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In one hundred years who knows. Now talking seriously, I don't think it will come to that (and I really hope it won't happen) but it's a fact that people (maybe influenced by the Japanese mass media obsession with English words) are using more loan words in every day talk. Lots of native words are being replaced by English (well, engrish to be more precise). We often joke with my Japanese sensei that maybe we should have gone to the next classroom where English is being taught whenever engrish words like サラリーマン(sarariiman) instead of 会社員(kaishain) or ジャーナリスト(jaanarisuto) instead of 記者(kisha) appear in the lesson we are seeing.

Not only that, if things continue like now, maybe no Japanese people will speak Japanese at that time. I'm amazed at how every day more and more native words are replaced with their English counterpart.

I don´t think it´s possible to use sign recognition in Anthy. You can see here if you want to try a kanji handwritten recognition applet. Regarding anki I´m not having any problem with it when having scim enabled but you can try disabling it for anki. In a console write the following: QT_IM_MODULE=simple anki If it works, make it a script. Create a text file as the following and make it executable. #!/bin/bash QT_IM_MODULE=simple anki

Hi, Yves. I´m currently using gentoo but I think the same packages should be available in mandriva. For the input method I´m using uim with scim-anthy as frontend. For it to work in qt apps you will also need to install scim-qtimm and scim-bridge for qt4 apps. Also don´t forget to set the environmental variables so that you can switch input methods by simply pressing ctrl + spacebar. Just add the following to your .xprofile, xsession, xinitrc or similar file. export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim export QT_IM_MODULE=scim Anki is a great app, you will find it very useful once you start learning kanjis. Other app you might be interested in is the Rikaichan extension for Firefox. It let´s you get the kanji reading and meaning by hovering the mouse over it.

For the hard disk problem of your friend please post the content of the /etc/fstab file. cat /etc/fstab

You are using the same vmlinuz and initrd.img for Mandriva 2008 and Mandrake 9. Also you are using root=/dev/hdb1 for Mandriva 2008 so you should also use /dev/hdb7 for the Mandrake entry. Try using the modified menu bellow (don't forget to copy vmlinuz and initrd.img from Mandrake's /boot to Mandriva's /boot and renaming them to vmlinuz-mdk9 and initrd-mdk9.img) timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd1,0)/boot/gfxmenu default 3 title linux kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hdb1 resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdb1 resume=/dev/hdb5 initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/hdb1 failsafe initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img title windows root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title linux Mandrake 9.0 kernel (hd1,6)/boot/vmlinuz-mdk9 root=/dev/hdb7 devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi quiet vga=788 initrd (hd1,6)/boot/initrd-mdk9.img

Fedora is not booting because /mnt/fedora is not mounted at boot. Copy /mnt/fedora/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 and /mnt/fedora/boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img to /boot, edit lilo.conf and finally run lilo.

Boot ubuntu in runlevel 1 (recovery mode or single user mode in the boot menu, if you don't have those options edit the kernel booting option and add single at the end). To add an account with administrative privileges run user add "username" admin or to enable the root account run passwd root

Just to clarify things a little, blocking ports in the INPUT chain will stop incoming connections to your machine, so blocking port 25 there will prevent outside machines to connect to your smtp port. This will not stop you from checking or sending webmails or normal mails. On the other hand, blocking ports on the OUTPUT chain will stop outgoing connections, so if you block port 25 there you will still be able to check mails but you won't be able to send mail through the standard smtp port. Being it a server or a desktop computer it's always a good idea to block all the incoming ports and only open those you'll be using.

You can use webmin to graphically configure iptables.

If you are using apache, enable mod_rewrite in your conf file. Then add the following to httpd.conf or vhost.conf. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R]

It should be in your user's home folder.

As root type mcc and there you can disable 3d desktop or if you can get to the display manager login screen choose drak3d as the session and disable 3d desktop there.

You have to add the Indexes option in your httpd.conf file for the directory you want to list the files. You may also want to add some indexes options to get a better listing (long file names, folders appearing first, etc) <Directory /var/www/directory_to_view> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks IndexOptions NameWidth=* FoldersFirst </Directory>

I think the site is down. I'm at work right now using windows and I can't access it neither. Tried with opera and ie and got the same result.