...can't trust that day!
Apr. 25th, 2005 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI am just about halfway through a truly mind-numbing edit that's due tomorrow, and following some kind of self-destructive path, I've accepted and edited a short item for another client and revised a translation done over the weekend for a direct client; in short: done almost anything to avoid progressing too much further - I mean look at me... even resorting to a LiveJournal post!
Oh, it's pathetic! (Just kidding... sorta.)
Anyway, I do have until tomorrow afternoon to finish this item, and to be sure, the translation is not bad, but the document is one of those 10-MB Word files festooned with noneditable graphics, where booby traps lurk for the unwary editor. When I tried cutting and pasting one of the graphics, Word became non-responsive. When later I tried adjusting the indentation on this one paragraph, wham!... my page margins went straight to hell. When I later tried deleting excess space between paragraphs, the autonumbering in the paragraph below the cursor disappeared, only to reappear if I entered a space before the start of the text.
I am beginning to understand why the translator left so many formatting "uglies" in the text: I'm finding that, if you touch any of them, things get uglier.
* * * Getting that ThinkPad up and running is not as easy as I thought it would be. Having finished installing Windows 3.1 on the beast, I ended up with a machine that still booted Linux (solved by booting DOS and executing 'fdisk /mbr' to smooth out the master boot record), except that - as it turns out - there was no operating system to boot (i.e., DOS had not been installed when I installed Windows). And the other set of install disks I own (MS-DOS 5.0 + Windows 3.1) is an upgrade set that wants to see something already on the hard drive.
I eventually got to the point where things were looking up, except for DOS wanting to "max out" my disk size at 32 MB (16 cylinders on a 524-cylinder disk), at which point I'm thinking maybe I'll create a C: and D: drive (taking care of 32 cylinders) and then let some amall Linux distro get the rest. (Or maybe I'm trying to go back too far with Windows 3.1; perhaps I should install Windows 95?)
(Heck, this little episode probably took longer to explain than actually do.)
It's getting late, though there is still daylight coming in my window, andthere really isn't anything to eat,... actually, yes, there is. When I stopped by the health food store today to replenish my supply of ubiquinone (aka coenzyme Q10) I picked up some frozen elk steak medallions! Time for dinner!
Cheers...
Oh, it's pathetic! (Just kidding... sorta.)
Anyway, I do have until tomorrow afternoon to finish this item, and to be sure, the translation is not bad, but the document is one of those 10-MB Word files festooned with noneditable graphics, where booby traps lurk for the unwary editor. When I tried cutting and pasting one of the graphics, Word became non-responsive. When later I tried adjusting the indentation on this one paragraph, wham!... my page margins went straight to hell. When I later tried deleting excess space between paragraphs, the autonumbering in the paragraph below the cursor disappeared, only to reappear if I entered a space before the start of the text.
I am beginning to understand why the translator left so many formatting "uglies" in the text: I'm finding that, if you touch any of them, things get uglier.
I eventually got to the point where things were looking up, except for DOS wanting to "max out" my disk size at 32 MB (16 cylinders on a 524-cylinder disk), at which point I'm thinking maybe I'll create a C: and D: drive (taking care of 32 cylinders) and then let some amall Linux distro get the rest. (Or maybe I'm trying to go back too far with Windows 3.1; perhaps I should install Windows 95?)
(Heck, this little episode probably took longer to explain than actually do.)
It's getting late, though there is still daylight coming in my window, and
Cheers...
