React OS is still poking along. Cool stuff coming out of the project still. Once some of the drivers have gotten written, running on bare metal may be realized soon. Anyway, it's still worth checking out if you're a developer of any caliber.

http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Version_Status

The LCD uses a 480x272 resolution and one byte/pixel for color info. The controller itself is 24bit. Unfortunately for me there is no original device for me to do a tear down on, just a bunch of components I've acquired and attempting to assemble into something that makes some pretty colors and noise and takes input. I'll be using an ARM7 or better for the actual display since I don't think any current PIC could keep up with that video speed (assuming 30fps).

Anyway, the hard part for me is interfacing/implementing RAM on the bus so it is usable by my ARM for video memory. My past projects used the on-board EEProm for program storage, so there was never a need for off chip memory.

Since I am self taught, there is a lot of holes in my knowledge and all the help I can get is appreciated, thank m8.

I started learning with the PIC series of micros to control segment displays and keypad input, and although it's wonderful, I've decided to move on to a more advanced project. I've been musing with the idea of developing a hand held media device for a while now and have ran into some pitfalls on my end. I have a color LCD from a PSP (with the data sheet) and I sorta need some assistance designing a circuit to output to it.

I started thinking about using two processors, one to control input, one to control the LCD, but since I'm new at graphics I was hoping someone here would be able to provide their ideas on the subject.

Anyway, this may be a bit much from the community, but I won't know until I ask.

React OS
RHEL 5
UBUNTU
Win 7
OSX
SUN OS

Fun with comptuers!

Here are the recommended pieces of software and their corresponding websites. Check them out, see if you like what they have to say, and some are free, others have a trial to see if you like their product. Norton itself is a virus, it just so happens to be able to take others off of your machine.

---------------- Browsers ----------------
Firefox www.getfirefox.com

---------------- Browsers ----------------
Nod32 www.eset.com
Kaspersky www.kaspersky.com
Spybot S&D www.safer-networking.org

---------------- Peer to Peer ----------------
µTorrent www.utorrent.com (for the client)
Torrents www.thepiratebay.org (search for something)



I am fond of Nod-32 (www.eset.com), and kaspersky (www.kaspersky.com) for anti-virus programs. Both have decent heuristics and are fairly cheap, free if you have some know how. As for Avast!, it is alright. Though no one program will find everything. It is up to you to try and limit your exposure to sites/downloads/applications that will render your computer a spy or bot. Whenever you decide that you are going to do a scan, let the application run with as few other programs as possible.

As for antispyware, Spybot Search and Destroy (www.safer-networking.org) has been very good on cleaning KNOWN issues, but new ones rise everyday. Nothing will be able to catch everything.

Pr0n sites are terrible as they can be hosts for exploits, or even just track your browsing habits for marketing. Granted every site is capable of that, just expect if if you like to frequent such sites. Toolbars are another piece of software to be very wary of for similar reasons.

Be mindful of your web browser as well; Internet Explorer blows monkey chunks, and that is the nicest I can put it. As many people know, and you may already know, Firefox is one of the most developed projects available for web browsing and among the most secure while still allowing multimedia. The development team keeps true to standards for xhtml and css, and even keep releasing patches based on the USER input and issues, not some megacorps' opinion of what you should use resulting from a lawsuit. Anyway, I digress. If you really want to secure your web browser, turn off cookies, java-script, and flash for all web sites less the ones you need.

Peer to Peer clients are also very dangerous. Stick with or learn about Torrents if you want to get things from the web from unknown people. A very stable and lightweight client is µTorrent (www.utorrent.com). Google torrent sites for many, many results.

Just my opinion,
-Corpsing

XAMPP 1.6.7
Using the PHPmailer script.
It dies after the first reference assignment. ie $mail-> reference = var.

Here's what I have.

<?php
//error_reporting(E_ALL);
error_reporting(E_STRICT);

echo"<p>after error_reporting</p>";

date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto');

include("php-includes/class.phpmailer.php");
//include("php-includes/class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded

echo"<p>after includes</p>";

$mail = new PHPMailer();

echo"<p>after mailer</p>";

$body = "Test";
$body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server

$mail->Username = "me@gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "mypass"; // GMAIL password

$mail->AddReplyTo("me@gmail.com","My name");

$mail->From = "me@gmail.com";
$mail->FromName = "Admin";

$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via gmail";

$mail->Body = "Hi,<br>This is the HTML BODY<br>"; //HTML Body
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap

$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$mail->AddAddress("me@gmail.com", "My name");

$mail->AddAttachment("Images/phpmailer.gif"); // attachment

$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML

echo"<p>after mail</p>";

if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}

echo"<p>after send</p>";

$xportlist = stream_get_transports();
print_r($xportlist);
phpinfo();
?

Mind posting the the driver version information?

Well, here goes another overly technical question for this user base, but hey, it is worth a shot. I am running Fedora 9 with the xampp suite for development purposes. I have configured the appropriate .ini's to allow the send() to connect to smtp.gmail.com using ssl on 465. There are no issues with firewall blocking either, but for some reason the script just dies. Unfortunately there is no error message, when I try to assign a variable by reference to the mail header it just kills that script . Any idea why?

I'll provide the source if needed.

If you're son's computer is older, than you probably have an IDE interface for you harddrives and optical drive. You will need to find an IDE interface on the new drive you want to put in. If you are running windows 98, you will need to check your processor speed, ram and video card. The machine will need to be around 600-700mhz, at least 128mb of ram and 32mb video. If you have that then you should be alright to put a DVD drive in that machine.

Nice looking engine. If they have the headers in C I am set. Thanks a lot, BTW, what project are you working on? I am always curious about other developers' works.

Looking for a good engine that is using opengl and C as the coding language. If anyone has any suggestions, please, let me know!

Thanks in advanced.

So taking the exam tomorrow, wondering if anyone has any pointers for it. Hit me up if you do!

You shouldn't have to detach any drives, as long as you are comfortable working with them in a limited graphical view.
Though, this could cause an issue with vista, I don't know how it writes to the MBR, so it would actually be safer to set the new Vista drive as the primary drive and install like normal.

Once you have vista on your 3rd hdd, connect everything back up, with Ubuntu as your primary drive and then add the boot-loader information to grub, and make a menu option for it.

At this point, you should be able to boot to all 3 OS's. If you have any questions, pm me.

Philosophy is the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure - learning how to operate your brain, learning how to redesign chaos