I'm going to have significantly different text in the nomination pitch, but are the flag counts, reviews, etc sufficient? Should I be worried about Meta participation?
@DragonLord sorry, stepping out for the evening. As for hints, just watch for questions and if you're the first to answer, you can get some easy votes in on the easy ones. A lot of MSU seems simple explanations...
I don't do much on MSU (or meta anywhere, really) so I guess I wouldn't make a good mod. I'm very much a "in the trenches" guy who spends 90% of my time working on answers to valid questions, and 10% of my time voting down and closing bad questions, and 0.001% of my time looking at meta issues
@DragonLord +33/-15 suggests a substantial minority thought you'd be a bad candidate, maybe due to your inexperience at the time or similar
based on what I've seen, rep on the main site isn't tremendously important for mods -- mods are more like janitors in that they need to be involved in the meta issues for the site (flagging, explaining why questions are good or bad, defining the topicality of the site, cleaning up behind users, burninating tags and users, etc.)
a mod's role is not to answer questions, so the user's level of activity on the site and their account's age, their meta posts, their flags, and how well known they are in the community, are better tools for deciding whether someone is a good moderator or not, than things like main site reputation
if anything, someone with very high main site reputation should be hailed as a person with great expert knowledge who spends a lot of time helping users, and these are the "heroes" of the site who deserve recognition, but not in the form of a moderator job, because moderation just assigns responsibilities that deal with problems, whereas experts are focused on delivering solutions
that's partly why I don't think people like JonSkeet or JourneymanGeek or WilliamHilsum (or myself, really) would make good mods, because it's pretty clear from our rep that our focus is on supplying our knowledge and resourcefulness, not doing a janitor's job
and we're probably more useful to the community that way
What does set me apart from the others is my ability to find the stealthier spammers. I'll start taking Meta more seriously from now on--I want to be able to stand for the community. 21 questions for +146 and 7 answers for +22 is definitely not enough, based on what I'm seeing on the election pages.
@DragonLord I'm not a mod so I can't really advise you on what you should do, but just answering questions (or asking good questions) on the main site is not going to be the primary determining factor in whether you should be elected.
I can say from experience that, in practice, a lot of clueless voters tend to vote based solely on reputation on the main site, and many people have become mods on various sites just because they had the highest rep, but I'll say that anybody who actually thinks about it for a moment will realize that main site rep really isn't that important for a mod.
for instance, I've been around since about August 2012 and I have 600 or so more rep than @studiohack, who's been around for 3 years and 6 months. I don't say this to pick on him, but just to reinforce my point that being a moderator isn't about rep
and being an active contributor isn't about being a moderator, either. it goes both ways.
@studiohack I vote a good bit even on questions I don't know the answer to, or topical questions that are just bad (downvote :p) and I edit a good bit, but the parts of the site that I'm extremely weak on are meta and flags
From now on, I'll take a different role on Super User. I'll be spending a lot more time reviewing and voting. I'll keep MSU open in my browser all the time.
The troubleshooting tag serves a valid purpose and should be kept. We need to make it clear that this tag be used for questions in which the OP is trying to diagnose a problem, rather than solve a known problem for which troubleshooting doesn't apply.
I would definitely agree with deleting the ...
make sure your goals are absolutely clear to yourself though: you should find yourself doing mod-like stuff and thus want to become a mod officially, rather than saying, "I want to become a mod because I get a diamond and a blue name!"
if you naturally take on mod-like tasks because that's what's fun / rewarding for you, more power to you
You could salvage this question by wording it as "What should I look for when considering proprietary RAID implementations?" and removing the references to specific NAS systems.
As it stands, your question is specific to a particular set of NAS/RAID systems, which tends to draw opinions in favor...
I plan on becoming a moderator, and I'm committed to serving the community.
From now on, I'll take a different role on Super User. I'll be spending a lot more time reviewing and voting. I'll keep MSU open in my browser all the time.
A bit of background, then I'll ping you only once at the end
First off the customer is not very bright... Knows computer words but doesn't know what to do with them or why things are set up the way they are. Including insisting on a non-standard internal IP scheme of 123.123.123.0/24 and no DHCP... His $15,000 server is his router (again, against my wishes), and email is being a bitch
It works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't. I have been on the phone with the ISP (Telus) and with IPSwitch (who makes iMail, the server software they are evaluating for now)
I setup iMail to accept SMTP connections on either of its two NICs, and disabled relay (unless the user has authentication). The relay host is the Telus SMTP server
I set it up to look at the AD for username/password combinations, and that part works fine
Last thing I did with Telus was set the hostname (on their end, not the customer's end) to the hostname we wanted (mail.xxx.com), and if I ping from another computer, I get that address
If I do an MX lookup of mail.xxx.com, it shows as an error. If I do an A record lookup, it resolves fine. If I do an MX lookup of xxx.com, it points to mail.xxx.com properly. Great
Long story short, I created about a hundred test emails, going internal to his network, and external to my GMail, Hotmail, and company's email account, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The techs are saying it has to do with reverse DNS, but I don't know if I go after the registrar (which I can't change the name server addresses on, since I don't have a hostname they "recognize"), the ISP (who says everything is done) or IPSwitch (who says it's all configured)
I would like to know what I need to do with the reverse DNS, or at least where I should look next
@Luke The owner of the IP address is the only one that can do reverse DNS, so this is the ISP. And it is vital you have a reverse entry to avoid drops.
