The Linux Pages

Month: July 2012

Creating an Android app which uses a provider library

19 July 201231 May 2013 emilio 1 Comment Android Development

1. Get the library jar from your phone, using the ADB (Android Debugger Bridge). It will be in /system/framework somewhere. In my case it was the file fmreceiverif.jar. 2. Unpack the jar and get the classes.dex file. 3. Use dex2jar to convert this file to a jar file, i.e. convert the Dalvik VM code into […]

Continue reading


WordPress <code> does not keep code indent’s – use <pre>

2 July 201223 October 2012 ench0 Leave a comment Programming, Wordpress Tips

Yup. Silly as it may sound the <code> tags in WordPress are pretty much useless when you want to paste a code snippet and not have it look like a poem written by crazy robot… 🙂 Use the <pre> .. </pre> tags instead. Here’s an example. Code formatted with ‘<code>’: while( 1 ) { tmeasure_t0( […]

Continue reading


Convert UNIX time_t into a date/time text string

2 July 201211 January 2013 ench0 3 Comments C programming, Shell and environment

Often times, when working with the standard Linux/UNIX time format (time_t) one needs to quickly find out what is the “human readable” date and time text string a particular time_t value corresponds to. NOTE: The ‘C’ time_t type is the number of seconds elapsed since the “epoch”, the epoch being January 1st 1970 at 00:00:00. […]

Continue reading


Tags

bash boot compile C programming drupal drush emacs etc ethernet Fedora git grep how to html httpd init kernel linux linux partition login mariadb mount mysql networking oracle package managers password phpMyAdmin programming rpm shell sql ssh vbox version control system virtual box vm web server win32 wordpress www xargs xfce xwin yum

Categories

  • Android Development
  • Bash
  • C programming
  • dpkg/apt-get
  • drupal
  • Emacs
  • Git
  • Java
  • Linux administration
  • Linux device drivers
  • Linux Gaming
  • Linux kernel
  • Linux Networking
  • Linux on Windows
  • Linux printing
  • Linux sound and ALSA
  • Package Managers
  • Programming
  • RPM
  • Shell and environment
  • Tips and tricks
  • Uncategorized
  • VirtualBox
  • Virtualization
  • web development
  • wine
  • WMaker
  • Wordpress Tips
  • X Window System
  • XFCE
dazzling Theme by Colorlib Powered by WordPress