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fsckin.com — Finding answers to stupid questions was never so easy!
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- socomoddjob, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Pretty handy......*Installed/Dugg*.
- tamarindwolf, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0ooooBUNToooo
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3ooboontoo
- tamarindwolf, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0ooooBUNToooo
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -12/+3Yawn.
- tamarindwolf, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Lawl.
- shatten, on 10/16/2007, -3/+32Buried for stupid punch line. Everyone starts as a newbie, ask, experiment, learn, hack...
- bratterscain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I thought it was funny considering a lot of noob questions start out with...."This is a stupid question but.....".
- nicko68, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1It's all part of the Linux elitism that scares some people away. Do you want Linux to be more popular or what?
- livevil, on 10/10/2007, -6/+9It's about Ubuntu, digg up!!!
- Durrok, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7You know, just because we are all thinking it doesn't mean you need to go and say it. Now we all look like tools.
As far as Ubuntu stories go, this is pretty handy though.
- Durrok, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7You know, just because we are all thinking it doesn't mean you need to go and say it. Now we all look like tools.
- Youssif, on 10/16/2007, -1/+18dugg for word "Ubuntu" ! oh, wait "Firefox" is there .. DAMN ! can't dugg again !
Direct Link : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2302- Avian00, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Dugg up for direct link. Thanks!
- jellomizer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6You know if you were more friendly to the new user base then you may have a better and more well accepted product. It is part of Linux users tendencies to close there eyes and plug their ears and not see what is wrong with the OS. If someone is stuck and asks what they think is a stupid question perhaps you should take a step back and realize if it is that much of a problem then perhaps it needs to be reworked.
- bratterscain, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1lolwut?
So if a person needs to know how it works, it needs reworked? That is a feature of linux in some cases. It's like driving a stick shift. You feel the engine. You're more at one with it. It is fine tuned for the professional. Well, that's how the philosophy used to be, in general, but it's getting more and more noob friendly overall.
btw, can anyone else see their text cursor? Mine's invisible on the comment field. - twelvedogs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1absolutely true, this is why ubuntu is going so well, awesome support from a friendly userbase
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1> If someone is stuck and asks what they think is a stupid question perhaps you should take a step back and realize if it is that much of a problem then perhaps it needs to be reworked.
There's a lot of people who get stuck and ask alot of stupid question in any OS e.g "How do I doubleclick?" especially in Windows. Does that mean it needs to be reworked?
People are friendly to the user base. There are rarely that many people who are rude to the new user base. Have you consider the opposite when the new user base is rude when asking question? "Linux is *****!! where's the ***** is a start button?"
It works both ways. More importantly, people who HELP out the new user base are doing on their spare time. They are not paid tech support so that some Windows converts can abuse.
If you want 100% guarantee nice and friendly tech support, perhaps you should consider paying for a support license.- migla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You are not forced to answer a question. If one doesn't have constructive criticism, I think it's better to not say anything. And if someone says "Linux is *****!!", I don't think any answer will do much good. ("Don't feed the troll", they say.)
- bratterscain, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1lolwut?
- pHr34kY, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Cool! I installed it.
Anyone else notice the context menu has a link to the "NVidea" forum? The stupid git can't spell! - 16777216, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've been using this for.. well, I can't remember when I started using it.
And it has served me well for quite a while now. - ecartman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2outstanding! I like Ubuntu more every day, the help from the community is the best I have ever experienced .
- estaticd, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0I've asked my fair share of 'stupid questions' to learn more. If you wanna see a whole bunch of stupid questions, the Ubuntu forum is NOT the place to find them. People ask questions there to learn.
If you wanna see really stupid questions, they can be always be found at these terribly old websites:
http://www.bash.org/ and one of my favs.... http://www.actsofgord.com/
If you're insulted by the punch line... perhaps your parents sheltered you a bit too much, eh? - fatas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why doesn't the searches option have "Your posts" & "Your threads"
- adamtropics, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No good reason at all...except it didn't occur to me, and nobody asked for it!!! Will put it in at the weekend since you asked.
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's the great thing about the open source community. Just ask, and you most likely will get what you're looking for.
- adamtropics, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No good reason at all...except it didn't occur to me, and nobody asked for it!!! Will put it in at the weekend since you asked.
- cptchaos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Or you just install this:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=ubuntu+forums&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes&submitform=Search
(Ubuntu Forums for your firefox search-field). Same function - less overhead
Update: ok i just saw that it hass less function... if feel stupid now ;-)
anyway: its useful - samjam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Whats up with NNTP?
Usenet newsgroups (or google groups as newbies may consider it, and please don't confuse it with evil yahoo groups) with NNTP access could be ready the NNTP newsreader of your choice.
Then when folk started adding [bandwidth wasting] pictures to the web, those with nothing better to do wrote "web forum software". Now we have people adding browser pluguns for the various web forums to standardize use.
I wish most web forums would provide nntp access.
bah! - NiX0n, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1site:ubuntuforums.org?
- antitab, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dugg for the description.
- bigern75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1me likey!!
- xdevnull, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I interpreted the description as tongue in cheek - not meant to be taken seriously. I've been using linux for years and still ask "stupid" questions. The forums should be there for stupid questions, and a search tool is always useful because usually it's the stupid questions that are hardest to find an answer to. Dugg.
- madk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1oh Ubuntu...you'll never be the OS you want to until your core users get their heads out of their asses. Making things more user friendly doesn't mean you have to dumb down your OS. It is like there is an internal tug of war between making things more Windows/OSX like and keeping things *nixy.
I dugg it regardless. I've given Ubuntu 3 tries and spent hours in the forums trying to config graphics and wireless cards.
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