Sunday, January 15, 2012
How To Restore Language Bar (on XP)
First, see if the language bar is accidentally disabled from toolbar. Compare following pictures.
1. Right-click on "Desktop" area ( (highlighted in yellow square) and uncheck the "Lock the Taskbar" option.
No language bar: 
Has language bar: 
If you see no language bar, try enabling language bar by,
1. Right-click on "Desktop" area 
(highlighted in yellow square)
(highlighted in yellow square)2. Select the "Toolbars" then "Language bar" to enable the language bar. You should see a check mark after it is enabled 
If language bar is there 
but you couldn't find the IME pad, do following,
but you couldn't find the IME pad, do following,1. Right-click on "Desktop" area ( (highlighted in yellow square) and uncheck the "Lock the Taskbar" option.
2. Now, you should be able to drag the vertical bar on the left of the language bar (again, highlighted in yellow square) to the left to expand the language bar.
3. Identify the "Tool menu" icon 
, left-click on it and find the "IME pad" 
.
, left-click on it and find the "IME pad" 
.It is also possible that the language bar is completely disabled by Windows. Here is the steps to re-enable it.
1. Launch the Control Panel from Start menu. 
2. Doubl-click on "Regional and Language Options" icon. 
3. When the new windows opens, select the "Languages" tab, then click on the "Details" button.
4. The "Text Services and Input Languages" window will be opened. Click on the "Language Bar..." button. 
5. The "Language Bar Settings" window will be opened. Please make sure the highlighted checkboxs are checked. 
Labels: Computer, language bar, windowsXP
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Nokia N810
After many days' thinking and research, yesterday, 6/20, I finally placed the order and purchased Nokia N810 from Buy.com.
Here are my reasons to purchase this gadget:
- replacing the aging Palm Zire31 (PIM replacement, GPE, windiz, available)
- needing a (limited function) GPS
- having the portable Skype & media player
- nice to having a portable Linux device
I shall report back after I receive and start using this device
Here are my reasons to purchase this gadget:
- replacing the aging Palm Zire31 (PIM replacement, GPE, windiz, available)
- needing a (limited function) GPS
- having the portable Skype & media player
- nice to having a portable Linux device
I shall report back after I receive and start using this device
Labels: Computer
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Cannot Install Hardware, Access Is Denied
[2009-03-11]
I ran into a problem where in every WindowsXP boot-up and it complaints about "Cannot Install Hardware, access is denied". After did some Googling, I found this interesting article. I tried the technique described in this article and was able to identify which Registry entry is causing the problem.
Chuang Computer Tips: Cannot Install Hardware, Access Is Denied
This article offers a very nice trick when your Windows refuses to install any hardware. Be forwarned that this is for computer-literated people. There are also risk involves manipulating Windows registry content.
[2009-03-12]
I ended up deleting the offending Registry entry and was hoping that would resolve the issue, but it DIDN'T.
After more Googling, I am trying another approach (the built-in system restore) and will see how it goes...
To run System Restore,
[2009-04-05]
Forgot to update this post. Actually, the built-in system restore works like a champ. Highly recommend using system restore to create "restore point" periodically or before installing any software.
I ran into a problem where in every WindowsXP boot-up and it complaints about "Cannot Install Hardware, access is denied". After did some Googling, I found this interesting article. I tried the technique described in this article and was able to identify which Registry entry is causing the problem.
Chuang Computer Tips: Cannot Install Hardware, Access Is Denied
This article offers a very nice trick when your Windows refuses to install any hardware. Be forwarned that this is for computer-literated people. There are also risk involves manipulating Windows registry content.
[2009-03-12]
I ended up deleting the offending Registry entry and was hoping that would resolve the issue, but it DIDN'T.
After more Googling, I am trying another approach (the built-in system restore) and will see how it goes...
To run System Restore,
- Fint it.
- Run it.
- Choose the restore point.
[2009-04-05]
Forgot to update this post. Actually, the built-in system restore works like a champ. Highly recommend using system restore to create "restore point" periodically or before installing any software.
Labels: Computer
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Enable Sumatra as default PDF viewer
- Open file explorer. Notice the icon of those PDF files (before the default program is assigned for PDF file), Double-clik on the the PDF file.
