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Not sure how many of you are around here, but I've been working on 6502s for the last year and thought I'd share a couple things that I found quite interesting. First is a blog posting on the illegal opcodes that were commonly used. Someone stripped the package and scanned in a high...

I'm writing a client for the PC which interfaces with a peripheral's address space over a serial port. I am current implementing a memory read transaction, which is defined as follows: 1) Client sends a memory read request to peripheral (3 bytes) 2) Client receives memory read completion from...

Something I've always wondered: Why are upconverting DVD players so popular? Most, if not all, LCD TVs will do upconverting themselves.

Question for the seasoned programmers (or anyone else): I don't think there is a tool out there to do this, but I might as well ask (largely just out of curiosity). I'm attempting to reproduce the functionality of a fairly complex set of functions on an unconventional architecture. Now...

Not exactly programming, but can anyone recommend me a good category theory textbook? I'd be learning essentially from scratch, so something that starts of at the basics and then gets in reasonably deep would be good.

This should be any easy question: Is it possible to get NFS shares mounting in Vista Home Premium? My brief google search indicates that I need Ultimate or Enterprise.

Does anyone know if there is a cheap way of splitting the audio and video components of an HDMI cable? Basically I have a receiver that takes optical or coaxial, which I need to get the audio signal to. Thanks.

Has anyone any experience with this board? I'm interested in putting together a file server with it, in large part due to its low cost as well as footprint (spatial and aural). At this point I'm thinking of hooking up 2 500GB drives in with one disk being rsynched to the other every night...

Hi, I've got two physical drives in a computer: one with XP installed, and the other with Vista. Both had their OSes installed without any other drives in the system, so their MBRs and boot managers are as they would be in a single OS install. I'd like to be able to select between the OSes...

The title says it all really. I'm not particularly skilled with gdb. I am trying to catch an integer return value in gdb of a function. Normally I would just break before the return statement, but there are many of them, so it's not feasible. Can this be done?

I want to upgrade the HD (50GB) in a computer to a larger one. I don't want the hassle of reinstalling all the applications and losing all the user settings and accounts. What are some ways of migrating from the small disk to the large disk? Preferably there are some built in tools for this...

Everyone seems to have a strong opinion on the recent Conroe gameplay evaluation/review and the ensuing shitstorm that is still taking place. I thought it would be interesting to do a formal analysis of what "real-world" differences there are between "canned" and "real-world" performance...

I'm looking to get a new soundcard sometime soon. I'm wondering, is there any benefit to having dolby live ( -- realtime dolby digital encoding -- ) on it? As far as I can tell, it might actually decrease my sound quality since all outgoing audio is transcoding into a lossy format. I'm...