"Mid-afternoon" break...
Jul. 19th, 2002 04:39 pmThere is thunder in the air as I write this. I am, however, too busy to go look out any windows right now.
I went to the store this morning and confirmed that the network cable I ran through the overhead plenum was electrically correct. Since 'demosthenes' had made a link to the hub using a shorter cable, I experimented a bit and found that the problem seemed to be related to the length of the network cable (the LEDs on the network card dongle lit and stayed lit at around the 17-foot mark).
Unfortunately, though the machine was able to connect to the network and recognize 'borg', the recognition was not mutual, nor was I able to transfer files over the network from 'borg' to 'demosthenes' (in fact, I ended up hanging the former machine in trying to do so). I suspect that a wireless link will be the only solution for Drew's machine, unless my research uncovers something I am not aware of.
* * * I went and tried to upgrade the PHP version on 'onegin' last night (and recompile it with support for GD), but when it came to the point in the configure script where it checked to see if there was a copy of libgd.a available, the script reported failure and exited. I know darned well that the library is in the specified directory, but can't seem to figure out how to convince the script of that fact (then again, I've not spent a lot of time doing so).
* * * My current translation assignment is going well, and is on track for a Saturday night delivery. Client M convinced me to take on a second assignment for the weeked (assuring me that the job was a small one), but I haven't yet seen any action in my inbox in that regard.
My old acquaintance Radek P. is moving from Virginia to Prescott, Arizona. Radek, as I have probably mentioned here before, is probably one of the leading Czech translators in the business and runs a profitable sideline distributing a list of translation jobs on a more-or-less weekly basis to several thousand subscribers. Prescott is not exactly a couple of hours away from Pagosa, but it is a darned sight closer than where he was formerly located, so I hope to be able to break away from time to time and go visit him.
Break's over. Back to work.
Cheers...
I went to the store this morning and confirmed that the network cable I ran through the overhead plenum was electrically correct. Since 'demosthenes' had made a link to the hub using a shorter cable, I experimented a bit and found that the problem seemed to be related to the length of the network cable (the LEDs on the network card dongle lit and stayed lit at around the 17-foot mark).
Unfortunately, though the machine was able to connect to the network and recognize 'borg', the recognition was not mutual, nor was I able to transfer files over the network from 'borg' to 'demosthenes' (in fact, I ended up hanging the former machine in trying to do so). I suspect that a wireless link will be the only solution for Drew's machine, unless my research uncovers something I am not aware of.
My old acquaintance Radek P. is moving from Virginia to Prescott, Arizona. Radek, as I have probably mentioned here before, is probably one of the leading Czech translators in the business and runs a profitable sideline distributing a list of translation jobs on a more-or-less weekly basis to several thousand subscribers. Prescott is not exactly a couple of hours away from Pagosa, but it is a darned sight closer than where he was formerly located, so I hope to be able to break away from time to time and go visit him.
Break's over. Back to work.
Cheers...