Nikhil Dev

On of the things that I realized is that nothing comes for easy. So one of the main things that I am going to do in 2007 is to work harder and try to learn as much as I can, let it be about technology, management, people skills or anything else. I am sure it would be usefull to me at some time.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983.

Throughout their career, the band has successfully fused various elements of alternative rock, punk, rap, funk, heavy metal, psychedelic rock and adding just a touch of pop rock as the years progressed. They have, collectively, sold 60 million records worldwide, and also hold the record for most number one singles on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart with 11 (with a total of 78 weeks at number 1).

The Red Hot Chili Peppers (originally Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem) were formed after what was supposed to be a one time performance in 1983 by Fairfax High School alumni Michael “Flea” Balzary (bass), Anthony Kiedis (vocals), Jack Irons (drums), and Hillel Slovak (guitar). Later in that same year, after becoming a popular draw in the Los Angeles rock scene, they secured a record deal with EMI.

At the time, Slovak and Irons both had obligations to another band, ‘What is This?’ Consequently, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the band’s 1984 debut album, was recorded with replacement members Jack Sherman on guitar and Cliff Martinez on drums. Produced by Gang of Four’s Andy Gill, the album did not achieve commercial success. The ensuing tour did not fare much better, with internal fighting between Sherman, Kiedis, and Flea resulting in Sherman’s departure, and Hillel Slovak returning.

Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton was hired to produce their second album, 1985’s Freaky Styley. Cliff Martinez was fired from the band soon after the release of the album, allowing the return of original drummer Jack Irons in early 1986. During this time, drug problems started to become prevalent with the band. At one point Anthony Kiedis was fired from the band due to his heroin addiction, only to rejoin after getting clean. Hillel was also using heroin but managed to keep himself together and stay in the band.

Their next album, which entered the Billboard Top 200, was 1987’s The Uplift Mofo Party Plan lead singer . It was produced by Michael Beinhorn. This was the only album to feature the four original members.During the supporting tour, the public became aware of Slovak’s drug problems after his relapse, which resulted in erratic behavior and botched performances. The rest of the band was upset and annoyed by this, and were on the verge of firing Slovak, but backed out of doing such a thing on the advice of FishboneAngelo Moore, who felt and warned the Chilis that firing Hillel would actually bring more bad than good for the benefit of the band. Shortly after the band returned from some performances in Europe on June 25, 1988, Slovak was found dead of a heroin overdose. Jack Irons left the band saying that he didn’t want to be a part of something that involved his friends dying. He then went on to drum with Pearl Jam and Eleven.Members

Anthony Kiedis (vocals)
John Frusciante (guitar, back up vocals)
Flea (bass, back up vocals)
Chad Smith (drums)

Red Hot Chili Peppers website

Johnny Cash (born J. R. Cash, February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an influential American country and rock and roll singer and songwriter. Cash was the husband of country singer and songwriter June Carter Cash.

Cash was known for his deep, distinctive voice, the boom-chick-a-boom or “freight train” sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, his dark clothing, and demeanor, which earned him the nickname “The Man in Black.” He started all his concerts with the simple introduction “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.”

Much of Cash’s music, especially that of his later career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption. His signature songs include “I Walk the Line”, “Folsom Prison Blues”, “Ring of Fire”, and “Man in Black”. He also recorded several humorous songs, such as “One Piece at a Time”, “The One on the Right Is on the Left”, and “A Boy Named Sue”; rock-and-roll numbers such as “Get Rhythm”; and various train-related songs, such as “The Rock Island Line”.

He sold over 50 million albums in his nearly 50 year career and is generally recognized as one of the most important musicians in the history of American popular music.

Official Website

Take a tiger from India and put it in California. That is how I feel. Its been 4 days since ive been here and things are a lil different from what I am used to. But yeah, my adaptability factor is pretty high.

The place is great, the office is great and everything about this is great. I thinking of going underground as I dont think I would want to come back to dear India.

Just a lil too busy with work these days. So will keep posting in installments.

Creed was a post-grunge group that became one of the best selling rock bands of the late 1990s and early 2000s in the US. While the original grunge groups were experimenting with new sounds, Creed adapted grunge into a radio-friendly style.

