http://www.llaisdy.com/blog The dairy diary Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:52:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This blog is now closed. From now on I shall be posting at llaisdy.wordpress.com (better spam handling, stats; stops me obsessing about Wordpress vs Django). I shall also be sprucing up the most important posts from here and moving them over (e.g. posts on Welsh grammar, HTK, Android, etc.). I don't ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/11/16/closed-moving/ After many years of devoted service, my main development machine (a Thinkpad A31p) has suddenly gone kaput. I have ordered my new machine which is an Apple MacBook Pro. I've been saying to myself (and to anyone in earshot) that the next machine I buy would be a Mac. ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/08/13/brave-new-world/ Contents Rhaglith Ffurfiau cymariaethol Ffurfiau rheolaidd Ffurfiau afreolaidd Ansoddeiriau heb gysefin Ansoddeiriau diffygiol (PWT 4.113) Ansoddeiriau deillir o enwau (PWT 4.114) Defnydd Cymhariaeth ymadroddol Cyfeiriadau Rhaglith Mae pedwar fath o ansoddair cymariaethol: cysefin, cyfartal, cymharol, ac eithafol. Er enghraifft: Mae'r ffurf gysefin y bôn neu'r ffurf gyffredinol (h.y., gwrywaidd). Defnyddir y ffurf gysefin i lunio’r ffurfiau eraill (h.y., cyfartal, cymharol, ac ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/07/27/ansoddeiriau-cymariaethol/ My distro is Debian. My window manager is OpenBox. My editor is Emacs. My blog should look like this or that. And of course it should be based on Django, not Wordpress. Administrative Debris Minimal http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/06/18/blog-envy/ Mae nifer o ansoddeiriau sy'n cytuno efo rhif eu henw. Gellir eu dosbarthu mewn dau fath: ansoddeiriau sy'n affeithio eu llafarog, ac ansoddeiriau sy'n ychwanegu terfyniad. Ansoddeiriau sy'n affeithio eu llafarog Dosbarth caeëdig yw hwn, efo naw ansoddair: Newid Cyff. Lluosog Saesneg a->ai amddifad amddifaid destitute arall eraill other bychan bychain little cyfan cyfain whole ifanc ifainc young llydan llydain wide truan truain wretch a->y cadarn cedyrn firm caled celyd hard Sylwch: er bod prif gyfnewid yn y sillaf olaf, mae llafariad obennol yn cael ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/06/14/ansoddeiriau-lluosog/ Yn ôl PWT [1], does 'na ddim ond 25 o eiriau sy'n cytuno efo'r enw a chael ffurf fenywaidd. Dyma'r holl restr: Newid Cyff. Ben. Saesneg y/e brych brech mottled bychan bechan little byr ber short cryf cref strong gwlyb gwleb wet gwyn gwen white gwyrdd gwerdd green hysb hesb barren llyfn llefn even llym llem acute melyn melen yellow sych sech dry syml seml simple tywyll tywell dark w/o brwnt bront dirty crwm crom curved crwn cron round cwta cota abrupt dwfn dofn deep hwn hon this hwnnw honno that llwm llom bleak tlws tlos pretty trwm trom heavy i/ai brith braith speckled Sylwadau: Mae'r rhan fwyaf o'r geiriau hyn yn aml iawn: mae 14 mewn 2000 gair amlycaf (yn ôl CEG); ac eithrio dau (crwm ac hysb) mae bob un mewn ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/06/11/ansoddeiriau-benywaidd/ ... with LaTeX, dvipng, and Python This is a response to Thomas Guest's blog post on the same topic. I've tidied up my script for converting FEN format chess positions to PNG files, and I offer it up here: fen2png.py. It's a Python script, and it requires LaTeX, the LaTeX skak package, ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/04/19/drawing-chess-positions/ Following on from Installing Satchmo, this is a brief note on Satchmo configuration. Much (perhaps all) of the SatchmoConfiguration page on the documentation wiki seems to be obsolete, and many sections are marked, "ignore the part below about ...". Although aimed at Satchmo developers rather than users, the page How ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/03/22/satchmo-configuration/ Contents Intro Prerequisites Install Satchmo Setting up Satchmo and Django settings shop Conclusion & further work http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/03/21/installing-satchmo/ My article, A simple calculator in Tkinter and wxPython was published in the latest CVu (Vol. 20, 1). The article describes my experiences writing a very simple calculator GUI - the 'Hello World!' of GUI development - in two of the main GUI toolkits for Python: Tkinter and WxPython. ... http://www.llaisdy.com/blog/2008/02/16/a-simple-calculator-in-tkinter-and-wxpython/