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?

Update Thanks to Jayen, there is a better way: $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 Codename: karmic $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid n l Or $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.32-trunk-686 (Debian 2.6.32-5) (ben@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6) ) #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 06:32:16 UTC 2010 Source: Which Linux Distro are you using??

I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my desktop. When I tried to play some mp3 files with Amarok 2.2.0, it didn’t make any sound though it played ogg without a problem. Thanks to this post, mp3 play back can be enabled by installing libxine1-ffmpeg. $ sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg Credit: How to Play mp3 files with amarok in Ubuntu Linux 9.04

Finally, the OS X has been removed from MSI Wind U100, and completely replaced by Debian (testing). Whenever the computer is idle, the hdd makes this weird clicking noise. To stop it, we can use hdparm to turn it off. kenno@tora:~$ sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda</p> /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) APM_level = 254 Source: MSI Wind – Gentoo Linux Wiki

At work, a colleague is struggling to get his PC up and running for a few days now. To add an insult to injury, he also lost some of his Microsoft Outlook back up emails. Seeing what happened to him, it’s a good reminder that I shall back up my files and emails too. I use Mozilla Thunderbird (2.0.0.22), and I found a very nice tool to back up the emails (a.k.a profile). It’s called MozBackup. ...