My Ubuntu Experience: Day 2

More items accomplished from my list:

4) I've finally got Chinese input working! Again, I did everything from the menu system (i.e, no command line :D ) Here are the steps (courtesy of this instruction):
i) Choose System->Administration->Language Support. It will automatically download some packages. Check the Chinese checkbox. It will install Chinese. Close it when it's done.
ii) Again, Choose System->Administration->Language Support. The previously checked "Enable Support to input Complex character" will become unchecked. Check it again.
iii) Log out and log back in.
我現在可以打中文了！

Also, contrary to what some people said, I was actually able to type Chinese in Open Office as well.

5) Watch Real Media encoded video:
Download the installer from http://www.real.com/linux . Change permission to executable and execute it. I chose to install to /usr/local/RealPlayer and the symlink dir option is the default (/usr) which symlink it as /usr/bin/realplay

Since I use SCIM, I got core dump when executing realplay, the workaround is do first:
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
Then execute "realplay &" from the same shell.
(Link to Detailed Instructions)

[Update: To associate the .rmvb file extension with Real Player, try this]