startup

Eclipse Galileo

After extracting the Eclipse Galileo, it worked fine for a couple of days. But lately when ever I run it. It throws an exception/error : Eclipse Galileo Error: there is no disk in the drive. please insert a disk into drive device harddisk2 dr2 Though I tried to remove it, and extract it again, however it still give me the same error! ...

Is it possible to recover keyboard input that was done while Mac OS was starting up?

Hello everyone! I wonder if it is possible to figure out what keys user was pressing while his Mac OS was starting up? Any way will do. As far as I understand it there is no easy way to simply hook an app/script to start working and capturing keystrokes simultaneously along with the OS. But maybe there is a way to some kind of reverse ...

Building a Network Appliance Prototype Using a standard PC with Linux and Two NIC's

Hi, I am willing to build a prototype of network appliance. This appliance is suppose to transparently manipulate Ethernet packets. It suppose to have two network interface cards having one card connected to the outside leg (i.e. eth0) and the other to the inside leg (i.e. eth1). In a typical network layout as in the attached image, i...

Emacs slow startup when changing theme and adding some plugins

Is it normal form Emacs to delay and flash during 4 seconds after changing theme, adding plugins and configuration? (this doesn't happened with Vim). Here is my .emacs: ;; set tab width ;; turn on tabs (setq indent-tabs-mode t) (setq-default indent-tabs-mode t) ;; bind the tab key (global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'self-insert-command) ;...

iPhone app startup zoom effect

I've noticed when starting apps on the iPhone, they first appear as small windows gradually getting bigger and bigger, until filling the entire screen. These small windows look like the applications. However, when running my applications on my iPhone, the zooming windows are always black. Why is that? ...

wasting memory to speed up jvm

On Linux & Mac, is there anyway that I can pre-cache the JVM (either in RAM, or a state of it) so taht when I start a Java program, it starts as fast as C/C++ programs? I am willing to waste memoory to make this happen. ...

rate my code: on the spot interview with startup

1.5hr of coding in their smaller than by bedroom office with 4 desks lol. Afterward, while destressing at a bar, I refactored it a bit. objective was: develop a mechanism to define a schema for json objects and validate against it coerce data to schema types if possible, in case an int came in as a float or str develop mechanism to co...

How can I decrease startup and running time in .net applications?

I use C# to write windows applications with the .NET framework. How can I decrease startup time for these applications? My applications feel very slow during startup and initialization, particularly when showing the initial form. My application works with an Access (MDB) database to save data. In some forms it loads data, but the first ...

C#: Startup a computer programmatically at a given time

How do I startup a computer from C# code at a given time? This should be done locally from the computer that is to startup, but other alternatives can be interesting. Are there any prerequisites to get this to work? Like the computer has to just be in sleep mode, not shut down? ...

WPF Startup Screen like Blend

Our main WPF window ('Main Window') takes considerable time to create (it is using a ribbon and docking panel similar to Visual Studio). Just like in Blend the first action will always be to either choose an existing project to work on or to create a new project. Therefore we would like to show this 'Select Project' window as quickly as ...

Cocoa: Calling a method from AppDelegate.m

In order to better understand the startup, event queue, and methods within my application I'm trying to write a program that does two things: Play a beep at the startup and every time the user hits a button. So far it only plays when the user hits the button. I know there may be multiple ways to get the startup beep to play, but in ord...

System.ArgumentExceptions on startup of WPF application

We've created a custom theme for a WPF application. The styles in this theme use various bindings. On startup of the application a lot of Exceptions like this occur: System.ArgumentException occurred, Message="The requested value \"RecordFixToBottomPrompt\" could not be found.", Source="mscorlib", at StackTrace: bei System.Enum.Parse(Ty...

how to add session start-up program

Edited: How do I programmatically add programs to launch on user session startup on Ubuntu? I know how to perform this operation through Nautilus but I'd like to know how do this through a script. ...

What is happening between method call and method entry (C#)?

At the moment we have a problem with the startup of a middle-sized WPF-application. It takes about 15 seconds to load completly. We wondered what it takes that long. In the event Application_Startup of App.xaml a controller gets initialised. This controller lives in a separate 'business' assembly, which calls in turn to the 'data' assem...

LaunchDaemons and Environment Variables

For a while now, I've been noticing that my MacPorts-installed Apache2 instance hasn't been starting when I start up (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2042992/macports-apache2-stopped-launching-on-boot). The LaunchDaemon is loaded. Today I bumped into something in a log file that may point to an answer, but I can't find any confirmatio...

adding a start up via command line (Ubuntu)

Hey, I'm trying to have a graphical program and I want it to start after I log in. How do I do so? I know there's a GUI program, but I want to use a command line here. GUI tool: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/07/ubuntu-open-applications-automatically-during-system-startup/ now, there is update-rc.d, however, it seems to run before I ...

Make program instantly start up when login. c#

Hello, I have previously posted a question about this but I did not get an answer that suited my needs, so maybe I need to be more specific? I am trying to make my program instantly start up when the person logs in. It is a computer locking device so I need it to start as soon as possible. I know this is possible because anti-virus pro...

Debian send ip address on startup (sheevaplug)

Hi, I'm having a sheevaplug with debian (default) installed on it. I would like to receive a mail with the ip-address of the sheevaplug, everytime it is restarted, AND everytime the ip address changes. I have no idea how to do this... I realize I'm asking multiple things at once, so part of the solution is also ok: how to write som...

Make program startup through windows service c#

Hey, I have a program starting up through the registry, but I want it to start up more efficiently. So I asked some questions and I have found out that a windows service is the way forward. I have looked at how to make a windows service but I have not found any answers for what I need. I am trying to create a checkbox on my application...

How and where to perform login process (in this case getting token from server) in iPhone app?

So what I need to do in my application for loggin in is Perform an HTML request with user/pass which returns XML with a token. The token is used in later http requests. I know how to perform http requests and also how to parse them, I have already been doing that just with the token hardcoded for testing purposes. I also have it worked ...