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Precedence on System Administration questions?
Do we have a precedence on questions that are based more on servers than unix? P.S. I'm specifically thinking that I might want to migrate this question to serverfault
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How to deal with 'paid help' questions?
This one just appeared: paid help for recovering deleted files after server reinstall , where the asker proposes to pay for help
This has been already discussed in the Meta Stack Overflow and seems ...
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What to do with questions which are no longer relevant
I bumped onto this one question, and I doubt it can be salvaged by being updated or having a warning attached. I think it should simply be deleted.
Title of the question was: How to install Iceweasel ...
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Quality problem with questions here
I first used SF and then discovered UL. The problem with UL is that most questions would need the answer RTFM and should be downvoted. I admire the people investing their time answering these ...
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Community Bulletin box is hard to read
The new "community bulletin" box has light orange text on a light blue background, which is fairly difficult to read:
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Command-line repository
It would be useful to have a collective page where people can record their CLI one liners that have been popping up all over *nix SE. Similar to commandlinefu.
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Completely disable the menu when I right click on the desktop (LXDE, Openbox, Ubuntu) [migrated]
I would like to setup an old PC as a thinclient for our VMware View infrastructure. I need to disable the menu that pops up when I right-click on the desktop, along with some other things such as ...
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Can I add the “nul” tag?
After working a lot with shell scripts, it turns out that one of the single most important concepts when handling arbitrary user input is the null character, aka. NUL, \0, ^@, and others. I added it ...
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Is there a shortcut for reviewing suggested edits?
I was just about to edit a post full of errors when I saw that there was already an edit waiting for approval that covered about 95% of what I was going to do.
Is there any shortcut where I can ...
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Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups 2012
We're having a Stack Overflow meetup to get together with fellow programming, web, and other technology enthusiasts. But not all of our programmers and technology enthusiasts live on Stack Overflow, ...
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Evaluate Your Site — A Check for Quality [closed]
One of the most important aspects of being a Stack Exchange site is quality. Yes, there are lots of metrics that one can use to "measure" a site, but we don't really care about those as much as we ...
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2answers
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Using Markdown In Comments
I am unable to use markdown in comments. For example, I'm just trying to block out a snippet of code:
I tried:
4 Spaces at the begging of each line.
one tab at the beginning of each line.
pre and ...
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1answer
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Forum Available on Tapatalk Android App
The mobile app Tapatalk is very convenient for mobile access to forums. I couldn't find this site on Tapatalk, but perhaps I'm using the wrong search criterion. Has anyone successfully accessed Stack ...
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1answer
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I've created a user but it hasn't been connected to my other stackexchange profiles
As far as I remember for the other sites I didn't have to enter my name, email address and other data. They were picked up from my stackoverflow.com
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2answers
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Are questions about applications not specific to Unix being used on another platform on-topic here?
I'm a little concerned that we're branching into an area that should be out of remit for this venue (specifically, regarding the question Cdrdao verify cd? and others like it).
I can appreciate that ...
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2answers
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comment about closed-as-duplicate
A question of mine got closed as a duplicate of another, with several fast votes.
While there is some overlap, in my opinion it wasn't 100% the same, where can I comment specifically about the ...
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1answer
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Is anyone else experiencing very high CPU usage on the site?
For the time I have been visitng the site, I have opened it up first thing in the morning in my browser (Vimprobable) and then, periodically throughout the day, reloaded the page to see new questions ...
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Code inside spoiler markup is not hidden
Inline code inside spoiler markup is never hidden.
>! Text is hidden but `code` is not.
(Used in the wild here.)
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2answers
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What do we do about abandoned questions, with a correct answer never accepted?
What do we do about abandoned questions, with a correct answer that was never accepted?
If we suspect the original poster forgot about it completely?
Not sure if we have any sort of process, or if ...
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U&L swag for top users
As a thank you for being awesome, if you have at least 1750 reputation (as of Mar 2) and are on page 1 or page 2 of …
http://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
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1answer
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How do I see unanswered questions with a certain tag?
When I sesarch for dd on the /tags page, it indicates there are 26 questions. However, when I click on the "dd" tag , I only see two questions.
I assume it's just showing me the unanswered ...
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How to migrate questions from StackOverflow
Sometimes, on StackOverflow site, I encounter a question that I think should be on Unix & Linux site. My problem is that I am not able to signal it.
I noticed that I can, on StackOverflow, flag ...
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Migrating a question from Serverfault to Unix & Linux
I'd like http://serverfault.com/questions/359255/effects-of-ddos-attacks-on-memory-use-under-linux/ migrated to this site.
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A contest to cleanup old, abandoned questions
Almost two months ago I posted here about a possible contest to celebrate our anniversary. The anniversary was last month, but we're going to do a contest anyway, like the husband that comes home with ...
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Are Mac OS specific questions allowed? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Where exactly is the border between apple and UNIX
Being that Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, do questions about it fall into the scope of this site?
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What's better place for questions about “Linux/Unix programming libraries” - Unix.SE or SO?
