Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-01 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 7:54:35 PM UTC+5:30, Daniel Stojanov wrote: > 2) I just signed up the this mailing list. To the regulars, is this what > normally happens on this list? > > 3) I'm a bit late to the party. Is Nikos a real sysadmin or is this some > horrible inside joke I don't get? Th

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Antoon Pardon writes: > >> Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: >> > This is an unmoderated forum, so we have occasional spates of >> > persistent nuisances, and those who respond with the maturity level >> > and impulse control of an average

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Ravi Sahni writes: > > > So Ben,Antoon you are saying that [demands for off-topic help with > > demonstrated history of unwillingness to learn] is a minor problem […] > > Whereas [baiting and enabling that beh

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 02-10-13 09:02, Ravi Sahni schreef: >> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney >> wrote: >>> Antoon Pardon writes: >>> >>>> Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: >>>>> T

Re: Lowest Value in List

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:34 PM, wrote: > Dear Group, > > I am trying to work out a solution to the following problem in Python. > > The Problem: > Suppose I have three lists. > Each list is having 10 elements in ascending order. > I have to construct one list having 10 elements which are of the l

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Alister wrote: > On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:41:40 +0300, Νίκος wrote: > >> Στις 2/10/2013 4:25 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: >>> On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: >>> Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server to run

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:14 PM, wrote: > On 10/02/2013 01:02 AM, Ravi Sahni wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney >> wrote: >>> Antoon Pardon writes: >>> >>>> Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: >>>> > T

Re: Goodbye: was JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > Ding ding! Nikos is simply trolling. It's easy enough to killfile him but > inconvenient to skip all the answers to his lengthy threads. If only > people would just ignore him! Hello Walter Hurry please wait! Did I do/say something wrong?! If

Re: Goodbye: was JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-03 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:21:08 +0530, Ravi Sahni wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Walter Hurry >> wrote: >>> Ding ding! Nikos is simply trolling. It's easy enough to killfile him >>> b

Re: Tail recursion to while iteration in 2 easy steps

2013-10-03 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:46 AM, rusi wrote: > 4. There is a whole spectrum of such optimizaitons -- > 4a eg a single-call structural recursion example, does not need to push > return address on the stack. It only needs to store the recursion depth: > > If zero jump to outside return add; if > 0 j

Re: howto check programs and C libraries

2013-10-04 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:00 PM, David Palao wrote: > Hello, > I'm in charge of preparing a computer room for the practices of > "introduction to programming". > One of the tasks is checking that from all the computers in the room > one can execute some programs and link (and compile) against some

Re: how to read list from file

2013-10-06 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Harvey Greenberg wrote: > On Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:24:39 PM UTC-6, Tim Chase wrote: >> Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 13:56:14) >> [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more >> information. >> >>> s = "[{

Re: how to read list from file

2013-10-06 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Harvey Greenberg wrote: > On Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:08:08 PM UTC-6, Harvey Greenberg wrote: >> I am looping as for L in file.readlines(), where file is csv. >> >> >> >> L is a list of 3 items, eg, [{'a':1, 'b':2}, [1,2,3], 10] Note that the >> first item is a

Re: Goodbye: was JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-07 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:35:00 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:21:08 +0530, Ravi Sahni wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Walter Hurry >>> wrote: >>>> Din

Re: Formal-ity and the Church-Turing thesis

2013-10-07 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:47 AM, rusi wrote: > I can only say how ironic it sounds to someone who is familiar with the > history of our field: > Turing was not a computer scientist (the term did not exist then) but a > mathematician. And his major contribution was to create a form of argument >

Re: Formal-ity and the Church-Turing thesis

2013-10-08 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:46:50 +0530, Ravi Sahni wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:47 AM, rusi wrote: >>> I can only say how ironic it sounds to someone who is familiar with the >>> history of o

Re: Formal-ity and the Church-Turing thesis

2013-10-08 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:14 AM, rusi wrote: > To explain at length will be too long and OT (off-topic) for this list. > I'll just give you a link and you tell me what you make of it: > http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Secondary/Whorfframe2.html I am trying to read link. Very new idea: Buildi