Safari 3 Broke My Computer :(

I've been bouncing from computer to computer all day, taking whichever is free at the moment. The problem is I tried to install Safari 3 beta. I saw the warnings but thought that worst case, I wouldn't be able to use Safari. I didn't realize it would cause my entire computer to be unresponsive!

The last time I had a computer that unresponsive, I was on a ten year old computer with crappy RAM and a rusted hard drive.

It's taken me two days, but things are a bit better. Things still are not as responsive as they used to be, but at least I can click on tabs and switch between applications without having to wait literally minutes in between.

I found instructions to rollback to Safari 2, so I tried it out. Problem was that the system was so unresponsive, I couldn't run the instructions at all. Finally, I decided to repair Disk Permissions first (that took almost 14 hours. It's normally over in less than ten minutes). That fixed the system enough that I could actually click through folders.

There was a scary moment when it wouldn't recognize either of my two accounts as admin users. Thought I'd permanently b0rked up the system. Restarting fixed that -- thank goodness!

Still cleaning up stuff. Hopefully I figure out what's still broken, because a couple of my favorite programs are still limping.

addiction

Hm, it is a bad sign when I can look at the green requests in my YouReplied (iReplied?) and know instantly whether it's in there because I moved, ICed, or left a screened.

Made a vanity script which counts how many requests of each type I have in my youreplied (that is an awkward phrase). (Yes, I am still at the stage where I want to keep track of, and am able to keep track of, just how active I've been during a certain period of time :P). This week is the most active I've been, well, probably ever. I attribute it to a.) having internet access all day and b.) MASSIVE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS (which is a long squee-ful post still in the making D:)

I'm getting a bit sick of the bottom of the board. I've been trying my hand at some stale requests, but it's all embedded content, damnit!