I would say that no question is truly "dumb". At worst they can be misguided, as in not knowing a better solution or using a patently wrong solution, but I find it worrying when people continue to use bad solutions even when they've been given better and more effective ways of doing things.
No worries @IvoFlipse, there are always things like that that get to us, but in the long run we have to just hope that people regain their sanity and move forwards with thinks like that.
I'm getting a bit sick with all the bloaty slowness of Firefox, I won't use IE at all, and I'm still not convinced enough to click that "Make Chrome my default browser" button.
I dislike Google, they collect information on everything and I don't want to give them any more information than I have too...I already use Google Voice heavily...
some gmail, but not much...Firefox has the addons, and many more of them @Mokubai
funny how before the elections, @IvoFlipse was pretty much the only mod to visit Root Access, now @DMA57361, @studiohack, and @Sathya all are in here regularly
so we now have 4 mods in here a lot, so that makes for a lot of blue names ;)
@Sathya whoa... anything missing!? When my uncle went to America, he was annoyed because he had the TSA approved locks and they went missing - he thinks the agent stole them or something
@studiohack, I noticed you defined "apt" and "apt-get" as synonyms of "aptitude". You know that the latter is the GUI, right? (Very much related, sure, and it also has a command line thingy of itself, and maybe folks indeed refer to APT as aptitude. Just wanted to be sure you know!) superuser.com/tags/aptitude/synonyms / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptitude_(software)
some time ago I read that aptitude is the preferred tool for installation on debian based systems.
But when you search around on howto administer a debian based system then aptitude is rarely mentioned. Most people seem to prefer apt-get - and that's even true for the debian wiki pages!
So I am...
I was hoping the above question would still be tagged "apt", as when looking at the synonyms earlier, I noticed it did actually show me a count of 1 for that "apt" synonym. But: no cigar indeed.
I started upgrading to v1.1 and have an interesting problem I can't seem to resolve.
When calling http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites using a .Net WebClient I receive responses successfully and I am able to parse the results.
When calling http://stackauth.com/1.1/sites using a .Net WebClient I recei...
Actually, @Sathya, I am sure you'll SOON have a higher rep. I am a bit surprised I'm still here... Some time ago I cleaned up my images, having lost interest a bit.
Bleh. I hate that I can multiselect message to move them in Chrome.
@GeorgeEdison Can I safely assume that if a library works against StackAuth using a custom User Agent, that it is not refusing connecting based on the User Agent?
(See related chat discussion here)
NOTE: Most are small, so doesn't need special moderator attention, just update my post when you help.
Proposed tag renames/synonyms: (old tag --> new tag)
.net --> .net-framework (and all version variants) Done
hd --> 720p - Changed to high-definition Done
f...
actually, not my new colleagues, but my brand spankin new slaves did, @Arjan - they're very spoiled (slaves are: @KronoS, @TomWij, @nhinkle, @BloodPhilia in particular)
> A couple notes from the weekend: > > Apparently there is a version of the HP wireless assistant that has been shipping on laptops that causes excessive CPU usage. More detailed info can be found [here](http://superuser.com/questions/240794/why-does-wmi-provider-host-wmiprvse-exe-keep-spiking-my-cpu). > > If you happen to run into this problem upgrading the client or removing it resolves the problem. Unless the user actually uses the wireless assistant (in my experience few do) I usually remove it anyway.
In conjunction with the Super User blog, we will be getting three SSD's from Kingston. We want to perform tests on these drives and blog about the results, and need your help. What testing, comparisons, or how to guides, would you as a Super User like to see related to SSD technology?
Update...
Let's say we've opened an Emacs community, will the questions at SO, SU and Prog.SE disappear?
No. Why? Because the FAQ still allows them and people will still land there! Can this be solved?
No. Why? Because there is no reason to migrate them nor list every single Editor/IDE in the FAQ.
Tim...
Ended @IvoFlipse's discussion but started a new one...
... confuses the hell out of me, ChrisF has 6 different wiki edits that are approval flagged... They have 2 per tag... is there an order I should click accept in, or just on all of them... or leave it for someone else who knows what they are doing as I do not understand!?
This fetches revision 5.1 only:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
but the latest community server version is 5.5.9
I started upgrading to v1.1 and have an interesting problem I can't seem to resolve.
When calling http://stackauth.com/1.0/sites using a .Net WebClient I receive responses successfully and I am able to parse the results.
When calling http://stackauth.com/1.1/sites using a .Net WebClient I recei...
(See related chat discussion here)
NOTE: Most are small, so doesn't need special moderator attention, just update my post when you help.
Proposed tag renames/synonyms: (old tag --> new tag)
.net --> .net-framework (and all version variants) Done
hd --> 720p - Changed to high-definition Done
f...
In conjunction with the Super User blog, we will be getting three SSD's from Kingston. We want to perform tests on these drives and blog about the results, and need your help. What testing, comparisons, or how to guides, would you as a Super User like to see related to SSD technology?
Update...
