Archive for September, 2008

XFCE bug - xfdesktop crashes on right-click

September 27th, 2008

I’ve been struggling for a while with an issue in XFCE (my favorite desktop environment). If I right-clicked on a blank spot on my desktop (and my desktop is always blank: I don’t do icons/shortcuts on my desktop), xfdesktop would crash. No errors, no information, just a core. I finally had time to search for [...]

Ubuntu, newsgroups and par2

September 21st, 2008

So yeah, I am so totally out-of-date with the newsgroup world that I had not heard about par2 files. Nor nzb files, actually, but that’s a topic for another day. It turns out that par2 files are simply parity files, which can help recover from missing parts of multi-part binary posts. Fortunately, with my usenet [...]