Two days left...
Jan. 28th, 2002 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe day went fairly quickly, which means that I was surprised by the arrival of the mail carrier to pick up mail and of the UPS guy to pick up packages. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get any of the 1099-related work done, but that's okay, as I have to wait until tomorrow to get them anyway.
It's contract time, as far as translation companies are concerned. I just got one from a Texas client that has the usual idiocy in it. What's worse, they sent the thing in the form of a protected MS Word file (which took about 10 seconds to unprotect <grin>), as if to say: no changes, please. I will be sorry to disappoint them.
I suppose when I go down to Houston there will be a new agreement with my old employer, too. I'm wondering if there will be any surprises there (in the past, the company has had a tendency to set prices in a kind of "my way or the highway" fashion). I'm not too worried in that regard, though.
* * * I have figured out a way to fetch the dynamically assigned IP address of my home Linux box. This is an issue, as there appear to be almost daily short outages of DSL service lately.
I've cobbled together a recipe for procmail that runs a script that sends mail to a particular Web-based mail service if a certain passphrase is found in the incoming mail stream. It turns out the header of the sent mail shows the IP address of my Linux box.
Using this stratagem is simple: if I can't hit my home machine with the last known IP address, I log onto my Web-based mail service site and send a mail message to an address on my Linux box, making sure the passphrase is embedded in the message. Five minutes or so later, I'll have a reply that tells me what the current IP address is, and I can access my machine.
* * * There are basically two days left until I go down to Houston (tentative departure is the 31st). I feel a strange kind of elation at the prospect, if only because it means that for one full day I won't have to do anything more challenging than keep my eyes on the road. I am thoroughly sick and tired of putting in the long hours that have been the norm since, it seems, forever. I just hope I get a suitably "invisible" assignment down in Houston.
Cheers....
It's contract time, as far as translation companies are concerned. I just got one from a Texas client that has the usual idiocy in it. What's worse, they sent the thing in the form of a protected MS Word file (which took about 10 seconds to unprotect <grin>), as if to say: no changes, please. I will be sorry to disappoint them.
I suppose when I go down to Houston there will be a new agreement with my old employer, too. I'm wondering if there will be any surprises there (in the past, the company has had a tendency to set prices in a kind of "my way or the highway" fashion). I'm not too worried in that regard, though.
I've cobbled together a recipe for procmail that runs a script that sends mail to a particular Web-based mail service if a certain passphrase is found in the incoming mail stream. It turns out the header of the sent mail shows the IP address of my Linux box.
Using this stratagem is simple: if I can't hit my home machine with the last known IP address, I log onto my Web-based mail service site and send a mail message to an address on my Linux box, making sure the passphrase is embedded in the message. Five minutes or so later, I'll have a reply that tells me what the current IP address is, and I can access my machine.
Cheers....
