Topics by Sci@phy

Hello. I've just started learning Python and I have a few questions. I'm using my program to communicate with some device through serial port using serial.py library. It's all going really fine. I've got a class device, and I'm using it to communicate with a device (logical ;) ). Q: …

Hi! I have the following code: [CODE=asm] mov al, 5d neg al[/CODE] When it executes, CF = SF = AF = 1 Ok, I think I understand why AF (number is bigger than 00001111b ?), SF (most significant bit is now 1 not 0) But what I don't understand is …

Hello to all of you! I would really appreciate somebody telling me complete step by step tutorial how to work with MASM (or TASM, but I haven't noticed it's free to download) I've tried myself MASM and TASM (some Telemark assembly, not Borland), but for some reason it won't work, …

I'm a beginner in that area, but would like to learn more. Is there any nice tutorial on the web for Windows OS regarding multithreading?

Hi all. I've written my own class Complex, that stores complex numbers. I've overloaded a whole bunch of operators so that you can work with them like with normal numbers. Then i wanted to overload 'new', but I tried it before overloading, and it "seems" to be working. I can …

Hello. Any way of preventing multiple instances of executables? I'm writing a program that uses a file, it would be quite messy if someone would start another instance of same program. If it depends on OS, I would like to see solutions for windows and unix-type (linux) systems. Thanx