startup

What are the actions happening when we switch ON an embedded board?

Now , My doubt has changed to exact point after some long discussion in this thread with dwelch. "If you are wondering how the processor gets ready to execute the first instruction. its the way the logic is designed" HOW THE LOGIC IS DESIGNED? Can you give me more idea on this? Is there any document give me more details? Is the algorith...

Bad company and contract... what to do?

Hello, I am in a contract at a certain small startup. This startup used to be of three people only. Me the boss with the bucks and a project manager. The boss was ignorant about the technologies we used and so the project manager. So they came to me for 2 months with weird ideas and I did my best to do something useful with those. After...

Emacs doesn't start if requested file doesn't exist.

When I start emacs with a filename to edit, if the file does not exist, emacs does not start. Instead, it complains about the missing file. If I do the same thing with vi, it assumes I know what I'm doing and creates the file for me. Is there a way to configure emacs so that if I start it up with the name of a non-existent file, it will...

how can i write a program which starts before logging on to windows?!

how can i write a program which starts before logging on to windows?! ...

prevent blend from adding a startupURI to application?

Is there some trick that is known to tell blend to stop trying to set a startupURI in my app.xaml? I googled but didn't see anything so I figured I would ask here. I use a startup routine and instantiate mainwindow myself. Every once and a while blend likes to toss in the startupURI="MainWindow.xaml" when I let it compile. Occasionally ...

Getting a Windows Service to run as a Network Service.

I have done some work developing a Windows Service and have had some success in doing so. I notice that some services run as the user Network Service. I wondered what the difference of behaviour is when running as this service. The service I am developing tracks logins and logouts and so it would be beneficial to try and have the serv...

Restart a WCF service after a server reboot

Is there some mechanism in WCF that can be used to "pre-start / warm-up" WCF services that are hosted in IIS ? - something like the warm-up scripts for SharePoint sites I have the situation where servers are re-booted over night and next day there is a long delay while the WCF services spin-up. I can't change the time-out in various app...

First Startup on a vb app

I want to make an app which you make a password and username and use it for the app but I only want this screen to open the first time you load the app so after the first load it goes right to the login screen sorry I am a complete n00b at vb I am using vb.net I do not know how do any thing like store info nor am I knowedgable about S...

Which Linux distribution does Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit use?

Most probably customize the hell out of the base distributions, but I was wondering which one is more popular among most startups...RHEL, ubuntu, fedora, centos..etc ? ...

Conky starts above windows in Ubuntu Maverick

Hey guys, I did not run into this problem until I upgraded my Ubuntu box to Maverick Meerkat (10.10). Basically, whenever I start my computer, conky runs as expected, except it gets drawn over any windows that I load (see screenshot). To fix this for a single session, I simply restart conky by running killall conky; conky in a term...

Python IDLE will not open

After fumbling with some keys on my keyboard while trying to get a script to run by clicking on Run in python IDLE I must of did something, because now python will not open. It opens from the command prompt fine, but the normal way it will not open whatsoever. I tried repairing and reinstalling. Still no luck. I am on Windows 7 machines ...

Mysql Startup Timer

MySQL starting up events. Is there a way to get MySql to run events during the week and not run events on Sat and Sundays. Thinking global events = on, But how would get the events to turn off on Sat or Sun at startup. ...

Why is my debug executable in Visual Studio (9) starting up so slowly?

I am experiencing a very weird issue when using Visual Studio (9) for debugging my applications. Whenever I hit F5 to start the debugging, the application takes a long time until it even gets to the first line of my main function... I started up Process Explorer and during this time you can see how slowly it finds and loads the required...

how can I force the startup manager to load on MAC OS X? or how to install a boot loader?? grub??

Hi there, I have a MAC mini with Windows and OS X installed in it. This mac is connected to a KVM and the keyboard that I use it's a regular PC keyboard. When I try to load the Startup Manager by pressing the Function key at startup, it fails and loads directly into OS X. I believe that the KVM is giving me trouble but I can't get rid o...

Why is PyQt application startup so slow?

C++ is fast. Qt is fast. Python interpreter startup is relatively fast (2-3 seconds on my computer). PyQt is thin wrapper around Qt. Why then PyQt app startup (about 80 lines, even in .pyc form) is so slow (6-12 seconds)? I'm interested in reasons for this and, most importantly, ways to improve this situation. ...

How can I automate "sudo chmod a+r /dev/usb/hiddev0" upon linux start?

I have a footpedal (see altoedge.com) and fortunately there is a software for using it under linux (see http://code.google.com/p/footpedal/). The author of that software already solved an issue for me (see issues there), but there is no option to ask simpler questions. Unfortunately prior to use the software I have to change the device...

Replacing XmlSerializer due to slow WPF application start-up

I have wrote a WPF application that reads a list of movies from a XML file at a network location. When I started investigating the slow start-up it turned out that XmlSerializer has a lot overhead. I have now used sgen to build the assemblies before I publish the project but I am now looking into a better solution. I have looked at the ...

Registry Startup Entry with runas argument?

Is it possible to add a startup entry in the windows registry with a runas argument? So when it launches, it runs with the user specified? ...

Netbeans start up is become slower more and more

hi, I am using netbeans 6.9.1 with latest JDK version on Windows7. I deactivated all unnecessary plug-ins. But as time pass, netbeans start up is become slower. I deleted cache folder of netbeans but seems it can not help. RGDS ...

Is there a way to reduce startup time of a console Java application?

I noticed that the startup time of a minimal console application in Java is slightly more than 100 ms on my machine compared to 1 ms of an equivalent C application. Although it is not a problem in most cases I would like to find out if there is a way to reduce this time because I need to write an application that will be executed many ti...