Linux and Moleskines...
Oct. 9th, 2005 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI found an appropriate network card for a machine that someone abandoned at the store almost two years ago and am in the process of installing Fedora Linux 3. The idea is to replace the venerable onegin with something that can run X without wheezing out loud. The machine is old (Pentium II), but silent, and I figure it ought to work just fine. At any rate, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The pocket-sized Moleskine 'cahier' that I took with me to Baikonur did not fare as well as I had hoped. The journal is the right size (9x14 cm, 64 pages) and the last 16 sheets are detachable, but physically, the book just didn't stand up to the kind of abuse that the Miquelrius journal withstood without complaint (meaning getting carried around in the front and back pockets of my jeans and in my shirt pocket and being opened and written in under a variety of non-office conditions).
The primary problem has to do with the body of pages coming apart from the spine, a process that I very likely accelerated by attempting to detach one of those pages at the back of the book. For this one particular page, it turns out the perforations that are supposed to expedite tearing a page out hold the paper together better than the glue that holds the paper inside the cover. Say what you will, Miquelrius pages may not look pretty after being ripped out (they are not pre-scored, and are well and truly bound in the book), but the books themselves will take a tremendous amount of wear and tear and hardly show it.
This isn't the first time I've had such problems with Moleskines: the very first Moleskine I bought - a basic pocket-sized notebook - separated along the seam between the pages and the back cover after some very lightweight use. On the other hand, aside from some concerns about the ability of the paper to deal with fountain pen ink, I have largely good things to say about their line of 'standard' sized (13x21 cm) notebooks.
I'm going to have to hit the ground running tomorrow. At the top of the list will be invoicing the work done since the beginning of the month. I must also call to find how my parents are doing.
Cheers...
The pocket-sized Moleskine 'cahier' that I took with me to Baikonur did not fare as well as I had hoped. The journal is the right size (9x14 cm, 64 pages) and the last 16 sheets are detachable, but physically, the book just didn't stand up to the kind of abuse that the Miquelrius journal withstood without complaint (meaning getting carried around in the front and back pockets of my jeans and in my shirt pocket and being opened and written in under a variety of non-office conditions).
The primary problem has to do with the body of pages coming apart from the spine, a process that I very likely accelerated by attempting to detach one of those pages at the back of the book. For this one particular page, it turns out the perforations that are supposed to expedite tearing a page out hold the paper together better than the glue that holds the paper inside the cover. Say what you will, Miquelrius pages may not look pretty after being ripped out (they are not pre-scored, and are well and truly bound in the book), but the books themselves will take a tremendous amount of wear and tear and hardly show it.
This isn't the first time I've had such problems with Moleskines: the very first Moleskine I bought - a basic pocket-sized notebook - separated along the seam between the pages and the back cover after some very lightweight use. On the other hand, aside from some concerns about the ability of the paper to deal with fountain pen ink, I have largely good things to say about their line of 'standard' sized (13x21 cm) notebooks.
I'm going to have to hit the ground running tomorrow. At the top of the list will be invoicing the work done since the beginning of the month. I must also call to find how my parents are doing.
Cheers...
