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I was wondering if there would be anything else I could use in my Hardware ID protection that would make it much more unique. I am currently using Processor ID Volume ID MAC Address Graphics Card Name If you guys can provide source codes to anything else that would make it even more unique please tell me. I will suggest using the HDD Serial Number instead of the Volume ID. The Volume ID will change if you format your HDD but the HDD Serial Number will not. http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2004/02/14/386.aspx Here is a library that can read the unique hardware ID of you computer. MAC address

My Android app needs to decode large resolution based JPEG images on Android 2.2 phones(and above), currently I am using BitmapFactory.decodeStream API, i.e. SKIA library to decode the stream. 1) As per my knowledge SKIA uses software decoding, i.e. libJPEG to decode and doesnot use hardware decoders for the same. Correct me if I am wrong. 2) Is there any faster way to decode JPEG stream (other than SKIA) ? 3) Can "Media framework" be used to provide JPEG hardware decoding? As per my observation it can be only used for video and audio. skia supports hardware accelerated jpeg decoding.

Possible Duplicates: [.NET] How do I disable a system device? Win32 API function to programatically enable/disable device Is there a way, in C#, to programmatically disable and re-enable a device? I'm looking for essentially the same functionality that occurs when you go into device manager and right click on a device and disable or enable it. How can I do this in C#? Will A Take a look at net-how-do-i-disable-a-system-device . Keith Adler According to this link: http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/513855-can-i-use-wmi-c-disable-enable-device You need to interface with CfgMgr32 (Win32 API)

I need to generate a unique string that will differ from machine to machine -- a "device fingerprint". What are... possible approaches for custom implementations? (I've got a few ideas, but I figure you guys probably have BETTER ones) existing solutions? (both commercial / non commercial are acceptable) Device fingerprinting is a complex topic if you want to cover the many edge cases (e.g. hardware upgrades, OS upgrades, etc.) and if you are worried about people expending energy to either forge a known-good device fingerprint (good meaning the fingerprint is known to you and receives some

This question already has an answer here: Is there really any way to uniquely identify any computer at all 4 answers I've recently implemented a hardware-locked licensing system with fuzzy-matching to handle changes in hardware without requiring a re-activation, but i need more hardware pieces to match to be more secure / create more reliable fuzzy-matching. Right now I'm matching against the following: Physical mac address Hard-drive serial number RAM part number / manufacturer / size Processor ID What are some other machine-specific non-changing hardware serial numbers that would be good to

I need to generate pseudo-random numbers for my genetic algorithm on a Spartan-3E FPGA and i want to implement it in verilog: could you give me any pointers on this? Adam Davis Typically you'd use the IEEE.math_real uniform function use IEEE.math_real.all; procedure UNIFORM (variable Seed1,Seed2:inout integer; variable X:out real); But do a tiny bit a research on pseudo random number generators (PRNGs) and you'll find many variants that are simple LFSR 's - which look remarkably similar to CRC generators. Here are several resources if you want to roll your own starting from existing, working

I have a device of which I don't know if it has a vibrator. Is there a way to query for the availability of the vibrator? The Vibrator class does just that. It's hasVibrator() method returns a boolean indicating if vibrating is supported. Get an instance of the Vibrator class which is a system service. Query the Vibrator class using the hasVibrator() method. String vs = Context.VIBRATOR_SERVICE; Vibrator mVibrator = (Vibrator)getSystemService(vs); boolean isVibrator = mVibrator.hasVibrator(); t2tk This may help for API<11: Context.getSystemService() returns a service object or null if no