Re: [tlug] Japanese Input: Making It Work

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

On 12/06/2013 09:19 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> That's what I meant.  I'm sorry to hear you have to deal with that
> ... on second thought, if you didn't, your clients probably wouldn't
> need you, they could hire somebody at half the price. ;-)

Funny you should mention that.  Google Chrome with the translate 
function has caused 3~4 clients to leave, thinking they could now do the 
cross-border work on their own from the US.  I've explained that, even 
when the word is a direct translation, it doesn't have the same meaning 
that it does in English ... especially in accounting, the law, and the 
various related fun subjects and applications of same in which I mostly 
work.

I was recently contacted by one former client who's been gone for over 
eighteen months and now seems to have gotten into some serious legal 
problems of the Nichibei laws and treaties kind.  Seems that Google 
Translate doesn't quite keep people from misunderstanding certain laws 
and doing some extremely stupid legal things.  They were shocked to 
learn that when I get people out of trouble, I charge twice what I would 
have charged to keep them form getting into trouble in the first place.

>   > Installing from the .debs produced a regular, repeatable error
>
> "Source" debs whose contents need to be built before installing,
> rather than simply unpacked and mv'ed into place.  Not the usual
> binary .debs.  RPM conventionally uses a different extension for
> package files containing sources to be compiled before installing, but
> last I looked Debian didn't.  (I don't know about Ubuntu, my
> experiments with Ubuntu started with "disappointing" and have gone
> monotonically downhill from there.  I'd rather use Windows 7 than
> Ubuntu 13.x as a workstation, although both are 100% unsatisfactory as
> server hosts.)

I thought that's what you were referring to and I have not yet tried 
that solution.  I'm waiting to see what instructions I receive from the 
HPLIP folks on their proposed course of action.  I hope it doesn't 
involve putting your leg behind your head.

I can't comment on Ubuntu because it is based upon the Gnome desktop, 
which I think looks as though it was programmed by Mrs. Anderson's fifth 
grade art class and doesn't "feel" professional enough.  But, I was a 
military programmer and still break out in a sweat if every function 
isn't connected to all other functions  by straight lines and has more 
than two possible choices for each go/no go node.

I have WIN7 running in a VirtualBox and it ran more smoothly out of the 
box than XP did.  The one thing it does better than Debian is language 
switching.

> Speaking of Ubuntu, is the project going to disband after Zydeco
> Zebra?  After all, they've run out of letters. :-)
I think the one after that will be AAwesome AArdvark.

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CL