I am using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and my Java stopped working on Firefox as soon as I upgraded it to 3.6. ... [Read More]

Have you ever tried to model a bidirectional switch in VHDL ? Since drivers in VHDL are unidirectional the task can become quite challenging. ... [Read More]

When you access a host on the internet, usually you access them using its human friendly name, such as tech.yanto-flora.net. However, the actual access is done using what is called the host's IP address. Normally, a DNS will be responsible to translate the human friendly name into its corresponding IP address, but most OS have a local file for name translation which has precedence over DNS. ... [Read More]

In previous article I listed several problems I found when I changed my Vista Home Premium language from Japanese to English by manually installing english mui files. After some time experimenting, I managed to solve almost all the problems. Yes, almost all. ... [Read More]

Vista introduces a big change from previous windows OSes, that is the MUI (Multilanguage User Interface) is deployed and used by all Vista components. Therefore, it is possible to change the display language of the Vista OS itself without having to patch resource files and some other dangerous things, just install the target language MUI and let the Vista use it. ... [Read More]

If you have been doing hardware design using Verilog and/or VHDL, and use VHDL to build testbench, I think you will agree with me, that it is nice if you can refer to any signal in any module beneath the testbench module similar to what Verilog can do. ... [Read More]

Recently I have been working mostly on Linux at home rather than Windows, so I have been browsing mostly using Linux Firefox and I found out that it does not play web embedded midi by default. Well at least in my configuration. ... [Read More]