I have another great Flash game to share with you today. It’s simply called The Space Game, or TSG by its creator, CasualCollective.
TSG puts you in the middle of asteriod fields. Your goal is to either mine enough minerals or survive enemy attack long enough to pass each mission. This sounds simple, but it is actually quite complex while still being managable.
In many of my Tips ‘n Tricks or tutorial posts, I have commands that involve editing/creating files in Vi. For those that have never used Vi, it can be a daunting experience trying Vi for the first time.
There are many holy wars fought over the best editor to use from the *nix command line. I won’t claim that Vi is the best; rather, Vi is simply what I’m used to, it’s powerful, and it is always available on servers that I work on.
In order to best help those that don’t know how to use Vi but are interested in learning, this will serve as a very brief tutorial on how to get started.
Here’s a quick tip that will help you work with multiple zip files on the command line.
If you are in a folder and have three zip files in it (a.zip, b.zip, c.zip) that you want to unzip, “no problem,” you think, “I can take care of that with one command.” So, you quickly run the following:
However, rather than having the unzip program nicely unzip each file one after another, you receive the following:
I’m sure that this is not what you were expecting. I know I certainly wasn’t expecting this when I first tried it. However, this problem can help us understand more of how the command line works.
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It’s been nearly two months since I started posting regularly. I’ve just been throwing whatever content I was interested in at the moment day after day. Now it’s time to check in with my readers to see what you want.
I’d like this post to be an open invitation to have regular and new readers alike share what they think about gaarai.com.
Is there something your really like, don’t like, want added, want changed, want more of? Let me know.
Do you have a tutorial, topic, distro, random other morsal that you’d like me to start posting about? Please leave a comment about it.
I’m very sorry for the late posts the past couple of days. Things have been quite busy, and I just haven’t had enough time to finish things up on time.
Today I’d like to introduce you to Auditorium.
Auditorium is a audio/visual logic puzzle Flash game. In the game, you have to use the different tools given to you to redirect the particle stream. As you begin to redirect the stream into specific collectors, specific sounds start to increase in volume. As you fill up all the collectors, you are rewarded with a beautiful symphonic sound.
Not only is Auditorium an intriguing challenge, it is both beautiful and a pleasure to listen to. There are times where I don’t want to successfully pass the level so that I can keep hearing the symphonic sound unique to that level.
You can play the first few levels for free. For a mere $10.99, you can get access to all the levels.
I highly recommend that all you puzzle and music fans try Auditorium out. I can’t be held responsible for addiction.
When Windows was my main OS, I was a big fan of Portable Firefox. With Portable Firefox, I could do multiple installations of Firefox on my system that could be customized to run concurrently with other installs of Firefox. This allowed me to have tailored installations with different sets of plugins and features.
Why would I want to run more than one Firefox at a time? For me, the reason is that it eases development. Here are a few ways that I use multiple installs:
Last week, I looked around for a solution like Portable Firefox for Ubuntu. I quickly found a solution that wasn’t nearly as difficult as doing multiple installs: multiple profiles.
Today’s post is just going to be a quick tip since I just finished sitting in the car for about four hours. I spent most of the day with John P, Mrs. P, Cali Lewis, and many other fun people at the AMC Best Picture Showcase at the Northpark AMC in Dallas. Since I live in Oklahoma City, I had to do a bit of driving.
None-the-less, it was a ton of fun. I got to see some movies, get a change of scenery, meet some new people, and even got live video blogged. Anyways, on to the important stuff.
One neat trick I found out about recently when working with Nautilus is how to quickly show and hide hidden files (files or folders that begin with a dot). Simply hit Ctrl+h and the display of hidden files will be toggled. This is great to quickly gain access to hidden folders that you don’t care to type in manually.
Not only does this work in the Nautilus File Browser, but it also works in any file dialog that uses Nautilus. So, next time you are in a save or open file dialog, hit Ctrl+h to show/hide the hidden files and folders. I find this very useful in Gimp which insists on showing me all the hidden stuff by default.
I’m playing around with git as a possible replacement for Subversion (svn). I’ll probably blog about my reasons for wanting to switch and also have some tutorials. For now, I wanted to quickly share the fix for a problem I encountered that wasn’t really handled by the documentation.
I set up a bare remote repository to test git out. Everything looked good as I got this going, but then I hit a big snag.
When I tried to push the local repository back to the remote repository, I received the following error:
In one of my earlier posts, I talked about setting up Ubuntu 64-bit on my Dell Studio 17 laptop. I provided some information on how I set up Flash on my system. This solution used the 32-bit release version of Adobe’s Flash plugin and nspluginwrapper to allow the 32-bit plugin to be used with the 64-bit version of Firefox. I had just a few problems with this solution:
Fortunately, I found a great solution to this problem: an actual 64-bit Adobe Flash Plugin.
I touched on this topic in my First Day with Ubuntu at the Office post under Accessing Remove File Systems; however, I thought that this deserved its own topic.
For those that don’t know SSH stands for Secure SHell. In very non-technical terms, SSH allows you to access a system running a SSH server over a network. This other system can be another computer in your home or a remote system on the other side of the planet. SSH will allow you to connect to that other system and communicate with it securely. All the data passed back and forth is encrypted, so you don’t have to worry about people sniffing your passwords or valuable data.
You may be asking what all of that means to you. What it means is that you can connect to and control a computer that is somewhere else with the computer that is sitting right in front of you. If you have a remote webserver running Linux, SSH will let you install software, edit files, change the server configuration, access the database, and more. Did you forget a file on your computer at home? No problem, just SSH into your home computer and send the file to your email account or copy it directly to your office computer.
Hopefully those quick examples of what you can do is enough to whet your appetite.