Blahsomnia
Nov. 8th, 2001 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterAnd so here I am again.
I need to sleep. I have a presentation I need to give in just eight hours, but for some reason I'm too keyed up, or perhaps just too annoyed. I wish I still had my radio so I could play a CD softly to sleep; the speakers on the computer are too loud, or at least too bassy; the sound carries right through the wall to annoy the neighbor. And I never got the hang of sleeping with headphones on.
Annoyance...the latest builds of mozilla and galeon are behaving problematically on my computer now that I'm using Enlightenment. Both of them segfault whenever I press a button that would submit text--which mozilla certainly didn't do when I was under fvwm2. I don't know what the problem is. Figuring that perhaps the problem was in their compilation, I tried to build mozilla manually, taking most of an hour to do so, I would guess...then I did a 'make install' and a 'make clean' and...guess what? Mozilla vanished without a trace. It may just be me, but I had thought that "make install" was supposed to install the built program. Instead, it seemed to have wiped it right off my disk altogether, and I can't find anything that looks anything like a mozilla executable now.
I suppose I'll have to try making it again and installing the apps manually this time...but in the end, I'm starting to suspect it won't make as much of a difference as I would have hoped. It's probably a memory thing...Enlightenment uses up too dang much memory, leaving not enough for the other things. I had to compile mozilla from a tty in the first place just because it kept running out of memory when I tried to do it while running X.
Oddly enough, I'm finding some apps that didn't work right before are working now. For instance, I got the Linux version of the AudioGalaxy client software to work now, whereas it didn't before.
On the whole, I think I'm getting used to Enlightenment's little quirks and foibles. I guess it is worth having around--or would be if it didn't mess up my Internet browsing experience by breaking my favorite browser. Argh!
Guess I'll try for bed again, and let mozilla recompile itself while I sleep. More later.
I need to sleep. I have a presentation I need to give in just eight hours, but for some reason I'm too keyed up, or perhaps just too annoyed. I wish I still had my radio so I could play a CD softly to sleep; the speakers on the computer are too loud, or at least too bassy; the sound carries right through the wall to annoy the neighbor. And I never got the hang of sleeping with headphones on.
Annoyance...the latest builds of mozilla and galeon are behaving problematically on my computer now that I'm using Enlightenment. Both of them segfault whenever I press a button that would submit text--which mozilla certainly didn't do when I was under fvwm2. I don't know what the problem is. Figuring that perhaps the problem was in their compilation, I tried to build mozilla manually, taking most of an hour to do so, I would guess...then I did a 'make install' and a 'make clean' and...guess what? Mozilla vanished without a trace. It may just be me, but I had thought that "make install" was supposed to install the built program. Instead, it seemed to have wiped it right off my disk altogether, and I can't find anything that looks anything like a mozilla executable now.
I suppose I'll have to try making it again and installing the apps manually this time...but in the end, I'm starting to suspect it won't make as much of a difference as I would have hoped. It's probably a memory thing...Enlightenment uses up too dang much memory, leaving not enough for the other things. I had to compile mozilla from a tty in the first place just because it kept running out of memory when I tried to do it while running X.
Oddly enough, I'm finding some apps that didn't work right before are working now. For instance, I got the Linux version of the AudioGalaxy client software to work now, whereas it didn't before.
On the whole, I think I'm getting used to Enlightenment's little quirks and foibles. I guess it is worth having around--or would be if it didn't mess up my Internet browsing experience by breaking my favorite browser. Argh!
Guess I'll try for bed again, and let mozilla recompile itself while I sleep. More later.
