A return to blogging activity

Haven't posted in awhile mainly due to being busy with my Masters of  IT. Only doing two subjects this semester partly because of not doing too well in my previous courses due to chronic fatigue and partly because those were the only two subjects available . Now that I have worked out the cause of it being an allergy to rice, I wanted to give it everything I've got. So far I've got around 7s for all my assessments (despite being sick for over a month from exposure to the cold wind and rain from the South at the end of August). But the marks aren't important, they are just a natural result of me wanting to reclaim the last 10 years of my life back and trying to learn as much as I can.

To me the course is interesting so I will start blogging again. As for the lack of fansubbing activity, I'm starting to lose profiency in my Japanese with that loss being retarded by a daily practcice on Anki. I do miss fansubbing but I don't know when I can afford the time to do it. Fansubbing takes a lot of time.

Sayonara Bokutachi No Youchien new vocab entered into Anki

Finished entering the new vocab from "Sayonara Bokutachi No Youchien" to study into anki.
Anki is a Space Repetition System (SRS) program for remembering things and is especially useful for learning Japanese. Basically it's a flash card program.

Japanese Input for Anki or other Qt Apps.

MB 4,1=> Ubuntu 9.10 => Primary Desktop Gnome + Secondary Desktop KDE

Installed Anki but Anki is Qt app.
Installed scim/skim in both Gnome and KDE, but Japanese input only works for Gtk apps.

Uninstalled scim (maybe ok to leave it installed and install skim components for later as well)

In Gnome, run ibus daemon: System => Preferences => IBus Preferences => Input Method =>Japanese Anthy => close. There shouldn't be any problems in setting up IBus, although again Qt apps didn't work for me. Gtk apps work fine though.
I don't think it was necessary, but in my attempt to get IBus working for Qt apps I followed these instructions:

http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8293772

Logout of Gnome Desktop.
Log into KDE and follow these instructions to installed relevant scim/skim from repository (if not already installed):

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=13489.0

Because these instructions are for Edgy, I skipped the first three instruction codes from part 1, and used the KDE's equivalent to synaptic to get the scim/skim from the repository. Should also be okay to install from the Gnome Desktop via synaptic then log into KDE. Follow the instructions carefully, especially the all Caps part and instead of logout then login may have to restart for some parts.

Once installed, test that scim works ok for Qt apps such as kate and Anki.

Logout or restart and login using Gnome Desktop. CJK inputs can then be used for Qt apps. using skim, while IBus is used to input CJK for Gtk apps.


Note: Anki works fine with Japanese input under Linux Mint 8 on the GDM with just iBus installed. That is there is no need to install KDE on Linux Mint 8 to get Japanese IME working for QT apps.