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slm
12:06 AM
I would also like to thank the entire Unix & Linux Stack Exchange community which provided invaluable help & guidance in solving many technical problems throughout my Thesis work.
@Ramesh ^^^
 
@slm, that sounds better. :) Thanks.
 
@Ramesh
Thanks to the members of the Stack Exchange question-answer sites,
especially \url{stackoverflow.com} (general programming),
\url{unix.stackexchange.com} (Linux/Unix), \url{dba.stackexchange.com}
(databases), and \url{tex.stackexchange.com} (\LaTeX\ ), for answering
many questions in connection with this project.

Additionally, thanks to the members of the Debian community for help
with Debian packaging, particularly the residents of the
\#debian-mentors IRC channel.
From the acknowledgement section of my current project.
 
@FaheemMitha, wow, thanks. :) I appreciate it.
 
@Ramesh You're welcome. Always good to acknowledge people.
@slm Should thesis be capital?
 
@FaheemMitha, yeah. I got so much help and so it is the better way to acknowledge the community.
 
slm
12:31 AM
@FaheemMitha no, that's a typo 8-)
 
 
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4:51 AM
building qt 5.3.1 in preparation for checking out kde plasma 5 and thankful for gentoo's slotting mechanism so qt4 and kde 4 can live happily side by side the newer stuff
 
 
4 hours later…
8:29 AM
In your opinion what could cause a ssh connection to take more than 5 second to get established when the link between both machines is not overloaded the ping is around 8ms and none of the 2 hosts are OK
OK meaning not overloaded in RAM or CPU nor networkingly speaking
 
9:17 AM
@Kiwy Have you tried running with -vvv?
 
@FaheemMitha nothing unusual :-(
 
@Kiwy So, where does it pause?
In the transaction, I mean.
 
@FaheemMitha currently I cannot really answer the question anymore, it was just to know if someone already face that because it seems to me very strange
 
@Kiwy There are a variety of reasons why this could happen. i asked about -vvv because that is debugging output, and will at least tell you when in the process the problem happens. answering such questions in the abstract is obviously not fruitful.
 
@FaheemMitha yeah well it was an opinion based question :D that's why I do asked it on the site
I will look for my own answer tomorrow
 
9:24 AM
@Kiwy Well, the negotiation could have run into a snag, and the process could have timed out waiting for a reply.
 
@FaheemMitha that's the problem the connection work
but takes so much time
 
sorry, that's pretty vague, but one cannot really say anything more concrete. is there anything special about the setup - network filesystem?
@Kiwy Again, check debugging output.
To be clear, is this your problem, or someone elses problem?
 
9:37 AM
@FaheemMitha it's one problem one our backup system because the scripts timeout is not meant to be change and a ssh connection over a non saturated SDSL of 2Mbits/s should not be that long
anyway, I will investigate futher more and eventually ask a quesitno
 
10:21 AM
5 downvotes, but no vtc. I added one. I've never seen a better candidate for "unclear what you are asking".
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Q: What makes an operating system “UNIX and Linux”?

rajesh dhnashireThere are no prerequisites for this course, other than a desire to learn the basics of the UNIX and Linux operating systems, which includes UNIX shell scripting. UNIX and Linux Operating System Fundamentals course begins with a brief history and overview of both UNIX and Linux, and then proceeds ...

On second thoughts, this might actually be spam. What do you guys think?
 
It's obviously a spam
 
Maybe it should just be deleted then.
Ok, i guess that may explain where there aren't vtc.
Apparently flags aren't public.
 
I personnally flag as spam
 
@Kiwy me too. after the vtc.
I guess the mods will just delete it.
 
hi guys! @Kiwy it is spam.
 
10:35 AM
Gone now.
 
10:48 AM
How much rep do you need for chat, again?
 
@FaheemMitha 20
 
@Nick ok
Does anyone feel like giving this guy two more upvotes? Then he can talk in chat.
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Q: Build Transmission 2.84 .deb package with checkinstall

RainbowCoderI'm trying to compile and make by myself some .deb packages to keep my Raspbian more up to date than the repository. Now I want to update Transmission to v 2.84. Here's what I've done: Download the tarball from Transmission web site: https://www.transmissionbt.com/download/ Install checkinstal...

 
11:02 AM
hi @terdon
 
Hey
 
What's happening?
 
By the way guys, this was obviously SPAM. Don't downvote SPAM, just flag it. That way it gets downvoted and deleted automatically.
 
