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The image rendering in Firefox 3.5 under Ubuntu 9.10 is very bad. You can avoid it by turn off the zoom function for images in Firefox:
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Go to View>Zoom>reset View -> Zoom -> reset and choose "zoom text only". |
Synaptic Package Manager 100% CPU
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Ubuntu has switched to IBus as preferred input method framework. Unlike the previously used SCIM, IBus is under active development and fixes a number of SCIM's design limitations.
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Go to System >> Administration and select Language Support.
Install the missing language pack.
Keyboard input method system: select ibus
Next screen Installed Languages:
select Chinese (simplified), make sure you checked Translations, Input methods, and Extra fonts
I also selected Japanese language.
go to System -> Preferences -> iBus Preferences.
By default, to trigger iBus: Control+space, switch to next input method: Alt+Shift_L
Input methods:
PinYin is for inputing Chinese Characters
pinyin is for input pinyin symbols.
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Generate key pair:
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client% ssh-keygen |
Then copy id_rsa.pub to server
Add client's public key to server's authorized key file:
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server% cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keysSet default username on your client:client% cat ~/.ssh/config
Host *.rice.edu
User YourNetID
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You CANNOT change the hostname by just using the command of
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% sudo hostname ANewName |
To change the hostname, edit the /etc/hostname file, and Ubuntu will automatically change the corresponding line in the /etc/hosts file. If for some reason, the hosts file are not changed, you have to change it manually.
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$ sudo vi /etc/hostname
$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 newHostName localhost.localdomain localhost
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Mount rice storage (only for Rice University users)
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https://docs.rice.edu/confluence/display/ITTUT/Mount+the+storage+drive+on+Linux |
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After the installation, I don't know why I cannot mount the swap partition. Finally I figured out that the UUID pointing to swap is different from the correct one. You can see your partitons UUID by this comamnd:
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ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ |
Then copy and past your correct UUID of your swap partition to /et