The whole day as been rather pleasant: my bio-units were calm, the weather is beautiful and I’ve learned how to rebuild my non-functioning laptop that Brat borrowed. I couldn’t get into the prompt for his password and gave up hopes of asking for his help ever again after he gave me several failed passwords, such as ‘dumb bastard’.
For whatever reason, I thought that I could retain whatever files where contained in that hard drive and held on to the hopes that the original puss who messed up my laptop would have been so kind as to rebuild this one for me. I know now that once again, I am on my own in this current lifetime.
For whatever reason, I mumbled underneath my breath after today’s breakfast about staying downstairs with my laptop instead of hiding upstairs from my bio-units, whom I wanted to share what the heck I was doing on the internet. And today, I’ve decided to tackle the unimaginable. This is another trial placed before me by the same ‘demon-seeds’, ‘old-souls’ or ‘hard teachers’. I guess I have to learn the hard way as usual.
I could have easily utilized the buddy system of unity and obtained the much needed assistance to get my laptop function from the twosome (whose careers involved computers in the IT department). Or as past experiences have taught me about how lazy people are – too busy and too tired to care for others — I opted to get my own answers. I have found that asking for help requires reciprocation in some form or another. And I feel I don’t want to owe anyone for their kindness.
Anyway, the whole morning was futile as I tried to ‘format’ or ‘fdisk’ the hard drive via MS DOS. I went online and pulled up and save seventeen pages ‘DOS Lessons for Self-Study Purposes from Ahuka. ‘DOS Lesson 3 – Internal Command’ was my first baby step on refreshing my simple memory on programming.
The only other commands I knew were <dir> and <copy>, including prompting for the drives, like d: (for the CD ROM) and a: and b: for other drives. For whatever reason, I couldn’t get the only CD containing the operating system (Windows Millennium ME) to work via commands such as ‘setup.exe’. I was frustrated that the ‘ScanDisk’ stopped at the beginning due to some partitioning problem, which I’ve tried to set, create, delete and display.
So back online I went and re-established my old ‘www [dot] dell [dot] com’ account and entered my ‘Service Tag Number’ to expedite anything from this website, which didn’t work either as my impatience to read useless documentations lead me to nowhere. I logged off that site and used my big brain to tackle this puppy.
I’ve done more searches online and downloaded the free version of ‘Active@ KILLDISK v. 4.1′ for my much needed formatting of a hard disk that had zero space available. The KILLDISK worked! And in eleven minutes my hard drive was free.
But the operating system wasn’t working. So I dug around my old floppy disks and CDs in hopes of finding something to make this freakin’ laptop work. I found a Microsoft Windows XP Professional, including Service Pack 2. And I made that laptop work, finally!
While waiting for the some thirty minutes for the downloading to finish, I reviewed and threw away non-functioning floppy disks. There were old CD-R’s containing some old music files of Brat. I will return those to him later on. In the meantime, ‘Service Pack 3′ is still downloading.
I have to keep the connection working by logging onto my favorite website: yahoo [dot] com and clicking weblinks, such as elections, horoscopes and financial news, for the sake of keeping busy while entering this blog post. There is really nothing new except the fact TPTB continue to lie to me, which explains why I’m still living with my bio-units.
Overall, I believe this is what the ‘art’ portion of learning – to find answers in the shortest amount of time that the lengthy documentations fail to teach and how to best use the information based on the current technology or as dictated by mainstream science.
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