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12:55 AM

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@Braiam The faq link needs to be updated.

@Seth yup

Any idea how we get that done?

I bet Jorge would know, but he isn't here.

@JorgeCastro ^

@MarcoCeppi might know as well.

1:11 AM

@Braiam @Seth what needs to be updated?

wow, 2 audits in the close queue

@MarcoCeppi > Documentation resources

Start with the FAQ -> this links to http://askubuntu.com/faq but should maybe link to http://meta.askubuntu.com/tags/faq

I dont' see what's wrong with the au.com/faq link

given the context of the later line: Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to use the site.

@MarcoCeppi It links to the about page, which was already linked right above it.

the /faq page on au should probably link to meta/tags/faq tbh

1:13 AM

They both link to the about page.

Also, the comprehensive guide links to meta.askubuntu.com/questions/257/how-does-ask-ubuntu-work?rq=1 which is quite comprehensive

@MarcoCeppi why do you think that? I think it should link to the help center. It would be good if we had a link to that though.

You guys are talking about two different things

Oh.

the Ask Ubuntu guide links to /about, the faq links to /faq

1:15 AM

But /faq points to /about

click it.

rofl

So it should either link to /meta/tags/faq or /help

plop

Recursion is bad :P

probalby /help

the community site is open source, I'll find the project open a bug and patch later this evening

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community-website/+filebug

1:16 AM

ok great. Thanks @MarcoCeppi. If I had known that I'd have done it myself.

links at the verrryyyy bottom of the page

> Thank you for reviewing 20 close votes today; come back in 22 hours to continue reviewing.

but I def think the link about FAQ should be the /help link and should say something like "Start with the help center"

Agreed.

@Seth post the link to the bug, if you write it

1:24 AM

@Braiam Wait, so who is writing it, me or @MarcoCeppi ?

I thought Marco said he'd do. I can do, but I don't want to stop on Marco.

1:43 AM

Huh, LightDM just restarted on me.

1:53 AM

I voted to close this question as a dupe, but i voted on the wrong question, can a mod undo my vote?

Nevermind, found out i can retract my vote!

lol

Yep, you can retract it :)

@blade19899 which was the dupe you wanted? I can re vote

@Seth Thanks for the help budy

@Mateo This one: askubuntu.com/q/383566/36315

But is 3 in the morning, and i am not thinking clearly

I don't know what i thinking was, reason for close vote clearly

oh, ok. so no dupe for the other ;)

Don't close vote it just because it already had a close vote people. Read it specially since I have been up all day

2:00 AM

I've been hooked on the linux bundles that humblebundle have been doing... sad there aren't any linux games this time around.

Am going night night people

@blade19899 later

@Mateo No later. Night, Night.

earlier?

2:11 AM

@Seth It's coming in 6-8 weeks. — Anna Lear 2 mins ago

yay

@Seth so how's the mod life so far?

@Mateo Well.. Everything is your fault, everyone stares at you, everyone expects you to be correct, they don't give us enough deodorant.. but yeah, I kinda like it, nothing I didn't expect ;)

Actually, tbh, it's been a bit boring. There are currently 0 flags.

and there have been 0 flags for about 4 hours now.

@Seth I buy more than one stick at a time ;) last time I bought they discontinued the type at the store i usually go to

Since I'm bored, I have taken to closing questions in 11 seconds.

@Mateo lol.

Since you got the joke I'll edit that bit back in.

2:27 AM

oh, ok.

@Mateo Wasn't sure you would take it as a joke, you know, everything about being a moderator is supposed to be terrible ;)

Or as Marco puts it "unglamorous".

Oh help us, it has two votes now.

What will happen to Mint-SE (area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/64098/linux-mint)? How long can something stay in Area51? Any idea? I thought Mint being as popular as Distrowatch claims, things would have progressed much better.

Proposals get closed after a period of no activity. No idea what that period is.

And there's one for Debian. Wow!

@DKBose It probably didn't get much traction because we already have Unix & Linux.

2:38 AM

@Seth, Hi! I know that's why I'm surprised. I'll read discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/questions/12547/… to get a clue. But their followers are climbing steadily. Only 9 more followers needed. Can you tell who the existing followers are?

