@terdon I'm building my case, so it will take long: if that question is not a duplicated of the other, what tells me that any other duplicated wasn't incorrectly dumped there?
@Braiam Nothing. The point is that I've often found my way to the answer I was looking for by following dupe trails. I have also often found my answer somewhere along the way, in an answer posted to one of the closed questions. You never know what search terms people will use so there seems to me that no good and possibly some harm will come out of deleting duplicate questions.
Most things that should be deleted are removed automatically by the system anyway.
@Braiam I'd rather delete the original. Or maybe neither if there's some useful info. Personally, I'll delete stuff that really harms the site. And yes, that can sometimes include opinion based but maybe sometimes not.
@Braiam Those we keep! Those are great! Cause they help people find answers through the dupe trail and through the related Qs sidebar.
As for opinion based, the only bad thing they do is make people think that such things are on topic. So yeah, OK, many should be deleted. But I don't see it as very important as long as they're closed.
@Braiam yeah, I've noticed that. But yeah, the related questions thing is a good reason to keep duplicates. You just told me it's also a good reason to retag them correctly.
So basically, a dupe can lead me to the answer I need 1) because it has been correctly closed and linked to THE answer 2) because it's been correctly tagged so the related questions include THE answer. Either way, it served its purpose.
Dupes are very important. I would rather err on the side of safety and delete as few as possible.
@Braiam I understand that. That's what I'm saying. If it's not correctly tagged, but correctly closed I still get my answer. If it's incorrectly closed and correctly tagged I get it from the related Qs. Only if it is incorrectly tagged and incorrectly closed might I not get any benefit from it.
Only in that case should we consider deleting it and even in those cases, I can think of many situations where I'd rather keep it. Otherwise, reopen to close again correctly, flag or whatever.
@Braiam yes there are, so yeah, vote to delete I guess. But those cases are very few and even they, by pure chance could have the right link. I'd rather retag them so the right Qs enter the sidebar. What's the benefit of deleting them?
I'm still a little bent out of shape that my hardware recommendation for purchasable usb wireless cards that support hostapd got closed. I understand it, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that wants to know...
@terdon "WELP, I PUT SOME COMMAND THAT I FOUND IN THE INTERWEBS AND NOW MY PC DOES BOOT! btw, I have windows 8" - is duplicated against How to repair my boot with boot-repair or how to install ubuntu along windows 8 (uefi supported)
@Braiam yes, exactly! So the next idiot who searches for something inane like that has a slightly greater chance of finding his solution if we close/tag that correctly.
What I am looking for:
links to specific purchasable cards
(amazon, google shopping results, anything that will last)
There is a preference for N support
What I'm not looking for:
Your personal ebay link
Chipsets as revealed by linux-wireless
"this one doesn't work"
USB, PCMCIA, Expre...
@hbdgaf I actually use duckuckgo.com but I'll check them out. Cool!
BY the way, @hbdgaf if you make that question a bit less like a product recommendation and more about what cards work with what hardware, you might get @JourneymanGeek to answer it on Super User.
Haven't seen one like that but I'm no hardware expert so that's not surprising. I take it the two fans keep a steady flow of air going and the heatsink/cpu is below right? Are they ejecting towards the RAM or away from it?
Could somebody help me please,I can connect to the internet with yellow cable from the modem to the computer, but am unable to connect via the wireless usb adapter.
What I need is for someone to explain what I have to do to install the wireless connection.
I have an old computer(has the floppy di...
yep, I did that once on a work in progress answer on a high rep bounty - kept adding stuff as I researched and figured it out / was more interested in the topic, but a little extra wasn't bad
@Seth It's not, I just thought that making a post CW severs all connection to the OP.
@Mateo this is a silly question giving what you've been doing but does steamOS even run on i686/amd64 hardware? I thought it was designed for embedded systems.
@terdon it was made for 64 bit hardware, they are like full PC consoles, just a very high end hardware, so the limiting factor on my computer is the graphics card right now...
sudo -i tried to become the user who's password you use, it runs that user's login specific resources (.profile etc) and tries to run from the user's home directory.
su on the other hand logs you in as other users, usually the root account. That means that files you create will become owned by r...
I have an external hard drive with elementary os on it, and when I took it out my preinstalled windows 8 laptop, it came up with the "error: no such device:'hex number' grub rescue>". I can't boot from the external hdd, no live usbs, can't get to bios, and when I type in ls, it comes back with on...
