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Radioclare’s tac log 2015 (*jäŋe/*ledús) | ||
Tags: Macedonian | Serbian | Serbo-Croatian | Croatian | Esperanto | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | ||
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4575 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 129 of 292 07 April 2015 at 11:22pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks Serpent :) I investigated Vistalizator but my personal laptop is Windows 8 and it
doesn't look like it will work with that. My work laptop is on Windows 7 but thinking this probably isn't worth getting sacked over :D I did have my Facebook in Serbian for a while and I think it really helped me to become more familiar with the alphabet. Re Switzerland, I think I originally mistyped the word into one of my early vocab lists and so I have accidentally learned it incorrectly. I'm going to be in Switzerland for a few days in June so perhaps I should write about my travels in Croatian to get some practice at spelling it right :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 130 of 292 08 April 2015 at 8:10am | IP Logged |
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Well the Serbian Windows uses the Latin alphabet (at least the language pack I've been able to find).
And aww, ironically the laptop problem I mentioned even made me think of getting a Windows 8 one with touchscreen... Guess I'll put this off as much as needed, haha. (although on my current laptop I originally had the choice between installing Russian or Ukrainian, and of course I chose the latter). LOL about not being worth getting sacked :) I would ask for permission to do that, tbh. You can always revert if needed. edit: found this for windows 8 Edited by Serpent on 08 April 2015 at 8:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5228 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 131 of 292 08 April 2015 at 5:51pm | IP Logged |
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Use a virtual machine. Virtual Box is easy to download and then you can have an OS inside your OS. Personally I'd load Linux. Actually... Linux is my main OS and Windows is a virtual machine.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 132 of 292 08 April 2015 at 6:11pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah I use Android on a virtual machine for instagram and other random stuff. Still refuse to get a smartphone or tablet :D
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4575 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 133 of 292 08 April 2015 at 10:07pm | IP Logged |
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I have no idea what you are all talking about but it sounds like it would be dangerous :D
I would only want to use my computer in Serbian if I was getting practice in Cyrillic tbh so I think I will leave it how it is for now. I tried changing the language on my phone to Serbian either (as that seemed like a less drastic option than fiddling with my computer!) but unfortunately that only has Serbian Latin too. I've turned it to Croatian for a bit, just for the novelty value :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5228 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 134 of 292 08 April 2015 at 10:27pm | IP Logged |
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Virtual Box is a bit of software which allows you to have a virtual machine installed on a real machine. In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is an emulation of a particular computer system.
The way I use this is I prefer the Linux operating system because I believe it is more secure and it has tons of free software which people have very kindly donated to the world to use. However there is one piece of software called Scrivener which I use and the only supported versions are for Mac or Windows. So using a virtual machine emulator, I have installed a version of MS-Windows into a virtual machine, and this allows me to run this bit of Windows software on my machine. Since this is an actual legit version of Windows 7, I don't have to mess around with doing anything strange or funky to get it working on Linux. Because it is actually installed on a windows machine, albeit a virtual one. For me, the user, the windows VM opens in another window, kind of like Windows Terminal Emulator, only better. Now I don't have the problem you have with keyboards and languages, because I can flip freely between keyboards and languages with Linux. Windows has the same capability, you should be able to install additional languages on to your machine. I don't believe this requires administration privileges, but most IT departments would be happy to install a different language pack, it doesn't cost them anything to do so. As long as they don't have to use it themselves! Instructions from Microsoft about additional languages. Changing the keyboard layout doesn't change the physical keyboard, but when I switch between qwerty and aserty (French) then I get all the accented characters I just have to know that the Q is now an A. The real benefit of a VM for me, is my windows VM is just a file on the hard-drive of my linux machine and I back it up every month or so. Once when I got a nasty bit of malware on it, I just deleted the file, put the backup in it's place and hey presto, virus removed. :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4575 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 135 of 292 10 April 2015 at 12:07am | IP Logged |
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Wow, I didn't know anything like that existed!
I don't think I have a problem with keyboards on Windows though (on my personal computer at least) - I'm able to flick between English, Croatian and Macedonian using the windows button plus space, and I have a special programme installed that converts certain key presses to Esperanto accents. I don't dare do anything to my work computer - installing software on it is a disciplinary offence. I'm not sure whether that includes language packs but probably better to be safe than sorry! Btw you would make an excellent Esperantist, rdearman - almost all of them use Linux :) In fact I have probably been at events where I was the odd one out for not being a vegetarian Linux-user :D 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 136 of 292 10 April 2015 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
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Which programme is that? Tajpi? I have that one too, in case I ever want to get good at
Esperanto :D I actually have a problem with keyboards. There are just too bloody many to scroll through... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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