@jrg Well I'm not sure I need you anymore.. I thought this jtd user posted a bunch of dupe answers here meta.askubuntu.com/questions/8373/… but it turns out they are all slightly different.
I got two dowvotes (so far) in meta for meta.askubuntu.com/a/8502/248158 . I see that downvote in meta != downvote in main but any idea why? Should I have linked to example? Wouldn't that become personal? That's why I didn't give a link as proof.
@FEichinger But I see people in chat talking about rep and badges many times. BTW, only two candidates had sportman badge last time I saw.
@DKBose There is a fine line about answering dupes. Sometimes the question needs a special tailored answered, sometimes the user doesn't know about the dupe, etc.
@FEichinger the fact is that people seem to be v.keen on both rep and badges. Don't focus on badges. The point you made was about people coming to meta "to be in support of giving rep for everything." I'm just saying there is interest her too (also in badges).
There's a difference between seeing reputation as a problem on the site (Which it is. The site needs to generate more reputation.), and asking for just about every action to give some form of compensation.
And, again, badges are completely different from that. Badges don't affect anything directly, they record certain circumstances.
@Seth, I concede there may be special times. But my downvoted answer was not about ignorant users but high rep user . I think we can agree that high rep user isnot ignorant ;) I found the relevant link I flagged as dupe. But I don't want to post in public just to try to prove a point. Plus that high-rep user may hunt me.
@DKBose Yep. 100k and don't know how an SE site works. (okay, maybe I exaggerated a little bit, 100k is hard to get, but I've seen 30k, 40k, even like 50k)
They were people who just use it has a forum.
But in general, meta people vote how they like.. No rhythm or order in it.
@Seth anyway I proposed in my answer that moderator should have a chat with them. They're not that many and so mod would not have to take too much time. Anyway, just a thought.
I propose two new badges: i don't know if they're technical possibly but: one for using the search box at top right of screen over so many times (should be easy to monitor?) Other for clicking on dropdown suggested answers that appear when typing question title. I'm suggesting here and not in meta because I am allergic to downvotes ;)
I'm switching from Apple to either a Linux or Unix Open Source OS. It's been a long time since I've used either OS. I last worked with SGI Irix, RedHat and Fedora. I'm not sure which Open Source OS that I'll be switching to yet, but I'm leaning towards Ubuntu. My external hard drive is formated f...
@Seth I was about to bring my palm to my face and something fall upon me...
(really)
there are a bunch of Q's about installing Ubuntu using crouton and as far it goes the deal was that installation problems was ot, all the Q's I saw were unanswered too so I doubt anyone will miss them
> P.S. why was this marked as a duplicate because that other article didn't me at all?
shortly after running sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator mate-terminal /path/to/executable 50 I started having stpid problems in mate termial.
$ sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator There is only one alternative in link group x-terminal-emulator: /usr/bin/mate-terminal Nothing to configure.
@AvinashRaj btw, I looked up "affect" and "effect". "Affect" is a verb and "effect" is a noun, so I did in fact use them correctly. At first I wasn't sure myself though :P
> it would definitely be preferable to only keep reasonably valid questions around. As I noted, duplicate closures are meant to stay, so there's no reason to keep an incredibly low quality post as a duplicate when it really doesn't add anything at all.
Wi-Fi not working in 12.04 after update. I think update removed something. How can I fix this?
sudo lshw -class network
gives output
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
p...
Today I bought my first laptop with Ubuntu installed.
Everything was working until i decided to make the Update.
I used the update manager, installed all the update, but then my wireless stop working.
I went to the DELL site, make the account, but some tools work only with IE ( and they suggest ...
Hello... my nightmare is still unresolved. Dell support is terrible also... better don't talk about that... I reinstall everything and was ok, but after the update the problem still come out... this time I wrote down exactly the Crash Report Window: Package:oem-wireless-ath9k-3.9-rc4-2-dkms — user188972Sep 12 '13 at 18:02
is a bug...
if it's that question you are trying to pull out
@Seth no, I'm closing it because I don't have enough information to give a concise answer
I'm not able to be sure that I could write "this is the solution" even after several hours of investigation
That's what I just did. Made sure my actions would help the OP, unlike closing it as unclear or off-topic without leaving any comments, which helps no one.
@xiaodongjie Kaspersky Rescue Disk Kaspersky Rescue Disk is a free bootable iso file that is designed to scan, disinfect and restore infected operating systems.
@kalina I've done mountains of edits, code revisions, translations, etc. and so far I've never had one of my edits negatively commented or rejected by the owner of the post. Either I'm lucky or else there are a lot of cowards out there.
I just tried sudo apt-get install -s dconf-editor and sudo apt-get install -s dconf-tools. Both seemed to work. First only installs dconf-editor. Second installs both dconf-editor and dconf-tools.
-s is old but being able to install dconf-editor directly is newish. Don't know when exactly it started.
From man apt-get: -s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act
No action; perform a simulation of events that would occur but
do not actually change the system. Configuration Item:
APT::Get::Simulate.
@kalina You are in a better situation than mine.I'm yet to figure out why I have vim manuals when USC shows it's not installed.Also to discover why typing vi opens vim
It's funny 'cause it's true. My first few experiences with Vi (and we're talking ~2000 here) ended in hair-pulling, control+zs, eye-gouging and finally reboots. They should keep a log to see if the user has successfully managed to exit at least once before and if they haven't, interpret keyboard smashing as a plea for help.
then again when I figured out vi needs can be exited with :quit! and I was thinking about htf it should exit "screen" gracefully I, out of sheer habit, typed : and to my surprise quit stopped "screen" :D
generally I open a file with vim, try editing it(which does something else). Then unable to quit vim, I close the terminal and open the file with gedit .lol
It's not representative democracy, because the decisions are taken by the entire community, but they are weighted :P
The closest one that comes into my mind is the "Venus project" :)
**Since Ubuntu creates a URL for each file, the .PDF at the end of the URL is thus removed.
PDF Files uploaded to UBUNTU will not connect properly for download to phone. (Android).
PDF FILES WORK LIKE A CHARM USING DROP-BOX.
TOO BAD UBUNTU, LOOKS LIKE YOU GET A FAILING GRADE ON THIS ONE.
H...
@blade19899 But Beware!!! considering the hardware Ubuntu requires to become different than others, the price will be very high.Maybe even higher than iphones.
I believe that this picture explains the issue and there is quite a few who are waiting for a response.
Wi-Fi not working in 12.04 after update. I think update removed something. How can I fix this?
sudo lshw -class network
gives output
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
p...
worked for me +1
worked for me +1
worked for me +1
It's not representative democracy, because the decisions are taken by the entire community, but they are weighted :P
The closest one that comes into my mind is the "Venus project" :)
**Since Ubuntu creates a URL for each file, the .PDF at the end of the URL is thus removed.
PDF Files uploaded to UBUNTU will not connect properly for download to phone. (Android).
PDF FILES WORK LIKE A CHARM USING DROP-BOX.
TOO BAD UBUNTU, LOOKS LIKE YOU GET A FAILING GRADE ON THIS ONE.
H...