- Select "Select the program from a list" item, then click "OK".
- It will take a few moment for this window to show up. When it does, click "Browse...".
- The "Open With..." window shows up. We will have to find where Sumatra is. By default, Sumatr is installed at "C:\Program Files\Sumatra".
- When Sumatra program is found, select (highlight) the program, then click "OK".
- "SumatraPDF" will then show up in the list.
- Select "SumatraPDF", then click "OK".
- The PDF document will be opened by SumatraPDF.
If this is the first time SumatraPDF is run, check "Don't ask me again" box and click "Yes" to associate PDF with SumatraPDF. By doing this, SumatraPDF will be used to open PDF files in the future. - Just for comparison, icon of those PDF files was changed to SumatraPDF icon.
Labels: Computer, SumatraPDF
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Step-by-step Installing Sumatra PDF viewer
- Visit Sumatra PDF download page and click on SumatraPDF-0.9.3-install.exe link
- Click "Run" on both "Security Warning" windows
- Following the SumatraPDF installation instructions to complete the installation
- SumatraPDF can now be launched from "start" menu
- Click "Yes" when SumatraPDF asks "Associate with PDF files?". This would allow you to double-click on any PDF file and be able to view its content with SumatraPDF
- Use "File" and "Open" menu to open any existing PDF file
- The toolbar contains icons for quick operations, such as "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out". Just try them out.
Labels: Computer, SumatraPDF
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Running SLAX 6.0.9 on a 512MB USB drive
SLAX was top of the list on The LiveCD List (http://www.livecdlist.com/) site and the description shows that it has very minimum disk requirement, so I feel that I should give it a try.
Without further thinking, I decided to install SLAX on my wife's broken MP3 player (a BENQ joybee). After all, this device has 512MB and the maximum size requirement for SLAX is only 193MB.
Following the instructions on the SLAX official site (http://www.slax.org/), it is very easy to put the pre-packaged SLAX onto the device.
Here are the steps done from Windows PC (just a reminder to myself) -
After that, restart the PC, hit the (or whatever key to get into BIOS), and make sure the PC boots up from USB driver.
A nice boot-up screen shows up. And all I have to is to hit to boot into SLAX.
TA.DA!! === a standalone Linux PC is now running with KDE ===
The first thing I want is network connectivity. Although SLAX recognizes most of my network devices, I have to customize SLAX a little bit.
TA.DA!! === a connected Linux PC running from a 512MB USB ===
Now, I would like to be able to view Web pages in Asian languages (especially, Traditional Chinese & Japanese). For this, I searched and read many informative web pages, even download a few ISOs just to extract a few packages (see the bottoms for all links).
I still haven't fully understand how it works, but after adding following items, my SLAX is now capable of displaying Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
1. Downloaded glibc-i18n-2.7-noarch-17.tgz and converted it to LZM (using tgz2lzm). Because the USB drive has very limited space, I have to modified "tgz2lzm" so that it uses my harddisk (instead of the USB drive) as temporary storage.
The glibc-i18n-2.7-noarch-17.lzm is placed under /slax/base
2. Downloaded Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts. Here what I have put under /slax/modules. They are all *.mo and renamed to *.lzm.
TA.DA!! === a multilingual Linux PC ===
Still, I have a few things want to achieve, like be able to input Traditioanl Chinese & Japanese, be able to play music, and so on, but these will be my homewok for the next few weeks or so
Reference URLs (in no particular order):
Without further thinking, I decided to install SLAX on my wife's broken MP3 player (a BENQ joybee). After all, this device has 512MB and the maximum size requirement for SLAX is only 193MB.
Following the instructions on the SLAX official site (http://www.slax.org/), it is very easy to put the pre-packaged SLAX onto the device.