Creed originally came together in Tallahassee, Florida in 1995 as Naked Toddler when Stapp and guitarist Mark Tremonti, former high school friends, got together and started writing songs. They soon added bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. Brian Marshall came up with the band name “Creed”, taken from the name of his former band, Maddox Creed.

They then found work at a live music bar, where they impressed owner Jeff Hanson enough to let them play at one of his bigger stores. Hanson liked the band so much that he convinced producer John Kurzweg to produce the band.

Despite the band’s continual dismissals of the label, Creed is sometimes labeled Christian rock due to the fact that earlier albums focus on questions of faith, Christianity, and eternity. The band was never signed to a Contemporary Christian music label, nor did it perform in Christian Music venues or get any widespread regular play on Christian Radio.

Creed was sued in 2003 by four concert goers who claimed Scott Stapp “was so intoxicated and/or medicated that he was unable to sing the lyrics of a single Creed song” at a December 29, 2002 concert in Chicago. The lawsuit was later dismissed. Further trouble ensued for the band as Creed was constantly under scrutiny for relaying religious messages both within their music and videos. Most of these accusations were directed at Stapp although Creed as a whole denied the connection between religion and the band. This was one of the main reasons for the departure of Stapp.

On June 4, 2004, it was announced that Creed had broken up. Stapp began the process of recording a solo album, The Great Divide, collaborating with Roadrunner Records recording artist Goneblind, while the other band members (including former bassist Brian Marshall) formed a new band, Alter Bridge, with Myles Kennedy. Touring bassist Brett Hestla has since joined the band Dark New Day.

Stapp later became the subject of several altercations, including publicly berating Beth Ostrosky, (girlfriend of Howard Stern) and getting into fisticuffs with the band 311 at a bar in Baltimore, Maryland. Further damage to his reputation was had when it was learned that Stapp had accidentally allowed a video tape of himself and Kid Rock receiving oral sex from some female groupies get out into the public domain. This brought harsh criticism from Kid Rock who blamed Stapp for letting the tape get out of his control.

Creed’s official website

Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter, who became one of the best-selling country musicians of the 1990s.

Alan Jackson was born in Newnan, Georgia to Eugene Jackson and Ruth Musick.

He previously worked in The Nashville Network’s mailroom. Jackson’s wife Denise got him connected to Glen Campbell, who helped him jumpstart his career.

His first album, 1989’s Here in the Real World, was a major hit, as was his second (1991) album, Don’t Rock The Jukebox. His 1992 , A Lot About Livin’ (And a Little ‘Bout Love) was a smash success, spawning five major singles with “Chattahoochee” being the most enduring and successful. After a few more hit albums, Jackson again rocketed to fame with “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning),” a song about the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, which became a hit single and briefly propelled him into the mainstream spotlight. He debuted the song at the 2001 Country Music Association Awards.

Although Jackson has been characterized as a commercialized “hat act“, his influences go deep into the roots of country music and his songs have been recorded by some of the greats like Charley Pride, who recorded “Here In The Real World”. He has sung with George Jones on the award-winning “I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair” and “A Good Year for the Roses.” His sense of humor comes through in “Gone Country” with the satirical description of the wannabes who cynically jumped on the country music bandwagon in the 1990s: “Everybody’s gone country/Yeah we’ve gone country/The whole world’s gone country.” He has been credited for popularizing a Neotraditional Country sound. After country music changed toward pop music in the 2000s, he and George Strait criticized the state of country music on the song Murder on Music Row.

Jackson married his high-school sweetheart Denise on December 15, 1979. He is the father of three daughters: Mattie Denise (born June 19, 1990), Alexandra Jane (born August 23, 1993), and Dani Grace (born August 28, 1997). Jackson and his family live in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.

Bad Company were an English hard rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free (Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke), Mott The Hoople (Mick Ralphs) and King Crimson (Boz Burrell). Managed by Peter Grant, who had also guided Led Zeppelin to massive success, the band would go on to enjoy great success throughout the 1970s.

