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Q: Why was this question kept in SF?

PaulI flagged this question to be moved to Unix & Linux. I'm new to flagging questions and I'm not clear why it was decided that the question stay in SF.

discussion flagging
 
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Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange
03:21
Standalone Sysadmin: NASA Social Live - I'll be there! Watch Live! #nasasocial
posted on December 03, 2014 by Matt Simmons

We are down to the brass tacks, now. I'm sitting in a British pub next door to Cape Canaveral, getting my schedule stuff squared away for the next two days, and things are gelling amazingly well.  I picked up my NASA Press badge today, and it's starting to get to the point where it feels […]

Ward
Ward
03:53
I'm not disappointed!
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Lucas Kauffman
Lucas Kauffman
10:54
hey guys, does anyone know where I can get a hub?
like a real hub
Iain
Iain
@LucasKauffman nobody here any more we all hang out in slack, I'll resend your invite if you're inerested
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
11:29
@LucasKauffman: a museum ;p
I don't think anyone even bothers with them any more
0_0
amazon.com/Netgear-EN104TP-4-Port-Ethernet-Uplink/dp/B00000J4M9
"Low-cost version of EN104 (no BNC support)" WHUT?
Lucas Kauffman
Lucas Kauffman
11:55
@JourneymanGeek my hero
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
12:09
@LucasKauffman: Outside security guys who can't get mirrored ports, not much demand for them
I think I have a ... ~15 year old one in a box somewhere ;p
Lucas Kauffman
Lucas Kauffman
@JourneymanGeek yea I need one of these to check traffic on an 802.1x enabled network
Iain
Iain
@LucasKauffman want me to resend your invite to slack ?
Lucas Kauffman
Lucas Kauffman
@Iain invite to slack :o?
@Iain what is this slack?
@Iain and yes invite me
Iain
Iain
resent check your gmail
Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange
12:44
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Q: question downvoting

drookieI'm kinda new to stackexchange, but I'm constantly seeing people downvoting questions. More than a half questions are downvoted right from the start. I personally think that asking a question requires courage, and every question deserves an answer, even the dull ones. Right now the engine does no...

discussion feature-request downvoting reputaion
 
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Hyppy
Hyppy
14:00
What's this Slack everyone's on about?
Iain
Iain
14:11
@Hyppy wow blast from the past
@Hyppy got an email address I can send an invite to ?
HopelessN00b
HopelessN00b
@Hyppy It's the new chat room everyone fled to. slack.com , if you're curious.
AzkerM
AzkerM
14:28
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Q: Canon printer does not print over the network at times

AzkerMWe've been having this printing issue for the last two months where the printer stops taking prints over the network at a certain point. Each and every time we need to reset the printer by powering it off and on to get it back online. Few canon technicians came and said that we may have a network...

networking printer network-printer issue-tracking
Hyppy
Hyppy
@iain Sent you an email
Iain
Iain
@Hyppy it's in the post
 
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BWStearns
BWStearns
16:26
Hi all. I'm a programmer but I am currently trying to get a network switch running and I am clearly doing something newbish and failing terribly. I literally cannot find the switches ip address to telnet into. It's an HP Procurve 2510 switch and i'm working on a mac (though I have a debian machine available as well). Almost all of the docs and guides I can find assume you've already telnetted into the switch.
voretaq7
voretaq7
16:44
@BWStearns Plug into the serial port on the switch and get the IP.
 
