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MS Access tag merge/alias
We've got:
msaccess - 31
ms-access - 4
microsoft-access - 2
I'd say that ms-access or microsoft-access would be the better tag, but the people have spoken, and msaccess is the most common option.
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Merging a closed question with an open question.....Some problems here
A moderator merged one question with another, moving the comments to the deleted question to the merged one. However, I found that my post no longer really applied and I deleted it.
I really ...
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CDN a bit flaky? [closed]
I'm having the occasional problem loading pages on serverfault, and every time I get a "hung" page load, the status bar (or what passes for it in Chromium) will say "Waiting for cdn.sstatic.net". It'...
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Border Line Question for Server Fault?
I feel like this question is border line out-of-bounds for Server Fault, but before I become a jerk and flag the first question I've ever "flagged", I thought I'd get other people's opinion. The ...
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Who would you like to hear at our Scalability Conference?
We are currently working on getting speakers for our Scalability Conference that will be in San Francisco on October 14th.
The theme for the conference is talks on scalable operations and system ...
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Retagging for new products: terminal-services vs. remote-desktop-services
As I recently had experience with, Microsoft changed the name of terminal-services (Windows Server 2003) to remote-desktop-services (Windows Server 2008). At time of writing, these tags have 111 and ...
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Flagging Question
I'm still relatively new here, and am enjoying calling this my home. I want to make sure I'm understanding some of the features I'm using so I don't unnecessarily causing the mods work when there ...
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Why was my question migrated to Super User?
I'm not complaining or mad - just confused. The reason for Server Fault is "For System Administrators and Desktop Professionals - which I am." My question seemed to me to be related to a "desktop ...
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Can the Vmware tag be deleted ?
The plain vmware tag adds no value as we never get any questions about the company. When it is used it is usually used in error and in place of a product specific tag which would be more useful. This ...
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Linked questions security vs. transparency.
So sometimes I ask security questions, e.g. questions about sql-injection. And sometimes I ask questions about security configuration that are made easier to solve by linking to the site that I'm ...
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TFS - Team-Foundation-Server Synonyms
tfs should be a synonym for team-foundation-server (or Vice Versa).
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Cisco ASA tags (again)
I'm posting a new one, since the other one got marked as completed.
Please merge the following tags into cisco-asa
cisco-pix
pix
asa5505
asa-5510
PIX and ASA are essentialy the same hardware, only ...
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How come I just earned the Autobiographer badge to go with my Yearling badge?
I just earned the Autobiographer badge to go with my Yearling badge.
It was my own fault really: I filled in my profile.
It bothers me a little because I thought that having no other badge than ...
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What should be done about the amazon tag?
Is the amazon tag really blacklisted? Can I ask a question with amazon as a tag?
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Please block the amazon tag
We did some work to remove the plain amazon tag recently but yesterday 2 questions appeared with the tag. Can the amazon tag be blocked please?
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Is this query really "crap"?
I asked what the community thought was too simple. Here is the link. And yes it has been voted down and closed. I am happy with that.
I am just surprised at the tone of some comments. Does it help ...
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What is it called when you queue my bits?
So over on Unix and Linux we were chatting about how to tag questions related to traffic shaping. We thought we would check ServerFault for reference, but that led me to wonder just what exactly is ...
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Merge postgres, postgres-8.4, postgres-8.3 into postgresql
Just noticed that there's a bunch of questions that are tagged postgres, or postgres-8.4, postgres-8.3; all need to by synonyms of postgresql
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Windows 7 Tagging
Right now there are 3 Windows 7 tags, plus a synonym:
Windows7 (synonym for Windows-7)
Windows-7 (1265 tags)
Windows-7-64 (43 tags)
Windows7-32 (6 tags)
Should we merge the 32bit and 64bit tags into ...
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In what cases am I meant to downvote a question?
If a question seems interesting to me, or potentially practical, I vote it up and may star it. If it does not (by being outside of my field of interest/competention) I just go my way ignoring it. If a ...
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Server Fault retag: gpo to group-policy
These guys: https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/gpo
go here: https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/group-policy
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Handling illegal/immoral questions and answers
SF is for professionals and I think we'd all agree that part of being professional is to act within our various laws and also within a general moral code when doing our jobs.
Every now and then I see ...
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merge or synonym lvm and lvm2 tags
Please can we merge or synonym the lvm and lvm2 tags? On Linux, LVM1 is now obsolete so all questions will be about LVM2 in any case, and LVM is the general concept across operating systems.
https://...
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[ios] matches Cisco's IOS and Apple's iOS
Apple had the wonderful idea to name its mobile operating system iOS, which was already used by Cisco Internet Operating System.
