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I could write a book...
...in fact, I just spent the past couple of weeks writing about half of one. So far, the word count for El Humungo stands at just above 42,000. Somewhere, I recall seeing 70,000 as the number of words in an "average" novel.
The juice was back on at the house by the time I got there after closing the store. I received the other 25 pages in mail, and will do my level best not to look at them until Monday. As it is, I'll probably get up early tomorrow and start reviewing what I've done. I am definitely done for today.
If I review 10 pages per hour, though, it'll take me pretty much all day (80 pages). Ideally, I'd like to be done with this part of the assignment by the time I go to the store tomorrow morning, but I don't think that's realistic. If we assume I work for 3 hours, that means I'll have to review about 30 pages per hour. Each of the 16-page (or so) sections I reviewed so far took me about two hours, so do the math...
Oh, well... I'll get through it when I get through it, I suppose.
* * * Ever since the Marines, I've been blessed with the ability to sleep pretty much through anything. In the course of my life, I've slept through movies, conversations, the sound of people typing, machinery running, thunder crashing, and even mortar rounds doing their thing. It's all a matter of finding the "rhythm" of the sound and then removing it from the among the things you pay attention to as you fall asleep.
Ming Toy, the Peke Who Would Be King, on the other hand, has developed this exquisite method of completely randomizing the noise that he makes in the early morning, and it drives me nuts. More to the point, it gets me up. I don't mind when he starts to belch, grunt, wheeze, scratch, kick, roll, sniff, yawn, rub, sniff, and pant after the alarm has gone off, but his behavior these past couple of mornings (up to an hour before reveille), has caused uncharitable thoughts to cloud my brain the first thing in the morning.
This is not a good thing, either for me... or... for... Ming. ;^)
Heck with it... I need to get up anyway.
* * * What I love about Linux HOWTOs is how quickly they become obsolete. As a case in point, in the Cyrillic HOWTO I have, it suggests that I might wish to execute the command
> echo -ne "\033(K"
on each of the several consoles that are created when Linux boots. (This arcane command sends a control sequence to the console that allows Latin/Cyrillic toggling using the right Ctrl key. I think.)
In reality, though, on 'onegin' (running Seawolf), I don't have to run that particular command. At all. The capability is just there.
Another interesting characteristic: in looking at the /etc/rc.d directory, I see where I could go in and modify rc.sysinit to do the dirty work with the glyphs, etc. before anything really gets going during the boot process. Unfortunately, any and all attempts to edit the file (as root, natch) do not work.
I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for this, but for the moment, I've stuck the font manipulation into the rc.local file, which does the deed near the end of the bootup process. The only difference I can see is that without an early load of the Cyrillic characters, most of the informative boot-up messages are displayed as white squares.
I can live with that for a while.
I've also gone in and tweaked PuTTY to display KOI8-R and use the Caps Lock key to toggle between alphabets, so now I can read and compose e-mail with Russian characters on 'onegin' from my Windows desktop.
Among immediate goals in this area is the acquisition of the Russian dictionary for the ispell program. I should probably give some serious thought to acquiring a Russian spell-checker to work under Word, too, as I cannot avoid having to improve my skills somehow, and flesh-and-blood spelling help is not always available.
Time to go to bed, methinks. Despite the arrival of 25 more pages of drivel, I feel as if a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
Cheers...
The juice was back on at the house by the time I got there after closing the store. I received the other 25 pages in mail, and will do my level best not to look at them until Monday. As it is, I'll probably get up early tomorrow and start reviewing what I've done. I am definitely done for today.
If I review 10 pages per hour, though, it'll take me pretty much all day (80 pages). Ideally, I'd like to be done with this part of the assignment by the time I go to the store tomorrow morning, but I don't think that's realistic. If we assume I work for 3 hours, that means I'll have to review about 30 pages per hour. Each of the 16-page (or so) sections I reviewed so far took me about two hours, so do the math...
Oh, well... I'll get through it when I get through it, I suppose.
Ming Toy, the Peke Who Would Be King, on the other hand, has developed this exquisite method of completely randomizing the noise that he makes in the early morning, and it drives me nuts. More to the point, it gets me up. I don't mind when he starts to belch, grunt, wheeze, scratch, kick, roll, sniff, yawn, rub, sniff, and pant after the alarm has gone off, but his behavior these past couple of mornings (up to an hour before reveille), has caused uncharitable thoughts to cloud my brain the first thing in the morning.
This is not a good thing, either for me... or... for... Ming. ;^)
Heck with it... I need to get up anyway.
> echo -ne "\033(K"
on each of the several consoles that are created when Linux boots. (This arcane command sends a control sequence to the console that allows Latin/Cyrillic toggling using the right Ctrl key. I think.)
In reality, though, on 'onegin' (running Seawolf), I don't have to run that particular command. At all. The capability is just there.
Another interesting characteristic: in looking at the /etc/rc.d directory, I see where I could go in and modify rc.sysinit to do the dirty work with the glyphs, etc. before anything really gets going during the boot process. Unfortunately, any and all attempts to edit the file (as root, natch) do not work.
I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for this, but for the moment, I've stuck the font manipulation into the rc.local file, which does the deed near the end of the bootup process. The only difference I can see is that without an early load of the Cyrillic characters, most of the informative boot-up messages are displayed as white squares.
I can live with that for a while.
I've also gone in and tweaked PuTTY to display KOI8-R and use the Caps Lock key to toggle between alphabets, so now I can read and compose e-mail with Russian characters on 'onegin' from my Windows desktop.
Among immediate goals in this area is the acquisition of the Russian dictionary for the ispell program. I should probably give some serious thought to acquiring a Russian spell-checker to work under Word, too, as I cannot avoid having to improve my skills somehow, and flesh-and-blood spelling help is not always available.
Time to go to bed, methinks. Despite the arrival of 25 more pages of drivel, I feel as if a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
Cheers...