Exploring Thoughtz..
Change in behavior in Timestamp.valueOf() in JDK 6 Recently, when looking at a bug related to Timestamp, I found out that the valueOf() method in java.sql.Timestamp works differently in JDK 6 than the earlier versions.
Timestamp.valueOf(), when provided with a timestamp which contains a date or a month with a single digit. eg. 2009-9-20, 2009-9-3, 2009-12-4 etc., behaves differently in JDK 6 – it [...]
What is debian-sys-maint? Recently, when we were moving our staging applications and databases to a different server (from Win 2003 to Ubuntu 9.04), we had two problems with the MySQL server.
One, easy to fix, was the case-sensitive nature of table names. Using lower_case_table_names=1 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf fixed the problem.
The other problem riddled the server startup and shutdown (even server [...]
Two Months Been inexplicably away from blogging for a long time (except for the birthday post) – it had been a tough month and a half in various aspects. Meanwhile, Ananth went to SA for a project implementation and those two weeks were boring without him to chit-chat with. He returned to India on my birth day [...]
It’s XXIII ! Having got curious about the mathematical properties of the number 23, I started exploring and here’s what I found interesting from what I have seen on the web:
23 is the smallest prime number with consecutive digits.
23! is 23 digits long.
23 = 14 + 23 + 32 + 41 + 50
1023 – 23 = 99,999,999,999,999,999,999,977 [...]