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This question/COMMUNITY WIKI is related to OUR HEALTH and yet people think, not system admin related because it's not an enterprise technical question. If you look at the close reason, yo …

This answer to a question 132126 on serverfault mentions a specific product and provides a link to download an installer. When I see a link directly to an exe should I edit out the link directly to t …

Are we going to pander to people who are asking general questions and are not knowledgeable about technology or the industry? One thing to remember about these types of questions is some case …

Personally I think that writing to the best of your ability is very obvious and adding notices all over the place really won't help. Also, if someone doesn't know how to write well, how will telling …

First, I am thinking that the site might be improved if there where a couple more active moderators that could immediately close or move off-topic questions. I think having too many off-topic and sup …

Keep in mind that the tagging system is mostly used for searching. I don't see how a [fundamentals], [beginner], or other tags is very useful for finding questions.

A running program (a process) on a networked computer that accepts requests from programs running on other computers to perform a service and responds to appropriately. That definition do …

Ignore vgv8 who is a bit of an unusual user of the system. Lets imagine some typical user asks a question and it is vague or poorly worded and gets closed. The system allows them to re-edit the ques …

I think any type of censoring a discussion about a tool that a system administrator may use in the normal course of their work is silly and counter-productive if we wish to be a good source of questions …

I think the FAQ needs to be treated as a guideline, not a legalistic set of rules. The point of that bullet is about administering a large set of similar systems. I think it is probably adequate. I …

Since it is Ubuntu (Linux) the firewall is Netfilter.

You are not wrong, there is overlap and blurred lines between many Stack Exchange sites. I suspect I could find some overlap in questions that might be somewhat on-topic on Webmasters that could be …

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I think I understand your question, but isn't the answer covered in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(computing)? If I was to try re-writing your question I might do it something like below. But I …

I think it the older question we mostly decided that VCS questions belong on stackoverflow unless the question was specifically about the server administration related to a particular VCS, the questio …