@terdon Right, I got that from an earlier experience.
I didn't immediately realise it was spam. Sorry for my naivete.
 
:) No worries
 
11:11 AM
@terdon can enough spam flags delete a question automatically? in this case, did you or another mod delete it, or did the system delete it?
 
@FaheemMitha Yes, I don't remember the exact number but yes, it's deleted automatically after X flags. In this case, I deleted it.
 
@terdon ok
 
I keep forgetting you don't have 10k yet!
 
@terdon not yet.
 
11:30 AM
0
Q: how to edit usb driver and compile it again in kernel?

JayminDI want to add and compile my custom application code into my kernel. How should I add my .c and .o files into my kernel 'bin' directory and compile them? I made a hello.c and hello.o file and I want to add them into my kernel such way that when kernel start this hello.o file runs. Do I need to ...

@anthon why do you think that's off topic?
♩ If I had a hammer... ♩
 
@terdon you're a modo, you do have a hammer !
A fucking big one indeed
 
Yay!
 
11:51 AM
@terdon To me that is a programming question, nothing in the question indicates to changing the USB driver for U&L administrative purposes.
We should keep an eye on user Dovah, his/her questions are close to just programming related and half of his/her questions on Stack Overflow have been closed, so maybe that is why (s)he came here.
 
@Anthon OK. Still, adding custom programs to the linux kernel seems perfectly on topic to me.
He was not asking how to code anything but how to insert into the kernel. That particular one was an exact copy of the question he'd posted half an hour before so that was good enough reason to close.
 
@terdon Sorry, but that was heavily edited after I proposed to close it and I did not notice before answering you.
 
@Anthon Oh good grief! Yes indeed, I just checked the edit history. Now I understand your comment better :)
 
@terdon And still a bit too broad to my taste.
 
Oh certainly, I never said it was a good Q, it just felt on topic since I only read the latest version.
 
12:04 PM
I do agree it's pretty much on topic though it's bad qualitity question
 
 
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1:12 PM
Sigh, we undeleted this question to get an answer about user keys, not host keys. And what do we get? An answer about host keys, which is getting upvoted...
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A: What's the purpose of the randomart image for user (not host) SSH keys?

Torger597This was explained in this question: http://superuser.com/questions/22535/what-is-randomart-produced-by-ssh-keygen. It doesn't really have any use for the user generating the key, rather it's for ease of validation. Personally. would you rather look at this: (Please note this is a host key exampl...

 
@Patrick I upvoted it because in my opinion I do not really see the difference
 
@Kiwy user keys identify the user, yourself. host keys identify the remote host
 
@ patrick the point is the same, easilly identify different keys beetween each others
this one on my opinion is a definitive troll
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Q: Should I just get a MacBook?

Brecht MachielsAfter booting up my computer after hibernation (suspend to disk), my desktop is unresponsive for up to 15 minutes. I've found that the slowness is caused by the fact that all running applications seem to be swapped out to disk. For example, 3 GB of RAM may be in use when I suspend to disk. After ...

 
@Kiwy So, you've forgotten who you are, and you need an image to ensure you are still you?
 
@patrick you can generate several, in my opinion it's just a implementation that is similar and where the point is to "easilly" identify a key
 
1:17 PM
@Kiwy So if you have multiple user keys, you have to view the image for each one so you know which one to use to connect to the remote host? The filename doesn't do that for you?
 
@Patrick I don't know but it could be, because some personn are more visual
 
I think the point is that the only reasons the ASCII art thing is printed is 1) to help the user identify the key, be it host or user. For example checking the user key on two machines perhaps? And, more importantly, 2) because the devs thought it looked cool and they'd already written it for the host key where it is more useful.
 
@terdon That's the amusing part, it isn't shown when generating host keys
 
Oh.
hmmm then
2
 
A voiceless @terdon, so unusual should I try to win the lottery ?
 
1:29 PM
Heh, just coming up against the walls of my ignorance again.
 
I want to start switching away from ubuntu and I have trouble deciding... debian or arch
 
Debian if you're coming from Ubuntu and want a painless transition.
Arch is great, but a very different paradigm.
It also depends on how comfortable you are with the command line. Arch can only be installed from the CLI.
 
@Nick if you have recent hardware I advise you against any other than ubuntu and mint :D
 
@Kiwy well I only my GPU is utterly recent(Nvidia 750Ti) and have to use the official nvidia driver
 
@Nick no optimus settings in that ?
 
