want to avoid using system_profiler because it is slow, but if it comes down to that I am willing to use it, but I wanna exhaust other options first. ...
Hi... Greetings to all.. I have a pen drive which is a make of Trensend .... Whether the product and vendor id of the above pen drive will be same on both windows and Mac operating systems..or will it be different .. Thank you ...
Since qemu can emulate hardware, CPU's in particular as I understand it, would it be a huge undertaking to add a new architecture? What I had in mind were the XBox 360 CPU called Xenon. I think there are unofficial specs. Adding the Xenon, would that be something one medium good programmer could do? ...
We've got a scenario where we need to interact with some hardware from a web page -- think ActiveX. In this instance we want to read/write to a specific model of bar code reader. Is this currently possible on iOS? We're targeting iPad (despite neither of us having previously developed for Apple products...) but it would be nice to have ...
I am currently entering my senior year as a dual major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, and have touched on a wide variety of different languages: C, C++, C#/XAML, Java, bash, python, VHDL, assembly, etc. I was wondering what you think would be a good language/few languages to become more proficient in, or to explore f...
I'd love to start writting managed code for external devices and sensors. Are there any devices that come to mind that can be coded against using .NET? Any suggestions? Edit: The main thing I'm trying to do is learn how device programming works. No better way to do that in my opinion than to try to do something fun and cool. ...
I am looking into writing some apps for Android phones that work with audio. These phones do not have a line in jack but do have headphone jacks that work with some headsets that include a microphone. Is it possible to work with audio coming in through the headphone jack if I plugged in something like a portable computer mic? ...
For regular readers: The saga™ continues... My app runs fine on my development machine - which was purchased (5 years ago) as a fairly good gaming rig. As such, it's 64bit, has a 2.2GHz clock-speed and has 2GB of memory. The machines at work however, are standard Dell issue office computers and really struggle to even start my app, let...
How can I turn off the bluetooth hardware when I'm done with it so that my app does not drain the battery? I've seen references to private frameworks but not how to do this in a way that will not get rejected by Apple. What Framework/code do I need? ...
I've got a laser profiling system; the included software has a few bugs and missing features that I'd like to correct. I have the source code for this software which compiles but subsequently will not run. The device driver for the hardware is already installed (Windows 7 is the platform, though XP is a likely target as well); I'd like...
Is it possible to control the bluetooth status light on modern laptops, and how would I go about this? If it's manufacturer/model specific, any tips on finding details for particular models? I'm particularly interested in Dell and Asus models. EDIT: just to be clear, I don't want to control the bluetooth hardware at all, just the stat...
It's been a while since my assembly class in college (20 years to be exact). When someone gives you a number, say 19444, and says that X is bits 15 through 8 and Y are bits 7 through 0... how do I calculate values of X and Y? I promise this is not homework, just a software guy unwisely trying to do some firmware programming. ...
please ignore this post, I misread algorithm, so the question is not relevant. However, I cannot close post anymore. Please vote to close I have been using certain algorithm from numerical recipes, which converges to zero via underflow: // all types are the same floating type sum = 0 for (i in 0,N) sum += abs(V[i]); my question, h...
Hi, I will have to develop some android applications. Witch mobile phone is better for application development : Google Nexus One / Htc Droid Incredible / Htc Evo 4G / Motorola Droid ? I have to develop on Android 2.1 and 2.2. All those devices will have the update I think. Thanks for ideas ...
I am working on an App where I mute and un mute the microphone (it is a requirement) via code. The App works fine with other mobiles except for Droid, are you aware of any problems with Droid. audioService.setMicrophoneMute(true); This is not working in Motorola Droid. But all other mobiles. ...
I want to design a webform that user should fill some fields. The value of one field should be read from Serial port (COM1) of client computer which a special hardware is connected to it and the user presses the Send to PC key of the hardware when filling the form. How i can listen to COM1 port in my webpage and get the value of COM1 a...
Hi All, Thanks to Mr. Joel Spolsky we all know that an SSD won't exactly help compile time but can help in just about everything else. I'm looking to eke out some more of that "everything else". Launching apps, firing up web, app, database, messaging servers, etc. SSD's are still tough to legitimize raiding the bank. Meanwhile, Seag...
Is there any way to import code from an already programmed FPGA board, in this case, it is a Spartan 3E board. That is to say, verilog code has already been uploaded to it, so I would like a way to receive the code back in the computer since I have lost the copy. I uploaded the code with Xilinx ISE, but am not sure if it is possible to g...
Is there a portable way to detect (programmatically) the memory page size using C or C++ code ? ...
Hello, I have an interesting question about PSL assertion. Here is a VHDL monitor process. It is a process dedicated to an assertion, and thus a non-synthesizable one. This monitor checks the current FSM state and stores the values of two registers: "input1" and "reg136". Finally, it triggers an "assert" statement to compare the values ...