Sitting in front of a computer for more than 10 hours ,listening to music is the only relaxer . But somehow i keep playing the same song again and again ,what with very little songs on my computer.

RadioVerve Makes life in front of a computer real pleasure ,atleast to me . RadioVerve supports independent indian music bands and you get to hear such lovely music all for “free”.

A wonderful effort making so many happy :)

If you want to tune is ? Just do this

XMMS: Ctrl-L > http://play-hi.radioverve.com/ (Make sure you enable “shoutcast-style-metadata” in your mpeg input plugin)

• Windows Media Player: Ctrl-U > http://play-hi.radioverve.com/
• Winamp: File > Play URL > http://play-hi.radioverve.com/

Keep listening :)

Thanks to all those who keep it running !

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Just done with the installation of planetplanet in our institute.

For those who dont know what is PlanetPlanet .Its a RSS aggregator used to aggregate blogs (generally, though it can be used to aggregate just about all RSS). Its very powerful and it powers PLanetGnome ,PLanetLDTP,PlanetDebian and the list is endless.

But beware ,the official website doesnt have a installation manual .

So i thought i would write on how it can be done .

* Download the package from PlanetPlanet website .

* Untar it in to a folder in your webserver root directory or where you want planet to be accessible .

tar -zxvf planetplanet.xyz.tar.gz or tar -jxvf planetplanet.xyz.tar.bz2
*There are two templates that come along with package ,simple and fancy . Go to the template folder you want choose

cd fancy (in my case)

* The configuration file in config.ini in that directory ,the variables documentation is clear enough and at one glance you should be able to Change the Planet name ,owner and subscriptions .

* now come to planetplanet root folder and execute the python script or feed accumulator
python planet.pyv “Path to config.ini”

*You must be able to see on your terminal the feeds accumulated :)

* Now just check out the output directory through the web browser and you should be able to see planet planet in action .

* The template ofcourse can be changed by editing the fancy/index.tmpl file .

*Incase you access through a proxy ,the planetplanet wont work as such ,but a small tweak will do .

We use the Feedparser and urllib2 module in python ( so powerful )

look for the file __init__.py and edit it

Look for the line info=feedparser.parse (…) this is used to access feeds directly from web , all that we have to do is to make sure the info which is the feed can be accessed through a proxy .

proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler( {"http":"http://nitt.edu:3128/"} )
info = feedparser.parse(self.url,
etag=self.url_etag, modified=self.url_modified,
agent=self._planet.user_agent,
handlers = [proxy])

now run the python planet.py “Path to config.ini “
and your planet should be up and running .

And yeah the link for people inside it is http://178.1.2.116/planet

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$ :(){ :|:& };:

The most beautiful piece of code you can find except for the fact ,it runs your computer oout of memory and makes you to reboot. I have tried this over and here is it how it works ..

:() --> Declaring a  function (myfunc() {  process } )

:|:& –> instantiate the fucntion “:” and pipe the output to another call of that function and make the process run in background by using “&” .

;: -->terminate the function  and the first call to function ":" is made :) .

Looks nice doesnt it

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My brother has come down from mumbai and last night we had a long chat with him about where my career can be safe.And he had a few nice points .To tell about him here it is His name is dhilly babu ,an iitb graduate and now manages his own firm called the BeansIntellect which does some risk modelling and Pricing methods for banks and financial institutions.He was the first from our family to go in for a non-govt job and my mother keeps worrying about he is goin to earn his pension:D,she stil regrets him leaving a railways job ;) .
He was speaking about how he plans to sell off his company after some years and then start with another idea. I didnt quite understand this.People who start off their own firm usuallyhave a lot of passion in t hat field and having grown a organsitation so long and thenjust selling it off for money .How does it happen.Is money the sole motive of all the work you have beein doin for years.
I see this everywhere Youtube sold out to google for 1.6Million$ ,Blogspot sold to google,Jotspot sold out to google. Why is it such a tempting thing to sell it off ?.If someone like google thinks its a great product why cant you just generate revenue out of this ? .Is it not feasible or u think google or some big company can do better things with your product ? .
Is it a act so that you could chase another idea thatspopping in to your mind.I do know these are some very creative people.But even if they want to chase another idea cant they just line up all these products under one name ?
This is the most seen trend ?.Why did sameer bhatia sell Hotmail to MS ,He could have made lotsa money with it too
may be someone can tell me the reason behind these i would love to know them !
taggy :)

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Today afternoon i somehow managed to hear to a old podcast , i had saved almost 7 months ago.Many backups have been deleted.This one never went away though.

I guess some voices never really go away :) . I love this podcast out of all that she might have said which includes couple of songs too. While the songs are what her “employers” ask her to ,this one is from her, her own instincts and likes .

Its about Atlantis and the speaker is fascinated about it .I have uploaded the audio file on to my space check it out ! :)

here

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