Another lesson...

My TWiki has not been showing graphics, despite the fact I don't have them disabled in my browser or anything, and I finally got curious enough to want to know why.

Step 1: Check the Apache access log.

The access log for the web server noted the attempt to

GET /twiki/pub/icn/pdf.gif HTTP/1.1 404 296 [name of requesting page] [browser info]

Step 2: Check the Apache error log.

The error log says

File does not exist: /var/www/html/twiki/pub/icn/pdf.gif

Somehow the request for a file in the path '/twiki/' is translated as '/var/www/html/twiki/', which is what should happen normally, except that's not where my twiki directory is located.

Step 3: Think about this.

It's not a TWiki config problem, since the generated HTML is correct, and so is the entry in the access log. Therefore, it's probably an Apache configuration problem. Checking the httpd.conf file, I found something that I didn't write down, but changed to:

Alias /twiki/ /var/www/twiki/

And bingo! Graphics show up!

The blood is warming up.

Cheers...

Making sure I'm alive, is all...

One of Microsoft Word's less publicized features is its random "wake up the user" exercise, which this morning took the form of opening up last night's file with what appeared to be most of the content missing.

That's right. Upon opening the file, the indicator at the bottom of the screen showed the file to be 7 pages long (instead of over 200), and hitting Ctrl+Home brought me to the new "top" of the file, located in the middle of a word somewhere in what used to be not the top of the file.

I'm sure this will come as a surprise, but I said some very uncomplimentary things at that point.

Eventually, it turned out that most of the file was still there. It takes a while for the page count to "wake up." In the end, I'd "only" lost the first few pages of text. Fortunately, using Trados, the loss was easily recovered since all of the sentences in the lost section were in my translation memory database. That helped get my BP back down out of the stratosphere.

Most of the afternoon was spent chasing down sections that hadn't been touched by the client's translation memory database, and by about 6:30 pm, the job was finished. By that time, I'd gotten a call from another client with an urgent short assignment for tomorrow by 2 pm.

I've finished two of four pages of that assignment, and am thinking seriously of taking it easy for the "rest of the night."

Tomorrow, I've got to review and send the translation I worked on for most of the day, along with the shortie.

Cheers...

The kind of stuff I have to deal with...

Here's a "finding" from one of the reports I'm working on:


Click on image for full size view, which is not much clearer.

So far, I've got the following, mostly because of the context of the document (a water report):

Отобранная проба воды не отвечает требованиям
СанПиН 2.1.4.1074-01 по содержанию железо. Обеспечить{?}
подачу{?} воды{?} на{?} _______ ________ после _________
{???? for the rest}

I'm pretty sure about the first sentence, which basically says:

The water sample does not conform to the requirements
of SanPiN 2.1.4.1074-01 with regard to iron content.

...especially as iron is the only item on the report that is, in fact, excessive.

(Who knows what the maximum allowable concentration of iron in drinking water is in Russia? The Shadow I know!)

But I have a feeling I'm just going to label everything past the first sentence of the finding as [illegible].

Can any one of my native Russian LJ friends make anything else out?

Cheers...

Who put the SuperGlue on my chair?

Well, I finished the four-pager, too, except for any added insight into the illegible finding language that might be volunteered by Russian LJ friends. (Or anyone else with an opinion, for that matter. :^)

Which basically means "all I have left to do" is check the documents before sending them off tomorrow.

So much for "taking it easy" for the rest of the night. :^)

* * *I tried installing a TWiki "skin" today, and although the attempt started out well, I ended up gingerly backing out of the change after weird things started showing up on my browser screen (Konqueror, on my Linux box).

At least I was able to back out without losing any information. I'll have to read up on skins.

Criminy, it's late, and tomorrow's Friday, too.

Cheers...