[Ilugc] new test mail

2013-01-09 Thread Prof. P. Sriram
new test mail -- sriram ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] list temporarily down - now back up

2013-01-09 Thread Prof. P. Sriram
Dear ilugc mailing list users, The ilugc mailing list was down for about the last 48 hours but is now back up. The problem was caused by overly aggressive spam filtering rules which resulted in all incoming postings being classified as spam and hence getting discarded. Spam filtering rules have

[Ilugc] SQL Injection vulnerability in Ruby on Rails forces websites to close down

2013-01-09 Thread Natarajan V
Hi, A major security vulnerability found in RoR has forced a government website to close down. The vulnerability exists in ALL versions of RoR unless you upgraded in the last two days. Some Links: http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulnerability-hold-your-horses-here-are-the-fa

[Ilugc] Where else can we find Linux !

2013-01-09 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
Hi everyone, I am following the gadgets from CES 2013 on various websites, to see what has been done innovative and new with technologies and especially I am following gadgets powered by Linux, Out of which Ubuntu Phone OS, Firefox OS are highlights. But I never thought this would be made out of

Re: [Ilugc] Where else can we find Linux !

2013-01-09 Thread Arun Khan
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh wrote: > I am following the gadgets from CES 2013 on various websites, to see what > has been done innovative and new with technologies and especially I am > following gadgets powered by Linux, Out of which Ubuntu Phone OS, Firefox > OS are high

Re: [Ilugc] Did spam filtering stop my lua mails?

2013-01-09 Thread Sahil ModGill
Yes... no mails from you Girish. Thanks for sharing the knowledgeable stuff. Keep sharing. On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please confirm that you have been getting my daily lua tutorial mail feeds. > > If not I could resend them.

[Ilugc] word count in lua

2013-01-09 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
$ cat wc #!/usr/local/bin/lua local BUFSIZE = 2^13 -- 8K local f = io.input(arg[1]) -- open input file local cc, lc, wc = 0, 0, 0 -- char, line, and word counts while true do local lines, rest = f:read(BUFSIZE, "*line") if not lines then break end if rest then

Re: [Ilugc] SQL Injection vulnerability in Ruby on Rails forces websites to close down

2013-01-09 Thread Arun Khan
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Natarajan V wrote: > Hi, > > A major security vulnerability found in RoR has forced a government > website to close down. The vulnerability exists in ALL versions of RoR > unless you upgraded in the last two days. > > Some Links: > http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/0

Re: [Ilugc] What are PHP Chart and Graph Frameworks

2013-01-09 Thread Madan U Sreenivasan
On 1/10/13, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Abdur Rahman > wrote: >> Hi all i want to know what all are the PHP Chart and Graph Frameworks and >> which is the best one. > > Use html5 or Google charts. > Don't do it on server side. 3d pie charts are easy too. +1. S

Re: [Ilugc] What are PHP Chart and Graph Frameworks

2013-01-09 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Abdur Rahman wrote: > Hi all i want to know what all are the PHP Chart and Graph Frameworks and > which is the best one. > Though not open, Google charts API is free to use. It is really easy to build the URL with their wizard. Use PHP to replace content in the U

Re: [Ilugc] What are PHP Chart and Graph Frameworks

2013-01-09 Thread Madan U Sreenivasan
On 1/10/13, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Abdur Rahman wrote: [snip] > One caveat though. I had developed a PHP app for a large corporate in which > reports were generated through the Google charts API. After using it for 2 > years, their IT department suddenly reali