I was reading a guide to install some software and came reading until this shocking statement:
sudo is not installed on Debian by default. Make sure your system is up-to-date and install it.
As current Debian user, this is difficult to believe since from installation I'm able to use sudo. S...
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 in a virtual machine.
I need to create a tutorial on how to install, configure, and test CrossFTP.
I don't have any idea how and where to find this CrossFTP. I've tried to download the Portable version from http://www.crossftp.com using Ubuntu in the virtual machine, bu...
@AvinashRaj um, yes, but it's needlessly complicated (you just need dpkg -S $(readlink -f /usr/bin/vi) and @Braiam's answer already gives what is the best way really. The symlink paths can be long
@MinatoNamikaze agreed. I don't think it's possible to unfeature though, only feature. See here:
On Drupal Answers, the number of meta posts shown in the "Community Bulletin" block is now 2. Previously, there was just a single meta post linked from that block, and it was a featured post; the total number of links was the same, as there were a link to an blog post more.
What are the criter...
@AvinashRaj the info on readlink is useful but it would be better if you explained what the command does, what the -f option means, what the find command is doing and how its -exec flag works etc. As it is, you are presenting the OP with a complex command and no explanation of what it's doing.
@AvinashRaj remember that people is literally putting their trust in us to solve their problems, if we somehow damage their systems it would be prejudicial for us
@AvinashRaj nobody is saying you shouldn't have posted, you answer what you like. I just think it is better to use the update-alternatives method because that queries the alternartives system directly
In all seriousness though, you are in DR aren't you? I'm surprised they'd be showing that add to your IP.
That kind of crap is usually shown in other countries to attract the "exotic" lovers. Exotic depends on where you're from so I wouldn't expect that there.
@MinatoNamikaze @Braiam i already asked about this question to foss.He replied, " Leave open that question.It's important for the users to know the status of an moderator."
This question of mine was closed on the basis that I'm asking the same question... I'm not. I specifically ask the "Why apt-get install update fails" (which normally people try to update their systems) meanwhile the other question address how to solve the issue where the package is simply misspel...
I installed Subversion. I know some basics about Subversion. Now my problem is, Whenever a user commit any files or update a file that notifications message will be send to all users email.
How to configure email notifications.
@AdityaPatil For more background information about Tesseract you might be interested in reading this answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/316068/… as well as all the other answers to the same question. Maybe a bit off topic for your answer because it has to do with programming, but interesting just the same.
I am a bit confused about the Tag badges.
For ex, a Bronze tag badge for 10.04 says
Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 non-community wiki answers in the 10.04 tag
I know what community is, I know what wiki Q&A are.But what is non-community wiki?
Does it mean answers(or questi...
@jorgecasto Are you sure this question is worth offering bounty? I mean the error in juju could have been already removed in the last one year.Have you checked?
I have a server with static IP address that I rented (Debian on it), and I have a server with a server at home which I bought and setup as home server (with Ubuntu Server).
What I would like to do is: Use my rented server, which has a static IP address I can always reach, to communicate with my ...
@Mitch I don't understand why this answer was deleted. The OP asked "if anyone had tried Logitech G430s with 12.04" and how well works... And I think the answer is clear enough and I don't think it is necessary to split the thread into 4.
What I am looking for:
links to specific purchasable cards
(amazon, google shopping results, anything that will last)
There is a preference for N support
What I'm not looking for:
Your personal ebay link
Chipsets as revealed by linux-wireless
"this one doesn't work"
USB, PCMCIA, Expre...
On Drupal Answers, the number of meta posts shown in the "Community Bulletin" block is now 2. Previously, there was just a single meta post linked from that block, and it was a featured post; the total number of links was the same, as there were a link to an blog post more.
What are the criter...
Grab the file and read it line-by-line, as you mention, and save the lines to a local file.
I installed Subversion. I know some basics about Subversion. Now my problem is, Whenever a user commit any files or update a file that notifications message will be send to all users email.
How to configure email notifications.
I am a bit confused about the Tag badges.
For ex, a Bronze tag badge for 10.04 says
Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 non-community wiki answers in the 10.04 tag
I know what community is, I know what wiki Q&A are.But what is non-community wiki?
Does it mean answers(or questi...
