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Is it OK to ask very specific question about Toshiba's ac100 (ARM smartbook)?
Sure, I don't see why not, if you're trailblazing with the laptop might as well document it here.
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How do I interpret this "Your question does not meet our quality standards" error?
This is explained here:
What can I do when getting “It does not meet our quality standards”?
From checking out your questions you can probably do with adding some length to the question.
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Questions "just for curiosity"
A good question is a good question, as long as it follows the FAQ you should be fine, some of our best questions are people wondering why something works.
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Why are questions no longer titled as questions?
Congratulations! Welcome to the world of "local-repository"!
Start submitting some edits to fix em up!
I try to do at least 25 a day; but don't think of it as janitorial work. I've come to learn th …
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ask for system specifications when asking a questions
The system does remind people to put as much information in the question that is relevant, many people don't do this though, what I do is add a comment linking them to this question:
I have a hardwa …
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Are hardware recommendations considered off topic?
I think some of these are too open ended, for example:
What wireless mice work well with Ubuntu?
However, from my experience hardware information always seems out of date when I search for it and …
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Is it possible to ask a Question you already know and answer it
The FAQ says:
It’s also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own question, as long as you pretend you’re on Jeopardy: phrase it in the form of a question.
Also I tend to ask and answer my own q …
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How to improve a question that isn't being answered?
Tacking a bounty on it always helps!
One thing you can do is keep updating your question with the results of your research. What tools have you tried so far? Did they get you the results you wanted? …
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Create sub sections/categories to accommodate specialities?
In addition to Oli's answer, one thing you can do to make it easier to see targetted questions is to set favorite and ignored tags on the homepage for things you care about and things you want to igno …
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Am I just asking wrong?
I just gave a once over to all your questions. 3 of them seem to be basically bug reports where the software isn't just working how it's supposed to, there's not much we can generally do with those as …
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Comes ask Ubuntu in different languages?
The results of the UDS session will help answer your question. (Short story: yes, the SO team is aware of our needs for multi-language support)
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Why separate "torrent" and "bittorrent" tags?
Sometimes people make tags and don't think about existing ones. We have an open question where you can lump in all the tag synonyms and the mods will look after them, feel free to add on:
Tag synony …
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