1:34 PM
@Kiwy nope
 
@nick then choose the one you like the most, and Terdon advise is definitely a good one
 
@Kiwy Huh? Why?
By the way, @Nick you might also want to consider Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). It's a Mint version that's based on Debian, not Ubuntu. It's basically Debian testing with some extra features. I find it's a very nice compromise between a "proper" Linux and a user friendly one.
 
@terdon hmm I'll check it out
@terdon just checked archs installation guide... ouch that's a painful installation process
 
It isn't actually. As long as you have the guide open in another computer or printed you should be fine. It is wonderfully detailed, I had no problem following it.
However, I've been using Linux for many many years and know my way around the system. Arch is not for people who aren't.
 
2:13 PM
@Nick the arch install guide is one of the best resources out there. Easy to follow and will help you out in many situations no matter what distro out use. Find Arch's install pretty straightforward (but I run Gentoo and started on Slackware in 96 so I may have a different idea of painful)
 
Hmm, one user is switching from Ubuntu, the other comes from Slackware and Gentoo. Ya think you have different standards of hard? :P
 
debian CD burned.. lets see
 
slm
2:41 PM
does anyone here use osx?
how can I easily change the behavior so that middle mouse button will paste from the clipboard? I've looked through the other SE sites and am looking for someone that knows how to do this easily to just tell me. There are a myriad of ways and don't want to spend a bunch of time messing around with it 8-)
 
2:59 PM
@strugee ^^ ?
@slm try asking on the SU chat room. They might know. Or the [osx.se] chat room
Whatever it's called. Grrr. [mac.se] [askdifferent.se] [ask.se] [osx.se]
Seriously?
Ah! Apple it is.
 
but it's named ask different
not enought traffic to get it's own domain name
 
@Kiwy It has it: askdifferent.com
 
hu yes indeed
my mistake :(
 
why is chromium grouped under 'Games' o.O
 
3:19 PM
@Nick that's Chormium BSU, a very old linux game
 
which is actually a cool game
 
i've now got the sudden desire to go play it. It's been probably 8 years or so since I last did
Heh.
> Q: I keep getting killed. Why is is so difficult?
> A: Quitcher whinin', you ninny! It's supposed to be hard! Seriously, the game is intended to be a 15 minute adrenaline rush/mental cleanser. Frequent doses of explosions (even your own) can be very therapeutic.
 
@Patrick Provided you've never actually experienced any, you know, actual explosions.
 
O—O
 
Uhhh what? 0.0 pastebin.com/NSQqYsFp
 
3:26 PM
@Nick two dashes
 
@Patrick check again I updated the pastebin
@Patrick I am using 2 dashes
 
@terdon You missed "But this massage is keep." Apparently he is having a massage.
 
and tried with apt-get
 
@Nick why not using apt-get
?
 
@Braiam check further down I run the install a second time with apt-get and still errors
 
3:28 PM
@Patrick well, you don't have to get rid of an urge of playing Super Mario 2, and the annoying red potions
 
Damn, I hate screenshots.
 
@Nick sudo apt-get update
 
Well, if they have text in them I want to copy, anyway.
 
then try apt-get -f install
 
@Nick what are you doing?
 
3:29 PM
@FaheemMitha trying to install chrome
 
@Nick Install chromium instead.
 
@FaheemMitha Huh?
 
But yes, you probably want apt-get -f install.
 
@FaheemMitha Oh, I just edited the tags, didn't really look too closely.
 
@terdon Ah.
 
3:33 PM
pastebin.com/VQe1n7Gh apparently it cant install some dependencies
 
@Patrick at least you don't have to get rid of an urge to play Super Mario 2, and get frustrated by not remembering where to place the red potions all the time
 
@Nick Why are you doing it that way?
Just run sudo apt-get install chromium
 
@Nick cat /etc/apt/sources.list{,.d/*}
 
@terdon I did abd it pops up an error about uninstallable dependencies
 
@Nick you've only got wheezy sources?
 
3:35 PM
@terdon I have the impression he doesn't have enabled the release repositories for wheezy, only updates
 
@Nick No, you used spkg and a downloaded package, not apt-get and chromium.
You can also add google's repo:
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
 
@Nick apt-cache policy libspeechd2 libxss1
 
And what Braiam said.
 
@terdon he gets chromium not installable, which is not right.
 
@FaheemMitha Oh! Indeed, sorry, I hadn't scrolled down.
 
