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What should we do with those ever-recurring "image entire hard drive" questions?
I think every week or so, we get the occasional "How do I copy my entire hard drive?" question. The answers are always the same, in the sense of suggesting software like Acronis TrueImage or Clonezill …
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What should we do with outdated, but highly-popular questions?
Example: We have a question about SSDs, which is now two years old.
Are SSDs worth the money?
I've been hearing a lot of hype about the SSDs recently. I'm planning
to buy a new machine as s …
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Should we have a Q/A on setting PATH and environment variables?
Questions about setting environment variables and/or the PATH are very common, I guess, and in most cases the answers are the same.
There is a CW answer on how to set the PATH on Windows, but as far …
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What's up with "Window XP" and "Window 7"?
Editing notice:
Please don't edit and bump posts that are old, have no answers, low views, and are generally of low quality. Vote to close or delete, and/or flag them for moderator attention to h …
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How can we promote the blog?
Our blog has been running great for a while, and its content is great, however recently, all editors and frequent writers have been busy (including myself). This is why there currently are no weekly p …
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Are questions about online backup services on-topic?
Are questions about online backup services like:
Dropbox
Mozy
CrashPlan
on-topic for Super User?
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What should we do with [diy]?
The diy (do it yourself, x22) tag covers
computer-building in the sense of assembling your own machine
repair in the sense of doing the repair yourself
"DIY" alone doesn't really have a purpose. S …
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Disassembling the "assembly" and "disassembly" tags
Here's a very tricky ambiguous tag. We have assembly (x16) and disassembly (x8). Both are a perfect mix between:
Assembler code, architectures and whatnot
Computer building
Proposal:
I suggest …
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What can we do with [restart] and [reboot]?
Problem:
We have these two tags:
restart (x100)
reboot (x187)
"restarting" could mean anything, e.g. services, applications, daemons, and computers. "rebooting" only affects computers (the tag wi …
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Request to reopen the Autostereogram question
How can I create these optical illusions called “Autostereograms”? [closed]
… was closed as off-topic. However, I believe it's a perfectly valid question.
It asks how to create such an image yourse …
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Combining the "recovery" tags
Here's a list of tags related to "recovery":
recovery (493)
data-recovery (464)
password-recovery (63)
hard-drive-recovery (56)
file-recovery (37)
system-recovery (10)
partition-recovery (5, this wa …
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We need to disambiguate the [wds] tag
wds stands for:
Windows Desktop Search
Windows Deployment Services
Wireless Distribution System
All of these are used here, so we need to figure out how to split up the tag.
Suggestions?
To get …
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OS X / macOS tag synonyms should be reversed
It's been a few years since we synonymized macos to osx. At the time, we did this to distinguish incorrect uses of the tag from questions related to the old “Classic” Mac OS tagged under mac-os-classi …
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Do we need "warning" and "alert"?
Similar to error-message, which we just got rid of, there are also:
alert × 26
warning × 37
Neither of these are really specific. They don't add meaning to the questions.
Sometimes, alert refers …
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Should non-substantial edits be approved or rejected?
Should we accept/improve edit suggestions where the editors could obviously have done more?
Example 1: Fixing only one letter
Take this edit suggestion as an example. The only difference between the …
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