Thanks for taking the time to answer my comments.

I think a big (though not big enough to be first-time-preventive) difference between you and psychopathic killers is that you’re not superficially motivated. A psychopath has no trouble hurting people in order to gain something relatively trivial — typically grotesque is the seek of sexual gratification.

You’re more of the ”I believe an antisocial act will have a cleansing effect on my soul” type that, upon acting out, either gains the spiritual emancipation they’re after, or realize they’ve just been pursuing a flare. The reason I think so is all this introspection you demonstrate here. I can’t picture you, after committing a bloody act, sitting there, thinking ”well that didn’t do much, maybe I just didn’t do it good enough, big enough?” You’d more likely have your answer there, and wouldn’t have to keep on repeating the act, banging your head against the wall so to speak (as thrill-seeking psychopath would). You’d have made your statement and either it makes an effect on others or it doesn’t. Either way, it’d be out of your hands by then, no use doing it over and over again.

I understand and empathize with what you aspire, the sort of proof of existence such an extreme act suggests. What worries me and, as I wrote, has had me stop short of executing such ideas is the ’suggests’ part: there’s no guarantee that even those acts would bring catharsis. In fact, I believe there are strong hints towards the opposite. (This, incidentally, is why I love American Psycho so much: it describes precisely how apathy is all the world has in store for us, even if we embark on the most extreme of acts.)

Just to correct myself on my previous-to-last comment: killing might not be necessary after all. I was able to make a stuck launcher start working again by switching between some windows. It definitely doesn’t work with just any two windows (tried this on the other desktop still exhibiting this) but which ones matter, I can’t tell yet.

Hi Gerry. Here’s output on my desktop:
jani@saegusa:~$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity2d.Launcher hide-mode
1

Here’s output on my laptop, which is also affected:
jani@lemmikki:~$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity2d.Launcher hide-mode
2

(I’ve changed the setting myself using dconf-editor on my desktop but not on my laptop, IIRC.)

Amusingly, it’s as if that query now triggered the issue at hand: launcher is currently stuck visible on both computers as I’m typing this. Let me try… No, unfortunately it was apparently just a coincidence: I couldn’t reproduce it with the gsettings command deliberately again after killing the stuck U2D.

@jsalisbury: Yeah, my Intel hardware’s got its own set of problems. :) I’ll get back to doing tests on those later this week.

Mulla on GR:ssä 624 tilausta, mutta vain puolet siitä on blogeja (tai blogien kommenttisyötteitä). Tasapaino säilyy, kun pitää SNR:stä tasaisesti huolta, eli tiputtaa sitä heikentävät armotta pois, jolloin voi myös tilailla aika huoletta potentiaalisia.

Happened when trying to navigate to a parent directory in the directory chooser (which directory to save the screenshot in) using the parent directory button on the path buttons line. I don’t believe it has happened before.

I was looking at a JPEG image and accidentally used the scrolling wheel on my mouse, which caused Gthumb to move to a WMV file. This resulted in the crash at hand. Hasn’t occurred before.

I’ve been keeping a close eye on your posts lately and felt I had to say something, just so you know that it’s not like no one cares, like these morbid thoughts you have fall completely unto deaf ears. There’s little I (or anyone, as you said yourself) can do about them as long as no lives are directly at risk, but what’s always kept me from going forward with such ideas is I imagine it’d feed horribly anticlimactic once you cross that line. Nothing, especially the internal craving won’t have changed, you’ll see that the wheel of the world still keeps on whirling. It’ll just now go on without you (once the karma of your actions hits you), and no matter how much damage you do, you are still bound for oblivion just like everyone else.

Is there anything you include in these thoughts about what you’d want it to look like, how you’d want people to react, a message of some kind? Is it the ”I’m smarter than you” or is that just a bonus?

My Xorg log is flooded with lines about reusing xkmfile:

jani@saegusa:~$ grep ”XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-” /var/log/Xorg.0.log | tail
[ 99.477] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 99.480] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 99.484] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 99.487] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 99.491] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 99.494] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 99.498] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 99.502] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 99.505] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 99.509] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
jani@saegusa:~$ grep ”XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-” /var/log/Xorg.0.log | wc -l
1507

Is this normal, caused by something in local configuration, or should I file a bug?