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

After searching for a while, it seems like the JRE must be upgraded to 1.6.0.18. Okay, upgraded the JRE and the Java started working ! yay... the applet area appeared on the rend

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

I came up to this challenge when I have to create a testbench where we need to be able to disconnect an EEPROM model from the DUT on the I2C bus. I

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 correspon

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.

Let's go through my list

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 thing

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.

When doing hardware verification, us

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.

Searching the web, I found out that many are having the same

It is always said that dealing with floating point numbers is slow. So slow that if precision can be compromised and speed is more important, programmers will use integers instead. Integers ? yes ! But how will you deal with fractions then ? The answer is fixed point arithmetic.

When we d

I selected a range of text to replace in Microsoft Word 2003, and then started typing. But instead of the selected text replaced with the newly typed text, the selection was just cancelled and what I typed was inserted. Well, certainly I did not expect this to happen. Curious with what was happening

Have you ever thought how your calculator computes the result when you press the "1/x" button ? and have you ever thought how your computer computes the reciprocal ?

Reciprocal of a value is a special case of a division, where the numerator is 1.0. In mathematical form, we can

I was about to post an algorithm which requires me to describe it with several math formulas, but then I was stuck since there is no easy and reliable way to display math in web pages using the HTML/CSS alone.

Searching the web, I came across a javascript math displaying engine that loo