I'm curious for all your Mac users out there which virtualization software you use and why? I've been a VM Ware user for Windows for years and have been running Parallels on my Mac (mainly because VM Ware was in Beta when I got Parallels).
I'm curious if many folks have had experience with both...
I often see old questions (from the time before superuser.com and serverfault.com) that are offtopic. But they are not closed.
It doesn't make sense to vote-close on them, since no one else will see the question and vote-close, so it will never get five votes.
What should I do with old question...
If you have no "feedbacks" you should upvote this CW answer.
@Jonas All this means is: if you flag something, it goes into a list, so yours may be higher or lower than someone else's. It really means "this person contributes to the site beneficially". Consider this example:
flag ~ drachenstern
flag ~ jonas
flag ~ spamArtist <--not intended to be a real name
My flag will appear above yours, as I'm 175, and you're 50.
Now pretend we add JonSkeet to the list and he's maxed out at 500
flag ~ JonSkeet
flag ~ drachenstern
flag ~ jonas
flag ~ spamArtist <--not intended to be a real name
Then they'll (the mods) see his flag before they see my flag, in their list.
That's all it means. You may get pushed down, you may get pushed up. If there's 60 flags to tend to, you'll be nearer the bottom, so your post may not get acted on right away.
@drachenstern Yes, I understand that it is a priority. But default is 100 and I have 50, so I have got some penalty, but I don't understand what I did wrong...
What is the easiest way to activate PHP and MySQL on Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)?
I'd prefer to use any built in versions before resorting to downloading from the PHP or MySQL websites.
I'm comfortable at the command line in Terminal.
@Jonas Questions like those are OK on Stack Overflow, so there's no need to migrate it. Only flag to migrate if it's off-topic on SO and on-topic on Apple.SE.
I'm curious for all your Mac users out there which virtualization software you use and why? I've been a VM Ware user for Windows for years and have been running Parallels on my Mac (mainly because VM Ware was in Beta when I got Parallels).
I'm curious if many folks have had experience with both...
@Jonas ~ New rule: Don't flag accepted answered highly upvoted questions. The mods are HIGHLY unlikely to move it, and will instead dismiss as invalid.
@Jonas Ok, so it was probably rejected. Post a question on Meta asking for that one to be migrated, since it definitely doesn't belong on SO.
@drachenstern I highly disagree-a lot of questions were migrated to Programmers.SE because they don't belong on SO. Which is different from to DBA.SE because some questions overlap.
I often see old questions (from the time before superuser.com and serverfault.com) that are offtopic. But they are not closed.
It doesn't make sense to vote-close on them, since no one else will see the question and vote-close, so it will never get five votes.
What should I do with old question...
For questions which are OLD and have already got an established upvote history and accepted, they won't generally move them. If you can argue the case successfully of course they will, but as a general rule if it's old and answered, it won't get migrated. Let's see what the question @Jonas posted gets responses like ...
@Moshe yes. You do realize if I send an email within seconds of saying something in here, that I've probably got my mail client open and will continue to have it open. I'll continue to monitor it. Especially when I know I'm conversing with someone. Just a hint ;) from one Autism-Spectrum individual to another ;)
@drachenstern That does not mean the mod shouldn't take action once it is flagged. Time has nothing to do with whether mods should take action or not, when the question is off-topic.
@drachenstern This policy should not exist. These questions that I am talking about that were migrated to Programmers were old, were highly upvoted, and did have accepted answers. They were moved becaues they are off-topic, according to current SO policy.
@waiwai933 I see what you mean, and agree, but I'm just saying that not all mods are always going to move all questions just because they're old and may be a better fit for another site.
I would like to migrate Mac Virtualization: VM Ware Fusion or Parallels that is clearly off-topic on StackOverflow.com even though it has many upvotes and an accepted answer.
I have already flagged the question today, but it was dismissed by the moderators. In my point of view it should be migra...
I am going to move the Mac virtualization question in a few minutes; I'm just trying to decide between Apple and SU with the help of their respective moderators.
So if I post an advertisment on SO about buying fresh milk, does that make it on-topic solely because it's already there? Of course not. It has nothing to do with where it is, but what the site rules are.
No, I'm saying they won't migrate it because the question is already there. New questions being nonsense won't fly, and new questions that belong on another site should get moved pretty quickly (often by the community on new questions)
@drachenstern - Okay, I've sent another email, this time for your desktop. We'll use TestFlight for future builds. For now, drag both files into itunes and sync.
@drachenstern So you're saying that we should not migrate questions if they already have an answer on the migratee site and that we should just leave them alone where they are?
I just earned the Copy Editor badge on Stack Overflow, but I don't think I have 600 edits! On my profile, under "Activity > Revisions," I only have fourteen pages of edits, each of which has 30 edits on it. That's less than 450 edits. Did I somehow get this badge prematurely?
Or do not all ...
I have a form, which I want to iterate through. I want to show one fieldset at a time, and then show a "next" and "back" button to go to the next section.
How would I accomplish that with jQuery? I'm assuming that I start with $('fieldset'); but how do I access individual elements thereafter?
$(...
@Moshe I didn't realize that you didn't know that $(selector)[i] returns (reference to) a DOM element, not a jQuery element. You would then re-wrap that if you wanted to use it as a jQuery element
@balpha I read on a news page that there is a big Internet failure in Europe at the moment. That's why I had problem with StackOverflow-sites at the moment.
I want to make it so that any occurance of an image gets wrapped with a link to the image source
How can I write a pattern, in PHP so that I can find these variations, which are scattered throughout text coming from the database:
<img src='/dir/dir2/image1.jpg' alt='blah blah blah'>
<i...
I know it's less profitable, but I honestly think the stand-up thing to do would be to
Please make this an Opt-In procedure
Rather than implementing what you've described, which is an opt-out procedure. Advertise it via the blog. Add a global inbox message pointing to the blog and/or the page...
@balpha it should return "zomg we're all gonna die!"
either that or Vogon poetry
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@Moshe api.jquery.com/length <-- you should really read the documentation. They even have a sample that shows you visually the answer to your question.
Legal Disclaimer: I did not read the entire jQuery documentation in those 42 seconds, merely the part that was of interest to me. If I was Jon Skeet, I would be able to, but it would be a moot point since Jon Skeet wrote the documentation.
To solve the specific problem it sounds like you want to solve, check these out: http://www.themeflash.com/30-powerful-jquery-slideshow-sliders-plugins-and-tutorials/
If you have no "feedbacks" you should upvote this CW answer.
What is the easiest way to activate PHP and MySQL on Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)?
I'd prefer to use any built in versions before resorting to downloading from the PHP or MySQL websites.
I'm comfortable at the command line in Terminal.
I just earned the Copy Editor badge on Stack Overflow, but I don't think I have 600 edits! On my profile, under "Activity > Revisions," I only have fourteen pages of edits, each of which has 30 edits on it. That's less than 450 edits. Did I somehow get this badge prematurely?
Or do not all ...
I want to make it so that any occurance of an image gets wrapped with a link to the image source
How can I write a pattern, in PHP so that I can find these variations, which are scattered throughout text coming from the database:
<img src='/dir/dir2/image1.jpg' alt='blah blah blah'>
<i...
I know it's less profitable, but I honestly think the stand-up thing to do would be to
Please make this an Opt-In procedure
Rather than implementing what you've described, which is an opt-out procedure. Advertise it via the blog. Add a global inbox message pointing to the blog and/or the page...
