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Why doesn't Ask Ubuntu's calendar match my calendar
My computer shows that it's still Monday the 19th, but Ask Ubuntu does not show me on site today, but shows me tomorrow. Is there another setting I need to set on my computer? I don't remember or ...
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what the difference between system-tray and panel?
the tag system-tray refers to the upper panel, and the panel refers to the upper panel.
So why do they both exist?
like this question: it has system-tray listed and not upper panel?!
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How has the new review view improved our editing?
The SO blog mentions the new review interface for people who are keen to improve questions. It's pretty awesome, it's automating things I've been doing by hand, so kudos there.
Review early, review ...
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Is there a way to merge my previous questions on askubuntu.com with my registered account ( i use the same email address )
Is there a way to merge my previous questions on askubuntu.com with my later registered account ( i use the same email address )?
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Am I allowed to say thanks?
Sometimes a person's answer is really helpful, but I'm not sure if thanking the person as a comment is appropriate (as it's not a discussion forum).
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Should questions/answers dealing with "adult" software be flagged as inappropriate?
This question is being posted largely in response to this answer describing the "Adult Lens and Porn Scope" and how to install it.
As Roland Taylor and I commented on the answer, we have concerns ...
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Remove already voted to close questions from the "Close" review tab
When I flag a post from the Flags tab, it gets removed on reload. I'd like to see the same thing happen with entries in the Close tab.
There are currenty 17 questions in Recent Votes and I voted on ...
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Questions seeking how to bypass security, off-topic?
Recently, this question appeared asking how to bypass a firewall using Ubuntu. What should we do about questions which seek out how to use Ubuntu to bypass security implementations?
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Accidentally deleted my own question
I've accidentally deleted my own question, should I ask it again or can it be undeleted?
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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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Low reputation people can't comment if they are not sure of answer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are you only allowed to comment with 50 rep?
I am a new user to SO , to be true(3 days) , we can see other users questions, but if we are confused for an answer , we can't ...
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Tag synonyms needed [duplicate]
I noticed that there are two nearly-identical tags: script and scripts. One should be made a synonym of the other, but I don't have enough rep to do so. Would someone else like to handle this?
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Can misspelled tags be deleted?
I just re-tagged a question with a misspelled tag. From these two search results, it looks like tags are dropped after a period of inactivity. Can misspelled tags be deleted instead, so the error is ...
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What should we do about answers with Link Rot?
Many times users simply post an answer to a question which contains a link to an offsite page with little or no context. When that link breaks, what should the policy be to handle those?
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Inconsistent flag handling?
One was declined, one was marked "helpful"
This was flagged as not a real question - however, what ended up happening...
audio stopped working sudden in a .avi file - it got closed as too localized, ...
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Possibility to lower the comment privilege
I have notice many of the Answers are not really answers but comments made from mostly users that do not yet have the comment privilege (So they get energetic when they see a question that relates to ...
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Where can I find a list of rejected edit suggestions?
I was just looking at my edit suggestions. Last I checked, I had 51 edits accepted and 2 rejected. Where can I find out what those rejected edits were, so I can learn from the experience?
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Why do we have a "help" tag? [duplicate]
help is kind of a pointless tag, no? There's 36 questions which have it, each of them is asking for support with something different. There's no real purpose for it, since this site is for support ...
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How to retag a question without making it go to the top of the question list?
I want to retag posts that have to do with dv6 laptops by HP with the new dv6 tag. I can do this by searching for "dv6" and going down the list and retagging each question with the dv6 tag. The ...
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Legal issues regarding information in the site
I would like to know if any legal penalty can be applied against any of the answers/comments posted on the site or if there is any history involving legal action against any of the information posted ...
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Code formatting in comments discards whitespace
I recently noticed by writing a comment that multiple spaces are replaced by a single space inside a code block. The question has since been migrated to SO.
I worked around it by replacing spaces ...
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I do not understand some of the badges
Specifically , the "good answer" and "great answer" two, it seems I have a few answers which would qualify.
Keep the Ubuntu package version I'm using now
That answer has 5 upvotes.
It is not ...
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How to see from what countries Askubuntu users are
3 days ago I was in a technology event and one of the things they talked about was Ubuntu (after a whole bunch of twitter stuff) but somehow it moved in one part of the Ubuntu talk to Askubuntu and ...
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Ask Ubuntu swag for top users
As a thank you for being awesome, if you are on page 1 or page 2 of …
https://askubuntu.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
… we'll be sending you a little care package shortly:
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What is the difference between Ask Ubuntu and Super User?
This question I asked here on Ask Ubuntu was migrated to Super User and I don't know what that is for?
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How do I move a Ask Ubuntu "list question" to the Ubuntu wiki?
