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Revenge of the computing gods...
I must've ticked off something or someone, because today has been a dilly so far...
Starting up Wordfast under Microsoft Word caused it to recalculate its installation code, thus requiring me, if I wanted to use my existing large translation memories, to reregister the new code with the publisher. (Reregistering the code results in the publisher sending a response with a new license number to go with the code.) This is Wordfast's way of avoiding having to distribute copy protection dongles: the software calculates a number that is supposedly unique and immutable (ceteris paribus) for a particular computer, and then the software will work, but only with both the installation code and the related license number obtained from the publisher. For some reason - reinstalling Word? - my installation code has changed.
Wordfast allows individual translators to install the software on a desktop and a laptop, and when I registered my copy the second time (once I got home from Houston) I found out that that a response to a request for a code could take a few hours. So, I started doing the translation in TRADOS 6.
No problem, until I hit the bulleted lists in the document, which uniformly turn to dross under the bludgeonings of the TRADOS software. (Who knows, maybe the same would've happened with Wordfast?)
And just a few minutes ago, out of friggin' nowhere Microsoft Windows (or at least I assume it's Windows) decides - while I am in the middle of a sentence - to launch something called "Tuning up Application Startup," which blithely sits in the middle of my goddam screen and tells me it is "modifying [my] programs so they start faster."
Oh, and this "might take several minutes."
WTF??? C'mon people, I'm on a deadline, here!
Wouldn'tcha know... attempting to kill said application has well and truly hung my VAIO. (No doubt that will teach me to try to thwart the will of the minions of Redmond!)
I've just thought of a new use for boiling oil.
Cheers...
P.S. I need to go for a walk.
Starting up Wordfast under Microsoft Word caused it to recalculate its installation code, thus requiring me, if I wanted to use my existing large translation memories, to reregister the new code with the publisher. (Reregistering the code results in the publisher sending a response with a new license number to go with the code.) This is Wordfast's way of avoiding having to distribute copy protection dongles: the software calculates a number that is supposedly unique and immutable (ceteris paribus) for a particular computer, and then the software will work, but only with both the installation code and the related license number obtained from the publisher. For some reason - reinstalling Word? - my installation code has changed.
Wordfast allows individual translators to install the software on a desktop and a laptop, and when I registered my copy the second time (once I got home from Houston) I found out that that a response to a request for a code could take a few hours. So, I started doing the translation in TRADOS 6.
No problem, until I hit the bulleted lists in the document, which uniformly turn to dross under the bludgeonings of the TRADOS software. (Who knows, maybe the same would've happened with Wordfast?)
And just a few minutes ago, out of friggin' nowhere Microsoft Windows (or at least I assume it's Windows) decides - while I am in the middle of a sentence - to launch something called "Tuning up Application Startup," which blithely sits in the middle of my goddam screen and tells me it is "modifying [my] programs so they start faster."
Oh, and this "might take several minutes."
WTF??? C'mon people, I'm on a deadline, here!
Wouldn'tcha know... attempting to kill said application has well and truly hung my VAIO. (No doubt that will teach me to try to thwart the will of the minions of Redmond!)
I've just thought of a new use for boiling oil.
Cheers...
P.S. I need to go for a walk.