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Seeing that it's not responding doesn't really give extra information
Authored by: landtuna on Sep 13, '02 03:25:10PM

Seeing that it's "not responding" doesn't really tell you anything. The system is probably just using a timer since an application has responded to an event or signal to decide whether it's "not responding." While busy computing things, if the application isn't threaded well, it might not respond but then come back later.

I don't think there's really any way of knowing if an application is hung up except by looking at how it's acting.



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Seeing that it's not responding doesn't really give extra information
Authored by: asterizk on Sep 14, '02 09:25:32PM
Landtuna wrote: "I don't think there's really any way of knowing if an application is hung up except by looking at how it's acting." Exactly -- computer scientists know this as "The Halting Problem", proven in the 1930's by mathematician Kurt Gödel and computer scientist Alan Turing . If you're curious, here's the best site I've read on the topic (requires a basic level of programming experience for best consumption): http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/csk/halt.html [link will open in new window]. --Krishen

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Seeing that it's not responding doesn't really give extra information
Authored by: Jasstass on Jan 17, '06 04:52:25PM

umm just wondering but what is the dock of the computer? and how do i update my iPod manually?



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