Not that it means a great deal every now and then you get asked for the number of lines of code in a project. Greg D answered a question on StackOverflow about this using PowerShell. I liked his answer a lot because it’s so simple. Here’s his line of PowerShell code:
(dir -include *.cs,*.xaml -recurse | select-string .).Count
I tried to update source code coming from Subversion using TortoiseSVN but got an error. I had tried to update from a folder below the root (the “Implementation” folder in this case).
Error Working copy ‘C:\source\<project name>\Implementation’ locked. Error 'C:\source\<project name>' is already locked.
Trying the TortoiseSVN > Release Lock... command did nothing in this case because I had not taken a lock out on any file. The solution was to use TortoiseSVN > Cleanup... from the root folder (‘C:\source\<project name>’ in this case.
I have 2 iPod Nanos that I use all the time and as such have to use iTunes. I’m a Windows user and I have to say that iTunes on Windows sucks. It wouldn’t be so bad if all you got was iTunes but you don’t; you also get a bunch of other services that drag your machine to its knees. In my case they are services I just don’t want, don’t need and wish would go away.
Anyway, APSDaemon.exe is one such piece of nonsense that is officially known as Apple Push. In my case it takes up so much CPU time my machine becomes totally unusable. It’s not the newest machine but it does have an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor. APSDaemon.exe will happily sit there chewing on 50% of my CPU. I have also noticed that when APSDaemon.exe is working hard so is Kaspersky Internet Security. Between the 2 of them 100% CPU is utilised. If I kill APSDaemon.exe Kaspersky also settles back down.
APSDaemon.exe seems to be invoked under 2 conditions, both of which must be addressed to stop the thing from starting:
iTunes will still start and run normally but ASPDaemon.exe will not. Result.
