Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Change the links in Ask Ubuntu contact page
There are two links in Ask Ubuntu contact page.
The first one is for contacting Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/about/contact-us (HTTP 😶)
This redirects to https://ubuntu.com/contact-us. I feel the ...
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Ad crap is causing browser errors, is this acceptable?
This sort of ad stuff that tries to execute gifs and pull do all sorts of shady stuff is a big red flag for me and is making me feel uneasy using this platform. What can be done and/or how to reassure ...
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Unable to tag question using libvirt
I have a question asked recently here:
Unable to start libvirtd
which I am unable to tag with libvirt If I tag it, it disappears when the question is up on AU. What is going wrong here?
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Synonymize tags [secure-erase] and [secure-delete]
Well, secure-erase and secure-delete simply mean the same, so we should synonymize them.
Here some stats about those two:
secure-erase:
13 questions
0 followers
Excerpt: none
Wiki: none
secure-...
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Plugin should be merged into plugins
plugin should be merged into plugins, there shouldn't be a need for two of them.
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Title is eaten by diff in suggested edit
While reviewing a suggested edit, I encountered something weird: a title is deleted and no title is inserted in the diff as can be seen below.
When I press the "improve" button, I see exactly the ...
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Are questions about design decisions considered constructive?
This question was closed as nonconstructive, which seems wrong to me. (The creator of the question also did not think it was right for it to be closed.) It's a question about a design decision (or ...
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Suggestion: Add link to relevant page in "off-topic" notification
Pretty minor suggestion, but it could be of some use.
A question of mine, https://askubuntu.com/questions/295699/the-vpn-service-failed-to-start-under-ubuntu-13-04, was put on hold (at my request) ...
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Are [vsftp] and [vsftpd] dupes?
I came across the tags vsftp and vsftpd. Both have similar descriptions and are not related to each other. I would propose to alias vsftp to vsftpd (or the other way around). Because I see not reason ...
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Emergency; inbox not loading
I was shown two notifications, but after a moment of loading image, nothing appears. Hot questions and all sites area load as expected.
Not browser-specific, same results on Opera, Firefox and ...
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The "emphasis" symbol in the editor design issue.
As you can see in the screenshot above, there is a small, light grey line to the right of the "Emphasis" icon in the editor. That shouldn't be there, right?
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Cannot access review queues
As of 5:26 AM on September 9, 2016 (UTC), the review queues went down:
My browser is reporting that this page is an HTTP Error 500 page, suggesting (as noted) that something is wrong with ...
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Reopen one of my questions - Invalid Duplicate Marked
Related: How do I disable the boot splash screen, and only show kernel and boot text instead?
Okay, so this was marked as a duplicate, apparently, but I only noticed this now. Is the marked ...
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Should the tags "sync" and "synchronize" be synonymized?
I asked in the chat and there was unanimous agreement, but none of the present had the permissions to even suggest a tag synonym, since the requirements are a rep of over 2500 reputation and a total ...
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Make [download] a synonym of [downloads] and merge the two tags
There are
73 questions tagged download
69 questions tagged downloads
The two tags are redundant, please consider making download a synonym of downloads and merge the 2 tags (note:downloads has tag ...
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Tag Synonym Request [sound-problem] -> [sound]
I dont really think we need both sound and sound-problem tags.
Doesn't both of them mean the same thing?
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Should we add OSS ads (targeted at users)?
There is this question "Should we add the SE network OSS ads?" about whether to re-use the SE ads which aim at gathering new developers. One of the comments is that those ads aren't a good match for ...
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Design bug in Editing Review, Notifications don't disappear
Unfortunately, I've foolishly closed the tab before I thought to take a screen shot.
I saw a link beneath a question, edit (1), and clicked on it. A notification popped up saying something like that ...
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Privileges page missing site title.
On https://askubuntu.com/privileges there are several instances of the site title missing:
When your fellow users vote up your questions and answers on Ubuntu, you generate reputation.
Should be "...
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indicator-sound should be a synonym of sound-menu
I did some clean up in VLC today and noticed that these should be synonymed, unfortunately no one I can find in chat has enough rep to vote on the tag:
indicator-sound <- sound-menu
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Precise needs a tag synonym
I can't synonym precise to 12.04, the popup says a moderator is needed to make the synonym.
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Make bugs a synonym of bug?
What about making bugs a synonym of bug since the former is just the plural of the latter?
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Tag Synonym Request: [monitor-resolution] -> [resolution]?
Seems like monitor-resolution should be synomized with resolution.
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Bug Found in SE chat's upload feature
There is a bug in chat's upload feature ,If you had previously posted an image using upload and you open up the dialouge again without selecting a pic and press cancel it reposts the previous image ...
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Fix the "deivatives" tag
I noticed there is a tag called deivatives which should really be derivatives. Could a moderator please fix this?
