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Opera op Lëtzebuergesch

Hunn och elo ugefaangen vir eng spezifesch Mac-Sproochdatei ze schafen bigsmile

Sproochdateien fir Mac, Win a Linux
Nei: Link an Verzeechnis
Aktuell : fir Opera 12.00 Beta1 (01/05/12)

E puer lëtzebuergesch Kadoen fir ënnert den virtuellen Chrëschtbeemchen

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Dëst Joer waren jo Ebook-Reader ganz populär als Chrëschtkado. Mee huet och een e lëtzebuergescht Ebook?

Tjo, wat et nach net gëtt, kann een maachen... bigsmile

1ten Kado: Renert oder de Fuuss am Frack an a Maansgréisst (Stand: 05.02.12)

2ten Kado: D'Vulleparlament am Gréngewald (Stand: 24.12.11)

3ten Kado: lëtzebuergeschen Spellchecker fir den Opera

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Memotechnik für Kanjis

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Erinnern an die Schreibweise & Bedeutung:

Eine interessante Methode, die u.a. Heisig benutzt, besteht darin komplexe Kanjis in einfache Elemente (nicht nur Radikale) zu zerlegen und diese, sowie das Schlüsselwort - i.d.R. eine spezifische Bedeutung des Kanjis - durch eine Geschichte miteinander zu verknüpfen. Die Schlüsselwörter, die in Heisigs System einmalig auftauchen können Grundsteine für weitere Erzählungen sein.
Plumpes Aneinanderreihen der Elemente, wie etwa für Milch : Geierkücken – Haken helfen nicht den Kanji längerfristig zu merken: Man muß schon das erfinderische Gedächtnis benutzen und sich die Geschichte visualisieren.
Persönlich habe ich die besten Erfolge mit Geschichten, die etwas ausgefallener sind, d.h. z.T. absurd oder sogar anstößig.


Das "Vorwissen" zu den ausgesuchten Beispielen beschränkt sich auf folgende 7 Elemente:

爪 (つめ) Geier. Eigentlich das Kanji für Kralle welches erst 2010 in die Jōyō-Liste aufgenommen wurde. Als Primitivelement abweichend von der Bedeutung belegt Heisig es mit Geier. Steht es über einem Kanji, wird es zu .

Geierkücken: Primitvelement Geier 爫 über Kind 子 (Achtung: dies ist kein eigenständiges Kanji, sondern nur ein Baustein)
乙 Eine Radikalvariante ist , Radikal- und Primitivbedeutung Haken
Blume (≠ Kanji). Eigentlich das Radikal für Gras. Das vollständige Kanji für Blume ist 花.
Eule (≠ Kanji)
Baum (Kanji)
Frau (Kanji)

Nun zu den Beispielen:
Milch 乳
Um den Geierkücken Milch zu geben, fängt sich die Geiermutter eine Kuh mit einem Haken & bringt sie in den Horst...
Die Story ist ein Eigenprodukt, dabei stand der Film Rat Race mit Rowan Atkinson Pate wink Szene bei 00:58 aus dem Film (miese Qualität) http://vimeo.com/25987882

Gemüse 菜
A vegetarian vulture (爫) is munching on a flower (艹), perched on a tree (木), patiently waiting for a patch of vegetables (菜) to grow. fuaburisu

Kirschbaum 桜
I was taking a picture of my girlfriend under the cherry tree during 花見, when an owl happened to poop on her at the exact moment the shutter snapped. It's really my favorite picture , just don't tell her that. Zactacular

Das letzte Beispiel ist "unsauber", da der Erfinder der Geschichte anstatt Frau Freundin benutzt...


