Andrew Vayanis Developer, Gamer, Thinker

I recently found myself in a tough situation when I accidentally typed rm * <dir_name>/ as opposed to rm <dir_name>/* , deleting the current project I was working on. Having instantly realized my mistake, I quickly unmounted my drive and powered down the machine I was working on. As I frantically searched the net for some way to undo what I had just done, it seemed as though my month’s hard work was slipping further and further down the drain. Almost every post and response I found seemed to point towards the horrible truth that I might have to rebuild my entire project from scratch. This, of course, was not a suitable solution.
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About two months ago, I decided it was time to revisit Linux in general after sitting down and reading through some of the new features offered by XGL with Compiz or Beryl. I installed Ubuntu 6.10 on a spare laptop late in march upgrading to 7.04 shortly after that, and I have been using it as one of my primary workstations since. In case some of you may not know, I recently found out myself, the decimal number following the Ubuntu version, denotes the month it was released: 7.04 refers to version 7 released in April. Linux has definitely come a long way since I last used it in 2004, at least in terms of being a feasible desktop operating system for the masses.
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