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Using Japanese on Debian Wheezy

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Taro

The goal is to make the system capable for Japanese input, while letting the base system remain English. For the Japanese input method, I had been using Anthy, but I will be using mozc, which is now better supported and … Continue reading →

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Installing Dropbox on Debian Wheezy

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Taro

Go to the Dropbox download website and download the .deb package, here dropbox_1.4.0_amd64.deb. Then The program will be listed under the menu Applications -> Internet. On the first launch it will download the daemon and I will need to go … Continue reading →

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Installing Ubuntu (12.04 LTS 64-bit) from an ISO Image on Hard Drive

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Taro

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to install Linux off an ISO image on hard drive for whatever reason. My Dell XPS 630i has had some issues when I was installing Debian off an install CD/USB, likely related to how … Continue reading →

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Repeating Failed Linux Command on Bash

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Taro

I was in need of backing up a lot of data in a hurry.  I used rsync between the file server and a locally mounted USB drive, but for some reason the command kept failing.  It had something to do … Continue reading →

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Installing Firefox 9 on Debian Squeeze

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Taro

The questionable move by Firefox to the rapid release schedule has me disappointed.  A little bugs here and there, incompatible add-ons, and so on.  Seriously, the major, if not the most important advantage of Firefox is all these add-ons we … Continue reading →

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Installing kcorrect (v4_2) for IDL Locally on Linux

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Taro

I usually stay away from IDL but wanted to test the new version of kcorrect which usually runs on IDL.  Fortunately a Linux box in the department has IDL installed, so I decided to test it there, installing kcorrect locally.  … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 11, 2011 by Taro

This is all I needed to use this: Love Debian.

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Using NTP Server to Synchronize Time on Debian Squeeze

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Taro

I want the time of my computer to get synchronized with a reliable time server. To do this, install ntp: $ sudo aptitude install ntp $ sudo /etc/init.d/ntp restart After restarting the NTP server (the second line above) the system … Continue reading →

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Installing Firefox 4 Beta 9 on Debian Squeeze

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Taro

I find the easiest way is to download a precompiled binary from this nightly build repository. For beta 9 on AMD64: $ wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-4.0b9pre.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 $ tar -xvjf firefox*.tar.bz2 $ sudo mv firefox /usr/local/firefox4-b9pre $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/firefox4-b9pre /usr/local/firefox4 $ … Continue reading →

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Mounting an ext4 Partition over NFS on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Taro

The title says it all.  I want to use a USB drive formatted with ext4 on Snow Leopard.  I mostly use the drive with Linux but sometimes I wish to mount it on my iMac at work to transfer a … Continue reading →

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