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Vertically misaligned tags
The vertical alignment of the tags is incorrect on Firefox.
.post-tag {
vertical-align: middle;
}
Should fix this
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Retag request: 10.4 instead of 10.04
Would someone please retag this question with 10.04 instead of 10.4.
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Tag Synonym Request: Asus-Related Stuff
Recently, Asus tags have been getting created left and right. I'd like to propose the following synonyms:
asus-pc -> asus
asus-laptop -> asus
The ASUS tag seems good enough to cover almost any ...
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Clicking on green reputation button does not make it go away
Clicking on green reputation button does not make it go away for example mine reads +15 in green at the top of the page and it will not reset. Is there a bug at the moment? is there a way to make it ...
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Let's reopen this Wubi question that Microsoft Windows thought was off-topic
In this question posted yesterday, the OP has a Wubi system that will not start, because the Windows boot loader (which loads Wubi--in a Wubi system you select Ubuntu from the Windows boot menu) has a ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [processes] -> [process]?
The tag processes is just a pluralization of the process tag. Seems like they could be synomized.
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Heads-up: Off-topic twice in filter menu
As I noticed on both Ask Ubuntu and Unix & Linux that the word "off-topic" was appearing twice in the filter when working the close queue:
I directly took it to meta.se as it wasn't ...
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What 's up with the Jobs section?
I just noticed a Jobs section:
As it says, I get a page not found. I'm reasonably certain I have a Stack Overflow Careers profile. So, what is Jobs for, and how can I access it?
The feature request ...
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Review audit bug
When reviewing in the close vote queue I almost always start by clicking on the close button and then canceling that window, to see how the votes are standing on the question.
Because if I'm in the ...
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Consider reopening question 113235
Question 113235 is closed, being considered an exact duplicate of question 43174.
Now, I got the answer I needed before the question was closed, so I won't suffer much from it being closed, but I ...
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Add a space to "Google description"
If I Google "Ask Ubuntu" the sites description says:
AskUbuntu is a collaboratively edited
question and answer site for people
who love Ubuntu. It's 100% free, no
registration required.
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There's no way to mark a question solved when you figure it out yourself.
If I ask a question that nobody else is able to answer, and I later figure it out, then there is no way for me to mark the question as answered. It will be marked unaccepted forever. I consider this ...
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Why doesn't Ask Ubuntu use HTTPS?
Why does Ask Ubuntu use plain ol' HTTP?
In this day in age, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be HTTPS.
Isn't this a huge security risk?
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Why my account is not deleted yet?
I did the needed steps to delete my account but til now it still active. Why?
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Can I merge my LaunchPad login to this account?
I've seen this question multiple times, but they're all dated, so I don't feel appropriate to resurrect any of those ancient threads. Can a mod help me merge my StackExchange account (which is linked ...
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Why is there small text randomly on the review history?
Some - about 2 thirds of the reviews - have got larger text, and the other third has small text - why? It is staring to really bug my OCDness that it is random - not even reviewed, no action needed (...
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Merge php and php-5.4 tags into just php?
We have a php tag, and we also have a php-5.4 tag.
Ultimately, they're both PHP, and I see no reason to have separate PHP tags for each version (the same reasoning was the primary drive, as far as I ...
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Question put on hold as off-topic but maybe spam?
Can anyone provide me high PR rank guest posting sites for SEO activity? has been put on hold but I feel it's a form of spam via the user profile.
I clearly remember a previous post by the same user ...
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Site not updating at all [closed]
Since the site went into read only mode then came back, it has not updated at all. According to the question list, the last newest question was five hours ago. It is the same with some of the other ...
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Can we undo the libvirt -> virtualization tag synonym?
Currently, libvirt is a synonym of virtualization, and is mentioned in some ~800 questions (plus its client tool virsh is mentioned in some ~200 questions that don't mention libvirt). The synonym has ...
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Not that criteria
In https://askubuntu.com/help/bounty, there's this:
"If there's no answer meeting that criteria, the bounty is not awarded to anyone."
One criterion, two criteria or "those criteria" but not "that ...
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Link to etiquette is broken
If I go to https://askubuntu.com/faq and click on this FAQ, it doesn't take me to another section of the page.
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Merge two User Accounts
I have accidently created two user accounts but logging in with two different OpenID's, I foogot I already had an account. Is there a way to merge the two accounts into one as I have questions on one ...
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"Avconv" tag does not exist!
I just asked a question related to "avconv" and I was surprised that the tag for it did not exist. I do not have enough reputation to create a tag. I posted the question with "ffmpeg" tag instead.
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Make [vista] a synonnym of [windows-vista] and merge the two
There are two tags
vista with 29 questions
windows-vista with just 5
I know it is not much significant , but a cleanup is never bad.
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