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Ships, seals, and sealing wax...
Dec. 8th, 2001 09:46 amBut not cabbages, nor kings.
That was the gist of yesterday's conversation over a table laden with some fine eats, washed down with several bottles of good wine.
* * * A count of the pages on my to-be-done pile shows 45 sheets, divided among three jobs: a piece of drill rig stability, another on compartmentization, and the steel tank specification. Thus, for me to make the Wednesday deadline, I have to work 11 pages per day, which will leave me much of one full day to check over the work.
That day will be fairly important, as I'm holding on to the appendices to the stability piece, in the hopes that the section will clarify some questions about its appendix.
In any event, invoicing clients on the 12th will, I hope, be a sweet experience.
* * * To preserve my sanity as I translate, I play silly games to track my progress. My favorite tactic is to list the pages I have to do, and then mark down the times and word counts when I finish the respective pages.
I do absolutely nothing with the results after I'm finished. (Well, that's almost true. Sometimes, I reserve sample pages of source text, when it is provided in photocopied form, and mark the English word count in the corner. This collection helps me estimate the target word count for new jobs that arrive in photocopied form, but I digress...) The primary reason for playing the game is, as mentioned, the preservation of my sanity as it gives me a delicious feeling of progressing toward an end that is more directly palpable than a check arriving in the mail a month (or more) hence.
* * * In other news, I removed the winmodem from the store machine that is now running Linux and Win4Lin and installed it in zaika, my homebrew Pentium 100-MHz machine. Unfortunately, when I installed it a few days ago, nothing that came as part of Windows 98 would help it get installed.
I went online to see if I could find a driver for it, and for a while, it seemed as though I'd have to go to drivers.com (if memory serves) to get the necessary files, as the modem's manufacturer went belly up a year or two ago. The primary problem there is that drivers.com appears to have gone over to a for-pay basis, and I didn't think the admission price was worth the game.
Eventually, I found a site with the original installation files, but upon installing them, zaika now asks me to install the Windows 98 CD so it can copy files (among them, 'filexfer.cnt') that, it turns out, don't exist on that CD!
I am now in the process of - between pages of translation - trying to brute-force my way through the install, and have run across a PDF file from someone who seems to have experienced the same problem.
Updates later... I've got to get back to work.
Cheers...
That was the gist of yesterday's conversation over a table laden with some fine eats, washed down with several bottles of good wine.
That day will be fairly important, as I'm holding on to the appendices to the stability piece, in the hopes that the section will clarify some questions about its appendix.
In any event, invoicing clients on the 12th will, I hope, be a sweet experience.
I do absolutely nothing with the results after I'm finished. (Well, that's almost true. Sometimes, I reserve sample pages of source text, when it is provided in photocopied form, and mark the English word count in the corner. This collection helps me estimate the target word count for new jobs that arrive in photocopied form, but I digress...) The primary reason for playing the game is, as mentioned, the preservation of my sanity as it gives me a delicious feeling of progressing toward an end that is more directly palpable than a check arriving in the mail a month (or more) hence.
I went online to see if I could find a driver for it, and for a while, it seemed as though I'd have to go to drivers.com (if memory serves) to get the necessary files, as the modem's manufacturer went belly up a year or two ago. The primary problem there is that drivers.com appears to have gone over to a for-pay basis, and I didn't think the admission price was worth the game.
Eventually, I found a site with the original installation files, but upon installing them, zaika now asks me to install the Windows 98 CD so it can copy files (among them, 'filexfer.cnt') that, it turns out, don't exist on that CD!
I am now in the process of - between pages of translation - trying to brute-force my way through the install, and have run across a PDF file from someone who seems to have experienced the same problem.
Updates later... I've got to get back to work.
Cheers...
