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Ever since I upgraded my Ubuntu desktop from 9.04 to 10.4, I have been having problems with Amarok dropping sound randomly. For example, if Amarok is playing the music and another program requires to use sound, Amarok will become silence. One solution to restore sound in Amarok is to kill pulseaudio and restart Amarok. It works, but very annoying. Fortunately, installing libxine1-gnome and configure Amarok to use Esound (ESD) instead of PulseAudio fixed the problem. ...

# update-alternatives --config editor` There are 7 alternatives which provide \`editor`. Selection Alternative 1 /bin/ed + 2 /bin/nano 3 /usr/bin/vim.tiny * 4 /usr/bin/vim.basic 5 /usr/bin/nedit 6 /usr/bin/emacs21 7 /usr/bin/xemacs21 Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 6

Look for line begins with Defaults, and append insults to the end. Save it, and clear the sudo session (sudo -K), and try sudo with a wrong password. 🙂 Source: Enable sudo insults for some laughs

Normally, I would install Scim and Anthy for Japanese input method on Debian. Recently, I found an easier way to achieve the same thing, which is to use IBus instead of Scim. Install ibus: sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-anthy ibus-gtk From the menu, System -> Preferences -> IBus Preference. IBus Preference should detects that you have run IBus daemon yet, click “Yes” to run it. You’ll be asked to edit your ~/.bashrc and add the following 3 lines: export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus</pre> Click on “Input Method” tab, if you don’t see “Japanese – Anthy” listed under the Input Method list, select “Japanese -> Anthy” from the “Select an input method” drop down list, then click Add. You might want to restart X (logout and log back in) Open a text editor, and hit Ctrl + Space to toggle the Japanese input method Reference: Japanese Input with Karmic?