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I'll be the first to admit that I've stepped away from SF for a while. Those reasons are my own, and everyone should be able to step away when they want to. That said, I've been looking at the site …

I believe Joel's answer to a meta.so post is the best answer for this. So I'm going to blatantly rip it off :) "Too localized" should be used for very tiny geographic regions or vanishingly small …

I have noticed a couple of people on SF that are "spamming" for a company called colasoft. If this was traditional one-liner spam I would be flagging it and moving on with my life. However there is …

The changing of javascript/sysadmin on front page questions fine ... otherwise I would say just leave it be they are acceptable phasings/spellings IMHO. Grammar/spelling errors i have no problem wit …

Homework questions are only a bad thing when you ask us to do the entire assignment (Give me teh codez) for you. If these are homework questions he seems to be asking about specific issues he is havin …

Lets take a look at the close reason for a second. It's impossible to objectively answer this question; questions of this type are too open ended and usually lead to confrontation and argument. …

I think that the apt tag shouldn't have been set to a synonym of apt-get but it should have been the other way around. apt is the technology, apt-get is one of many ways to use apt. Probably we shou …

IMHO Apple iOS devices are OFF TOPIC and should be closed/migrated to the correct site. I can get on board with cisco-ios since that is more specific, and then alias ios->cisco-ios.

So here is what I propose: meta.stackoverflow.com - discussion about stackoverflow and the stackoverflow engine. … A place that SO people can go to develop the SO community, as well as for stackoverflow engine discussion across the Trilogy. community.serverfault.com - discussion about serverfault. …

Oh hrm that probably needs to be changed. But yes 100's of laptops is just fine too :)

a) I was ignorant of the fact that egrep is just a symlink of 'grep -E' (hell, didn't even know egrep existed, tbh) Well i'd say leave your answer ESPECIALLY since given 100 distro's grep -E is m …

I think that having a dedicated community blog is the right way to go. So ... basically Option 4, leave blog.sf about the site and how we do things "tell the story of our site" as Kyle puts it. Then, …

I think that having different tags for different OS version is a good thing. Each one has it's one quirks and bugs that may or may not have been fixed or changed between major releases. While the unde …

Yea, setting up a VCS on a single machine for yourself is not SF materiel. If it was setting up a VCS to be used by a department full of programmers probably. Although really us admins should know mor …

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