Friday November 1, 2007
Differences between Linux Distros may prove uncompetative. There is little standardization about what is included and more importantly, how each distro is
configured. With Apple gaining market share seemingly at the expense of Microsoft,
and maybe at the expense of Linux, Apple's configuration standardization with OS X, which is also a true Open Source platform, provides a great advantage. You don't need to be a UNIX administrator to get it running to your taste.
Diferences between web servers
I finally got a usable web configuration running on Mandriva 2007 which is very different from the one on this Linux, Slackware-12, and even if where things get put was standardized, little annoyances like what editor is available for web publishing are not standard. It isn't that hard to get any particular app for Linux, but this machine is not on the internet and the effort to sneaker.net an app doesn't necesarily pay off because of dependancies. So, I've grown to like Quanta Plus on this system to edit web pages, but it isn't part of the Free Mandriva 2007 distro which uses Nvu. That editor favors a different approach to web design. Then you add the fact that Mandriva's apache 2 config really discourages web sites on user's home dirs, usually in ~/public_html and root there has to create a user's dir on /var/www/html, which works, but it may defeat the security paranoia of that config, and that is just another layer of complexity.
I will reapply for SSDI
Up till now I have resisted re-jumping through the hoops to reapply for SSDI, but maybe my situation has evolved enough that I have a better chance of being awarded it I have fallen and scraped myself more frequently lately, three times in the last month, and this has been witnessed by family members. This has also caused me to hit my head, twice falling on my face. I can apply on-line and answer the questions asked so it is more clear that my disability is interferring with my daily activities. So, I feel like I have a better chance qualifying this time.
Some Annivesaries and Echos
On October 27, two milestones were passed and one echoed. Last Saturday was the tenth anniversery of my start as a permanent Sun employee. I now recall that as bittersweet considering what has come of that. I don't trust business or business-people and I have come to think that Sturgon's Law applies to most people, not excluding myself, are idiots, well, at least incompetant or unaware, misinformed, not stupid, mind you, there are many very bright people out there who are simply misguided.
Shadow of the weaker Wing
Charmain has an interesting idea about the development of with wing types of personality enneatype. It is that the qualiities of the weaker of two wings each type has are shadowed, that is, repressed, from consciousness, disavowed to some extant. So even
though Charmaine and I have same core type, 5, our wing development is opposed. This
get revealed when I pointed out her anxiety over working out her relationships with people she knows. She admited to me that she was much more sensative and emotional in private because she had more developement of the 4 wing and less of the 6 wing, and that I am the reverse. My 6 wing is nore developed and my 4 wing is shadowed. My emotionality is compartmentalized, heald in check, and I am more counterphobic 6 in a social persona.
There is a parallel idea which has some out several times in our conversations, that different subtypes are expressed in the wings. So, for example, I may have a one-on-one subtype on my 4 wing and a social subtype on my six wing.
Working on Mozart La Clamenza di Tito
After having studied Idomeneo a couple of weeks ago, I found my recording of La Clemenza di Tito about a week ago and found the score in my boxes in the garage and spent all of last week re-learning the pieces from it. The two operas are quite similar even though widely separated in Mozart's short life. Both are on Classical
subjects, Roman and Cretian. Tito is K. 621 from 1791 and Idom. is K. 366 from 1778, with the Ballet Music from it as K. 367.
On of the challenges of dealing with these two operas in score is that the voice parts are all movable-do, as the pocket scores are photo reproductions of the first Urtext editions. So, I have had lots of practice reading the old voice clefs. This makes it harder to hear nuance with following with the score, as I am still strugling with the mechanics of transposing, but it seems to work better if I take the score asside without the recording and try to read it. Doing this has revealed the benefit that my recall of the music is heightened by the number of times I've heard it recently, so I really reinforce my memory and knowledge of the music by reading from the score separately. This provides room to read the old clefs and think about the music; the way to parts work together, the harmony, etc. I must focus my attentions, though, on the first act finale of Tito that I admire so much for its deceptions and delays from the harmony as it reveals reluctance in the dramatic forces of that moment in the piece. I may even have to find out what the words mean, at least in that piece, to see why specifally those words suggest to Mozart that he delay the harmonic resolutions throughout the piece.
