Category Archives: Bsd

Typing Korean (and Japanese) in Linux

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

A while back, I wrote a post on typing Japanese in FreeBSD, but since I started learning the Korean language too, alongside Japanese, I decided to revisit the subject. The default method these days for inputting Japanese or Korean is … Continue reading →

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The Amitabha Sutra, Online

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

So, one of my personal projects that I’ve had for over 2 years was to print a copy of the Amitabha Sutra (amidakyō 阿弥陀経 in Japanese) in order to complete the “liturgy” section of my Buddhist texts page. I finally … Continue reading →

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Anki and FreeBSD 7

Posted on October 1, 2009 by

While playing around on FreeBSD 7.2 at home, I got Anki to work on there without too much issue. The main issue is that the stock install of FreeBSD is missing lot of libraries for Qt4 and Python-qt4 plugins necessary … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD and Japanese text

Posted on September 7, 2009 by

In our last episode, I showed how to get FreeBSD 7.2 with Gnome working with SCIM-Anthy, thus allowing people to type Japanese. But despite getting this working I ran into some other internationalization issues: Text-based browsers still didn’t work. Text-editors … Continue reading →

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Web, Japanese and UTF8

Posted on August 31, 2009 by

Getting Japanese text to work on a webpage was something that came up recently at work, so I felt inspired to touch on the subject briefly. This piece is a bit more techinical than other posts, but on the other … Continue reading →

Posted in Bsd, Japanese, Language, Linux, Macintosh, Technology, Windows | 2 Comments

Typing Japanese in FreeBSD

Posted on August 25, 2009 by

Thanks to some helpful guides on the Internets, I managed to finally get my installation of FreeBSD to type Japanese. The technology has definitely come a long way since I last tried this a few years ago, and documentation hasn’t … Continue reading →

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Achieving BSD samadhi

Posted on July 16, 2009 by

On the lighter side of things, I have been playing around a lot with BSD operating systems at home late night, trying to sharpen old UNIX skills, and to just have some fun.1 I’ve always been a big fan of … Continue reading →

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The problem with the world is people

Posted on June 26, 2009 by

My writing in this blog has dropped off again lately, but I haven’t really felt like explaining why, until I read today’s comic by Xkcd: I’d say this sums up my thoughts on certain things. For some reason, after some … Continue reading →

Posted in Bsd, Buddhism, General, Hosso, Japanese, Taoism, Technology | 10 Comments

Strict ANSI C programming

Posted on November 18, 2008 by

So, as I continue my quest to be a better developer, and finally learn C at last, a co-worker pointed out something very important. For Linux (and probably BSD) developers, the obvious choice for a C compiler is gcc, but … Continue reading →

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The life of a new C programmer

Posted on November 10, 2008 by

For the last few months, I’ve been striving to refresh old tech skills and maybe learn some new ones. I’ve been in the IT industry, first as a student, then full time since 1997. That’s not nearly as long as … Continue reading →

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