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Please read the LQ rules (you have already :-) to be sure your question is appropriate. Homework questions are rarely answered unless you have contributed 100s+ of post, in which case moderators are sometimes charitable ;) |
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"Please select the forum appropriately where to post question A question about networking when you have spent 2 days on the distro is probably for the newbie forum, not networking A mandriva compiz question is not for the sclackware forum, it is a mandriva question (I sware) Reading the sub forum description will help you to decide. It will get moved eventually if you choose the wrong forum, but every little help |
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@ XavierP You might want to add a more forceful reminder to please give a complete profile and / or use the signature for more information on the hard- / software. Maybe Jeremy should make it mandatory to have a complete profile ;). |
Emmanuel_UK - the correct wording should be
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JZL240I-U - I agree, but think that that may be for my next project - updating the "How To Use LQ" tutorial! |
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Please try to post to the relevant forum (see forum descriptions or sample some threads), as this will maximise your chance of a rapid answer, and will give the exposure your thread deserves. LQ is not dogmatic on where people should post, so you will find with experience you have quite some freedom. |
Nvidia Driver install problems
Whoops wrong forum! See this would not happen if you do not divert the attention of first time posts at the begining of this Newbie forum. If you want it paid attention to post it alone on a pge leading to posting in this forum. Do not mix it among the posts complaining about our questions and expect all to heed its warning.
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It's not mixed in. The how tos are all in their own section and the discussion area is in it's own section.
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hai this is ashik
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Pick a forum relevant to the question you want to ask and then post your question.
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It seems that you are getting direct Mandrake Linux without ask any choice.
I think windows boot loader has been corrupted or windows information has been removed from your boot loader configuration file. I would like to know what boot loader are you using. However, follow the below step to find out you are root or not. type id command after login. If id will show 0 it means you are root otherwise you are normal user. also, it will show the user name and group name. Thanks, Nagendra Quote:
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As one of the very frequent problems that I see is a very poor choice of title, I'd like that section expanded and given more emphasis. I'm not really sure that it will help much though.
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"I have a program which crashes, help me" can have considered that. And sometimes you see every system log posted, and I don't have the patience to read them, just in case there is something significant hiding in there (and I'm not claiming any particular expertise here, in asking posters to consider what an expert might need). Another matter which might go here or into the initial instructions would be to give the community aspect more emphasis. I've seen some posts that I considered downright rude, because the OP didn't think about how other users could take advantage of their post and its outcomes and felt that their post was just for them (and that therefore they had the perfect right to make the answer difficult to find, after all it was their property). So, I'd quite like to see a word or two to emphasise that the people who answer these questions like the idea of building up a searchable database of answers, so that the questions finally tail off (I know, I know). Or, at least, the number of "help me choose a distro" posts tail off. |
I really should have added (it was getting late and it wasn't the best of days) that the principle behind what I was trying to do was to avoid, where possible, saying:
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When there is too much information, it doesn't mean that you have to read all of it, it will be waste of time. You don't have to read every line of every system log, thinking about each line for an hour. Skip log it if you know it is irrelevant to a problem. Or "scan" log quickly with your eyes (will take up to 30 seconds for longest system log). If you notice something interesting, then you can stop and examine that part. And there is also "find" function in every browser, so if you know what error message you are looking for, just search for it. It is the same as the system manuals - you won't ever need 80% of information available in manuals, so reading every manual (or every word in one manual) will be huge waste of time, because you will forget information you don't need/use. Instead either "scan through" manuals, or read only those parts that have something to do with information you are looking for. Quote:
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