Update blues...
So memoQ has been bugging me to update the software, and so I did, whereupon the updating routine reported, upon trying to download the update, that I was not authorized to do so.
That may sound hairy, but in my experience, it means the application had to have been "run as administrator" in order to allow any updates to occur.
But what really annoyed me was the update routine's inability to keep track of downloaded files (there are 14 files that are part of the update). When my VPN disconnected—as it does, every once in a while—download of the update halted, which sort of makes sense, because the connection was disrupted. What does not make sense is having the download start again from scratch after having downloaded 12 of 14 files amounting to about a half a Cd's volume of data.
I am also giving some hard thought to downgrading my ISP service level in this upcoming billing cycle, because the extra cabbage I fork over for higher speeds is hugely held hostage by whatever is upstream of my ISP. Checking my download/upload speeds using sites designed for this kind of test nets me the speeds I am paying for, but a whole lot of sites out there appear to deliberately throttle the rate at which they send me data (which, for the most part is almost certainly not the result of any malevolent intent, per se, but is behavior that is indistinguishable from sites that might do so for nefarious purposes).
All of the paperwork has been completed and Natalie's new tenants ought to be picking up the house keys, etc. from Galina today. Yay!
Cheers...
P.S. And of course, after having posted yesterday's little diatribe about whether or not to go on and finish the last few hundred words of the job I was working on, I went on to finish it off. Despeckling will be a bear (the OCR was good enough to work with, not good enough in terms of formatting), but I'll cross that bridge after I put a healthy chunk of The Next Assignment out of the way.
That may sound hairy, but in my experience, it means the application had to have been "run as administrator" in order to allow any updates to occur.
But what really annoyed me was the update routine's inability to keep track of downloaded files (there are 14 files that are part of the update). When my VPN disconnected—as it does, every once in a while—download of the update halted, which sort of makes sense, because the connection was disrupted. What does not make sense is having the download start again from scratch after having downloaded 12 of 14 files amounting to about a half a Cd's volume of data.
I am also giving some hard thought to downgrading my ISP service level in this upcoming billing cycle, because the extra cabbage I fork over for higher speeds is hugely held hostage by whatever is upstream of my ISP. Checking my download/upload speeds using sites designed for this kind of test nets me the speeds I am paying for, but a whole lot of sites out there appear to deliberately throttle the rate at which they send me data (which, for the most part is almost certainly not the result of any malevolent intent, per se, but is behavior that is indistinguishable from sites that might do so for nefarious purposes).
All of the paperwork has been completed and Natalie's new tenants ought to be picking up the house keys, etc. from Galina today. Yay!
Cheers...
P.S. And of course, after having posted yesterday's little diatribe about whether or not to go on and finish the last few hundred words of the job I was working on, I went on to finish it off. Despeckling will be a bear (the OCR was good enough to work with, not good enough in terms of formatting), but I'll cross that bridge after I put a healthy chunk of The Next Assignment out of the way.