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echox

3:18 PM

multi edit crowdsourcing power ;-)

@michael ;-)

Michael Mrozek

:234724 That was confusing; it took me a minute to realize there were several new answers since I started writing mine

echox

:234731 yeah, javascript check for new messages works fine - most of the time and if you rely on it sometimes it doesn't :-)

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Stefan

8:36 PM

Hey Micheal, would you like to help us out with your amazzzing editing skills? :)

at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3063/…

aah... @MichaelMrozek

just read the 'help' section on directing chats to someone :)

Gilles

8:55 PM

Looking at the current version, it's not very clear. I think it would be better with four answers: sudo and graphical front-ends; su and graphical front-ends; logging in as root (maybe including I've-forgotten-the-root-password rescue tips?); the obscure ones

Michael Mrozek

:235792 These are all CW, so you should be able to edit them. What were you looking to do?

Ah, you're merging all the answers together. That's probably good, that's usually how faq-style posts go

Stefan

@Gilles, mm... i feel like agreeing with everybody... cause everybody has really valid reasons.. :)

Gilles

@MichaelMrozek: ok, but I think it needs more structure (#sudo, #su?)

Michael Mrozek

Yeah, I'd add higher-level groupings

Here's an example of an MSO faq post; this is how I imagined the sudo answer looking:

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