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Questions tagged [timing]

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Start multiple animation sequences simultaneously in PowerPoint

I'm using PowerPoint 2010 and trying to create an animation. In one of my slides, I've different objects with different paths. I'm trying to run all of them at once (not one after another). I know that this can be done by Effect Options -> Sequence…
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Simple Linux tool for timing an http request in milliseconds

I'm looking for a simple tool or built-in command that will allow me to measure with millisecond accuracy the time it takes to fetch a remote web page from a given URL.
GJ.
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Time synchronization of two computers

I'd like to synchronize the time on two computers that are connected via Ethernet (with no router in between) and apart from each other 100 or so meters. There are several protocols that do time synchronization, based on my research, but the timing…
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Why are there different clockspeeds and timings on RAM?

I don't consider myself a novice when it comes to building computers or computer hardware in general, but I've never taken the time to fully understand RAM. Can somebody tell me why there is a need for different clockspeeds when it comes to RAM? And…
ehm
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Windows port of /usr/bin/time?

Is there a clean Windows port / version of the /usr/bin/time command in Linux (program to time the execution of a process)?
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PowerPoint - How to see TOTAL run time after creating slide show

I have already created a slide show using the AUTOMATIONS tab and the Advance Slide Automatically After ---- function where I have manually entered the runtime of each individual slide until my Slide Show was complete. I now have a finished Show,…
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RAM Timing: Is CAS Latency in READ command same as WRITE command?

As far as I know and according to wikipedia about CAS Latency: CL is the delay time between the moment a memory controller tells the memory module to access a particular memory column on a RAM module, and the moment the data from the given…
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i7 (first-gen) running memory on 1066Mhz vs 1600Mhz - any performance loss?

I tried to read about this, like what is the actual difference, but I could not find any benchmarks or helpful posts. Most of them are simple placebo effects, like "oh my god the 1600mhz module made my office load faster". Sure, bro. I'm curious…
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Is there a reliable way to tell how much time is I/O

I am timing some code and I would like to tell how much of the time taken is due to reading the data in from disk. I don't believe the result that time gives me. For example, I have a 1.3GB file and if I run wc I get time wc largefile.file …
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Limiting CPU usage uniformly

I have a program and I want to measure its running time based on the input, but my system is old and has overheating problems. Leaving a program running at full CPU usage for around 1 minute usually makes it hibernate/turn off from overheating. I'm…
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Lsof command in repeat mode no interval

How can you set the timing of lsof to sub 1 second? On lsof -r (repeat mode), is the minimum value 1 second? Is there a way to have a continuous monitoring with lsof without having intervals between 2 consecutive lsof command in order to check which…
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Is there a way to get the system boot time?

After you reboot and the system is all loaded up, is there a place that stores the system boot time; meaning the total time it took for the system to boot back up. I would like to compare different systems and their boot times perhaps for testing…
Brian T Hannan
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Remote synchronized TV show watching

My significant other and I want to watch recorded TV shows together. Problem is: we live a few hundred kilometers apart and only see each other on the weekends, which we want to use for seeing mutual friends or going out. So, we thought about…
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Calculating DRAM Timing Parameters from Latency

Let's say that we're looking at a DRAM with typical timing parameters (those of interest are listed below) with read and write latencies of ~20-50 nanoseconds. How would one go about changing the timing parameters to cause the read and write…
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Is there a way to get processor details without using information from bios?

With Linux, is there a way to retrieve the processor model without taking information from bios? I don't know which processor is really mounted. I want to set up the right processor timing, but I don't know the processor type. Every time I change…
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