General > General Technical Chat
Cool place like EEVBlog, but for software / programming?
<< < (3/5) > >>
alm:

--- Quote from: Benta on October 12, 2022, 08:21:45 pm ---GitHub or GitLab. Coolest places ever and super user-friendly.

--- End quote ---
I'm glad you like those sites, but neither have forums where you would post a general question.

For actual software questions StackOverflow appears to be the most popular, but that requires you know enough to ask a specific question. This seems more a question of "can somebody solve this problem for me", similar to "can somebody design a PCB for me that does X", which requires either finding a volunteer or hiring a freelancer, but in the latter case you better describe very specifically what you want.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: alm on October 12, 2022, 09:11:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Benta on October 12, 2022, 08:21:45 pm ---GitHub or GitLab. Coolest places ever and super user-friendly.

--- End quote ---
I'm glad you like those sites, but neither have forums where you would post a general question.

For actual software questions StackOverflow appears to be the most popular, but that requires you know enough to ask a specific question. This seems more a question of "can somebody solve this problem for me", similar to "can somebody design a PCB for me that does X", which requires either finding a volunteer or hiring a freelancer, but in the latter case you better describe very specifically what you want.

--- End quote ---

Stackoverflow is deliberately targeted at and limited to questions such as "which button do I press to flogify the quomblat?". Even then the quality of the responses is, ahem, difficult to assess.

Stackexchange is absolutely useless for interesting questions that require subtle points and arguments, such as "when should I use an RTOS and when a naked FSM?"
magic:
Don't bother with Stack, they don't even have a way to ask questions and wait for new data from the OP, which is going to be needed a lot.

I honestly don't know. You are not even looking strictly at a programming problem, but reverse engineering some old-ass configuration files (or firmware :scared:) of some old-ass, obscure machine.


Also, software developers these days are so uncool that they would make even an average non-software nerd cringe, but that's another rant... :P
Berni:
This is more along the lines of software hacking. So you are probably instead looking for hacker forums.

There are plenty of tools in windows that can create a image from the card. Once you have the image you can write it back to a new card for experimenting or just browse trough it by mounting it as a virtual drive.

If you are lucky the card might have a valid FAT16 filesystem on it and some plain text configuration file. If you are slightly more unlucky it might have a weird filesystem that is readable under linux. If you are unlucky it might have a proprietary filesystem clustered with binary junk that is possibly purposely obfuscated that holds the password somewhere in hashed form. If the last one is the case then you will probably have to also dump and decompile the firmware of the controller to understand how to read the card correctly (possibly weeks of digging trough megabytes of assembly code).

peter-h:
I posted about this here
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/freelancer-com-can-one-post-here-instead-if-looking-for-someone-to-write-code/msg4433713/#msg4433713
but didn't get far :)
Navigation
Message Index
Next page
Previous page
There was an error while thanking
Thanking...

Go to full version
Powered by SMFPacks Advanced Attachments Uploader Mod