The 1974 debut album Bad Company was an international hit, with the group considered one of the 1970s’ first supergroups. Bad Company consisted of four seasoned musicians: two former members of Free, singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke; former Mott The Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs; and King Crimson’s bassist Boz Burrell. The group was managed by Peter Grant who also managed Led Zeppelin at the time and would manage Bad Company until 1982. The album peaked at #1 on Billboard’s Pop Albums chart (North America) and included two singles that reached the top 20 charts, “Can’t Get Enough” at #9 in 1974 and “Movin’ On” at #14 in early 1975. In 1975, Straight Shooter gave the group another #1 on Billboard’s Pop Albums chart. The album also spawned two hit singles, “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad” at #30 and the slower “Feel Like Makin’ Love” at #10.

With Paul Kossoff in better health again in 1975, he was delighted that now ex-Free colleagues, Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke asked him to join them on stage for two nights in late 1975 with them playing “All Right Now” the super hit from Free’s third album. A British tour was set to begin on 25 April 1976 with Back Street Crawler Paul Kossoff’s band headlining with Bad Company in support of the new album Run With the Pack and Back Street Crawler’s second album, but again as with his later years in Free, Paul Kossoff drug addictions contributed to a drastic decline in the guitarist’s health and on a flight from Los Angeles to New York on March 19th, 1976, Paul Kossoff died from drug-related heart problems at the age of 25.

Run With the Pack was Bad Company’s first Platinum certified album. The third consecutive million-selling record, reaching #5 on the Billboard chart and featured the hit “Young Blood” that peaked at #29 on the Pop charts. In the 1970’s Bad Company never released an official live album, even though they recorded some of the concerts, and are famous for their live shows packing largest stadiums for almost a decade. Bootlegs were the only way to find live songs from the shows, sound quality was for the most part poor. The most famous are, Boblingen Live: (1974), Live in Japan: (1975), Shooting Star Live at the L.A. Forum: (1975). Not until the release of Live in Albuquerque 1976 in 2006 thirty years after it was recorded did the band release an official live album of 1970’s recordings. The recordings were made by Mick Ralphs, who regularly taped the group’s shows, utilizing them as a tool to finely tune their set and performances. Not only is the sound quality excellent but almost all the hit songs from the band’s first three albums appear on the live CD.

1977’s Burnin’ Sky fared the poorest of the first four albums and peaked at a disappointing #12, and was the worst selling Bad Company album to date. The album did have one hit the albums title song Burnin’ Sky that reached #18 on the Pop charts. 1979’s Desolation Angels fared better than its predecessor and gave the band their first Top 5 Platinum selling album since 1976’s album Run With the Pack. Desolation Angels embellished the group’s sound with synthesizers and strings. the album reaching #3 on the Billboard charts and again had two hit singles “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy” at #12 and, “Gone Gone Gone” at #44.

A three-year hiatus from the studio ended with the release of Rough Diamonds in 1982. This would be the sixth and final LP in the group’s original incarnation until four new songs were recorded in 1998. The album was the worst selling Bad Company album of those that had Paul Rodgers as the front man. The album peaked at #29; it yielded one hit, “Electricland”, that reached #10 on the newly created Mainstream Rock Charts.

By the end of the 1970s the band were increasingly disenchanted with playing large stadiums. In addition, Peter Grant lost interest in the group, and in management generally, after Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died in 1980. In the words of Simon Kirke, “Peter was definitely the glue which held us all together and in his absence we came apart”. (Reportedly, Paul Rodgers—who has a black belt in martial arts—was involved in a rather one-sided physical altercation with Boz Burrell and Mick Ralphs.) After the release of Rough Diamonds they disbanded. Mick Ralphs said, “Paul wanted a break and truthfully we all needed to stop. Bad Company had become bigger than us all and to continue would have destroyed someone or something. From a business standpoint, it was the wrong thing to do, but Paul’s instinct was absolutely right”.

In 1986, Ralphs and Kirke decided to re-form Bad Company, but Rodgers was engaged with a new supergroup called The Firm. So the remaining three members hired ex-Ted Nugent vocalist Brian Howe as the new lead singer, Steve Price as the new Bass player and Greg Dechert on keyboards. . Howe’s vocal style brought more of a pop-rock sound to the band, as opposed to Rodgers’ more bluesy sound. The band hired Foreigner producer Keith Olsen to produce the new lineup’s initial album, 1986’s Fame and Fortune. The band also switched labels to Atco Records. Reflecting the musical style of the mid-80s, the album was laden with keyboards, unlike previous Bad Company albums, and was only modestly commercially successful.

