Being a gamer – I’m always on the lookout for new games – while I do enjoy some of the “big-name” games – there are few of those little known games which are fantastically awesome. World of Goo is one of those.

World of Goo – in a nutshell can be described as a extreme-physics-added version of Lemmings. Basically you have to “guide” the “goo-balls” to the specified pipes – seems easy, well that’s where the Physics & levels come in. The levels aren’t the straight forward ones, you have to build bridges, towers by “Connecting” the goo balls from one to other.

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Well I was browsing through some Kannada sites the other day and all I got was big blocks.
Turned out that Gentoo and Sabayon didn’t have support for displaying Kannada characters, though, I had no such problems with Hindi & Bengali characters [amongst others]. Changing the Character encoding in Firefox to Auto-detect or Unicode didn’t work either. After doing a bit of searching, found the solution. So open the terminal, switch to root user and type

emerge -av lohit-fonts

followed by

fc-cache -f -v

Restart your X server (ie, Logout, login) and you should be set!

I updated my KDE 4 installation to KDE 4.2 couple of days ago, and everytime I restart, KDE and Akonadi would throw me an error about MySQL server not being installed. Akonadi is the suite in KDE 4.2 – and I don’t use it – and sure as hell don’t want to install a MySQL database server just for this. So I decided to get rid of Akonadi – just fire up your package manager and uninstall it. It would probably remove the entire KDE PIM package – but meh, I’m good with that.

Specifically in Sabayon, open the terminal, switch to root using

su root

and hit enter.

Next type

equo remove akonadi

That’s it.

Well like I mentioned in my previous post, as I upgraded my system to KDE 4.2, NetworkManager 0.70 was also pushed in the update, and that broke my wireless. NetworkManager didn’t detect *any* of my network devices(yup, not even the ethernet port). A small post on Sabayon forums and I got the confirmation that I wasn’t the only one facing this, and the only way (atleast for now) is to downgrade to NetworkManager 0.6.6-r1.

So incase you aren’t able to connect via wireless, fire up your package manager and downgrade to NetworkManager 0.6.6-r1.

In Sabayon, you can do so by first switching to root.

su root

Next install NetworkManager 6.6-r1
equo install networkmanager-0.6.6-r1

In case this version is not present in Sabayon repos (like for me) emerge it from Gentoo sources.
Here’s how. Type

emerge --sync && layman -S

and followed by

emerge =net-misc/networkmanager-0.6.6-r1

That should bring up wireless. Will post if any update fixes this.
Thanks to wolfden from Sabayon forums for helping me out with this

After a long time’s search over the internet for many days I finally figured out how to do this. Many may know this already but many may not too. And since I hate to compile programs from sourceI have found here a method that involves less of actual compiling. Since am a ubuntu user I only have tried this in ubuntu and not other distros.

STEPS

1. Install these packages:

compiz-bcop

compiz-dev

compizconfig-settings-manager

build-essential

libtool

libglu1-mesa-dev

libxss-dev

libcairo2-dev

git-core

2. You need a working directory say ~/compiz

3. When in your working directory, in terminal, execute this command:

git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/plugins/snow

4. Download this file and extract its contents to your working directory

5. In your working directory now there will be a folder called snow. Change to that folder (~/compiz/snow in my case)

6. Execute these three commands one after the other:

make

make clean

make install

7. Now in your CompizConfig Settings Manager you can find the snow plugin and activate it.

This may sort of resemble a dreamscene on your desktop and i really like it a lot. A snowy wallpaper could be suitable.

A small variant of this plugin called Autumn Plugin is here (Thanks to Patrick Fisher and ubuntu forums)

Thanks to elgilicious and ubuntu forums for this

Ed’s note: Do we really need all of this ?  openSUSE, Fedora, Sabayon – all had Snow plugin without having to do any of this

Couple of days ago I’d posted about KDE 4.2 being released.  As much as I wanted to upgrade KDE 4.2, I couldn’t do so immediately as it was not available in official Repos, the community repos had the RC version. Everyday I would do a equo search kde-meta hoping that I’d see the KDE 4.2 branch, and guess what it was available today

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