A long day, but I kept busy...

Usually, the end of September is run-around-at-Mach-3-with-hair-on-fire time around here, but it's entirely possible that my best client is helping me rest after my operation. Then again, given the reluctance of folks in general—and of Russian folks in particular—to perform work without signed contract documents... well, it's just way above my pay scale, that's all I can say.

Yesterday, I built an emacs executable that resides on a Raspberry Pi. Today, after surprisingly little fuss, I managed to figure out how to add just one more screen to my four-screen work setup, the idea being that I'd run a dedicated copy of org on the Pi, and then switch between my work machine and the Pi using a program called Synergy, which is a software replacement for (read: improvement on) those old hardware KVM cable setups that let you use one keyboard, video monitor, and mouse with two computers.

The problem, it seemed to me, was to find a copy of Synergy that worked on the Pi, running Raspian. The company's web site did not offer a precompiled package, and it did not occur to me to check whether one existed among the repositories available to the Pi. If I had, I would have saved myself considerable time, but I would not have learned as much about cmake, and though I am confident this hard-won knowledge will not be of much use to me in the future, I believe acquiring knowledge for the sole and express purpose of "future usability" is a short-sighted approach, i.e., "you never know."

And so my five-screen setup works. Next step: configure emacs on the Pi to provide the same kind of functionality I've been getting from the Windows version.

But I'd really rather be translating.

Cheers...