There are hence 94 questions tagged ios, but only 82 of them contain ...
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Retag request: APC (Alternate PHP Cache) and APC (American Power Conversion) the power supplies.
There are lots of questions about uninterruptible power supplies that are improperly tagged as apc
There also questions about web application performance and the Pecl PHP opcode caching package, APC, ...
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Kill [sysadmin] tag on SF with fire
I humbly request that the sysadmin tag on Serverfault be killed with fire.
Currently 384 questions tagged with it. I expect quite a few of them may have been migrated to SF.
EDIT:
Any other ...
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Delete tag and blackhole - slowness
https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/slowness
Please kill it with fire. Thank you!
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Prevent editing a closed question from it being bumped to front page.
Visting ServerFault this morning there were a large number of old questions (posted 2009) that have been edited and therefore bumped to the front page. While I find this highly irritaing as it is, two ...
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Is Serverfault as useful as Stackoverflow, in principle?
In my experience programming problems come with time to resolve them. Asking a programming question and getting an answer the next day (Thanks guys!) is very useful indeed as the millions of ...
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Server-2008 tag synonym
I hope I'm not bypassing the synonym process - IMO the tag server-2008 should be added as a synonym of windows-server-2008, and/or the existing 4 questions should be retagged.
Thoughts, or will ...
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Do we really need a backup-exec-2010 tag when there's a perfectly good backupexec tag?
Is the rather recent spate of retagging of questions around Backup Exec with backup-exec-2010 by user KCotreau strictly necessary?
We've already got a perfectly servicable backupexec tag, and my ...
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Retag or Synonym pxe & pxeboot
The tags pxe (89) and pxeboot (15) are the same thing. Could we create a synonym for these?
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Inappropriate advertisement
I don't normally even look at the right hand column on SF so never really notice the ads but due to its garish colours (relative to the rest of the page) this one was really hard not to notice.
I ...
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Share favorites between sites
Would it be possible to import favorites tags over between sites? For example, I have sql-server favorited on SO, Server Fault, and Code Review, and I had to add it seperately at each site.
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What should be done with questions that are duplicates if they get migrated?
I'm thinking of this question:
https://serverfault.com/questions/275767/how-can-i-download-the-correct-sound-driver-for-my-window-xp
It's a textbook "Belongs on Superuser" question, but if it were ...
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Free LOPSA Memberships
Opt-In is now closed. Thanks everyone, We will let the lucky 40 sysadmins know shortly
I'm very happy this has gone over so well, with 50 people opting in. If you didn't get a membership this time ...
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What should be done with "Help me do (whatever), I'm a beginner with no idea what to do" questions?
This is an exact dup of a question I asked on meta.SO a year and a half ago, but it didn't get any useful answers back then, and I've noticed a lot of this sort of question lately, so I think it's ...
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What does "First rollback" mean for the cleanup badge?
I could not find a help file on this: What does "First rollback" mean for the cleanup badge?
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Multiple tags about 'blocking', pick one and make all others synonyms?
When you go to:
https://serverfault.com/tags
and type block, you will get 3 tags that are all pretty close to each other. Specifically:
block x 27
blocking x 45
blocked x 25
So, which one should ...
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Inappropriate font sizes
From time to time I see questions or answers in which the poster has used something other than regular font size. This can look absolutely appalling. e.g. Stop an already running cron job
Can the CSS ...
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Class-based IP routing and other obsolete questions
Question related to Classful IP Addressing
I cannot believe that I'm still seeing questions about how to manage class-based routing coming in to ServerFault:
Changing subnet-mask of class-c network ...
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Show questions (with answers) that a user has answered
Is there any way to display questions (and all the answers) that a particular user has answered. That is, select all the questions that a particular person has answered and display 10 (or whatever ...
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Retag or synonym Corruption tag
Right now, there are a lot of unnecessary corruption tags. We have corruption, corrupt, file-corruption and data-corruption. Frankly way too many.
Corruption is the most commonly used one, and ...
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Server Fault Conference
I’m excited to announce that Server Fault will be hosting a one day educational conference for system administrators and other network operations professionals. This conference will be supported by ...
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Removing popular answer if potentially a duplicate
Hi,
I'm fairly new to SF and have used the site mostly to get answers for my questions and provide answers to questions I know (read: the basic point of the site).
I recently posted an answer on ...
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Ubuntu and ubuntu-10.04 tag synonyms
Wanted to create a synonym there but being a version synonym it's not possible for mortals. How are the policies about versions and softwares btw?
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Proposals regarding the Amazon and related tags
The amazon tag is being misused in a similar manner to the vmware tag in that questions tagged amazon are not about the company but the services that they provide.
There are several related Amazon ...
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