Joseph K. Myers
Friday, February 21, 2003
U mozilla/xpfe/global/resources/locale/en-US^Cmake[1]: *** [real_checkout] Error 130 make: *** [checkout] Interrupt bash-2.05a$
This was extremely hard for me to do. I meant to "checkout" the Mozilla/Chimera source code to build it myself. A foolish, unwitting boy, I did so at two or three o' clock, predicting twenty megabytes to be downloaded. Realizing at 40 MB that it would be greater, I hypothesized wildly that, if my error was on a magnitude of 10, I would have to wait for 200 MB. I never expected so, but after considerable time, while burning trash, I guessed that at least I should stop the runaway effort if the result would run ahead of the arbitrary 200 MB.
However, the phone continued to be connected, and the download continued to be downloaded. At 200 MB, when I could see that it was exceeded, I had to stop, not knowing how it would come out because I did so. I said I had to; perhaps I did not. Think, please: if my hard disk had run out of space, how much effort could have averted the same necessity to stop? Should I consider a proper exercise of my will less than that? A person not at least with power of their own will, for good, is a city with broken walls, or a picture with no paper. How are they good?