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An infinite loop occurs when a system repeats a set of steps ad infinitum. Generally, the system must be halted in an adverse way to stop the infinite loop.

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How can I perform a ping every X minutes and check the response time?

I am currently working in a big company and we have serious latency issues. This is happening in a process control system, and is unacceptable (Open a valve sometimes take 2 minutes before command start) I want to double-check when the network team …
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How can I break a symbolic link loop?

While I was trying to compile a C shared object library, I accidentally created two symbolic links which point to each other. Is there a way to get rid of them without nuking the whole directory? I read that the only way to break a symbolic link is…
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How to infinite loop every video I play as defaut on MPV player without having to press shift+L hotkey every single time?

I think the title is clear without filling the body. Every time I play new video the inf loop is gone and I need to press shift+L again each time. How to just make this my default setting. As far as I know there is no configuration in this program.…
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List all files and dirs without recursion with junctions

Is there a native|portable tool that can give me a unicode or a system local-compatible list of all files and directories under a path recursively, without recursing into junction points or links, in Windows? For example, the built-in dir takedown…
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I've trapped myself outside my Mac. Help

A dreaful mistake lead to the following situation: Each and every one of my mouse buttons loads the Dashboard. I can't change the settings, not without using the mouse. It's a Catch 22. How can I reset the mouse's settings, using Terminal,…
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How do I abort a long-running regex replace?

Edit: While I refer to RegEx in my background, I'm not looking for you to fix my RegExp (thanks for trying though) - rather I want to know "how do I abort a search/replace in NotePad++". Environment I'm using latest version of NPP (v.5.9.6.2) on…
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Teamviewer to a computer that is Teamviewered to you

What happens when I Teamviewer to a computer that is Teamviewered back to me? Will it create an Infinite loop?
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Windows 8 reboot causes an infinite loop

I have installed Windows 8 Professional 64-bit in a VHD that dual boots with Windows 7. The VHD is dynamically expanding with a 128 GB capacity. When windows 8 reboots, it seems to get stuck in an infinite loop and will say "Restarting" while the…
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Windows 10 recovery/restore infinite loop without login access

my asus laptop TP300L is stuck in an infinite loop, I cannot access windows as the computer reboots before I can do anything. Situation here is the sequence of screens I get: asus logo a spinner appears for less than a second the shape of a windows…
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Terminal command for infinite execution of application

I tried almost every keyword on Google and still didn't came up with an answer. So hopefully one of you knows. What is the terminal command keep a application running after it fails or stopped executing. I tried this loop command in terminal: bash…
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CMD keep running program

This isn't very googleable, and other than writing prog.exe -params several times in a batch file (which would obviously only work as many times as I wrote it) I can't think how to repeatedly do this. The CLI program I'm running sometimes crashes. I…
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Loop: Start program and kill after time out

for debugging reasons I want to spot one of those bugs showing up just occasionally. Therefore I want to code a while loop in the shell starting the program (if it will segfault => that's what I want) kill the program after a certain timeout (e.g.…
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How to break out of a program in an infinite loop?

When running a program that goes into an infinite loop in the terminal, how would I bring back the command prompt? (I'm using Fedora core 5)
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Mimikatz infinite loop

When I'm trying to run mimikatz in powershell, it goes into an infinite loop everytime. I searched a lot but I couldn't find a solution. PS C:\Temp> .\mimikatz.exe .#####. mimikatz 2.2.0 (x64) #18362 Jan 4 2020 18:59:26 .## ^ ##. "A La Vie,…
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Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, version 1511, 10586 occur boot restart loop (reboot loop)

After successful update from Windows 10 Pro Build 10240 to Build 10586 (november upgrade) pc just start rebooting constantly on boot logo. I can't choose "Safe Mode" option on boot. With Windows 10 installation media I have used option "Go back to…
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