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This blog post is for those who understand how file permissions work but are looking for an explanation on how file permissions behave when they are applied to directories.

While most people draw diagrams in Xfig (or GIMP) and include them in LaTeX, they can be drawn directly in LaTeX (using tikz package). A major advantage of doing that is animation (\pause) is possible when using these diagrams in presentations(based on beamer) Following is an example demonstrating that (code released under BSD license)

So, you believe there are bugs in your C/C++ code or you have encountered SEGFAULT while executing your code. What will you do? write a lot of printf statements at various places in your code under suspicion OR use gdb (GNU code debugger) This article is about Approach 2

This is meant to be a small guide (though not exhaustive) for students beginning to program on Linux system. Particularly for those, who have done extensive C/C++ programming in Windows, using the Borland/Turbo interface or the Visual C++ interface, and are greatly intimidated by the Linux platform.

A small list of GCC Hacks g++ -o helloworld helloworld.cc produces helloworld binary from helloworld.cc C++ file. use -Wall switch turns on all warnings(potential errors) in the code (like unused variables) g++ -E helloworld.cc generates output code after the pre-processing stage.

Every empire has a language Romans used Latin. Indic empires used Sanskrit. American empire uses English. And FAANG uses icons. Icons is the language invented by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple. Icons like Share, Hamberger menu, Kebab menu, Profile icons. Icons for Phone dialer, SMS, love, laugh, and what not.