Here are the steps done from Windows PC (just a reminder to myself) -
- download the SLAX tarball (http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php?download=tar)
- clean up MP3
- untar SLAX tarball to root of MP3 player
- execute /boot/bootinst.bat to make MP3 player bootable (pay extra attention to make sure the script does work on the correct driver)
After that, restart the PC, hit the
A nice boot-up screen shows up. And all I have to is to hit
TA.DA!! === a standalone Linux PC is now running with KDE ===
The first thing I want is network connectivity. Although SLAX recognizes most of my network devices, I have to customize SLAX a little bit.
at work, I use wired ethernet and I have to manually create /etc/resolv.conf
at home, I use wireless network, and I have to do a few extra things,
From KDE mene, go to "Internet" and launch "Wireless LAN Manager" From "Settings", "Configuration Editor...", I set up "Network name" as well as configured "WEP encryption" key The Wireless LAN Manager has no problem finding my wireless router and showing me that my signal strength is very good, but, for some reason, it doesn't enable my wireless interface. I have to drop to command prompt and wrote up a script to bring up the interface. Here is my script:
#!/bin/sh
#
WIRELESS=eth2
ROUTER=192.168.0.1
IPADDRESS=192.168.0.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
#
# bring up wireless interface
ifconfig ${WIRELESS} up
#
# assign interface address manually
ifconfig ${WIRELESS} ${IPADDRESS} netmask ${NETMASK}
#
# add default route
route add default gw ${ROUTER}
#
#
ifconfig ${WIRELESS}
route
TA.DA!! === a connected Linux PC running from a 512MB USB ===
Now, I would like to be able to view Web pages in Asian languages (especially, Traditional Chinese & Japanese). For this, I searched and read many informative web pages, even download a few ISOs just to extract a few packages (see the bottoms for all links).
I still haven't fully understand how it works, but after adding following items, my SLAX is now capable of displaying Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
1. Downloaded glibc-i18n-2.7-noarch-17.tgz and converted it to LZM (using tgz2lzm). Because the USB drive has very limited space, I have to modified "tgz2lzm" so that it uses my harddisk (instead of the USB drive) as temporary storage.
root@slax:/root# diff `which tgz2lzm` ../../customize/root/bin/tgz2lzm
18c18,19
< tmpdir="/tmp/tgz2lzm$$"> TMP=${TMP:=/tmp}
> TMPDIR=${TMP}/tgz2lzm$$
The glibc-i18n-2.7-noarch-17.lzm is placed under /slax/base
2. Downloaded Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts. Here what I have put under /slax/modules. They are all *.mo and renamed to *.lzm.
fonts-korean-1.0.11-9.1.noarch.lzm (Korean font)
CJK_Display_Support_optimized_1_0-3.lzm
Taiwan_cht_input_method_gcin_1172.lzm (Chinese input method - have not yet tried it)
Taiwan_cht_Language_Pack_2006_0801.lzm
Taiwan_cht_Fireflysung_font_Fireflysung.lzm (Chinese font)
TA.DA!! === a multilingual Linux PC ===
Still, I have a few things want to achieve, like be able to input Traditioanl Chinese & Japanese, be able to play music, and so on, but these will be my homewok for the next few weeks or so
Reference URLs (in no particular order):
- www.linuxfans.org/bbs/thread-138500-1-205.html
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support_(East_Asian)
- www.corelan.be:8800/index.php/2007/08/26/creating-and-installing-lzm-modules-in-backtrack-2
- knoppix.tnc.edu.tw/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3357&forum=3
- www.gamebase.com.tw/forum/37008/topic/82713285#82713285
- zivgt2.blogspot.com/2008/03/slax-6-for-dell-inspiron-700m.html
- sites.google.com/a/ab.ath.cx/netsurfing/Home/slax%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87%e5%8c%96
- www.wretch.cc/blog/SWdoom/27211627
- docs.google.com/View?docid=ajkbrwfkpvrq_38hs2ckb
- people.ofset.org/~ckhung/p/mk-boot-usb/slax.en.php
- garyzyg.blogspot.com/2006/08/add-essential-cht-support-to-slax.html
- cle.linux.org.tw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=550
- webgnuru.com/linux/modify_slax.php
- hatochan.dyndns.org/slax-ja/index.php
- 2.csx.jp/livecdroom/
- blogs.yahoo.co.jp/cyksart/43293048.html
- www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=8537
- www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=29719
- cdlinux.info/wiki/doku.php/
