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I have spent the past two nights trying to get this old 'Aptiva' e2u system back up and running. Apparently the original hard drive was taken out so I was left with a small 500MB drive, which in theory should have allowed me to install 'Debian'. After many repeated attempts to get the system up and running, I gave up and threw in an old 'Windows 98' installation disk.
It actually did a lot better, until it told me that it needed over 700MB of disk space! What the hey? I spent the rest of the day trying to install 'Debian' until I checked the minimum requirements for 'Windows 98', which was listed at around 200MB. What the hey?
So I popped the 'Windows 98' CD back in and voila! It started working! I guess the hard drive was partitioned poorly, which is why it could not register the entire space. Anyway, it is installing 'Windows 98' now. I'll donate the darned thing once this thing is done.
(Next up is this newer machine which is lacking a hard drive..)
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Well, I was able to install 'Windows 98', but the darned computer would not boot. I guess there is something wrong with the hard drive. In any case, I need to go to sleep. I think the computer is in a good enough condition to donate. I have another two chassis to check out to see if there is anything I can salvage.
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Over the past few weeks, my home phone has been getting more and more phone calls. I have not been getting many answering machine messages, but the number of calls I have been receiving while I am present at home has skyrocketed.
I screen my calls. Actually, I never pick up the phone at home unless I know someone is coming over, so I do not encourage any telemarketers to contact me at my residence. However, during one weekend while I was at home, the phone rung four times in less than an hour. I picked up the phone on the fourth call and heard some woman asking me if I was going to support the Liberals in the upcoming election. I told them that I would vote, but did not specify whom. The lady noted that I was an undecided voter, and let me hang up.
I have been hearing of other people getting calls from the various parties urging them to vote, and I find it quite.. annoying. I do not remember this type of phone campaign during the '2006 Canadian federal election' though.
I was undecided as to when I would vote, be it in the morning or after I come home from badminton in the evening. In either case, I would be cutting it close as the polls open at nine and close at nine.
I got up late this morning because my alarm did not go off (it was turned off and was never turned back on). Since I was running late, I decided to go and vote in the morning before I left for work. So I got my voting cards, identification, etc. and headed down to the voting booth. I got to the station and handed in my documents. The poll officer took a look at my election card and told me that I was to vote at the school down the street because my card said that I had to vote at poll station 80. The station that was in my building was number 81.
What?!?
There was a piece of paper specifically written for residents of my condo stating that we were to vote at the polling station downstairs, but because it was a different polling station number, I was unable to vote there? Now all of the stuff I got for the election seems even more confusing. Apparently there were several other people who had come down to the room and were similarly turned away.
I did not have the time to argue so I went back up stairs to get ready for work, but I will have to go back after badminton to figure this all out.
I got home and had less than half an hour to vote. I dropped off my stuff and headed out to the address listed on my voter card which pointed me to the building next door. I walked out to the building and noticed that there were no signs whatsoever for the election, so I headed back to my building and walked back into the party room to vote. The two supervisors from this morning were there, but when I handed them my card, the looked my name up on a list, and gave me a ballot.
What?
I was half thinking of asking them if they knew that I was turned away in the morning, but decided against it. It was late and I was in no mood to argue.
I cast my vote and headed back upstairs. I found out soon enough that both of my votes were for losing causes..
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