@Seth The OP added an edit to his question telling how he solved his own question. The plagarist edited the solution out of the original question, and then posted it as his own answer. He then got upvoted for this answer. What he should have done instead IMO is asked the OP to post an answer to his own question and then to checkmark his own answer as accepted.
Not just reviewers. I have no idea what I was thinking back in 2009 when I originally moved the solution from a comment to the question. You took the correct action by moving it to a CW answer and citing the OP. — Bill the LizardJul 19 at 16:06
@user320 I thought so. I always download ISOs in the terminal using the command: wget -c which resumes the download in the same place where it was interrupted if it was paused or stopped.
@user320 I tried torrenting an ISO once cuz I couldn't get a direct download. It was like 3-5 times slower than wget. wget always maxes out all my available bandwidth.
@karel Asking the OP to post an answer is a good idea, although if he doesn't add an answer adding the correct answer as a CW answer is considered good practice. Let me see if I can find a meta source.
@Seth thx for replying. it's a Community wiki, right? So my take is how does that promote community? and anyway wouldn't have it been easier to ask the OP to post his own answer rather than doing a Watergate with it?
@Braiam It is always a good idea to ask the OP to add his own answer, however that doesn't always happen. What's more important is that questions get answers. For example, if I'm searching for the answer to a problem I usually won't even look at a question that doesn't have any answers listed in the answer bubble. Another reason for adding CW answers is to bump an otherwise answered question of the unanswered list making truly unanswered questions stand out more.
A Community Wiki post doesn't have anything to do with promoting community. All the feature is there to do is make it easier for users to collaborate on and keep answers up to date. A CW answer doesn't really have an "owner", although contributors are listed in the revision history.
Whoops. Replied to wrong post. That was a reply to this. Sorry @karel
@karel One other thing is published under the CC-Wiki license, meaning that you don't actually own the content after it's publication and that anyone can use it and or distribute it providing they attribute the work to the correct author. That's what is going on here. Not really comparable to watergate ;P
With 13.10 coming out soon, I am looking to format and do a clean install.. but I always run into the same problem everytime..
I need to reinstall java6, java7, eclipse, my development environemtn, framework etc etc from scratch
I need to remember to copy out my ssh keys
all my startup applications,
and reinstall all my favourite ubuntu apps and packages (notification icons included)
This is all too much of a hassle
is there any simple solution whereby I can partition the hdd to only update the system stuff while keeping my home partition and maybe by /usr/local/bin (i install my java and other system wide software here)
So I dont have to bother re setting up all of those ENV variables for myself
I had been trying to update my Ubuntu13.04 via 'software updater'.
The updater messages that the following needs to be installed. Press continue to install
When I press continue , a window appears as shown in the attachment. There message appears: requires installation of untrusted packages
On ...
I am looking to upgrade from 13.04 to the upcoming 13.10 but have a few questions about how to handle the upgrade whilst having the least impact on my current setup.
I have these partitions on my brand new SSD :
/ - 30 GB
/ - 30 GB (for alternate install, I like to try different distros on my...
Sometimes, in a question, the OP asks about a specific problem they face in a larger attempt to do something (this is probably not very clear, see this question and karel's answer for an idea of what I'm talking about).
In such cases, should you answer more than what is asked in the question (ev...
After deleting all comments on a post, the line which separates comments from the main post remains.
See this screenshot and note the dotted line after the post which shouldn't be there:
After deleting all comments on a post, the line which separates comments from the main post remains.
See this screenshot (from this question) and note the dotted line after the post which shouldn't be there for posts with no comments:
Consider this approved edit (edit by me): http://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/170518
Why is reviewer field blank? Who really approved the edit? This only occurs on that particular review and is the first time I've ever seen it.
Image:
Consider this approved edit (edit by me): http://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/170518
Why is reviewer field blank? Who really approved the edit? This only occurs on that particular review and is the first time I've ever seen it.
Image:
Pretty much it. I want to install CrunchBang, and I have been using Ubuntu 12.10.
Should I format /home, or do I need to only format / and install #! there?
I do run a Windows Server 2008 machine. It is used as a file server (File Services feature), in addition to local shares I use CrushFTP for SFTP and HTTP access to my files. I would like to convert to Linux (Ubuntu at first).
What I want is to install the OS on a single HDD (500 GB) and then hav...
@user320 You have to make it executable. That can be done from its permissions page (in a graphical interface) or by chmod +x filename.run and then you can run it with ./filename.run
We have roughly a thousand questions asking what .run files are and how to use them but here's one that approximates what I've already said:
A .run file is normally a custom made program which needs to be executed in order to install a program. these are not supported generally as they don't track where files go and don't normally provide an uninstall method. there is no way to be sure what the script will do to your system so they're...
After installing Oracle VirtualBox, when I do "sudo apt-get update", I get such warning.
W: Duplicate sources.list entry
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/ raring/contrib i386
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/download.virtualbox.org_virtualbox_debian_dists_raring_contrib_bina...
So, like, a complete guide including instructions for each specific supported device? I would love to do the research in order to learn about Touch and answer questions such as that.
I have more than 10 rep, but I can't answer a protected question. I struggled with this problem for months and I finally figured it out today, but none of those answers were my problem. I have never posted on askubuntu before but I have over 6500 rep on Stack Overflow and my reputation lists me a...
So this is in the review queue and the entire thing is a mess:
Total Boot Failure - xubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-amd64 "mount: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0 : no such file or directory"
Does anyone have any recommendations on fixing this?
@Takkat Yes but if someone edits the question within it's hold time it gets automatically added to the reopen queue. Solves quite a lot of trouble for us.
I wonder how close to root a patch has to be accepted in order to qualify for google's new FOSS improvement bounties? Ubuntu commit? Debian commit? Original source package commit? Just the musings of me in my off time.
'In order to qualify, your patch must first be submitted directly to the maintainers of the project, and you must work with them to have it accepted into the repository and incorporated into a shipping version of the program. After these prerequisites are met, please submit your entry to [email protected].' is ambiguous. Maintainer could be the source package authors, Debian maintainers, or Ubuntu maintainers. Maintainer != author. It's a fair assumption though.
I had been trying to update my Ubuntu13.04 via 'software updater'.
The updater messages that the following needs to be installed. Press continue to install
When I press continue , a window appears as shown in the attachment. There message appears: requires installation of untrusted packages
On ...
I am looking to upgrade from 13.04 to the upcoming 13.10 but have a few questions about how to handle the upgrade whilst having the least impact on my current setup.
I have these partitions on my brand new SSD :
/ - 30 GB
/ - 30 GB (for alternate install, I like to try different distros on my...
After installing Oracle VirtualBox, when I do "sudo apt-get update", I get such warning.
W: Duplicate sources.list entry
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/ raring/contrib i386
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/download.virtualbox.org_virtualbox_debian_dists_raring_contrib_bina...
I would like to port Ubuntu Touch to a device that is currently not supported. What are the requirements for doing this and where do I begin?
So this is in the review queue and the entire thing is a mess:
Total Boot Failure - xubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-amd64 "mount: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0 : no such file or directory"
Does anyone have any recommendations on fixing this?
