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Maintenance...
Sep. 4th, 2002 09:30 pmMy desktop started to act strangely yesterday, and I finally tracked down the problem to the bane of every computer user's existence: no space left on the hard drives. Any of them. That went a long way toward explaining why everything slowed to a crawl on my desktop.
Fortunately, I was able to do some temporary first-aid while working on a section of an environmental impact statement for client M in Houston, and that kept me going until today, when I scanned all my drives for large files and then burned about 630 MB of them onto a CD-R, deleting them afterward.
Today, I sat down to do an equipment certificate (which the Russians call a "passport") only to find that the client had sent only the odd numbered pages of the document. My bad on not having caught it sooner, I guess, but their bad on not catching it before now (i.e., on accepting the animal in the condition it was in). The client also noted that pages 11 through 18 of the document have already been translated (which means it's a good thing I didn't just commence with the work).
So I skipped the passport and went on to a document that describes the "geomorphology" of an area. The last time I did something like this was when I agreed to do a chunk of an environmental feasibility study that just about killed me. I ended up looking up almost every second word, literally. The one vivid thing I recall about that document was the vast number of animals that were enumerated, and the feeling of helplessness I experienced (in that long-ago, pre-Internet time) of not being able to identify more than a third of them with the resources I had at hand.
Anyway, I ran across a number of interesting items while doing research on the Web, including a report chartered by Greenpeace on the area covered in my geomorphological article. Interestingly enough, I'm having a well and truly hard time finding detailed maps of the area, and neither my old-old version of deLorme's Global Explorer, nor something I picked up in Russia (a road atlas of the entire country, supposedly) will run on my desktop. I suspect they may be victims of the inexorable march of OSes.
Galina took off after dinner to go somewhere, saying she'd be back soon. That's very unusual for her (the going out, not the coming back soon). I'm putting along, doing my thing. I think I'm going to go to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ru_translate and ask a question or two, and then hit the sack.
Cheers...
Fortunately, I was able to do some temporary first-aid while working on a section of an environmental impact statement for client M in Houston, and that kept me going until today, when I scanned all my drives for large files and then burned about 630 MB of them onto a CD-R, deleting them afterward.
Today, I sat down to do an equipment certificate (which the Russians call a "passport") only to find that the client had sent only the odd numbered pages of the document. My bad on not having caught it sooner, I guess, but their bad on not catching it before now (i.e., on accepting the animal in the condition it was in). The client also noted that pages 11 through 18 of the document have already been translated (which means it's a good thing I didn't just commence with the work).
So I skipped the passport and went on to a document that describes the "geomorphology" of an area. The last time I did something like this was when I agreed to do a chunk of an environmental feasibility study that just about killed me. I ended up looking up almost every second word, literally. The one vivid thing I recall about that document was the vast number of animals that were enumerated, and the feeling of helplessness I experienced (in that long-ago, pre-Internet time) of not being able to identify more than a third of them with the resources I had at hand.
Anyway, I ran across a number of interesting items while doing research on the Web, including a report chartered by Greenpeace on the area covered in my geomorphological article. Interestingly enough, I'm having a well and truly hard time finding detailed maps of the area, and neither my old-old version of deLorme's Global Explorer, nor something I picked up in Russia (a road atlas of the entire country, supposedly) will run on my desktop. I suspect they may be victims of the inexorable march of OSes.
Galina took off after dinner to go somewhere, saying she'd be back soon. That's very unusual for her (the going out, not the coming back soon). I'm putting along, doing my thing. I think I'm going to go to
ru_translate and ask a question or two, and then hit the sack.Cheers...
