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What is the definition of "managing information technology systems"? (with particular reference to Heroku in this case)
I have a question about my Server Fault post: Unauthorised access to Heroku server -- how to trace attacker
I have a Heroku server for which I have been essentially responsible for the professional ...
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adding ipset tag
I have a question about my Server Fault post: replacing a runtime instance of ipset
I'd like to add ipset tag to my question. There are actually quite a few questions on serverfault that cover ipset, ...
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tag confusion with [ghost]
It's not clear if the ghost tag refers to the blogging software or Symantec's ghost. I suggest that adding two tags might resolve this problem:
• ghost-blog
• ghost-symantec
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What delineates a "Business Environment?"
I recently asked a question regarding troubleshooting issues when adding an ESXi host to a vCenter server. However, this question was put on hold, and suggested to be posed on SuperUser (shown below).
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Should I write an answer and have it closed immediately as duplicate as an effort to provide more access points?
I read a question about systemd. The question is good, the answers are good.
When reading it, I realized that I had a similar question, but phrased differently. The original question is
modify ...
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What to do if my problem is already descibed in an other post, but the solution doesn't work for me?
I am having a problem that is fully described here, with only a small difference (the log of ifconfig that for me has a "lo" field). I could post an other question that would be nearly the same (same ...
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Should questions "solved by a reboot" be closed?
Based on the comment by the OP of this question, "After a reboot, everything worked out", I flagged the question for closure. It's my understanding that we close questions that are no longer ...
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What does (unregistered) mean after name in user profile?
If I check this user's profile it shows (unregistered) after a username. What does it mean?
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Can answers on about GPO alterations to User Groups Be Merged?
Due to confusion of the answer given by Joe in the question below and the addition of my picture and information, can the answers be merged together for fellow users looking for the answer to this ...
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Tag badge mouseover: factor-of-ten error?
I just moused over a gold tag badge, and saw the popup
Earn at least 1000 total score for at least 200 non-community wiki answers in the linux tag
But my understanding was that one needed at least ...
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Questions with accepted answers should stand out more
Questions with accepted answers are less emphasized than those without. Is this intentional, and if so is there a reason for this? SO has a green background so perhaps I'm just biased by that, but it ...
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Error message loading www.serverfault.com
I just typed http://www.serverfault.com to my browser, and it shows an ASP error page. Is that correct behavior?
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Should a successful (but certainly perfectible) answer be made a community wiki?
I have written a answer that has become unexpectedly successful.
But I don’t think my answer is perfect, and some users made suggestions for improvement.
Would it be good practice to make this ...
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"bumped to the homepage by Community" generate mostly noise
Just as sample: such type of questions must be closed as offtopic (due to low-level quality) on 2012, and anyway not forced to homepage from trashcan and oblivion in 2017!
I saw such (noisy) bumping ...
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Bounty Option Not Available - Am I missing something?
I have a question that has only had 13 views over 3 days. I was going to give it a bounty to try to increases views on it but there is no option to do so. Do I have to wait longer for this to become ...
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Nice serverfault image
Here's how splattne's announcement rendered in my browser... I thought it was quite appropriate!
[removed broken image link]
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Legal issues upon capturing digital proof upon hosting services scam
Is ServerFault the wrong place to ask for advice of ...
how should someone register/capture digital scam proof to be legally
sustainable and enough for building a case with a Consumer Protection
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Can non-professional administrators still ask questions about professional setups?
I by no means consider myself to be a professional network administrator. Rather, I am a systems and application programmer, and an occasional project manager.
However, due to the nature of my work, ...
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What information should I include or obfuscate in my posts?
This is a Canonical Question about the privacy of Server Fault and the needed detail to get an answer from the community.
Is there any information other than a password that would be considered a ...
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readd answer to question
During rewieving the first post queue i saw following question:
SCCM - Find where collections are referenced
There was a link only answer which i tried to comment on to help the user understand how ...
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There is a new navigation topbar on the SO
...and so it looks:
Our good old black taskbar will probably go away.
Earlier the significant changes on the SO were later applied to the smaller SE sites as well (remember as the user pages were ...
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Questions that are flagged for issues relating to "Pricing"
So, I asked a question now deleted, that included the Title "Pay as You Go Server". In hindsight, the wording was poor, and the question has been deleted. My intent for the question was 'How is it ...
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Could oom, oom-killer and outofmemoryerror be merged to oom?
Could oom, oom-killer and outofmemoryerror be merged to oom?
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Change bounty description
I have just put a bounty on a question Rewrite all *.php to single index.php before php-fpm processes it (apache) - canonical answer required and accidentally negated one sentence. I can't see a way ...
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Should a misleading but informative question be closed?
I have my own question:
PXE boot windows PE from Linux
Which seems to contribute useful information on how to PXE windows from a Linux server, however the issue I personally experienced was a result ...
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Concrete question was closed with "too broad"
Just came through this thread: Difference between Microsoft ADCS Standalone CA and Enterprise CA
For me the question doesn't look "too broad", because the answer is quite obvious for those who is ...
