@JourneymanGeek This was one of the reasons I switched to linux primarily. It enabled me to keep a clean, minimal Windows install that I only boot to for games, and then spend the rest of the time in linux (helps avoid playing games when I should be working also) - so I haven't had to do a Windows rebuild for a while
Then I also have a Windows VM running on a server for those occasions where I cannot avoid Windows for work stuff
@slhck For a bunch of low quality answers, you have left a comment asking for the answer to be expanded. I realise we have a meta in play to work out a formal way to deal with these, but what is the action for now? These will bubble up in the queue for others, and we can 'not sure' them until some time has passed, but then what - vote for deletion?
Lets say that $md5 = "626411647cf4231f2af05b934ea791024625a", then the next md5 is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa but doesn't copy into the $md5 correctly so we end up with aaaaaa647cf4231f2af05b934ea791024625a
I have lots and lots of media files. About 6TB spanned across 10 physical hard drives on a personal file server. Security is not a major issue, but is being handled via other means.
These files consist of video, audio, documents, and software/installers/ISOs/etc.
By the purest of coincidences, ...
Historically, new Windows OS releases result in a huge traffic increase for sites that have lots of Windows content. We saw it for Super User when Windows 7 was released, and Lowell at How-to-Geek said it doubled and tripled his site traffic. Which brings me to...
So -- how is Super User plann...
@Sathya The "What will we do with the preview tag" meta doesn't yet have an answer. I am wondering if we can identify questions that have a high likelihood of being relevant to the released version and tag those as 'not preview'.
I've been thinking/worrying about this too. Right now I'm thinking maybe we should remove the synonym, but not retag everything. Questions and answers can be updated to apply to the final release as necessary, and retagged as such. — nhinkleJul 12 at 17:00
@Sathya and if that activity was taking place with existing questions, we could identify the highest quality ones and do a bit of a tweet etc campain to build up search engine presence
Whenever I get my damn laptop back from HP, I'll be installing the release preview. Been running it on my desktop for a couple weeks now, but I don't use my desktop as much.
@nhinkle Which is why I haven't bothered installing it yet
I don't really have a spare testing system right now, and the fact Win8's previews expire and can't be upgraded to release means I can't really risk trying it.
For those of you who have been tinkering with W8, do you have a sense of what are going to be common questions? I am thinking if we have common questions already answered, we could start promoting those.
@Paul I helped with a couple "what's the diff between the different kinds" sorts of things. Part of the problem is that a lot of things don't run on RT, so that's a big question
TL;DR: I'm looking for opinions on why this question should be open or closed.
Answer: I now understand why it has been closed: It is not a real problem because it has no practical use.
Why are there 8 bits per byte?
Why did such a valid and interesting question got closed?
The user is...
Xfce (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free software desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, and BSD. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. It consists of separately packaged components that together provide the full functionality of the desktop environment, but which can be selected in subsets to create the user's preferred personal working environment. Xfce is mainly used for its ability to run a modern desktop environment on relatively modest hardware.
Xfce is included as one of the g...
@JourneymanGeek I actually spent lot of time trying to get XP to look like something other than XP - trying different shells. W7 was a bit of a relief.
@user481913 You do have to make your own choice. You can take a look at some benchmarks, though they aren't exactly accurate with real world use. You might also want to consider price.
@JourneymanGeek I am inclined to vtc the original question but I don't have close votes (and the op is gone by the look of it) - on the other hand, it would be a cool question to have been able to answer (my jabber server is set to 100 offline messages). On the other hand the user is probably a user not the server admin.
@user481913 Here is what to do. Say "heads AMD, tails Intel", then flip a coin. Just before the coin lands, you will hope it will land a particular way. Choose the one you hoped for.
@IvoFlipse Any highly voted question is going to get a lot of exposure and a lot of answers, though. As you said, whether a question is from curiosity or a real problem doesn't determine the possibility of a single complete technical answer, though I admit real problems are more likely to get such answers.
There's also the problem with these questions often not being reasonably scoped..
Thanks a lot Bob , what's wrong with you people ..? excuse me but your knowledge is useless if you have super high egos and cannot help someone with a simple question.. i just noticed i'm probbaly in the wrong room.... not sure but i just clikcedon the chat link in the comments to the question...
As a developer, I often have the need to open a command prompt for various purposes. For example, I use iisreset to restart my local web server.
I typically open the command window in one of two ways:
Press the Windows key, type "cmd" and press "Enter"
While in Explorer, hold shift and right c...
@kinokijuf Posting the suggested prank question. Note that my suggestion was a joke and it was made clear by others afterwards that you posting that wouldn't be appreciated.