I have an old Samung phone to be used as a toy. After restoring back to factory image and power on, I was stuck at the activate service screen. Unfortunately, the four corner magic touch did not work. So I did quite a bit of digging and this is what worked on my Samsung Continuum: Press emergency call button, then at the dialer, press * # 8 3 7 8 6 6 3 3 , press the Home key From the home screen, tap phone icon, Dial * # 2 2 7 4 5 9 2 7 Enter SPC code: ______ displays tap in white box to show virtual keyboard, enter 6 digit code (default: 000000), tap OK Select “Hidden menu Enable”, tap OK From...

First, the test command that sleeps random number of seconds ( sleeper.sh ): #!/bin/bash stime=$[$RANDOM % 20] sleep $sti... As comparison, synchronous pipe code: #include <sys/wait.h> #include <stdio.h> #in... Asynchronous pipe code: #include <sys/wait.h> #include <stdio.h> #in...

Example code from the Linux Programmer's Manual: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #incl...

Oracle sqlplus command line tools does not support command line editing out-of-the-box. But on Linux there's a handy utility that enables command line editing with any command line tool: rlwrap - readline wrapper. Install rlwrap: $ sudo apt-get install rlwrap Create a keywords file .sql.dict (optional, but convenient): false null true access add as asc begin by chec... It would be nice to add the tables names also. Create an alias for sqlplus (put it in .bashrc ): alias sqlplus='rlwrap -f $HOME/.sql.dict sqlplus'

Syntax highlighted XML schema for JSF 2.0 Application Configuration Resource File ( faces-config.xml ). Almost 3000 lines! <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsd:sch...

Use show create table <tablename> : mysql> show create table my_test_table; +------... Select from information_schema.table_constraints and information_schema.key_column_usage mysql> select * from information_schema.table_cons...

Simple JDBC code for Oracle. import java.sql.*; public class JDBCHelloWo...

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...

Select from information_schema : mysql> select cc.character_set_name -> from... Other columns available from the information_schema tables: mysql> desc tables; +-----------------+--------... Note that show create table <table_name> also works.

Select from information_schema.tables : mysql> select table_collation from information_sch... Or, show create table mysql.host; CREATE TABLE `host` ( `Host` char(60) collate...