Frustration, and voting
Oct. 16th, 2004 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothLast night, before the game, I was trying to sync up at work so that I could have overnight builds running over the weekend, and hopefully check in Monday... but everything went wrong. I got a million billion errors that some files were writable and therefore woudln't be 'stomped' -- this is a stupid error that happens now and then, because Source Depot is kind of unreliable that way. So I tried to delete them with 'del *.* /s /q' (in the subdirectory where I knew I had nothing checked out) and waited for it to finish...
...and waited, and waited, and eventually realized that it was getting asymptotically slower. I tried to close other windows to give it more resources, and finally, when that didn't work, to stop the process itself, but it was too late -- I couldn't even get the start menu up to select 'shut down'. So I pulled the plug.
When the computer came back up, I did the rest of the pre-script munging (resolving merge conflicts), but when I went to transfer those changes over to the build machine, one of the necessary network shares (but not the other) wasn't working, and when I tried to bring up computer management to figure out why, it hung.
By this point I was already late for the game -- let alone late for leaving work -- and I was really, really pissed. I managed not to break anything important this time, at least. [sigh]
I eventually just re-did the changes on the build machine, and I'll have to resolve any differences in those -- and fix whatever's wrong with the damn network -- next week. At least being that late meant that traffic had died down.
Today I finally got my absentee ballot in. The initiatives this time were really suspicious-looking -- it's like the state government is at war with the initiative system, and if only the other side wasn't Tim-freaking-Eynman. There was a spectacularly, mind bogglingly idiotic suggestion on the ballot (from the government) to switch over to a single, merged primary, from which the top two candidates would be selected to go on to the general election. Because, of course, it's a good thing for a party to need a pre-primary primary to avoid political suicide by running two candidates in the primary.
All the libertarian candidates were urging people to vote yes on 'I-318', implementing instant-runoff voting. I-318, unfortunately, was not on the ballot. I find it hard to beleive they couldnt' collect the signatures they needed for something like that... so something must be up.
Grrgh.
...and waited, and waited, and eventually realized that it was getting asymptotically slower. I tried to close other windows to give it more resources, and finally, when that didn't work, to stop the process itself, but it was too late -- I couldn't even get the start menu up to select 'shut down'. So I pulled the plug.
When the computer came back up, I did the rest of the pre-script munging (resolving merge conflicts), but when I went to transfer those changes over to the build machine, one of the necessary network shares (but not the other) wasn't working, and when I tried to bring up computer management to figure out why, it hung.
By this point I was already late for the game -- let alone late for leaving work -- and I was really, really pissed. I managed not to break anything important this time, at least. [sigh]
I eventually just re-did the changes on the build machine, and I'll have to resolve any differences in those -- and fix whatever's wrong with the damn network -- next week. At least being that late meant that traffic had died down.
Today I finally got my absentee ballot in. The initiatives this time were really suspicious-looking -- it's like the state government is at war with the initiative system, and if only the other side wasn't Tim-freaking-Eynman. There was a spectacularly, mind bogglingly idiotic suggestion on the ballot (from the government) to switch over to a single, merged primary, from which the top two candidates would be selected to go on to the general election. Because, of course, it's a good thing for a party to need a pre-primary primary to avoid political suicide by running two candidates in the primary.
All the libertarian candidates were urging people to vote yes on 'I-318', implementing instant-runoff voting. I-318, unfortunately, was not on the ballot. I find it hard to beleive they couldnt' collect the signatures they needed for something like that... so something must be up.
Grrgh.