Mint needs 49 more followers! Doesn't seem that popular then.

@DKBose yeah on the right side

Q: Boot Halts if Time if Reset

@DKBose You can see followers here: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/62467/debian (some of them)

@DKBose It can take a site over a year to pass through Area 51. Some sites take even longer.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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I have an old powerbook g4 with a dead battery & I am trying to run ubuntu 10.04 on it. Whenever the power cord gets unplugged the date gets set back to Dec. 31st 1969. Apparently when you shutdown the OS the time gets saved to a file, which is checked fist thing at boot if the date on file is in...

@DKBose but maybe it has not had publicity yet? if you have active mint people - you could get them to pass the word to other resources, that seems to have helped ubuntu at the start if you look back through old meta posts.

Well, I don't really feel strongly about it but was curious seeing the Meta posts from a few days back. Mint "evangelists" are widespread and maybe they feel having an SE site will reduce revenue from the Mint Forums which present ads (for revenue). So they may prefer people to stay there for real help and to post everywhere else to evangelise. Wild thinking and I will stop here ;)

2:54 AM

@DKBose Here are some interesting blog articles you might be interested in reading: blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/unix-and-ubuntu-why-both blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/… Most of the proposals for separate sites for things like Mint have been closed as dupes of Unix & Linux.

and this one: blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/fork-it

3:06 AM

@Seth thanks I'll take a look but see last I checked, Linux Mint and Debian were ranked #1 and #2 on distowatch, a head of Ubuntu. Therefore, there's clearly the user-base for such a community. which is why I'm wondering why it isn't passed already.

Unless distrowatch values are not "real" or what could be the reason for poor response? Even if something is a "dupe" of something else, if SE thinks it would benefit from more eyeballs, they would go for it, no?

@Seth Nice phrase in second link (blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/fork-it): the narcissism of minor differences

3:21 AM

@DKBose Distrowatch aren't real statistics

> The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics have attracted plenty of attention and feedback over the years. Originally, each distribution-specific page was pure HTML with a third-party counter at the bottom to monitor interest of visitors. In May 2004 the site switched from publicly viewable third-party counters to internal counters. This was prompted by a continuous abuse of the counters by a handful of undisciplined individuals who had confused DistroWatch with a poll station. The counters are no longer displayed on the individual distributions pages, but all visits are logged. Only one…

They mean basically nothing more than pagehits. At one point in time Hanna Montana Linux was number one.

@MarcoCeppi, I believe that as well but people keep quoting DW as proof. I've given a link. Yesterday someone in AU did the same and I commented here: askubuntu.com/questions/430911/…

They're just simply wrong. Using DW to prove anything other than the curiosity of people about a specific distribution is wrong

@MarcoCeppi wow, not even downloads or anything else...

Nope, most distros don't even publish download numbers

I'm seriously wiling to bet Ubuntu is one of the most, if not the most popular

We're the number operating system in most of the public clouds

a good percentage of servers are running Ubuntu, I think it showed something like 24% of all public servers are running either Ubuntu or Debian (not sure the exact number or if it was Ubuntu, Ubuntu + Debian, etc)

We're the official Operating System of the Chinese Government

I could just keep going on and on

3:54 AM

Area 51 is a mess.

Wait, someone tried to prove something with distrowatch? o_O

Happens all the time

4:41 AM

OT askubuntu.com/questions/431100/wxpython-not-properly-installed

5:00 AM

@Seth now we close this askubuntu.com/questions/430230/gnome-menu-broken

Q: I am being downvoted for no reason

6:31 AM

I know that we are encouraged to ask questions and answer them ourselves. But can this be misused?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

7:20 AM

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Can a moderator explain what's happening to my account. I am not sad but I wish to know why I am so downvoted today?

discussion

Stormvirux

8:07 AM

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A: List all files that are larger than 50Mb

AWK really is quite easy for this sort of thing. Here are some things you can do with it in relation to file size checking, like you asked: List files greater than 50MB (50000000) bytes: ls -l | awk '{if ($5 > 50000000) print $8}' or using awk and du we can write du -a . | awk '$1*512 > 500...

