it's not a meeting, it's an "away day"... they'll be (almost) everyone from our dept. Hmm, you know, I'm not sure how many people actually work in my dept :/ but it'll be upwards of 50
still, they're providing tea, so I'll probably get a decent cuppa or six out of it :9 the tea machine in here's a little scummy
Given two ethernet cards as follows
1 GBPS 32-bit PCI
1 GPBS 64-bit PCI
When both ethernet cards share the same 1GBPS rating, how are the additional 32-bits relevant?
EDIT: Attached link to a few I located on ebay
just so you know, twitter has INSANE restrictions that mean "superuser" cannot appear ANYWHERE in a name or even the description of an account. Think I am making this up? I wish.
also, I have some hardware I want to give away to a USA based SU user.. (sorry, international shipping is just too much of a pain for stuff that isn't, like, a t-shirt)
Mind you, now I have my new pc, there isn't a lot I could do with it... it would just be greedy me taking those machines... as nice as they would be!
I know that we are partly responsible (all be it StackOverflow.com much more) for Jeff and the team being so successful now, but, it is nice to see him being so generous!
Does anyone know where that blog post on what Router Jeff got is? I have been looking for a while on blog.stackoverflow.com and can't find anything :/ Looking through DD-WRT compatible routers and I am going around in circles
Why do so many companies have to offer so many products! Or at least not have a good way to see the differences... When I was comparing camcorders and cameras, it was exactly the same problem... just turns you away from a brand with so much confusion
I would love to see more useful questions, thus I do not agree with the current answer here.
So, I have worked out a more effective "Ask Question" page that solves lots of problems more effective:
Ask the user for the right content:
An actual question instead of a topics or title. In a Q&...
Really, if you hide a title away so that it's less jumps out than the text around it and not provide any clear instructions. How do you guys expect that it would result in good quality?
@Sathya: Where?
I clearly know that we are in Root Access, I wouldn't know it if that title was just small text.
@JeffAtwood - If you see this, I have just read - dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Buffalo_WZR-HP-G300NH - Do you get dropouts or any problems on your router? I just recommended this to a client and am a bit worried!
@JeffAtwood SU's birthday just happened, perhaps the free stuff could be part of a 2nd anniversary contest or something of the like? I'm not really sure how we could decide fairly who gets it. I'll discuss with the other blog editors and moderators and let you know. International shipping is a pain indeed. If the recipient were willing to pay for the shipping, would you even consider sending it overseas?
@KronoS I have a crapton of stuff to do at work, so unfortunately I can't orchestrate this right now. Perhaps this weekend we can have a brief meeting on chat with you, me, @Ivo, and whoever else wants to chime in
no no... you don't understand... putting it in the fridge can cause moisture to collect on the pc, whether or not it's hot... it's not a good idea really
While I believe that bad users will be bad users, a lot of the comments here are merely anecdotal and highly prejudiced. It's one thing to say, "Yeah, I've seen this happen a lot online and users hardly read instructions", but to dismiss a suggestion solely because of prior experiences is wrong. ...
@Gareth Would you mind stopping editing just for a bit to let new questions fill up the home page again? It's great that your editing these older questions, but I would like to see some new ones. Thanks.
FYI, personally I prefer to use the network install - less downloading if using it on more than one pc... if you can't find a link/want it, let me know and I will get it for you
@SimonSheehan Every government is the same... In England, someone set this up (can only find Google Cache) it was taken seriously by some people! webcache.googleusercontent.com/…
When people come onto this site, we go to the home page. We see new questions. Right now all I can see are edits. I have a bookmark to reload the page so I can find new questions.
Edit flooding is the term I'm using for when a single user (or small group of users) perform a lot of edits in a small space of time and effectively take over the front page - pushing a lot of new content away.
A few minutes ago, the front page was filled end to end with edits by one of our top ...
@Gareth: Maybe you should stop being difficult and just listen? I've been told about the same thing, and have stopped, because everyone has a point when they say not to edit-spam. What makes you think you're different from anyone else and don't have to follow the generally-accepted way of doing things?
the point being raised is that it's stopping the ability to see new questions. but if you ignore my edits that are being pushed to the front page (not something I can control), you can see changes to questions/answers as old as 54m.
I'm leaving chat now. Sorry you guys feel this way, I am genuinely just trying to help the site. If you have any strong views please answer or comment on the meta post: http://meta.superuser.com/questions/3103/do-we-care-about-edit-flooding-should-we-be-doing-anything
@studiohack I see your edits, but this is just becoming much too frequent for me, and others. Insubstantial I would say like, superuser.com/posts/293498/revisions
It's not so much that you have to stop editing, @Gareth. It's just not a good idea to edit a bunch of posts at once. If you need to, just do these things on weekends.
I've come across a huge number of posts lately with broken images, so I'm trying to move them to i.stack.imgur.com in order to preserve them for the future
those sort of changes don't show up on the edit revisions
I would suggest, as a compromise for now, @Gareth (cc @MarkSzymanski @SimonSheehan) to mass edit on the weekends, and edit a few (5-10) questions every hour or so
@Gareth As I said, i think most of your edits are worth noting, and are useful to the site, but it just seems to go a bit overboard at times. I have nothing against them.
I still think there's something missing here though - I really am quick at finding issues in questions, answers, broken images etc - and I've done professional editing before my recent career. Therefore there's a bit of an advantage in my swift editing which is just going to get held back now...
to be fair, I normally do focus on new questions (if you look over my revision history) - this is just something I've been doing today really, fixing potential broken images
On Super User today, there was a tiny disagreement in chat about mass editing spamming the front page and to deal with it, and there appears to be two Meta Questions (1 and 2).
As lots of previous suggestions regarding third party acceptance and similar matters have been downvoted/disagreed heav...
I stayed out of it... and honestly, I don't mind either way... but... Personally, I didn't see that much @Gareth's edits, but A few times when I checked, I saw @TomWijsman have many of the old popular answers up!!! It gets a bit annoying when you can't see new questions and all that was added was a tag or something... so, if I had a choice, I would say no edits should be up... I don't really care any different about mass edits!
Given two ethernet cards as follows
1 GBPS 32-bit PCI
1 GPBS 64-bit PCI
When both ethernet cards share the same 1GBPS rating, how are the additional 32-bits relevant?
EDIT: Attached link to a few I located on ebay
I would love to see more useful questions, thus I do not agree with the current answer here.
So, I have worked out a more effective "Ask Question" page that solves lots of problems more effective:
Ask the user for the right content:
An actual question instead of a topics or title. In a Q&...