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Weird edit approvals?
https://serverfault.com/posts/362856/revisions
Maybe I'm just being picky here, but I don't think it was great this edit was approved.
NTP doesn't actually support changing the port number, so the ...
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Tag synonym: powerbroker -> likewise-open
These two tags essentially about one program. I believe it is necessary to combine them.
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I was asked to discuss my question in meta
What secure and good options are there for hosting own private mail server?
Somehow the questions asked are not related to the topic of the forum which is for questions about:
managing the hardware ...
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Which corporate IT policy or firewall rule is being circumvented in this scenario?
The question is being flagged as off topic for violating one of the prohibited questions rules, namely "unauthorized use or misuse of IT systems".
I will explain why this is not about circumventing ...
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SQLServer Remote Management - Is SF the right place to ask?
I have a question on suspected deviation from the MS documentation regarding SQL Server 2016 installed on Server-Core and how its managed, specifically why certain features don't seem to be available ...
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Should I delete a question where the answer turned out to be a hardware problem?
CentOS 6 router/firewall seems to be throttling throughput
After much troubleshooting the problem turned out to be a hardware fault with one of the network adapters. For unknown reasons the adapter ...
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Can't fix a typo in a question?
I was just reading this answer, and noticed that OP started talking about hens:
However, hen you click on an icon in an Office application,
Trying to do my civic duty, I edited and entered a 'w' ...
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Do we want to humor "how do I intentionally provide an insecure service" questions?
tl;dr
I'm a DNS admin who has seen numerous DNS attack strategies evolve over the past few years, and I'm uncomfortable with encouraging Q&A's that try to split hairs on how an (intentionally) ...
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Are these essentially the same tags?
I've noticed a lot of edits for microsoft-office-365 some of which I voted to accept some I didn't for various reasons. I've now noticed a few edits for exchangeonline and reviewed them in the normal ...
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Downvote + on hold for my questions
I have posted https://serverfault.com/questions/823389/how-to-route-traffic-between-my-nics-on-linux-which-connected-to-proxy-server?noredirect=1#comment1049296_823389 and got marked as "on hold" ...
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What to do with XAMPP/MAMP/WAMP questions
It's generally known that it's a horrible idea to use these one-click LAMP stack installers for anything but local development. That said, with surprising regularity, we seem to get questions from ...
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Duplicate tag [vms] and [openvms]
We have these two tags with the same description:
vms with 7 questions
openvms with 6 questions
One question even has both tags.
Suggestion: Make openvms the synonym of vms.
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Can some explain to me how asking a question about learning on a site dedicated to learning is off topic?
Am i wrong about SF being dedicated to learning?
Post in question:
https://serverfault.com/questions/820671/how-to-learn-networking-without-access-to-hardware
I posted this on SF about 30 minutes ...
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Is this question appropriate for Server Fault?
Does anyone know the underling network protocol that is used between host and client for the shipping of binary files from:
OneDrive
Google Drive
DropBox
iCloud
I suspect the answer is some variant ...
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Answer questions from low reputation users
I have been spending a lot of time Serverfault lately trying to first educate myself, second see if i can be helpful and thirdly bring up my own reputation.
I notice 2 things:
When a user with a low ...
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Overzealous Moderation - Thread wrongly put on hold
https://serverfault.com/questions/820124/how-can-i-get-access-to-a-new-version-of-mysqldump-on-a-server-that-is-out-of-da
My question appears to me to be:
Concerning information technology systems
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Answer/comment vanished?
I have a question about my Server Fault post: Using Hamachi to link domain controllers at multiple sites
Yesterday I received a notification on my phone from the StackExchange app that there was an ...
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Can I migrate a question to another Stack site?
If I am not getting enough responses and I believe admins in other stack site can answer this, is it possible to move to another site?
Ex: I have asked one Server logging(Linux) related question SF, ...
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Adequacy of question for ServerFault
Is this question adequated to be posted on Server Fault and if not, which subside should be posted in?
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Migrate question to U&L
I asked this:
https://serverfault.com/questions/817747/ext4-or-ntfs-lost-all-files-of-the-last-2-years-how-can-i-recover-them
I did it wrong because I initially thought that ServerFault was for "...
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I was in the midst of answering a question when my answer was deleted. Why?
I was working on this answer. The only sin I can imagine that I was committing was saving too frequently the work in progress in case I am dragged away from my desk by a more serious fire that needs ...
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Performing "Suggested Edits" with an reputation score below 2k?
I just saw that some users (see first screenshot) can do "Suggested Edits" with an reputation score below 2k, while I seamed to need an reputation score with 2k (see 2nd screenshot). Did I found a bug ...
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How to address a user who inappropriately edited an accepted answer
I'm not going to provide the example because I'm not here to start a flamewar over someone being an overly aggressive user.
However, in the case that another user goes in and starts making edits to ...
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