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The game boy advance learning tool is a great way of learning how to program for the ARM platform ,it might seem daunting at first but with the help of the documentation. and some tutorials you will be all set to start programming for the GBA.

Heres a great way learn assembly on the X86 platform(warning”not for the faint of heart and non geeks),these articles teach you how to flash a BIOS,take a backup and write a new ROM file into the chip.

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The next time you are downloading a file off the Internet and want to make sure the file is not corrupt or virus infected try to see if the file has a MD5 hash file or a SHA1 hash file simply put each file wall generate a unique signature that gets changed if the file gets corrupt or changed.

you can download the tools to verify file integrity here. or here for a graphical tool.

This PhD student from Shanghai JiaoTong University (SJTU) Research Institute has developed an RTLinux-powered robot that plays football ,The robot has two color cameras for seeing and a laser range finder (LRF) for goalkeeper location,communication is thru a wireless LAN which allows communication among the robots on the team. The robot’s embedded operating system is Red Hat Linux enhanced with the RTLinuxPro real-time extension.

If you ever thought that windows was the only operating system and there are no alternatives to it, then think again here is a small list of mostly free alternative operating systems that match and sometimes surpass windows features.

If you want to try developing program’s that run on multi-processor systems and cant afford the hardware then LIMES is what you need,it is a multiple processor simulator that can run parallel programs it serves as a testing environment for programs written for multi processor systems

EICAR.org has got a dummy test virus file that anyone can download to test the effectiveness of the anti virus software on their machine.the file is available here,any self respecting anti virus file will warn you when downloading the program that itself is a good sign but try and download all 4 kids of files listed and see if you get warning for all 4 if not its time to switch to a better anti virus program

ps:i have mentioned the free AVG anti virus in my previous log posts.

heres a very good project idea based on ARM7TDMI,develop a ARM emulator/simulator the project is very challenging as it requires in depth knowledge of programming both for the PC platform as well as for the ARM platform.

Now that the idea of Free software is gaining acceptance,here is a exciting concept called open source hardware design,www.opencores.org is an online collaboration of like minded people who are developing free hardware designs emulating functions of most popular hardware architectures any student doing VLSI or other technologies might find some useful information here.

Here’s a useful list of firefox extensions,i have been using these extensions to extend firefox’s functionality and they work great

body {margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px; line-height: 150%; color: #000000;background-color: #ffffff;}
a {text-decoration: none;color: #006699;outline: none;}
a:visited {color: #006699;}
a:active {color: #006699;}
a:hover {color: #006699;text-decoration: underline;}
img { border: 0; }
#container { position: absolute; min-height: 100%; }
#enabled {float: left;padding: 10px;margin: 20px;background: #ffffff;border: 2px solid #006699;}
#disabled {float: left;padding: 10px;margin: 20px;background: #ffffff;border: 2px dashed #006699;}
#footer { position: absolute bottom-left;clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 10px 11px; }

Adblock 0.5.2.039

Add Bookmark Here 0.5.3

BlogThis 0.2.1

BugMeNot 0.6.1

Download Statusbar 0.9.2

eWebMail Color and Graphics 1.6

Ext2Abc 0.2.1

fireFTP 0.86.2

FoxyTunes 1.0

ListZilla 0.5.1

Nuke Anything 0.2

QuickNote 0.6

ReloadEvery 0.5

SpellBound 0.7.3

SpellBound Win32 Components 0.7.0

Tweak Network 1.0

US Department of Homeland Insecurity Idiocy Level 0.1.1.1

Wikipedia 0.6.0.7