Kenno's openNOTE

$ mplayer -ass -sub subtitle.ass file.avi


# 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

$ sudo visudo

Look for line begins with Defaults, and append insults to the end.

Defaults        env_reset,insults

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.

1. Install ibus: sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-anthy ibus-gtk
2. From the menu, System -> Preferences -> IBus Preference
   IBus Preference should detects that you have run IBus daemon yet, click “Yes” to run it.
3. You’ll be asked to edit yoru .bashrc and add the following 3 lines:


   export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
   export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
   export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

4. 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.
5. You might want to restart X (logout and log back in)
6. 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


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$ 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??