Class: I1b (KSH)
17 April 2018 – 20 April 2018
- KSH-AW I1b April 2018 (in German)
Focus week: Datavisualisation & Corpus Linguistics
Category Archives: MISC
Keyboard Shortcuts for Novelists
Keyboard Shortcuts for Novelists
Source: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/keyboard-shortcuts-for-novelists [accessed: 20/07/2015, spotted on @NewYorker twitter feed]
The bizarre world of instructional LPs
Instructional LPs – Relaxed English – Excerpts on BBC Radio 4
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33464722 [accessed: 18/07/2015]
Programme description: «How to make an Archive on 4» available on BBC iPlayer
Ever wondered how to make an Archive on 4? Here’s your chance to find out!
Alan Dein enters the strange world of instructional records where you can teach yourself just about anything – from yodelling to training your budgie to talk.
It all started in 1901 when Polish émigré Jacques Roston harnessed the new technology of sound recording to teach foreign languages, signing up such luminaries as George Bernard Shaw and JRR Tolkien to lend their support.
By the 50s and 60s you could buy LPs on how to do just about anything – from keep fit to playing a musical instrument, relaxation and passing your driving test.
Perhaps the most surprising are those which help you to train your pet budgerigar to talk – with help from Sparkie, Britain’s favourite budgie, who supposedly had a vocabulary of over 500 words.
With help from Sparkie, Alan Dein tells the story of instructional records and, along the way, reveals a few of the secrets of how to make an Archive on 4.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b062dhgb [accessed: 18/07/2015]
A tour of the British Isles in accents
A dialect coach, Andrew Jack, gives a tour of the accents of the British Isles. (Release date: 20/02/2014, remix, using google maps 02/04/2014 by Philip Barker)
Source (audio): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01slnp5 [accessed: 21/06/2015]
Source (remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mzWkuOxz8 [accessed: 21/06/2015]
Word Map
Word Map “language teaching”
Word Map for “language teaching” (produced using google translate and wikipedia, source: tweet by @perezparedes [21/02/15])
TurnKey virtual appliances
“Turnkey Linux is a virtual appliance library that integrates and polishes the very best open source software into ready to use solutions.”
Excellent base system for CQPweb, ParaVoz, AntWebCorpusFramework, NoSketchEngine, etc.
Source: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ [accessed: 03/03/2014]
- LAMP Stack Virtual Appliance (~220MB, linux base system [Debian7], admin through convenient web-gui, accessible from any (local) machine within minutes)
Change default boot order in grub
- edit
/etc/default/grub - adapt line
GRUB_DEFAULT=4(entries shown in update-grub, starting from ‘0’) sudo update-grubsudo reboot
Keyboard Layout Xubuntu Login Screen
It seems to be rather difficult to change the default keyboard layout used for the lightdm login screen. The following solution worked for me:
- adding the following block of code at the end of
/etc/X11/xorg.conf - (adapt country-code
"ch"in line 3):
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Adobe Source Code Pro in Windows PowerShell
Logitech K810 Bluetooth Keyboard Lubuntu 13.10
Refer to this comprehensive step-by-step guide by Christian M. Schmid:
http://blog.chschmid.com/?p=1537