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Iain
Iain
18:05
@BWStearns h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/psi/manualsResults/…
Chris S
Chris S
18:38
room topic changed to The Comms Room: This room is NOT for 'Live Support', Please ask on the main site. Thank you! (no tags)
gnp
gnp
18:51
Hi there. Does anyone know about brutusmail? I'm getting lots of helo from them on my mail server. Not enough to be worried, but enough to be curious as to what are they doing
They just connect, say helo, wait for me to reply and disconnect
Dec 3 15:51:59 mail postfix/smtpd[28697]: connect from stuart-case.brutusmail.com[199.59.56.214]
Dec 3 15:51:59 mail postfix/smtpd[28697]: disconnect from stuart-case.brutusmail.com[199.59.56.214]
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Chris S has removed Iain from the list of this room's owners.‌​
Chris S has removed MDMarra from the list of this room's owners.‌​
Zoredache
Zoredache
19:34
@ChrisS if nobody is going to hang out in this room then Live Support should be perfectly fine.
BTW, I removed that.
voretaq7
voretaq7
19:46
@Zoredache I'd rather we keep encouraging folks to use the main site
(though with the dreck that gets asked lately that may just further drive our quality problems)
strugee
strugee
@ChrisS but why??
nono-markdown
Zoredache
Zoredache
20:07
@strugee that had been the standing rule for the the last ~4 years. I removed from the description last week because a) the room is empty b) I wanted to see what would happen.
I still want to encourage people to the main site, but I want to experiment.
voretaq7
voretaq7
@Zoredache What about "General Server Fault chat - Complex questions should be asked on the main site"?
Iain
Iain
:( no longer an owner
anyway - back to slack
Chris S
Chris S
20:49
@Zoredache I'm hanging out in here when I can. I'm not much of a fan of Slack at the moment.
1. If administrators wanted to be bothered with problems simple enough to be fit into a chat message then they'd be trolling Super User.
2. Chat has a terrible signal to noise ratio, nothing here is likely to be of use to anyone in the future. The whole point of SE was to have neatly packaged USEFUL Answers and Questions. Allowing questions in chat fundamentally breaks that.
3. If the question is non-trivial (ie, #1 doesn't apply) then it's unlikely someone with subject matter expertise is in chat at the same time the question is asked.
 
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Katherine Villyard
Katherine Villyard
22:33
Dang, guys. I've never seen the queues look so clean!
voretaq7
voretaq7
@KatherineVillyard New mods are always so enthusiastic :)
Zoredache
Zoredache
Did things get cleaned up before or after the election? Were people trying to pump their stats to make them look better on the election page?
HopelessN00b
HopelessN00b
They were cleaner than usual before the election - close votes around 50, rather than hovering near 100, but like voretaq7 said, new mods are so enthusiastic. Especially when one of them promised to slam crap shut with a vengeance. :)
voretaq7
voretaq7
22:57
@Zoredache there's always a big cleanup during the candidacy/primary/election period
also traffic has tapered off a bit
Katherine Villyard
Katherine Villyard
Heh. Well, HopelessN00b, you're living up to your campaign promises!
HopelessN00b
HopelessN00b
@KatherineVillyard Well, I'm not a politician, so I can keep my campaign promises for at least a day or two.
Katherine Villyard
Katherine Villyard
LOL!
Shane Madden
Shane Madden
23:27
@HopelessN00b Too long!
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
TWSS? ;p
@Zoredache not a fan of live support over chat since that's HV bait.
HopelessN00b
HopelessN00b
@ShaneMadden Fine, fine. I'll go back to being a sleazy, lying promise-breaking politician tonight. I'll find a dumb, new user and be nice to him. Happy? :p
8
=D
Katherine Villyard
Katherine Villyard
"How do I log in to my computer?" ;)
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Or posting a question on chat to get attention. I'd rather people post the weird and bizarre.
HopelessN00b
HopelessN00b
@KatherineVillyard Actually, one of my most recent flags for comment rudeness was a user who asked MH in the comments how he could turn the computer on and off. I said he was the reason sysadmins drink... so yeah, I suppose I'd have to find a really bad question like that, and be nice to even it all out. :)
Katherine Villyard
Katherine Villyard
23:42
Heh. I actually found myself missing the much hated (by me) "minimal understanding" close reason recently, but managed.
Ha, I knew that was an audit. :P
HopelessN00b
HopelessN00b
@KatherineVillyard I have copy-pasta-ed the old minimal understanding reason, and use it from time to time as a custom OT close. Sometimes there's just no other way.
Katherine Villyard
Katherine Villyard
Yeah, alas, I really hated that close reason, but sometimes it really did describe the problem.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Yeah
Shane Madden
Shane Madden
@HopelessN00b Heh ;)

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