hasan's blog (বল্গ)

hi,

i am very happy, because i am no more depending on M$ Window$
i am using Ubuntu (6.06) for 7 days… no pain, no hard feeling, all required software are in my box…
just need to apply “apt-get install blah”
here is the list of my daily used tools/software:

1. IntelliJ IDEA (JAVA IDE)
2. SVN (subversion)
3. Thunderbird (mail client)
4. FireFox (Web browser)
5. Maven2 (java project management tool)
6. Resin 3.0.x (Java application server)
7. OpenLDAP
8. MySQL
9. GEdit (Notepad type editor)
10. GAIM (Messenger)
11. Apache2
12. Rhythmbox
13. MPlayer
and other more specific java + php + ruby related tools…

Have you ever faced this problem?
very known problem though… i am posting my blog so i can find it out later….
just simple solution append this “?useServerPrepStmts=false” string to your jdbc uri
for example: url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/escenic?useServerPrepStmts=false

it is a BuG filed over here
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=11084

Jawed Karim, a 22 year old software engineer, is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. His father is Bangladeshi and his mother German. He grew up in Germany, but graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota), and went on to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005.

Karim acted as an advisor to YouTube and is a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University.   [Wikipedia]
Google made their biggest deal in two years; they bought YouTube for $1.6 Billion!!!
Credit goes to Samiha Esha
(http://amazon707.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/young-bangladeshi-entrepreneur/)