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why was the question on dev server setup moved to SU?

Developers who need support getting their development environment up Beginner System Administrators and Students Neither of these are correct Server Fault categories. From the FAQ: Se …
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What's the worst question you've ever seen on SF.com?

It's got to be having a budget big enough for a server with 64Gb RAM, but wanting to run 32-bit Windows and SQL Server Express on it, and then bitching because Windows 64 bit apparently uses more memo …
2 votes

What AutoReviewComments have you come up with?

Totally Off-Topic This question has been closed because it does not fit within the scope of our site. Please familiarise yourself with our [FAQ] section "What can I ask here", and more importantly, "W …
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1 vote

Why is a closed question not closed?

I guess closed just means closed to new answers. Nice to see that our favourite user STILL doesn't understand how the site works after a week-long ban and plenty of discussions on meta.
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2 votes
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My google-fu is failing me, does anyone have a link to the following question

There was a question and answer from someone who actually worked on the SQL development team where they gave a long list of reasons why not to truncate an MSSQL Log file (it had something to do with i …
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2 votes

How do they differ? Tags webserver and web-server

They don't, and now web-server no longer exists.
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10 votes

Who would you like to hear at our Scalability Conference?

Chopper3 on vmware esx[i]/vsphere scalability & storage area networks
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6 votes

There's snark, and then there's

If the point is that the users name was turned into something else, yeah, I think that's a bit too far. Turning someones name is very highschool bully. Even if you're going to be condescending and eve …
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New TMG tags backwards?

As a reasonably frequent poster of TMG questions, I totally concur that it should just be tmg-2010 Nobody ever calls it FTMG, they just drop the "forefront" as it's not part of the product name, but …
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Distinction between Serverfault and Webmasters

For a definitive answer, check out this meta question here: If it's something YOU can do without getting your host involved, then YES it belongs (on webmasters) If it's something YOU can't …
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6 votes
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Can I Appeal "Not A Real Question"

Can I Appeal “Not A Real Question” Yes, you can, the biggest problem is that the question was closed by 5 "normal" people, rather than by a moderator hammer, which makes appealing a bit more dubi …
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How far do we go with software questions

Hmmmmm. I tend to judge it based on "If this problem arose with one of our clients, who would be tasked with fixing it". Chances are, if it's something I would find myself needing to fix, I let it be. …
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6 votes

Argh @ my current Extended Discussion in 'Comments'

Walk away. Some people are beyond help. We're not here to do their jobs for them.
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2 votes

Change description for database-related tags

We need to have a discussion with the DBA users, so that we can both agree what stays and what goes. We did this with webmasters when it launched and as far as I know it's worked pretty well. …
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8 votes
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Does this belong?

When you want propose a migration, you've got two options: Flag it and hope for the best (that's totally acceptable) Pop over into the chat room Vote to Close and pop a link to the question in there …
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