So is all the DNS stuff ok? Should I then blame IPSwitch? Or their registrar? Sorry for the questions, but this is my first mail server I've had to set up
Is this server only used for relaying from and to external addresses, or is it the internal email server too? So are there any issues sending emails between internal users?
I can't tell... The log file right now is 2GB, and the computer I'm on at cadets (it's about to start) has a simple Atom processor... So not checking yet lol
I got this `2013-03-06 13:07:21 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command from mail.ventureelevator.com (ventureelevator.c om) [207.6.13.141]:53649`
It happened on that last test too: 2013-03-06 13:15:48 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command from mail.ventureelevator.com (ventureelevator.com) [207.6.13.141]:57451
The 53649 number is the source port, but isn't important, it is random each connection
To be honest, I don't know if this is indicative of an issue, because the emails are getting through without issue. It might be a difference in SMTP implementations that my email server was expecting something to happen differently to yours
Your server did issue a TCP RST packet to the connection using port 57451, which isn't normal unless there is an error of some kind
@allquixotic is there a way to go through cells in a table and then split so that there is one line per cell? (alternatively, split cell by paragraph mark)
I'm trying to figure out what you mean by "line"... I guess you want to take a row with multiple newlines in it and convert that to a multiple rows instead of the newlines
that can get complicated if you have nested tables. Word can have tables within tables so the structure is arbitrary, and a row doesn't necessarily mean a row all the way across like in Excel
@soandos let's say for argument's sake that you have a "flat" table with 4 rows and 3 columns.... you have one newline in the first (top-left) cell, then three newlines in the middle cell on the first row, then no newlines in the rightmost column... so you would, after the macro, have 5 rows in the first column, 7 rows in the second column, and 4 rows in the last column?
that's not particularly hard to do, just would take a bit of coding
@JourneymanGeek not sure if you've read the transcript or not, but I have a Windows 7 fresh install... but I can't read the last digits of the license key sticker on the bottom of the laptop. It's for a good friend, but I'm mad because I can't finish the install!
Please suggest backup implementation that meets the following requirements:
Allows me to specify folders/files to backup
Stores the backup on a remote destination via ssh
Compresses the backup
Allows scheduling hourly backup + backup prior to system shutdown
you can't use the Table / Row / Column / Cell objects in Word to do this, because as soon as you have a "nested table", the whole table all the way up to the top level can't be accessed on a row and column basis
so it'll work up until you do the first "split" of a cell to convert a newline into a new cell
and as soon as you do that, you can't go any further because you get that error
here is my code, it does not work even a little, but all the code up until the "inner loop" does its job correctly
Sub x()
Dim t As Table
Dim r As Row
Dim c As Cell
Dim txt As String
Dim stxt As Variant
Dim substr As Variant
Dim num As Integer
'Select the table another way if you don't want the first one
Set t = ThisDocument.Tables(1)
'Probably does not work well at all with nested tables or non-flat table structures
For Each r In t.Rows
For Each c In r.Cells
num = 0
txt = c.Range.Text
txt = Replace(txt, Chr(7), vbLf)
txt = Replace(txt, Chr(11), vbLf)
stxt = Split(txt, vbLf, -1, vbTextCompare)
@Paul great idea, would have to jump to the character range immediately after the end of the table, and insert a new table and work as you go
you might be able to build some kind of multidimensional array model of the "final" rows and columns of the original table (store it in memory in the VBA) and then write it all out to a new table
deleting the original
basically you need to look at the Word VBA help @soandos, especially things like the Range object, the Table object and the Selection object
Range is a beast, but almost everything in Word is a Range, so learn it well and you should be able to do it, it's just a real pain
you might also be able to do it easier using Apache POI (lol) because it's a nice and friendly API that actually has proper support for complicated tables
i have a shared folder on a pc connected to domain
windows
how do i allow all users on other PC to acces this folder..
the pc name for example is PCXYZ).. i want all users on this pc to be allowed to acces the shated folder XFOLDER on a certain pc. both PCs connected to the domain.
@HaLaBi Windows computers generally have no concept of users on other computers.
Except in a domain.
So, for a normal workgroup network, you would have to either set up a special account on the 'server' computer and get users to enter that username/password at the prompt when opening the shared folder, or disable password protected sharing, or mirror all user accounts for something a little more seamless (but not much)
I'm not too sure about a domain, but I believe domain users are generally not linked to a computer
so unless you put all that computer's users in a group, you would have to add each user manually to the sharing permissions
@Bob - Based on the screenshot the user is unlikely using Linux/Unix since the application in question is a Windows application. As I went through some troubles with a HDD that started to fail, I discovered that the page file, was unable to be moved by the normal software I use to defrag my system. Of course when your HDD wants to attempt to place the page file in the one section of the disk with the problem it causes stability problems. — Ramhound19 mins ago
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@DesmondHume I agree, Ramhound's advice there is not good.
Generally, a hard shutdown won't cause any permanent damage... but there is a chance of a file being corrupted.
Though, unless you are updating a program or the OS, binaries and libraries should be fine
other files may be mid-write
Personally, I'd test this kind of thing in a VM, or on a machine I feel comfortable trashing. Or, if I'm feeling particularly risky, on my main machine - though I wouldn't recommend that as the first course of action for anyone else.
Please suggest backup implementation that meets the following requirements:
Allows me to specify folders/files to backup
Stores the backup on a remote destination via ssh
Compresses the backup
Allows scheduling hourly backup + backup prior to system shutdown