Burrell rejoined the band for the Fame and Fortune tour supporting Deep Purple, but left midway through the tour and was replaced by Steve Price for the next 5 years. Greg Dechert left the band in 1987.

For the next Howe-era album, 1988’s Dangerous Age, the band replaced Olsen with producer Terry Thomas, who got rid of most of the keyboards and returned the band to a guitar-driven sound. Dangerous Age fared better than its predecessor, spawning several videos and the hit “No Smoke Without A Fire”. After the Dangerous Age tour during which the band travelled seperately from Howe as they could no longer tolerate his behaviour, they set about finding a replacement for him. However Howe , hoping to launch a solo career was unable to secure a record deal and eventually the band was forced to allow him back as a result of pressure to produce a new album from outside influences

Steve Price left the band in 1992 and was replaced by Felix Krish in the studio and Paul Cullen live.. The band’s next album, 1990’s Holy Water, also produced by Thomas, was enormously successful both critically and commercially, attaining platinum status by selling more than one million copies. The album sparked the hits “If You Needed Somebody” and the title track “Holy Water.” The album received significant radio airplay and spawned several video hits. Mick Ralphs sat out for most of the Holy Water tour, although he did perform on the album.

The final studio album of the Howe era, 1992’s Here Comes Trouble featured the hits “How About That” and the title track “Here Comes Trouble.” Before touring in support of Here Comes Trouble, the band officially expanded to a quintet, adding ex-Foreigner bassist Rick Wills and rhythm guitarist Dave “Bucket” Colwell, a protégé of Ralphs. The band recorded a live album, What You Hear Is What You Get: The Best of Bad Company on the Here Comes Trouble tour. The album featured live versions of hits from both the Rodgers and Howe eras of the band.

Howe left the band after the release of the live album. In all, Bad Company’s Howe-fronted lineup sold 19 million albums, with most of the songs co-written by Howe and Thomas. Regarding his departure from the band, Howe stated: “Leaving Bad Company was not a difficult decision, it had got to the point where nobody was contributing anything to songwriting and quite frankly the band was getting very very sloppy live. I quite simply, along with Terry Thomas, got tired of doing all the work and then get nothing but resentment for it from Mick and Simon.”

Howe released a solo album, Tangled in Blue which was a commercial flop and continues to tour. His relationship with his ex-bandmates, namely Kirke and Ralphs, has remained acrimonious; they claim he promotes his shows as Bad Company shows by using the promo line “BAD COMPANY former lead singer Brian Howe”.

After Howe’s departure, the remaining foursome hired ex-Distance vocalist Robert Hart to take over lead vocal duties. Hart’s bluesy vocal style reminded many of Rodgers. The new lineup released Company of Strangers in 1995 and Stories Told & Untold in 1996. The latter album contains re-recordings of seven of Bad Company’s biggest hits (“told” stories), and seven previously-unreleased songs (“untold” stories).

During his absence from Bad Company, Rodgers was involved in many projects. Cut Loose a solo LP would be released in 1983, and A Tribute album to Muddy Waters in 1992. He would also partake in two band-projects: The Firm, with Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame and, The Law with Ex-The Who drummer Kenny Jones.

1998, Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke were discussing that the band should release an extensive compilation album with a bio and pictures for the fans. Rodgers at this point decided to give the fans four new songs, he finally reunited with the other three original members in the studio to record four new tracks. The reunion of all four original members Rodgers, Kirke, Burrell and Ralphs was short, but it produced Bad Company’s first number one hit in 20 years with “Hey Hey”. The second new song “Hammer of Love” peaked at #2 and the surprise hit of the re-released song “Deal With The Preacher” that first appeared on the album Straight Shooter in 1975. The new tracks appeared on the 1999 compilation album called The Original Bad Company Anthology. Bad Company toured with Paul Rodgers for only 30-date in the U.S. that drew sellout crowds in support of the Anthology release.

