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...

The MIPS CPU is able to run both big-endian and little-endian. So a system built on MIPS can be either big-endian (mips) or little-endian (mipsel). The file command shows the architecture: $ file ls ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, MIPS, ... but readelf will tell the endianness: $ readelf -h ls ELF Header: Magic: 7f 45...

My problem is simple: in my XML data, a timestamp is provided as a long integer (number of milliseconds since the "the epoch"). When I do XSLT, I want to display it as a readable string, such as "Mon Nov 01 18:08:48 CDT 2010". After hours of struggle, I found: It's not so easy to get the job done with JDK 1.6 There are tons of garbage on the web in this space (suggestions, code snippets that simply don't work) Simple Xalan extension functions was the only resource that's somewhat informative. Even there some of the examples don't work. Below is a list of what worked and what didn't. This works: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="h... This does not (providing long value to Date constructor): <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="h......

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For Java arrays, the class name is [ followed by an encoded name of the element class. The number of [ characters represents the number of dimensions of the array. The class name encoding is following: Element Type Encoding boolean Z byte B char C class or interface L classname; double D float F int I long J short S Example: public class ClassNameEncoding { public sta...

This example uses an Intent with Uri scheme tel: to invoke the phone dialer. Create a new project with: $ ~/android-sdk-linux_86/tools/android create proj... Update the layout res/layout/main.xml to add a text field and a button: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearL... Update the Java class src/com/android/intenttest/CallPhone.java to handle button click and start the built-in phone dialer with Intent : package com.android.intenttest; import andr... Update AndroidManifest.xml to add CALL_PHONE permission: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifes... Install to the emulator and test: ant install The phone dialer will be invoked when you click the "Call" button. So how did this happen? The CallPhone activity creates an Intent with action Intent.ACTION_CALL and Uri tel:<a number> and sends it off to Android. Android starts the activity com.android.phone.OutgoingCallBroadcaster because the intent matches the...

The PHP function strval returns the string value of a variable. It does the same thing as casting a variable to string, or automatic conversion where string is expected. Conversion rules: Type String Value Boolean TRUE '1' Boolean FALSE '' (empty string) integer of float string representing the number Array The string 'Array' Object Result of __toString() if defined, error otherwise Resource 'Resource id #n' , where n is a number assigned to the resource. NULL '' (empty string) Example: <?php set_error_handler(function($errno, $errst... Results: bool(true) --------------------- strval: '1'...

List of functions testing variable type: Function Description is_bool Finds out whether a variable is a boolean is_double Alias of is_float() is_float Finds whether the type of a variable is float is_int Find whether the type of a variable is integer is_integer Alias of is_int() is_long Alias of is_int() is_null Finds whether a variable is NULL is_numeric Finds whether a variable is a number or a numeric string is_object Finds whether a variable is an object is_real Alias of is_float() is_scalar Finds whether a variable is a scalar is_string Find whether the type of a variable is string Test code: <?php class A { } $a = ar... Output: var_dump: int(1) ------------------------- i...

From JavaDoc : java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock is a reentrant mutual exclusion Lock with the same basic behavior and semantics as the implicit monitor lock accessed using synchronized methods and statements, but with extended capabilities. The extended capabilities are: tryLock() : acquire the lock if possible, otherwise immediately return false. tryLock(long timeout, TimeUnit unit) : acquire the lock within the timeout, return false after timeout. lockInterruptibly() : try to acquire the lock and enter wait state, but can be interrupted by other threads and exit waiting. The following shows how java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock can be used. Start two threads to manipulate the same counter, one incrementing, the other decrementing. Since the counter is incremented and decremented the same number of times, in the end, it should be 0. Without locking,...

Integer.bitCount counts the number of one-bits in the two's complement binary representation of the specified int value. Example code: public class CountOnes { public static void... For long , there's Long.bitCount()