3:37 PM
 
@Braiam what is the difference between LANG=C and LANGUAGE=en ? What does the c stand for?
 
@FaheemMitha none installed
 
@Nick You need a lot more stuff in there
 
hi @FaheemMitha
 
@polym hi
@Nick you are missing the main repos lines.
 
3:39 PM
and @terdon @Seth @Ramesh etc :D. Just hi @all !
 
deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
at a minium.
 
Hey @polym :)
 
:)
 
@Nick replace your sources.list with the following:
 
The deb-src lines are sortof optional, but can come in handy sometimes.
 
3:40 PM
deb ftp.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb security.debian.org wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
 
@Braiam hmm thats the default... idk why it didnt add them
 
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Q: Why "LANG=C"? (not D or E or F)

Vi.In order to turn off localisation features one should set LANG environment variable to "C". Why "C"? Where it came from?

 
Ah thanks. Of course it's an answer by @Gilles :D
 
@Nick once that's done, just do apt-get update then try installing again
@FaheemMitha @terdon don't we have a "what information I need to solve a APT dependency?" sort of question?
 
@Braiam There is
 
3:45 PM
@FaheemMitha please, don't just remember me that
 
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Q: How do I resolve unmet dependencies?

jrgHow do I resolve unmet package dependencies? Occasionally, when I'm installing stuff, I get an error like the following: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages ...

 
@FaheemMitha Actually I was thinking about "how to debug" kind of question
that one is "how to solve", but it's kinda foolish
 
@Braiam yes, the whole thing is total crap, imo
I was thinking of writing an answer to that question, but maybe we could have a separate question here - and then try to give sensible answers.
@Braiam you don't know of a question on the site like that?
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Q: How can I figure out why APT doesn't want to install a package with unmet dependencies?

BraiamI've seen several times people with unmet dependencies, which apt-get doesn't tells straightforward what's the problem, like this one: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 : Depends: libdrm-intel1:i386 (>= 2.4.38) but it is not going to be installed ...

Your question. Or did you have something else in mind?
Hmm, forgot I answered this.
 
@FaheemMitha I forgot I asked it...
 
@Braiam Add it to terdon's canonical list.
Maybe it will make it easier to keep track of. Or does someone else want to do it? @terdon is there something like that there already?
Braiam forgot he asked it. I forgot I answered it. Apparently it is very forgettable, or we are getting old.
 
4:00 PM
Faheem, the old man :D
 
@polym What's the party for German win dude?
 
@Ramesh I heard someone saw people on top of cars, screaming while riding on the car :D
 
@FaheemMitha Not that I know of but I think it's hilarious how both you and @Braiam were looking for it and it turns out he'd asked it and you'd answered :)
 
4:16 PM
@terdon Yes, and I commented on the Ubuntu version earlier in chat, forgetting I'd answered basically the same question here.
@Ramesh German win? Football, hockey, ice hockey, table tennis, ping pong?
 
@FaheemMitha apparently, Germans won at a little-known and secretive competition in Brazil called the World Cup
 
@FaheemMitha Football. Everyone's obsessed with football these days and they all seem to assume the rest of us should be as well. Not being interested in football is even harder during the world cup. Sigh.
 
news of this minor event hasn't yet filtered down to lwn.net or slashdot, so I forgive you for not knowing about it
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Damn those secretive Germans.
I think they should have a World Ping Pong Cup.
 
@FaheemMitha all the competitors for that event would fit inside the cup
7-zipped, I mean...
 
4:21 PM
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Maybe so. But ping pong is quite underestimated. It is a riveting spectacle.
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Why... why do you use this name
My eyes!
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ I don't read slashdot. It's crap. Full of people who can't spell.
I do read LWN though. Good stuff.
 
@polym I was just exploiting the .NET \w regex that they use to restrict name characters
 
ಠﭛಠ
 
@terdon so, can you add it to the canonical list, or shall I?
 
4:22 PM
@FaheemMitha Go for it.
I'll get around to posting a new Q with all those as links for easy access one of these days. Promise.
 
@FaheemMitha wow, you are a truest geek :)
 
@terdon Do you have a link to that question?
 
It is football.
 
@Ramesh ? For the record, I (still) hate that word.
 
football?
 
