Ars Technica

Efficient way to grab non continuous bytes of a large file?

So, the data files we are using for our seismic displays are starting to get big... I can no longer read the entire file into the 20gb of memory our machine has to display.<BR><BR>I was previously ...
Hackaday

A Look Inside The Smallest Possible PNG File

What’s inside a PNG file? Graphics, sure. But how is that graphic encoded? [Evan Hahn] shows you what goes into a single black pixel inside a 67-byte file. Why so many bytes? Well, that is exactly ...
Hackaday

Playing A WAV File With 64 Bytes Of RAM

[Jacques] thought his doorbell was too loud, so of course the first thing that came to mind was replacing the electronics and playing a WAV file of his choosing every time someone came knocking. What ...
Ars Technica

How can I write a null byte to a file in Python?

So I have a program in Python for use on a Linux machine that's dealing with binary data flowing through what may be a Linux FIFO.<BR><BR>I'm using Avinash Kak's BitVector to modify the data as it ...