Three APIs for event based non-blocking I/O: select() select() is limited to FD_SETSIZE handles. This limit is compiled in to the standard library and user programs. poll() There is no hardcoded limit to the number of file descriptors poll() can handle, but it does get slow about a few thousand. epoll() The epoll event mechanism is much more scalable than the traditional poll when there are thousands of file descriptors in the interest set. The work done by poll depends on the size of the interest set whereas with epoll (like Solaris /dev/poll ) the registration of interest is separated from the retrieval of the events. Reference: The C10K problem

Usually network connectivity can be tested with ping and telnet . Android adb shell has ping but no telnet . But it has nc , which can be used in place of telnet . # nc -z -v www.google.com 80 DNS fwd/rev mismat...

This is a list of built-in Android permission values: Permission Description Since API Level android.permission.ACCESS_CHECKIN_PROPERTIES Allows read/write access to the "properties" table in the checkin database, to change values that get uploaded. 1 android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION Allows an application to access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, WiFi) location 1 android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION Allows an application to access fine (e.g., GPS) location 1 android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS Allows an application to access extra location provider commands 1 android.permission.ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION Allows an application to create mock location providers for testing 1 android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE Allows applications to access information about networks 1 android.permission.ACCESS_SURFACE_FLINGER Allows an application to use SurfaceFlinger's low level features 1 android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks 1 android.permission.ACCOUNT_MANAGER Allows applications to call into AccountAuthenticators. Only the system can get this permission. 5 android.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS...

Here's a list of common TCP ports. You can find a more complete list here: http://www.gasmi.net/docs/tcp.html . Port Number Service Description 21 FTP File Transfer Protocol 22 SSH Secure Shell 23 Telnet Telnet remote login 25 SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 70 gopher Gopher 79 finger Finger 80 HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (WWW) 88 Kerberos Kerberos authentication 94 tivoli Tivoli Object Dispatcher 110 pop3 Post Office Protocol Version 3 123 ntp Network Time Protocol 137 netbios NetBIOS Name Service 138 netbios NetBIOS Datagram 139 netbios NetBIOS Session 143 imap Internet Message Access Protocol 161 snmp Simple Network Management Protocol 162 snmptrap SNMP trap 194 irc Internet Relay Chat Protocol 389 ldap Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 443 https Secure HTTP 445 SMB MS Server Message...

The String.format() method provides versatile formatting capabilities. This tutorial tries to present these capabilities in a accessible manner. The format string A format string can contain zero, one, or more format specifiers . The general form of a format specifier is: %[argument_index$] [flags] [width] [.precision]co... where things in square brackets are optional, and conversion is a character indicating the conversion to be applied to the corresponding variable value. The only required characters in the format specifier is the percent sign % and the conversion character. A simple example: public static void simpleFormat() { System.out... The Argument index The argument index is specified by a number, terminated by the dollar sign $ . The same argument may be repeated multiple times in a format string. Unindexed...

An XML schema is a definition of XML files, in XML. It plays the same role as old-time DTDs. Overall, an XML schema file looks like this: <schema attributeFormDefault = (qualified | u... The attribute meanings: targetNamespace : The name space targeted by the current schema definition. It can be any URI. id and version : For user convenience, the W3C spec defines no semantics for them. xml:lang : Natural language identifier defined by RFC 3306 . attributeFormDefault and elementFormDefault : Set default values for the form attribute for attribute and element declarations. blockDefault and finalDefault : Set default values for the block and final attributes for attribute and element declarations. The W3C defined some built-in datatypes . Examples of primitive datatypes are: string ,...

grep is a versatile command with many variations (grep, egrep, fgrep, then various implementations). It uses a regula expression (regex) pattern to filter input. But then there are basic and extended flavors of regex - leading to even more confusion. And, beware that there are lots of bad examples of regex in the wild... There are two critical questions to ask when you use grep: which grep implementation are you using? what is the flavor of the regex? Here are some examples for gnu grep v2.7: # Find all numbers (no decimal point), basic regex... Use the -o flag to show only the matching part instead of the whole matching line: grep -o -E '\b[0-9]{2}\b' The good thing about the gnu grep is that it...

The code presented here is a simple implementation of a tab set. It is used to demo how a tab set could be implemented. The code is stand alone and does not depend on any JavaScript libraries. Multiple tab sets within the same page is supported. The HTML markup is fairly simple: Tabs sets are contained within a DIV element with class name "tabsContainer". Define a UL list for the tabs. Follow the UL list with equal number of DIVs for the tab contents. The Nifty Corners Cube technique is used to draw the rounded corners (original form, not the enhanced JavaScript form). HTML, CSS and JavaScript: <!doctype html> <html> <head> <style typ...

This one is even more weird: it worked on Windows but failed on Linux, using default tools JDK1.6.0_20 on both. The exception thrown was: java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid conversion fro... And the stack trace: java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid conversion fro... This was the XSL used: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs... The problem was , DateUtil.java had two getDate methods, one taking long parameter, the other taking a String parameter. And Java's XSLT get confused about which one to use: import java.util.Date; import java.text.SimpleD...

The tags <fmt:formatNumber> Format a numeric value as number , currency or percentage - controlled by the type attribute (defaults to number if type is missing). Syntax: <fmt:formatNumber value="numericValue" [type="... Attributes: Name Dynamic? Type Description value true String or Number Numeric value to be formatted. type true String Specifies whether the value is to be formatted as number, currency, or percentage. pattern true String Custom formatting pattern, must follow the pattern syntax specified by the class java.text.DecimalFormat . currencyCode true String ISO 4217 currency code. Applied only when formatting currencies (i.e. if type is equal to "currency"); ignored otherwise. currencySymbol true String Currency symbol. Applied only when formatting currencies (i.e. if type is equal to "currency"); ignored otherwise. It is used only when currencyCode is...