Lesung:
Die Tatsache, dass Kanjis z.T. mehrere ON- und Kunlesungen, werde ich im folgenden außer Acht lassen.
Als Notbehelf, bei Kanjis deren Kunlesung man sich nicht merken kann, ist es manchmal opportun auf die oben beschriebene Methode zurückzugreifen: Anstelle von Kanjielementen besetzt man alle Hiragana mit einer Bedeutung (z.B. い mit 井 Brunnen) & bildet sich seine Geschichten…

Bei der ON-Lesung, kann man sich das Erlenen zum Teil durch Systematisierung erleichtern…

Besser als Mary Sisk von kanjiclinic.com könnte ich es nicht erklären. Ich empfehle den vollständigen Artikel zu lesen.
Einige Auszüge:

Your kanji guinea pig has just demonstrated how to use "phonetic components," which signal a high likelihood of a particular on ("Chinese") pronunciation. Some are kanji in and of themselves, as is 寺; others are "radicals," elements of kanji used to classify them in dictionaries. Kanji containing phonetic components are called "phonetic ideographs,"(形声文字 keiseimoji, literally, "shape-voice characters"). They consist of two parts: 1) a semantic component, or "radical," which conveys information about the character's meaning; and 2) a phonetic component that signals the on pronunciation.[...]

An estimated 85% of Japan's 1,945 general-use characters are phonetic ideographs. This is good news for us as we learn to make intelligent guesses about kanji pronunciations. "If phonetic components are such good friends," you may ask, "why doesn't my kanji textbook give me a proper introduction to them?" The snag is that until foreigners have mastered the shapes of a large number of kanji, textbooks cannot begin to present groups of characters that share a phonetic component.
Fortunately, James Heisig, in his "Remembering the Kanji II," has come to our rescue. Not only does he systematically arrange all the general-use kanji into groups that share the same phonetic component, he also deals with the wrinkle in this system: Not all kanji containing a particular phonetic component have the on pronunciation it normally signals--there are exceptions, and Heisig's text lists them for each phonetic component group.



Ein Beispiel eines Signalprimitives aus der reinen Gruppe, was zudem in diesem Fall auch ein eigenständiges Kanji darstellt, ist  ON-Lesung ちゅう (chuu).
Alle Kanjis mit diesem Signalprimitiv haben u.a. diese Lesung:

国 ちゅうごく
告 ちゅうこく
天 ちゅうてん
介 ちゅうかい


Links:
Heisig (deutsche Seite)
Kanjiforum mit Heisiggeschichten (Anmeldung erforderlich)
Learning to predict kanji pronunciations--without the strain

Learning Japanese II

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November 2008 I've presented 2 programs in blog posting "Learning Japanese"

A few days ago I've re-installed my OpenSuse 11.2 from scratch and did some modifications:

Ibus replaces Skim. Some distros like Ubuntu or Fedora have already switched from scim to ibus.

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/swyear:/ibus/openSUSE_11.2/home:swyear:ibus.repo    
zypper refresh
zypper install ibus-anthy



The dictionnary Tagainijisho offers now one-click-installation for Suse

I prefer to add the repository manually in the console:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Gnurou/openSUSE_11.2/home:Gnurou.repo
zypper refresh
zypper search taga*
zypper install tagainijisho-dic-de



KDE Desaster

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Yesterday my system didn't start KDE 4.2
I've got only a short message without any details:

Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation


I had no clue what happens. The problem seemed to be related with my last update, but what should I check exactly?
First I needed a desktop environment. I have no problem working in the console, but checking the internet for information with lynx is not the best way wink
With zypper I deleted KDE and installed Gnome. Gnome "worked" and I could use Opera again yes
Unfortunately google didn't show promising results.I tried a lot and finally reinstalled KDE.
Happy I could get to kdm (kde login manager) but got another error:

Call to Inusertemp failed (temporary directories full ?) Check your installation.


Mostly this problem is associated with full partitions or permission problems (tmp directory)
In my case df showed that I had enough disk space and ls -sl that the permissions were fine.

