Saturday's ebb...

Got up at what I like to think of as my customary time this morning, after struggling to fall asleep last night. I spent a few minutes walking Sasha on a leash, as she has developed the unfortunate tendency to bolt for the horizon when let out of the house, and no amount of shouting or carrying on seems to affect her.

I then fired up my Linux box and proceeded to install a Russian-English dictionary inside of Win4Lin, and the installed program worked fine. Then I installed Office 95 in a "run-from-the-CD" configuration, in preparation for installing the Office 97 upgrade (which will be a bit more time-consuming, as I'll be uninstalling Office 97 from the eSlate at the same time). Again, no problems.

What I find interesting is the ability to kill the Windows process just as if it were any other process under Linux (clicking on the close button in the upper right-hand corner does bring up an "are you sure?" dialog, though, which is probably a nice touch). Attempting Ctrl-Alt-Del on the keyboard looks like an attempt to logout/reboot out of Linux, so until I take a closer look at the Win4Lin docs - or remember some forgotten Windows arcana - there does not seem to be a convenient way to bring up a list of Windows processes to selectively kill them.

Then I turned to, showered and dressed and went to open the store. Once there, I took advantage of some slow time to install PHP, MySQL, and an Apache server on our back-room machine. I didn't spend too much time at the store, as I have this translation to work on, and there certainly wasn't enough slow time to figure out why our front machine could not hit the Apache server in the back. Put it on my to-do list, I guess.

I ran across a CD titled Barber's Adagio. Since CD's generally feature more than one cut, I turned to the back and found... that there are 8 tracks with a total playing time of 55:47, and all of them are various arrangements of Barber's Adagio for Strings, Op. 11. Naturally, I had to buy the disc.

I can now attempt to overdose on the Adagio, though I don't think I'm going for any Guinness record. It's just that, as I said, every time I listen to the piece, I have a different reaction, and I just want to push the envelope a little. I wonder, will it ever pall? Should I risk it?

The graphics issue I spoke of in my last post regarding Win4Lin has not surfaced again. Perhaps the slow graphics were rendered using some fairly rare API calls, who knows?

A thought: I wonder whether it would be feasible to install a Linux distro on my eSlate and then do the Win4Lin bit there? The hard drive is only 4 GB...

Got to get to work and translate some pages before I can think of going to play in the mountains.

Cheers...

Pouring it on...

I had hoped to convince Feht to go mushrooming both today and tomorrow, but he's a night owl and by the time we connected, it was too late to mount the kind of expedition worthy of a day spent mushrooming.

I am still wanting to do a little reconnaissance, though, so as soon as Galina comes home from the store, I plan to drive up to The Place and see what I can see.

In the meantime, I've polished off another 10% of the text.

Cheers...