Where to ask questions about "Linux/Unix programming libraries" ?
Is it better to ask such on Unix.SE or StackOverflow ?
As @Mat pointed out FAQ says "If your question is a programming question, ...
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1answer
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How can I find my recent votes cast?
If I voted 30 times in a day and forgot to which questions/answers I have voted.
How can I find my recent votes cast?
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1answer
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General VI plugin question, is it allowed?
I'm a big fan of VIm, but every day I'm learning new possibilities. I am aware of the fact that plugins in VIm can be powerful, but I don't know a lot of them.
I'd like to start a question to let ...
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1answer
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Offtopic? List of all (pseudo) apostrophic and question marky signs
Would a question to list all UTF8-signs that could be mistaken for or are curly forms of quotation marks and apostrophes be considered off-topic?
E.g. `´’ instead of ' and
“”„“ instead for "
I'd ...
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1answer
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Please rename some tags for consistency
Across Stack Exchange, we usually go for plural tags for countable nouns, and for unabbreviated tags. Please rename the following tags for consistency (keeping synonyms as suitable, of course):
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2answers
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Wiki contributions: using and attributing external sources?
When creating tag wikis, there is a lot of already established documentation that can be adapted to and used directly in the wiki for this purpose. I made an edit on arch-linux, using Arch Linux's ...
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1answer
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Suggested edit custom reject reason box UI issue
The suggested edit rejection dialog looks a bit strange right now - the custom rejection reason text box is a bit too wide compared to the dialog box.
Chrome 16:
can't resize the custom text box ...
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1answer
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Syntax highlighting for perl not inferred from tag
This question didn't get automatic syntax highlighting for the Perl code, although it is tagged perl.
Manually adding <-- language: lang-perl --> to my answer worked (and I could have done that ...
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any way to cross-connect questions?
My feature request (idea), is simple, sometimes we get here at U&L questions that can get better answers at ServerFault (for example), they have a relation to here, since these questions have a ...
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Should faq include not including solution in question
We've come against a newbie that insists that he edit his question with the solution. When someone reverted the question to the original, he objected.
This question is a followup to How to handle ...
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Anniversary contest?
January 12th marks one year since we came out of beta:
WOOOOOOO...ok, that's enough
Other sites have done miscellaneous contests to encourage participation, and our anniversary seems as good a ...
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1answer
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Editing older questions frowned upon?
I was on the review tab and forgot I had selected "View All". So I went around editing badly formatted questions and inadvertently bumping them to the top of the front page.
Is this frowned upon by ...
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1answer
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Can we please change/remove the /oops tag?
/oops
Seems ambiguous to me. It has only been used for one question referring to tainted kernels. /oops could also be construed to mean object-oriented programming languages.
In the first case, ...
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Confusing /calendaring tag?
/calendaring
I'm not quite certain of the relevance of this tag. Does it mean "calendaring software" (in which case /calendaring-software should exist)? Or does it refer to the process of calendaring ...
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The use of “TL;DR” in answers
Does anyone have an opinion on this? I feel like it makes an answer less readable to explicitly state:
TL;DR and then provide a summary.
Especially since this shorthand is not necessarily known to ...
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1answer
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Synonym for /synchroniation and /sync?
Two tags exist for questions dealing with "synchronizing":
synchronization (9)
sync (17)
From the current questions asked, there are three uses for them:
File synchronization between machines ...
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How can I have user profiles as friends in my network?
I find some users' posts relevant and think they are experts and would love to read their answers to different questions posted on the site. Is it possible that I can keep a tab of the users that I ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2012
Well... we apparently missed 2H 2011. Whoops. Well, time waits for no one, so we start 2012 of Community Promotion Ads!
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?
TL;DR -- put images ...
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Changing question entirely?
So, I answered a question that the asker entirely changed the content of (after I answered; edit history), should that have been posted as a separate question? Should (can?) we do anything about it ...
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1answer
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How to handle solved problems (answer the own question?)
This question contains the (possible) solution as edit
Some of you had the opinion that I should have answered my own question instead of doing an edit of the question.
Pro (putting the solution as ...
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1answer
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user number shows instead of user name in posts
When I post to other stack exchange forums, the post shows my user name. In Unix & Linux, it shows my user number. What am I doing wrong?
See my comment to the top answer in
How to redirect ...
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1answer
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Synonym paging → virtual-memory?
We have pager and paging. paging is going to get used for virtual memory whether we want it or not, so I suggest making paging a synonym of virtual-memory (and leave pager for less and friends). I ...
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Header size on new user pages
The new user page is live. Rejoice!
However, the headers look odd here:
The ones with links within them are too big, so they run into the text below them, except for Reputation, which is too small ...
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Better question title font
So I happened to notice a new font for question titles at MSO. I rather like it.
It reminds me that I'm not too fond of Unix & Linux's title font. That's a main text font, but I don't think ...
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Please invert the email → mail synonym
At the moment email is a synonym of mail. This makes mail the to-go tag for both email in general, and the mail(1) command. I propose to use mail-command for the mail command (it's useful to have a ...