I checked the kde start script for my error: /usr/bin/startkde

lnusertemp=`kde4-config --path exe --locate lnusertemp`
if test -z "$lnusertemp"; then
  # Startup error
  echo 'startkde: ERROR: Could not locate lnusertemp in '`kde4-config --path exe` 1>&2
fi

# Link "tmp" "socket" and "cache" resources to directory in /tmp
# Creates:
# - a directory /tmp/kde-$USER and links $KDEHOME/tmp-$HOSTNAME to it.
# - a directory /tmp/ksocket-$USER and links $KDEHOME/socket-$HOSTNAME to it.
# - a directory /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER and links $KDEHOME/cache-$HOSTNAME to it.
# Note: temporary locations can be overriden through the KDETMP and KDEVARTMP
# environment variables
for resource in tmp cache socket; do
    if ! "$lnusertemp" $resource >/dev/null; then
        echo 'startkde: Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation.'  1>&2
        test -n "$ksplash_pid" && kill "$ksplash_pid" 2>/dev/null
        xmessage -geometry 600x100 "Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation."
        exit 1
    fi
done


At that point I found a very good french blog bigsmile
with whereis lnusertemp I located this program - and wondered that I found it on a very strange place but didn't do the most obvious... /opt/kde3/bin/lnusertemp
Unfortunately I didn't check the first part and started to test with strace - a really nice program up - for strace lnusertemp tmp, strace lnusertemp socket strace lnusertemp cache for the error code 1, but I always got Code 0. Everything fine - that's not what you hope to get, when you're looking for an error... wink

Then finally I tried kde4-config --path exe --locate lnusertemp but didn't get any message..but I had just learnt about this little tool called strace bigsmile
strace kde4-config --path exe --locate lnusertemp
Finally Code 1 idea
Strace showed that kde4-config didn't look in /opt/kde3. I copied the file to a directory where the kde4-config checked for lnusertemp (thanks again strace smile )
Afterwards KDE started in version 4.1 but the upgrade to 4.2.3. worked without any problems. bigsmile cheers


Happy Birthday Tintin

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Tintin, created by Georges Remi under the pen name Hergé, appeared the first time as comic strip in the Belgian newspaper "Le Petit Vingtième" (Tintin in the Land of the Soviets) 80 years ago (10. January 1929).




Personally I do not appreciate the first three albums too much because Hergé had to think from week to week to create a new strip for the newspaper and you cannot really speak of a story line due the fact that everything is too improvised. bigsmile
Starting with Cigars of the Pharaoh Hergé did a lot more of research and the storyline get clearer. I especially enjoy reading the books from The Secret of the Unicorn on... with Haddock as impulsive counterpart to the more rational Tintin bigsmile


What I find so fascinating is the fact that you can read the books in different ways : as a child you can simply enjoy the story with his slapstick humour as adult you can re-read them with a new awareness and try to understand sophisticated satire, and political and cultural commentary and admire how how accurate Hergé was with his subject matter.

You probably need a key to the time and world of Tintin. I highly recommend Tintin. Le rêve et la réalité. L'histoire de la création des aventures de Tintin. translated in English. An amazing source of information about Hergés sources, influences, historical backgrounds and a lot more..





If you don't want to buy the book you might still find this article very helpful :
Examples of Contemporary Inspiration in Hergé's Work




Spellchecker.lu - Spellchecker fir déi Lëtzebuergesch Sprooch

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De Projet Spellchecker.lu huet sech zum Zil gesat eppes fir déi Lëtzebuergesch Rechtschreiwung ze maachen a bitt nierft der klasseschem online spellchecker nach vill aner Saachen : z.B. eng Online-Versioun fir 3G-Handyen a Smartphones , Thesaurus - eng Datebank fir Synonymer



Op hierer Download-Säit fënnt een nach vill dann "Plug-ins" fir Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird an Ubuntu.

De Spellchecker kann een och als "Inline spelling checker" am Opera ab Versioun 10 alpha1 benotzen. Wéi et fonktionnéiert steet hei. Méi drop agoen wäert ech wann Opera 10 erauskënnt bigsmile

Learning Japanese

日本語

I've started learning japanese a few weeks ago and now I try to get my computer "ready" for this challenge bigsmile
First I needed an input method for ... japanese bigsmile : SCIM :Smart Common Input Method

Welcome to the Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) platform project, which provides not only a user friendly, full featured input method user interface for POSIX-style operating systems (including Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix), but also a development platform to make input method development easier.





