On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:28:47 -0500, milo wrote:
> E. Liddell wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:51:23 -0500, Laurie G. wrote:
>>
>>> E. Liddell wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:50:32 -0700, spam wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 14, 10:09 am, "E. Liddell"
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:04:00 -0700, spam wrote:
>
>>
>>>> Well, this time I at least have some idea where the story is going,
>>>> so I might make it at least to the end of Part 1. I hope. (And the
>>>> protagonist probably hopes that I *won't* get that far, since I
>>>> already know that his wife's going to die, rather messily, at that
>>>> point.)
>>>>
>>>> I just wish I knew why *every single novel-length original plot* I
>>>> come up with seems to end up having demons in it somewhere. (Well,
>>>> okay, more like three-quarters of them, really, but . . .) The word
>>>> "demon" doesn't even end up meaning quite the same thing in any two
>>>> of the worlds involved, but it always seems to show up.
>>>>
>>>>> The fan fic ideas have been coming on strong of late.
>>>> Good for you.
>>> I have been finding energy and interest for working on my fanfics from
>>> a very unexpected direction. I just got a new machine, which has
>>> Vista, Office 2007 and a different directory structure than the old
>>> machine. The directory difference is purely a quirk of my own, not the
>>> fault of the PC. Which ends up meaning I've been having to open up
>>> every one of my unfinished pieces and make sure they're structurally
>>> sound. After which I begin re-reading them. After which, I begin
>>> working on them. This is just accelerating since I finished the last
>>> novels being read and took them back to the library.
>>
>> Best of luck with 'em.
>>
>> I'm still writing on the same computer I had when I started writing
>> fanfic--in fact, that's about all the poor old thing does these days.
>> (I do miss the complex of email filters I had set up on it, though . .
>> . Unfortunately, hooking it up to the Internet by any means other than
>> its own modem is impractical--Windows 3.1, y'know.)
>
> Oooh, an antique!
Yup, the very first computer I bought with my own money. 32MB RAM, 3GB
disk space (both upgraded several years after the initial purchase), 4x
CD-ROM, 486DX2-66, and, since the software is appropriate to the era in
which it was built, it actually still runs quite nicely.
(My old laptop has more RAM, more processor, and runs like a lead brick,
'cause it's a P-133 trying to run Win '98SE. It's now been superseded by
a nice modern laptop running Linux.)
>> And the directory
>> structure gets cloned forward when I back stuff up over the LAN. It's
>> a bit of a mess, really.
>
> My case is a direct result of the smaller hard drives in an earlier
> machine. At that time, the physical hard drive was bigger than a
> logical drive could be, and so it was partitioned into into three. In
> the following system, the old hard drive was stuck in as a second
> physical drive, and ended up with designations d:, e: and f:. Since e:
> and f: had been my working data drives from the original system, they
> remained such in the second system. Now with this system, I backed up
> everything onto an external hard drive, and then loaded it onto the new
> single, big hard drive. But of course the *drive* designations couldn't
> remain so they became directories like "old-e-drive".
This computer has major partitions named /mnt/edrive,
/mnt/gdrive, and /mnt/hdrive, left over from the days when I was still
using its multi-boot facilities, instead of keeping it in Linux all the
time. (F: was the CD-ROM, if you're wondering where it went.) The 486
still has its original 500MB drive in it somewhere, although it's no
longer used for anything but the occasional backup.
>And that's not
> the file path recorded as my document components, so I had to rebuild
> the documents. In the end, a small price to pay for maintaining my data
> over all of these system upgrades.
Ah, I see, you actually split your documents across multiple files
instead of bundling the entire document into one the way I always do when
I can. If you have no references leading to other files, they can't be
broken when you move stuff around. Unfortunately, my desktop publishing
software doesn't see it that way. Java source files are much easier to
deal with: I just stuff everything from a given project in the same
directory and let the compiler worry about the relationships. ;P
>> Of course, if I wanted to be really, er, dedicated, I could put
>> everything under source control . . . but then again, I don't use that
>> as much as I should even for computer code.
>
> That is dedicated. Use of source control is a standard practice at work
> of course, but I've never undertaken to install any at home. The coding
> I do at home so far hasn't become big or complex enough that I can't
> track my versions with directory copies.
I use it very occasionally when working on the slowly-moving Video Game
Project or on the rare occasion that someone actually pays me to write
code these days (although in the latter case, a "version" indicates "I
released this to them, better keep a copy in case I screw something up
while trying to make requested changes two years from now"). If I were
serious about it, I'd glue something together with SVN, a perl script,
and a cron job, instead of occasionally squirting things through
Superversion (which has nothing at all to do with SVN despite the name
similarity) when the fit takes me.
>>>>>>> (and Shiori, who is currently beating DQ over the head)
>>>>>> That's enough--no need to give poor DQ a
>>>>>> brain injury.
>>>>> I'd need to have a brain to be injured first. ^^
>>>> Yeah, but you can't say things like that about other people . . .
>>>>
>>> *makes note for sake of future social interactions*
>>
>> Note of what, precisely? ;P
>
> The idea that I shouldn't say thing like that about other people. o\_/o
Heh. Much more of this, and people may get confused into thinking that
I'm polite, when I'm actually a bit of a social disaster.
E. Liddell, who didn't get nearly enough of anything constructive done
yesterday and is not expecting today to be any better. Oh, well, at
least I tacked another page onto the proto-novel.
