Amit Gandhi

Another one joins..

Sat, 29 May 2004 15:17:14 GMT

Introducing bipingm - GUI design god, reluctant joke cracker, perennial fourth-place WTGW partner to me, compulsive treater, Manipal tourist guide and all-round nice guy rolled into one.

Oh, and did I mention his fascination for socks?

Hyperfeeder

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:59:26 GMT

I finally finished working on hyperfeeder - a completely customizable RSS/RDF news feed aggregator with output in the HTML format. (APT sources for Debian available. Source code with install script for other distributions..)

The main reason I developed this was that I wanted to view images inline. While LJ's feed aggregator does this, it has a "score" tracker, which limits the number of feeds you can track.

Also, I periodically run it at my server (via crontab) and set the output file as a publicly accessible one. This way, I access the latest feeds wherever I am.

The present version (0.6.1) is production-quality and features a pretty efficient hand-written parser. More details here.

If you decide to use it, do send me feature requests and bug reports at <hyperfeeder at amitng dot net>.

For the impatient:

Debian users: Add one of the following to sources.list .
- For stable/testing:
  deb http://www.amitng.net debian stable deb-src http://www.amitng.net debian stable
- For unstable:
  deb http://www.amitng.net debian unstable deb-src http://www.amitng.net debian unstable

Other distributions: Download and run install script
- hyperfeeder_0.6.1_stdc++5.tar.gz (19 kB) - For libstdc++5.
  MD5: dfe3e417d00d8ddc7dad7b4ba01e8cb0
- hyperfeeder_0.6.1_stdc++2.10.tar.gz (19 kB) - For libstdc++ 2.10.
  MD5: f8f73abc6e8582170e2f5535132dc1c7

Look who's finally on LJ!

Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:49:14 GMT

Please welcome yathin..

Guess who finally made it to LJ?

Tue, 13 May 2003 10:45:45 GMT

Please welcome Jayadevan aka jugga. Watch out for interesting intellectual repartee between him and jd_knight .. (Yeah, right! ;) )

PS: If you don't know him, do NOT go by the info on this page! "Interests: fighting, fishing, hunting, studying (!!), running (!!!!!!!)"?? And "Bio: Wotever".. That, of course, is very relevant. ;)

SMTP..

Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:53:45 GMT

Does anyone know of a SMTP server using which I can send mail from any specified mail ID?

Cos I have a redirection ID at pobox.com and wanna send mail using that ID in the From: field specifier. And the hotpop.com SMTP server doesn't support mail sent with other IDs in the From field.. :(

APT - WHOA!

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:07:18 GMT

Apt-get is just the best.. Dunno how I managed with RPM all this time.

Yes, I am running RHL 7.3 AND apt-get on it.. Get it here.

You might get a circular dependency error between gated and zebra when installing packages. Do a rpm -e on gated.. Apt repository lists are at the same site.. And whoa! It's just breath-taking. :D

Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:48:00 GMT

Played pool for 1.5 hrs with mrinal and snagappa today.. Great fun, after such a long time... :D

Unrestricted: final..

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:39:08 GMT

Well, on manusb's undoubtedly wise advice, now onwards most of my posts will be friends-only.. If u ain't got a Livejournal still, what r u waiting for?? I've got a coupla codes for ppl who want them...

Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:19:14 GMT

Well, I'm finally on LJ... :D (Thanx mrinal for the code..) I must admit.. The thought of expecting someone else to follow up on ur life every (few?) day(s) didn't really appeal to me, but the fire has sure caught on.. :)

Hey all u Trekkies out there.... Check out this brilliant site: http://www.stinsv.com .. (Star Trek in Sound & Vision dot com) It's got tons of pictures and audio.. Now, if only I had broadband... :(