4:28 PM
@FaheemMitha Huh? Just search for canonical on meta
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Q: Let's compile a list of canonical Q&As

terdonA few of us were talking about this the other day in chat, as we are now quite a bit larger and with several thousand Q&As, there are certain questions that are asked very often. Things like redirecting output, process substitution, batch renaming of files, fixing/reinstalling grub, etc. Let's c...

 
@terdon Didn't think of that
 
@polym Good. What did you do? :)
 
@terdon Done
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A: Let's compile a list of canonical Q&As

Faheem MithaHow do I solve an APT dependency issue? What information do I need to solve an APT dependency issue? This one comes up fairly often. Most of the time, people have no idea what to do. See also http://askubuntu.com/q/140246/15729. Essentially all the answers to this question are notable for total...

I couldn't resist the opportunity for some gratuitous spite directed at AU.
 
@FaheemMitha AU is awful; too much of people who think they know something because they found an answer on linuxquestions.org from 2003
 
Not very helpful though. Also, I still maintain that the answers there are fine for AU. If you just want to fix the thing and don't care why it's broken (which is what most normal people want to do) then the AU answers are what you need.
 
4:35 PM
it has a "ordinary users helping each other" feel to it
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Careful, Super User is not perceived as very different around here :)
With good reason too, as you know full well.
 
@terdon but at least we have a largeish core community of knowledgable actual Super Users
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Indeed, but so does AU actually.
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Yes, that pretty much sums it up. Welcome to the BileFest.
@terdon what is not very helpful?
 
Being active on both sites I can tell you that there are some gems in both of them. This site is closer to SF in terms of <del>pedantry</del> attention to detail.
@FaheemMitha The AU dig :) Never mind.
Hell, SU totally blew me away when I first discovered it, I am very well aware of the many good Q&As there.
 
4:38 PM
@terdon I like SF's pedantry, but I don't deal with the kind of iron they use often enough to be very involved there
 
The alternative to not knowing why something happened is (a) doing random things in the hope that it will magically solve itself, and (b) running the risk of reproducing the problem because you don't know why it happened.
 
I use the kind of software that UNIX.se folks would know about, though, for sure
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Same here, which is why I gravitated to U&L.
 
@terdon Well, I'm a mean, mean person. Just call me Mr Bile Ducts. Or Mr. Ducts, if you want to be formal.
 
@FaheemMitha Nah, I'll just call you BD.
 
4:40 PM
@terdon ok :-)
 
Has the nice side effect of meaning Comic Book in French too.
 
@terdon What does? BD?
 
WOW, there's not even a tag for SmartOS on unix.SE
 
Gosh, I'm nearly at 8700. Be still, my beating heart.
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ That's your cue :)
@FaheemMitha Yup
 
4:44 PM
@terdon o_O but would anyone actually try and answer SmartOS-specific questions? :S if there's no community here about it at all..
the closest I have is at 400 questions
but Oracle Solaris uses the Sun/Oracle toolchain for the entire system: kernel, SMF, userland, the whole shebang. SmartOS uses the Oracle toolchain only for the core system (kernel and boot stuff), and uses the GNU userland based on NetBSD pkgsrc for everything else...
not even Nexenta questions apply to SmartOS, since their userland is GNU based on Debian. :S
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ only 1 question with 11 answers mentioning smart OS unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=smartos
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A: Should I plug my mouse into a USB 3.0 port?

BillyBUSB3.0 is equivalent to USB2.0 + USB1.0 = USB3.0 At the speed of usb 1.0 it will support "up to" and including 1 mouse. When a greater number of mouses are needed, it is required to use USB2.0, which supports "multiple mouses". Unless you plan to add more than 256 mouses, then USB2.0 is totall...

WTH?
 
@Braiam yeah, saw that
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ Don't really know enough about the OS to judge. From what I knkow it's *nix though so probably, yes.
 
@terdon Information Security has some kind of pedantry too
 
the heritage of SmartOS is this:
Kernel, core userland, OS virtualization, filesystem, network stack, etc. == from IllumOS (with a SmartOS-specific Linux-KVM port), which itself is an open source continuation of OpenSolaris after Oracle shut off the source code tap;
High-level userland (web servers, shells, databases, etc.) == from NetBSD, with a fork of pkgsrc and build system fixes and such
 
4:52 PM
@Braiam Ah, yes, they would but that's way out of my comfort zone. I know squat about security.
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ try posting questions. They are on topic and someone might answer, you never know.
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ wow, it has two parents
anyone finds that can reproduce this video? youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
 
@Braiam yup
Solaris-world is /usr and NetBSD-world is /opt/local :) gotta keep 'em separate
 
