alpha.qunu.com — Qunu empowers people to help others with tech support. It's different from other sites you've already heard of because it uses instant messaging to make the support real time. Qunu is your problem solved, instantly.
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shinichiJun 11, 2006
bogus helper: type this into your terminal: sudo rm -r / *don't do it by the way*helpee: OKbogus helper: later, praise to billy g
bayonetblahaJun 11, 2006
i'm trying to figure out if I can ask questions and get help through Gaim... I'm also not seeing qunu on my buddy list, but maybe that's gaim's fault or a gmail thing.
halvyJun 11, 2006
Thank you for an absolutely WONDERFUL & much needed service!!I hope the emphasis is put on the USER, in lieu of anything else.. as there are MANY people hurting, seriously, from the crimes of M$ the last quarter century.Good experts will already be successful, and should want to come and help.. like a good doctor who will not worry about when you will pay before he helps you.Experts who need to make money, should not look to a service who provides a free service, other than them doing a great job with the user for possible future references. A listing on qunu site of any experts who have a business would seem very appropriate.* Some alternative ideas for this already great idea:- repository of chats so that peeps can see what has and has NOT been discussed recently/ever. This will aid people in 'off' hours when there is little or no help online, or when the experts are extremely busy during the day with helping other users in qunu.- have proprietary IM programs like MSN, Yahoo!, etc. be able to patch in some how. i know this sounds hard and has been an issue for years.. but maybe having a separate system for each program which is not 'cross platform' will help.- most importantly, i think, is to come across to people, that OSS (Linux specifically) and it's followers, are not just cool, smart and against The Machine, but they we are nice tooo :)
halvyJun 12, 2006
^^ neocitron, how can Linux remind you of communism, when it is M$ that has been the monopoly for a quarter century, creating purposefully inadequate products?Even if we did find ways to make M$ be a better product, we would be probably be violating one of Bill Gates laws.Linux is just the opposite, where everyone can contribute and make millions of different OS's for millions of different applications... that work.(sorry everyone for feeding the troll.. i just had tooo :)
qunu2Jun 12, 2006
well, we have anything from 'sex' to 'jesus christ' to 'colloidal silver' on our tags list, so it's quickly expanding into 24h free religious 'help' and if you can't stomach that anymore, somone will help you with colloidal silver to get you back on track. ;)
xserver2003Jun 13, 2006Submitter
i m available roughly after 10 pm GMT for 2-3 hrs. (xserver2003)
xserver2003Jun 13, 2006Submitter
read the faq its easy
benmoreassyntJun 14, 2006
Ok, it may just be me, but the site does not seem to work in Konqueror, and displays their variables - a fairy major security error I would think. Also a bit of a major boo-boo for a Linux site.
tsuroerusuJul 8, 2006
@ pondster"Very cool idea, but what does the experts reap from it? I can see people joining and helping some people out but after a few weeks what is going to keep the experts from leaving?"Personally, I feel that by helping newcomers I'm giving back to the community in a way, not everybody wants to give back in a way, but being a hacker I look at the community and want to give back, but since I am not a programmer I can't give actual code back, but I can write articles and provide support through forums, IRC channels and other mediums and give back that way, plus of course donate some cash :P