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Jul. 20th, 2001 02:54 pmYesterday was one of those days that drive one crazy, though in my case, one might say it was more of a 9-iron shot.
I sent off some work the client had assigned, deleting and adding things to a translated document.
The delections were marked in the previous Russian version by highlighting text directly before the deletion in green. It was left to me to figure out just exactly what the deletion was, where it began, ended, etc.
Not the easiest work in the world, as it turns out.
The additions were... well... additions.
The client, apparently, felt the deletions should have gone much faster than they did. Ah, well.
The major factor helping chip-shot me to the loony bin yesterday was this Internet "connection" that I have. On a good day, with a tailwind, I can achieve 33 kbps to my local ISP.
Yesterday, however, was not a good day. It took more than 30 minutes to download some hefty files from a client, which caused the mail server to terminate the session. Microsoft Outl(ugh!)k is not able (as far as I can see) to selectively download mail, so any smaller messages queued up behind the behemoth won't get delivered until the big fella gets delivered. (OTOH, the Kaufmann MailWarrior program will let you do that, and it saved my bacon by doing so, even if it took me some hellishly long time to download the files!)
I finally got around to activating my eSlate's Ethernet interface (eth0), and as soon as I did, everything that wanted anything to do with the network was squawking out of eth0 (or trying to) instead of the perfectly kinda-sorta serviceable Point-To-Point connection (ppp0) that I dialed.
Not only that, but running 'route -e' got no output as long as ppp0 was active. Eventually, I kenned to the fact that I had to bring the eth0 interface down before bringing the ppp0 interface up, after which I could bring eth0 back up so the 'bagger' could talk to his local buds, too. (Good thing for 'ifconfig', let me tell you!) If there's some way to automate this...
In other news, I took![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
volkris's tip and connected to www.mozilla.org to see about a version of Mozilla that was more recent than August 2000 (what my Mandrake 7.2 came with). I was pleasantly surprised to find an installer program that - as long as I could spend 2.5 hours or so downloading over a 14.4 kbps connection - would download and install the latest, greatest build (20001062823) for me. What was even better was a "Pause" button that would let me stop the process - 14.4 kbps is not that much bandwidth - to let me do other things, like mail.
This was good, as I had not properly estimated the time required to download the 10 MB or so necessary to install Mozilla, and was not thrilled by the prospect of either (a) submitting an assignment late, or (b) having to redownload about 9 MB of that data at some later time.
Which reminds me... gotta call the client and make sure all is copacetic.
Cheers...
I sent off some work the client had assigned, deleting and adding things to a translated document.
The delections were marked in the previous Russian version by highlighting text directly before the deletion in green. It was left to me to figure out just exactly what the deletion was, where it began, ended, etc.
Not the easiest work in the world, as it turns out.
The additions were... well... additions.
The client, apparently, felt the deletions should have gone much faster than they did. Ah, well.
The major factor helping chip-shot me to the loony bin yesterday was this Internet "connection" that I have. On a good day, with a tailwind, I can achieve 33 kbps to my local ISP.
Yesterday, however, was not a good day. It took more than 30 minutes to download some hefty files from a client, which caused the mail server to terminate the session. Microsoft Outl(ugh!)k is not able (as far as I can see) to selectively download mail, so any smaller messages queued up behind the behemoth won't get delivered until the big fella gets delivered. (OTOH, the Kaufmann MailWarrior program will let you do that, and it saved my bacon by doing so, even if it took me some hellishly long time to download the files!)
I finally got around to activating my eSlate's Ethernet interface (eth0), and as soon as I did, everything that wanted anything to do with the network was squawking out of eth0 (or trying to) instead of the perfectly kinda-sorta serviceable Point-To-Point connection (ppp0) that I dialed.
Not only that, but running 'route -e' got no output as long as ppp0 was active. Eventually, I kenned to the fact that I had to bring the eth0 interface down before bringing the ppp0 interface up, after which I could bring eth0 back up so the 'bagger' could talk to his local buds, too. (Good thing for 'ifconfig', let me tell you!) If there's some way to automate this...
In other news, I took
volkris's tip and connected to www.mozilla.org to see about a version of Mozilla that was more recent than August 2000 (what my Mandrake 7.2 came with). I was pleasantly surprised to find an installer program that - as long as I could spend 2.5 hours or so downloading over a 14.4 kbps connection - would download and install the latest, greatest build (20001062823) for me. What was even better was a "Pause" button that would let me stop the process - 14.4 kbps is not that much bandwidth - to let me do other things, like mail.This was good, as I had not properly estimated the time required to download the 10 MB or so necessary to install Mozilla, and was not thrilled by the prospect of either (a) submitting an assignment late, or (b) having to redownload about 9 MB of that data at some later time.
Which reminds me... gotta call the client and make sure all is copacetic.
Cheers...