Mine is the worst answer but why did everybody else other than me get a downvote

Aatish Sai

8:38 AM

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A: How to recover the Deleted folder in ubuntu 12.04

To recover the directory you can use extundelete Install extundelete $ sudo apt-get install extundelete Command to recover $ sudo extundelete --restore-directory /home/Documents/ /dev/sda1 Note: in place of dev/sda1 put your hardisk partition name /home/Documents/ is your path to deleted...

why you posted it 2 two times?

user with my name

Aatish Sai

That question is marked as duplicate

The original question is about recovering folder and the linked question is about recovering file. So it is necessarily a duplicate?

very similar questions - probably should merge the answer so that others who are trying to recover either files or folders/both can use the answers in one place.

@fossfreedom you said "I know the culprits".I wanna know his name? or it is confidential?

@AvinashRaj yep - confidential

8:51 AM

is that mod only know that or any user above 10k?

i think mod only.

mod only

@fossfreedom should I go ahead and do the merge?

Q: How to buid linux kernel for the ubuntu?

yep.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Can anyone help me to customize the linux kernel for the ubuntu and put into another new disk that is attached to the oracle virtual box?

linux ubuntu linux-kernel

Done

8:55 AM

But extundelete was already mentioned in that original answer.

@AatishSai what?

@AatishSai - I was in the middle of tidying - the question has been made more generic so we can get a variety of answers depending upon the scenarios - but yes extundelete works for both so you get a +1

Aatish Sai

askubuntu.com/questions/425049/… in this question I wrote the answer on how to recover a directory but the question it is merged with is about recovering a file

@AatishSai see my previous reply above

1 more vote askubuntu.com/questions/430917/…

is askubuntu.com/a/431195/202806 answer a correct one?

doubt it - use your voting powers to describe your thoughts

9:15 AM

if someone posted the same answer as mine then what i have to do?

flag - let us know about it - give a reason in the flag

in askubuntu.com/questions/431251/… question two users posted the same answer as souravc's

you mean "just flag it as same answer" for moderator attention

that can happen with a simple question such as that - people jump in with the same obvious answer.

you can flag with a custom reason if required.

@fossfreedom may i ask question about what the command does?(command was posted on his answer)

Please split and explain the above command for me. — Avinash Raj 18 mins ago

@AvinashRaj Buddy the overall of the command is clear if you wan to learn more about sed please refer to some tutorials or google it. It's really hard to explain all sed here! — Hadi 3 mins ago

If he doesn't know the answer then it would be better to post the link where he got the answer.

yep - that comment is ok - if the OP cant justify the answer then just use your voting powers again.

9:31 AM

if i use my voting powers, i'm afraid i would be a victim of serial downvoting.

... come back tomorrow ;)

no - seriously - dont be afraid to use your voting powers up or down. The system takes care of serial voters - so nothing really to worry about.

9:56 AM

@fossfreedom nothing serious just for query, I think two upvotes on this answer askubuntu.com/a/431257/127327 got reversed. I think it was 5 min passed. Is it some special measure?

@souravc two users upvoted you, get back their votes.

Is it posible to undo votes after 5 min??

undo their votes

i think they undo their votes after 5 min.System would asked him "Votes will be reversed after next edit on this answer".After that you edited your answer and finally it reversed.

ok, I did not know this feature. thanks

And the downvote issue. Last week I downvoted an answer due to technical issues and the user did not hesitate to downvote my answer unnecessarily. This is not constructive. Now I really fear to downvote or comment.

10:12 AM

@souravc

> chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/14173166#14173166

@fossfreedom System take care of serial downvoting. It is good but what about one or two abusive downvote? Should we accept it? It is rather bad feelings than reputation loss. Plz look into it.

10:41 AM

is there any mod here?

10:55 AM

dupe askubuntu.com/questions/431277/…

@souravc one or two? that's only 4 rep. Nothing really to worry about.

@AvinashRaj How can I help?

@Mitch what happens to Bruno?