Googly PacMan Gadget

This Sunday, I planned to resume doing something which I haven’t been doing much – play video games. I was about to turn on my XBox to play “Star Wars – The force unleashed”.This is a new game and I really would have to spend some time understanding it, to play it. I suddenly started missing those classic arcade games which were “on-n-play” and less brainers.

I recalled PacMan – one of the most popular classic arcade video games. I used to play PacMan at a video game parlour each day (literally), on my way from school to home. My friends used to consider me an expert at it

I started googling for PacMan for Linux. While searching, I got to know that this game is available as a Google Gadget. That’s it. I decided to install Google Gadgets on my Fedora 9 laptop. Thought it would be fun as well as learning and I will install more than just a game.

Google Gadgets on Fedora 9 Desktop

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An Apple in my life

Yesterday I bought my first ever Apple hardware – iPod Shuffle Silver, 1 GB, about Rs. 2,700/-

iPod Shuffle (Silver)

My first Apple software product was Quicktime (when I desperately wanted to play .mov files) followed by iTunes  which was for testing the Podcast feed on a Website which I was involved in. Read the rest of this entry »

Recycle bin (trash can) for Linux console

The Linux desktop (GNOME/KDE) has a Trash Can. But what about the command line or the console ? Especially, while working with Linux servers we often work on the command line (typically connect to the server via SSH) and one may end up deleting files by accident.

That’s where libtrash comes to help. Download it from http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~marriaga/software/libtrash/. I used to use it long time back when, once, I deleted some important files from my laptop and none of those wonderful undelete utilities worked. Today I again deleted a file by accident. Though this time I had a backup, I got reminded of this wonderful utility. It still seems to be updated and maintained, somewhat – it was last updated in Jan 08.

Installed it on my laptop running Fedora 9 following the instructions in the readme file (found after extracting the tar.gz archive). And it worked (again)!