Paul Rodgers, “The Voice” (as the media called him since his days in Free), again rejoined his life long friend Simon Kirke in 2001, for Bad Company’s Merchants of Cool tour that kicked off in the U.S and then over to the U.K.. The sellout tour produced the first DVD/CD also called “Merchants of Cool” that features the song “Joe Fabulous” that hit #1 on Classic Rock Radio and top 20 on Mainstream Rock Radio in the U.S. all in its debut week in 2002. The Merchants of Cool tour was with Simon Kirke and Paul Rodgers being the only original members left by this time as Boz Burrell and Mick Ralphs (who has always had a fear of flying) were retired from touring. Dave Colwell previously second guitarist in the post-Paul Rodgers era of Bad Company, took lead guitar, Rick Wills was on bass. Guest performers at the shows included former Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash and Neal Schon of Journey fame.

In 2005, a DVD called “Inside Bad Company 1974-1982″ was released that reviews Bad Company on stage, on film and on record. It also interviews Simon Kirke and has some live recordings from the 70’s and 80’s.

Paul Rodgers, 56 years old in 2006 while looking as fit as a 26-year-old, was still touring and playing Bad Company songs with Queen. It was stated, including on Brian May’s own website, “that Rodgers would be featured with Queen as: Queen + Paul Rodgers, not replacing the late Freddie Mercury”, The CD and DVD of their collaboration was released in 2005 called Return of the Champions with songs by Queen, Bad Company and Free. On April 28, 2006, they released a live DVD from their collaboration called Super Live in Japan. There are many bootlegs from nearly every show of the 2005 and 2006 tours in audio, as well as a few in video form.

In 2006, a limited edition CD of 24K gold was released of the first Bad Company album (Bad Company). After taking over a year to find the original master tapes, the analog masters were put through a proprietary analog-to-digital converter that remastered the songs for the best possible sound.

Boz Burrell died of a heart attack on September 21, 2006, at his home in Spain.

Members :-

Paul Rodgers
Dave Colwell
Simon Kirke
Rick Wills

Former Members :-

Boz Burrell (deceased)
Mick Ralphs
Brian Howe
Steve Price
Felix Krish
Robert Hart
Jaz Lochrie
Mark Wolfe

Official site

Try Windows Vista without installing it on your PC. A new Microsoft Virtual Labs site lets you test-drive the Business version of the OS, right inside your browser.

The site provides a self-guided tour of Vista, dividing all its features into categories like safe, efficient and connected. Within each category you can view a video or take a test-drive of various features. When you opt for the latter, you effectively get Vista running in a window. You can poke around, try the new apps (like Sidebar and Windows Meeting Space) and so on.

Two catches: First, the test drive requires Internet Explorer 6 or later. Second, on my system the virtual-machine Vista ran dog-slow, though your mileage may vary. Even if you don’t plan to adopt Windows Vista when it ships later this month, chances are good you’ll end up with it eventually. This is a neat way to get familiar with the look and feel of the new OS.

AutoPatcher is a freeware Windows Update alternative that gives you more control over how you update your PC.Rather than requiring an internet connection every time you need to update a PC, AutoPatcher can be burned to a CD and used on any computer – which comes as a godsend for any resident PC-geek of the family, especially when you’ve updated a PC over a 56k modem. The great part about AutoPatcher is that not only does it dole out the regular updates, but it also automates installation of several tools not generally included by Windows Update, like Windows PowerToys.

The only downside to AutoPatcher is that you can’t automate future updates, meaning that you would have to check back monthly to get the “Update” releases. If you’re fine with that, then go with AutoPatcher all the way. If you don’t want to worry about checking back with AutoPatcher for updates, the regular Windows Update tool should remain turned on and updating. However, you should still keep AutoPatcher in mind any time you’ve re-installed Windows, as it provides a much easier and arguably secure way to update a freshly installed, unpatched version of Windows.

Download AutoPatcher

When I made the switch to Ubuntu Linux on my desktop computer (that is, if you can call triple-booting Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu a “switch”), I was a little worried about finding the applications and tools that would make me as productive working in Ubuntu as I am working on Windows.