@terdon BD is also a Doonesbury Character:
B.D. is a fictional character in Garry Trudeau's popular comic strip Doonesbury. In the comic strip, nobody is certain what "B.D." is short for (he gives his last name as "D"), but he was based on Brian Dowling, quarterback at Yale University, where Trudeau attended college. In the stage adaptation of the strip, Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy, his full name was revealed to be Brian John Dowling (that of his real life namesake). History B.D. was first introduced on September 30, 1968, in Trudeau's strip "Bull Tales" in the Yale Daily News. At the time, B.D.'s helmet was white, with a block ...
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Q: Let's compile a list of canonical Q&As

terdonA few of us were talking about this the other day in chat, as we are now quite a bit larger and with several thousand Q&As, there are certain questions that are asked very often. Things like redirecting output, process substitution, batch renaming of files, fixing/reinstalling grub, etc. Let's c...

only has 21 answers. I encourage people to add answers, and more importantly, point people to it. A lot of times we get the same questions over and over, and this could save us significant effort.
 
5:09 PM
QOOC: "only has 21 answers. I encourage people to add answers ..."
any other type of question and that'd be !!no'ed to oblivion
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ QOOC? obscure acronym dept...
 
@FaheemMitha Quote Out of Context...
used fairly often where I come from, but oh well
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ ok
 
great QOOC:
in Root Access, Jan 13 at 10:41, by Bob
why am I a toilet
he was playing a game, Saints Row 3 at the time ;p
 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ you mean "Arqade titles"
 
5:22 PM
@Braiam yeah that too
 
5:42 PM
@Ramesh nothing crazy, just party with friends
 
6:32 PM
@Braiam Ha! Nice.
That's a great movie by the way.
Well, perhaps not great as such but certainly worth watching as I recall.
 
@terdon Kind of entertaining.
 
Yeah, fun flick.
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ just copy the SU answer and post it (giving credit of course).
 
7:28 PM
This question doesn't have the clearest answers - unix.stackexchange.com/q/10103/4671
"While arch is oriented towards the use of binary packages, it also has advantages when building packages from source, with a build system similar to BSD's ports (ABS)."
It can't be both binary and source oriented.
 
@terdon Is it possible for this question to always appear on the unix home page?
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Q: Let's compile a list of canonical Q&As

terdonA few of us were talking about this the other day in chat, as we are now quite a bit larger and with several thousand Q&As, there are certain questions that are asked very often. Things like redirecting output, process substitution, batch renaming of files, fixing/reinstalling grub, etc. Let's c...

 
@Ramesh Not really. I could make it featured but the easiest way is to bookmark it or just star it.
I will eventually get around to writing a proper Q on that where everything is linked to directly from the question. That one is not very useful as is.
 
@terdon, thanks. I think at least if we have the pattern match/replacement questions in the featured list, it would be helpful.
 
What we can do is set up a FAQ tag like they have on Stack Overflow
Sorry, I meant Super User :
 
You mean we could have frequent tag in our site as well?
 
8:00 PM
Does anyone here use the Pyramid web framework? Though I'm probably not asking in the best place.
 
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A: Poorly performing java application vs poorly performing server

ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪSherlock! Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. --Arthur Conan Doyle First you may want to check out this talk, which is a discussion about the sources of performance problems and how to diagnose them. It compares Linux to SmartOS,...

 
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ you should be a novelist.
also, can I just call you Bob?
 
@polym there's a @Bob in Root Access chat (chat for SuperUser) who's my best friend here, so that would confuse me
but you can call me allq or quix or allquixotic
don't call me "all" because people frequently ping "@all" when they aren't referring specifically to me... annoys the crap out of me
 
how about i call you al?
:D
(don't hit me)
 
8:54 PM
@polym as long as it's not Bondy, I think he won't mind
 
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A: How do I copy a folder keeping owners and permissions intact? (Beginner Question)

tim1219Buckdeer, Why be a dik about it? If you don't want to help this guy out why comment at all? You are the type that give us IT guys a bad rap.

Actually, you are. You not only posted a non-answer, you didn't even spell the insult correctly.
 
@terdon ugh! That "beginner question" in the title :(
 
@Braiam Oh, hadn't even seen the question, I saw the 'answer' 'cause it was flagged.
Thanks for fixing it.
 
just me or the "new relic" ad is sticky?
 
 
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@Braiam Bundy
 

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