Understanding Permissions With umask

Posted on Fri 07 February 2014 in Linux • Tagged with File Permissions, Linux, Linux Filesystem, umask

Linux was developed as a multi-user system. One big problem with multi-user systems is securing information of a particular user from other users. To do that, a concept of permissions was introduced. When you create a file, you have the right to read and write it. In this article we …


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Disclaimer

Posted on Fri 07 February 2014 in misc

This blog is a collaborative blog written by a group of individuals. For questions about this blog, please contact admin\@TheGeekyWay.com.

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Executing your Android Application (AVD's) (Android-Part 3)

Posted on Wed 05 February 2014 in Android • Tagged with Android

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1. We can use the Android Virtual Device (we'll create one …


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Java Multithreading

Posted on Wed 05 February 2014 in Java • Tagged with Java, Open Source

*Threads. * Thread is also known as lightweight process. Java multithreading allows to process multiple task simultaneously with less overhead than process. Mostly use to monitor session, background synchronization etc.

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Anatomy of First Android Application (Android-Part 2)

Posted on Mon 03 February 2014 in Android • Tagged with Android

Hello Geeks, hope you all have read the previous post for setting up IDE, here we explain what each folder of a newly created Android Application means. As soon as you follow the steps described in previous post, a simple android application with the application name and a predefined string …


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SR Flip-Flop: Description

Posted on Mon 03 February 2014 in Electronics • Tagged with Digital Electronics, Sr Flip-Flop

In the previous post we concentrated on the major advantage of Flip-Flop over Latches. In this Blog we will be concentrating more on the most basic type of Flip-Flops which is SR Flip-Flop. Do note that there are counterparts for every Flip-Flop in latch as well.

As we all know …


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Setting Up Eclipse IDE for Android Application Development (Android-Part 1)

Posted on Sun 02 February 2014 in Android • Tagged with Android, Development, Tutorial

Here is a complete tutorial to setup Eclipse IDE. Hope you have seen the first tutorial and have installed the required tools (ADT + Eclipse & JDK).After installing JDK, extract the Android SDK to a folder and you will get something like this.

Few screenshots related to Eclipse may vary due …


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Conditional Statements : Switch Case

Posted on Sat 01 February 2014 in C • Tagged with C language, Conditional, Switch

In the previous tutorial, we've discussed about if - else and nested if - else statements and how we can use them to test certain conditions and execute a block of code depending on whether the condition becomes true or false. In this tutorial, we'll be covering another Conditional Statement used in …


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Variables in PYTHON

Posted on Fri 31 January 2014 in Python • Tagged with Python

Variables in Python

Variables

Variables are used for storing data in the form of integer,char ,boolean etc.They act as a storage medium for us . Based on the datatype of variable  interpreter allocates the memory required by that datatype. There are 4 types of variables.

  • Integer
  • String
  • float
  • complex

Values are assigned …


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Create your own Simple File Transfer App over LAN (with Source code in JAVA)

Posted on Thu 30 January 2014 in How To DIY • Tagged with Java, Networking, Sockets

Many Core Java packages can be used to create useful applications. This application uses java.net package to establish connection between two systems residing on the same network.  This point is important, because it will not work for arbitrary networks (having no connection between them). For those who don't have …


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