After a little searching around the interweb, however, I’ve been more than impressed with the number of great, full-featured applications available for Linux, many of which outshine their Windows counterparts. And what’s best – they’re all totally free. Here are my top 10 favorite applications and tweaks that made replacing Windows with Ubuntu a breeze.

Taking a page from Mark Pilgrim’s essential software list, I’ve included the necessary command line code to install most of the applications below; if you don’t like Terminal, you can use Ubuntu’s very friendly Add/Remove software application interface (Applications -> Add/Remove…). Where I haven’t included the apt-get line, follow the instructions in the link.

1. Automatix

As I said last week, Automatix will get your system ready to play nice with proprietary codecs and the like, but it can also install a lot of really useful apps, from Picasa and Google Earth to several of the apps on this list. Automatix is a great way to get a lot of applications installed in a hurry.

2. Beagle

Beagle is the Spotlight/Google Desktop search app for Linux. However, think more Spotlight than Google Desktop (which is a good thing, because Google Desktop can suck at times). Beagle indexes your files and lets you construct quick, powerful file searches.

apt-get install beagle

3. Gnome Deskbar Applet

The Gnome Deskbar Applet is sort of a cross between Spotlight and Quicksilver. Basically it’s a great app launcher and then some, with plugins designed to integrate more search options than you can shake a stick at, from live Google searches to integration with Beagle.

To use the Deskbar Applet, right-click the top panel and select Add to Panel… and find Deskbar Applet (incidentally, there are a lot of other great tools in the Add to Panel… dialog worth checking out). It’s no Quicksilver, but it’s better than any app launcher/search tool available on Windows.

apt-get install deskbar-applet

4. VLC

It’s no secret that we love us some VLC, so there’s no reason not to keep loving it on your new Linux distribution. VLC can play virtually any file format you throw at it.

apt-get install vlc

As a bonus, you can also setup VLC as a plug-in for Firefox.

5. Firefox

It should go without saying at this point, but no operating system would be complete without Firefox. Ubuntu ships with Firefox out of the box, but it never hurts to emphasize something you love so much. Of course, you will want to add any number of Firefox extensions.

apt-get install firefox

6. amaroK

I didn’t know that love between a man and a music player was possible, but amaroK’s seamless integration with Wikipedia, lyrics and album cover look-ups, and MusicBrainz have me questioning the laws of nature and propriety. Oh, and don’t worry – it’ll sync to your iPod with its eyes closed.

apt-get install amarok

7. CheckGmail

Even though Google doesn’t, for some strange reason, provide a version of the Gmail Notifier for Linux, that doesn’t mean you’re out of luck – the resourcefulness of the open source community comes to the rescue!

apt-get install checkgmail

8. Add NTFS Read/Write support

If you’re switching from Windows, chances are you’ve got lots of data stored on an NTFS (New Technology File System) formatted drive that you’re not ready to get rid of. This used to be a major problem, since Linux isn’t able to write files to NTFS drives. Or at least that used to be the case. Luckily the Linux-NTFS project has built a driver to overcome those limitations.

9. Turn off the system beep

You know that annoying, shrill beep that comes not from your speakers, but rather inside the depths of your computer called a system beep? I hate it, but Ubuntu likes to use it when, for example, I’m searching for text in Firefox and I get to the point where the text doesn’t match anything. In Windows, this invokes a fairly annoying noise. In Ubuntu, it’s the system beep, which is even worse. Here’s how to disable it:

rmmod pcspkr

If you decide you miss it, this will re-load it:

modprobe pcspkr

10. XGL/Compiz = Purdiest graphics you’ve seen in a while

The XGL/Compiz one-two punch offers an incredible window management environment for your Ubuntu installation. My video card isn’t quite up to snuff for handling these kind of accelerated graphics (it’s really kind of a weenie), and the architecture hasn’t got all the kinks worked out, but this is definitely the most exciting GUI I’ve seen in a while. If you haven’t already seen it, check out the irritating yet wonderful video below:

Your mileage may vary with XGL/Compiz, but here are the instructions that worked for me (note: over-the-top thrash metal not included):

11. (BONUS!) Frozen Bubble

All right, I’ll admit – Frozen Bubble isn’t the most important app on the list, but I love this game, which is why it gets the coveted number 11 slot. Play it.

apt-get install frozen-bubble