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Feeling good...
I was the store opener today, but came home around 10 am or so to start work on my translations.
First, however, I spent about 30 minutes reacquainting myself with the ipchains program in Linux, which provides a mechanism for creating a firewall to the outside world. The default installation on 'onegin' basically blocks any and all attempts at connecting via telnet or ftp from anywhere. (The rule I was concerned about the other day, which I thought allowed any source to talk to any destination on any port actually only is in effect for the local interface, which is perfectly ok, BTW.)
Anyway, by the time I was finished, I had established ftp access from my desktop and my eSlate, and ssh access from (theoretically) anywhere.
The rest of the day was burned in a berseker frenzy of translation. Of the 19 pages due to client U on Monday, 17 are done, and I don't think I could have done the job as quickly if I had to rely on paper dictionaries. Having made that much progress, I can devote tomorrow to the final two pages of the job, do the 5 pages on the Soyuz simulator for client T (also due Monday), and maybe even get a leg up on the work due late Monday to client M, but I'll do that after our planned big Easter dinner (I saw the ham in the fridge,... yum!).
Work continues to pour in, as Jim W. again dropped my name in the ear of a potential new client. After a couple of e-mail exchanges, I have work starting Wednesday and due Friday (about 4,000 words).
There is a grand aching in my mind to ease off on the nitty-gritty details of my day-to-day travails with translation and focus on things that... aren't mundane, I guess. At the moment, however, I can only think of two things: (1) What happened to that e-mail that Lee sent with her travel itinerary? (Probably in my gzipped archive.) and (2) Is it too early to go to sleep? (No.)
(Sigh.)
Cheers...
First, however, I spent about 30 minutes reacquainting myself with the ipchains program in Linux, which provides a mechanism for creating a firewall to the outside world. The default installation on 'onegin' basically blocks any and all attempts at connecting via telnet or ftp from anywhere. (The rule I was concerned about the other day, which I thought allowed any source to talk to any destination on any port actually only is in effect for the local interface, which is perfectly ok, BTW.)
Anyway, by the time I was finished, I had established ftp access from my desktop and my eSlate, and ssh access from (theoretically) anywhere.
The rest of the day was burned in a berseker frenzy of translation. Of the 19 pages due to client U on Monday, 17 are done, and I don't think I could have done the job as quickly if I had to rely on paper dictionaries. Having made that much progress, I can devote tomorrow to the final two pages of the job, do the 5 pages on the Soyuz simulator for client T (also due Monday), and maybe even get a leg up on the work due late Monday to client M, but I'll do that after our planned big Easter dinner (I saw the ham in the fridge,... yum!).
Work continues to pour in, as Jim W. again dropped my name in the ear of a potential new client. After a couple of e-mail exchanges, I have work starting Wednesday and due Friday (about 4,000 words).
There is a grand aching in my mind to ease off on the nitty-gritty details of my day-to-day travails with translation and focus on things that... aren't mundane, I guess. At the moment, however, I can only think of two things: (1) What happened to that e-mail that Lee sent with her travel itinerary? (Probably in my gzipped archive.) and (2) Is it too early to go to sleep? (No.)
(Sigh.)
Cheers...