I've also found a nice program : Tagaini Jisho A free Japanese dictionary and study assistant.

Tagaini Jisho is a free, open-source Japanese dictionary and kanji lookup tool that is available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux and aims at becoming your Japanese study assistant. It allows you to quickly search for entries and mark those that you wish to study, along with tags and personal notes. It also allows you to train the entries you study and let you follow your progression in remembering them. Finally, it makes it easy to review entries you did not remember by reviewing them on screen or printing them on a small booklet.

Tagaini Jisho is also one of the rare (if not only) free software to feature complete stroke order animations for more than 6000 kanjis.






Edit: If you want to compile under Suse you might need to specify the qt4 directory: QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt4
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt4 scons release=1 install


Some nice online resource I've found so far :





Lëtzebuerg - eng medial ausgegrenzt Insel

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Et gëtt Siten am Internet wou een Filmer a Reportagen ka gratis ukuken - awer net legal wann een zu Lëtzebuerg ass. Mir sëtzen wéi esou dacks zwëschen den Still...

Wien sech gewonnert huet, dass z.B. den Lëtzebuerger RTL hier Foussballsmatcher just iwwert Kabel an net iwwert Satelit iwwerdroen ka sech schon den Problem denken : Iwwerdroungsrechter.

Telé kukt de Lëtzebuerger gären - och wa mit mat digitalem Tv gepisakt ginn, deen ausser méi schéin Biller eis nach esou schéin Senderen wéi Bibel TV brengt awer duerfir a senger Standardkonfiguratioun keen Eurosport...

Am goussen wäitem Web gi mir ausgegrenzt. Beispiller gefälleg?

Bei MSN Movies soll een gratis (op däitsch) Filmer, wéi z.B. "good will hunting" kuken kënnen - et muss een just Reklammen déi virun an a während dem Film lafen erdroen. D'Lëtzebuerger kënnen awer alles vergiessen...



Da gëtt et nach Siten wou een déi Filmer nokuken kann, een se net gesinn huet - awer nees eng kéier sinn d'Lëtzebuerger ausgegrenzt :
Den däitsch-franzéischen Arte huet do Arte+7



Bon et gëtt awer een (Greasemonkey) User-javascript matdeem een den Inhalt mat Opera oder Firefox kuken kann - ofgesinn dass et lästeg ass dorondrem ze bastelen ass ass et wuel zweielhaft op dat legal ass...


E weideren Fall M6 replay
Ëmmerhinn erklären se an hierem Text u wat et läit :


ScummVM & Discworld

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Yesterday Alexs told me that the game Discworld (based on the well-known novels written by Terry Pratchett ) is freely avaible and can be played in dosbox and might be playable in one of the next releases of scummVM

I couldn't wait bigsmile
...so I compiled my own scummVm version on Suse (11.1beta5) :

Warning: Compiling is sometimes really frustrating and bloody new daily builds are not tested and might not work as expected.

I've downloaded the source unpacked the tar-archive, then as root from shell :
./configure --enable-tinsel

hmm there was missing some sdl-stuff...
zypper install sdl-devel

make

if you don't have checkinstall you should now install it. bigsmile
zypper install checkinstall

and now we have to make an rpm and install it smile
checkinstall --fstrans=no
rpm -i /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/scummvm-0.12.svn-1.x86_64.rpm



et voilà :



If you want to download my compiled (source from 20081118) for Suse 64-bit you can find it here

The GUI looks very ugly compared to the rpm I've (via zypper) downloaded from Suse

WARNING: Could not parse custom theme 'scummmodern.zip'. Falling back to default theme!


Have to check that...
Edit :
There seems to be a bug in the svn-version I used.

[00:18] <Begasus> no autodetection for the modern theme it seems
[00:28] <wjp> it only seems to look in the current directory
[00:29] <Begasus> yeah
[00:29] <Begasus> when I copy it there it detects it



easy to work around...
ah yes you can find your theme here : /usr/local/share/scummvm/ penguin