Unanswered Questions
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New Design Launched
Hi All,
Unix and Linux site has been officially launched!. Thank you for your design feedback and congrats!
I ended up taking the mascots off the header. I agree with you that they made the site a ...
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Which is our canonical 'which' question?
A frequently asked question is: which foo tells me something, but it doesn't correspond to what happens when I actually run foo, what's going on?
This is a recent example, but we've had many more — ...
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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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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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recovering from error
I just visited the question-section, and opened some of them in - da-da-da-dam - 4 or 5 tabs.
Unfortunately, there was a server side error, and I got 4 or 5 tabs with the message:
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Possible Conference Speaking Sponsorships — 2011
We're evaluating the feasibility of sponsoring a member of the Unix & Linux community to speak at a conference in 2011.
Speaking is a relatively big "ask", so this needs to be planned many months ...
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Our stats so far, compared to the other SE betas
When I posted How should we promote the site? a couple weeks ago I included some charts comparing all the different SE betas. There was a request for updated information, so I figured I would just ...
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unix.se reputation visible in careers.so CV?
Once the unix SE goes out of beta, will the rep be visible in the careers CV view? I think it makes sense for people looking for UNIX-related jobs.
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Killing a few meta-tags (and please write tag wikis)
I just killed best-practises (a misspelling of a meta-tag). I'm not fond of tips-and-tricks, troubleshooting, homework (homework discussion) or unix (unix tag discussion) either. Will anyone speak up ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
As we enter the second week of the public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we ...
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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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Poor contrast on the “How to Ask” widgets
On Meta, the “How to Ask” and other rectangular widgets on the right of the screen that appear when you ask a question are very dark islands in an almost-white page. I don't like it, but it may just ...
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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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Nuances lost in merge…
Resources to learn Linux? was merged into Good Introductory resources for linux, which seems quite reasonable given the headlines. But the older question was:
Basically what should I know for ...
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Unix in Tron Legacy
They use a Unix system in Tron Legacy. I don't know which one. but I remember bin/history, whoami, ps | grep, and login commands.
