I think one of the main causes of winrot are the sheer number of services that run at startup (and don't shut down) that phone home every x seconds to see if there is a new version of some piece of software. Me personally, I disable every single one of them because they seem utterly useless to me. Most of the software packages that use ...
I am trying to create a background service in asp.net which checks for session timeouts and redirects the user to a timeout page ( not the login page ). My code is like this public class SessionTimeoutModule : IHttpModule { private static Timer timer; //Test value private const int interval = 1000 * 1 * 10; public void ...
I need an application to be running in the background on my web server, but I need to be able to start/stop the application with root privileges. In order to do this, I want to have a service running that has root privileges, so that it can kill the application, and start it up again if need be. Finally, I need to be able to send the s...
I am developing an android game right now, and it requires very precise timing and synchronization. That said, it is essential that there is no lag during the game. However I sometimes get lag spikes in the game, and I know its not the GC because I have run the ddms tool, and eliminated all the GC calls. However, I do see alot of backgro...