I have some questions on Ask Ubuntu that is being closed for being lists (the FAQ doesn't allow it) and I want to move them to the Ubuntu wiki since I think they are good lists and still useful.
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What is the definition of lists?
I had this question closed for being a list.
But this question is open, and I think it's a list because of this:
it's not scoped enough
it hasn't accepted the answer that's specified in the question....
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Is it appropriate to suggest tag synonyms on Meta?
There are currently no tag synonyms on the Ubuntu StackExchange site, and only a few users with the required reputation. It seems unlikely that I will have enough reputation to suggest synonyms ...
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Your home page and the question therein
Why does your home page feature the question, "What is Unity?" and then not provide an actual answer? Is the answer hidden? On another page? Another website? Another server? Another planet?
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UDS-P Session Topics
I'll be attending UDS-P and would like to start a brainstorm of topics that would be good to cover at the summit. The last time we had representation in the form of a session at a UDS was UDS-N which ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2012
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?
TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, they ...
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What is custom flair?
I hear this from time to time but I have no idea of what it is.
Could someone please tell me.
I still don't get what it is or how I should use it.
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Is it OK to suggest to a user to increase overall accept rate?
When a user with a very low accept rate posts a new question, is it OK to comment, suggesting that the user accept some answers to other questions to raise their accept rate?
I am not suggesting ...
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Version tags on questions involving upgrades
On questions where the person posting had upgraded their Ubuntu version (for example, from 11.04 to 11.10) prior to / while experiencing an issue, how should the version tags be properly handled? ...
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Poorly Written Questions - Is it okay to downvote?
I have seen a lot of questions where people do not bother to spell check or capitalize their I's, and leave beginnings of sentences uncapitalized. I have seen posts that use texting abbreviations, etc....
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Should questions about using end-of-life Ubuntu releases be closed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should we allow questions that are about releases which are considered End of Life?
Should questions requesting advice using end-of-life (i.e., officially unsupported) Ubuntu ...
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What to do when an answer is just a (very good) request for information?
What should I do when I come upon a question that's missing some information, which has been requested...but only in an answer that does not actually attempt to answer the question, nor even to ...
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How much confusion is justifiable in the name of simplifying comment "threads"?
Suppose I leave a comment to a question or answer suggesting a change that I cannot make myself or don't wish to make because of uncertainty as to whether or not I'm missing something. Then the change ...
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Recommending sudoedit instead of sudo $editor?
I notice that in some people's answers say "to edit the file, do sudo gedit $file" some people say "sudo nano $file" and of course "sudo vim $file"
By default doing "sudoedit $file" will open the ...
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Request for Community Promotion Ads artwork.
There are some events in the Ubuntu Community that I'd love to run as Community Promotion Ads, but unfortunately I don't have the skill to make nice looking ads, so this is a place where people can ...
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Is the importance of voting understated on Ask Ubuntu?
Well, see title.
It seems that upvotes are really few and far in between on Ask Ubuntu. I see some really amazingly good answers that have been there for hours and sometimes have zero or one upvotes. ...
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Goofy search results
why does a search for "indicators" return the #1 hit as a closed thread with one upvote that was closed because it was an exact duplicate of the thread "List of application indicators" that has been ...
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Automatically displaying images on package links
The current package image system on links is very manual. Too manual. You have to remember or look up a URL, insert an image, blah blah blah. Not to forget we're currently having to go through a messy ...
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Is it possible to use askubuntu Question/Answer for Ubuntu lessons
I will start teaching some students about Linux using Ubuntu and I was wondering if it could be possible to use askubuntu to answer some of their questions regarding Ubuntu and any problem they have ...
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Why was I given 100 points for asking my first question on Webapps Stack Exchange?
As directed by a user in response to a comment on my question, I asked the question on Webapps also on Stack exchange (for the first time as I never knew there are other sites like this) and ...
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Why are most questions in unanswered answered?
I just had a look at https://askubuntu.com/unanswered and I saw that most of the questions were answered. Not recently either. Some of them were answered two months ago. Why is this?
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Tag organisation - reputation reward inconsistency?
I'm quite new on Ask Ubuntu but have been getting stuck in, mostly answering, some editing, some retagging.
I noticed that while I was at low reputation and needed approval to tweak tags, I would get ...
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Why does Ask Ubuntu matter to my LoCo, and how should we use it?
Okay, I don't run any loco :) The idea of this question is to create a few brief bullet points that explain a couple of things:
Why should my loco care about AU? What makes it so great?
What should I ...
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What to do with useless new tags?
Tags are quite helpful when searching for question on a specific topic, and they are also used for Google searches. Therefore a nice base of tags like we have is precious and should not be spoiled by ...
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Should tags without description be allowed?
I just earned the create new tag privilege and this made me curious to check out the current NEW tags created. For my surprise I noticed that there are quite a few tags without description.
I know ...