Welcome to Meta, Peter! It's perfectly normal to have <100% accept rate. There are, to oversimplify a bit, two cases here: the first is you, based on this question and your SO profile; the second is the guy who asks dozens of questions — often low-quality — and maintains a 0% acc...

This post is to document the week 1 winners of the Super User Super Contest, for the week ending Monday, August 30. Congratulations to our winners this week! Best rookie performance by KronoS Highest reputation produced by digitxp Best meta post: Is there any point answering questions t...

StackOverflow (and only SO's) blog posts. For example: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-tag-info-pages/ Useful when talking about recently announced happenings.

Yes You can use as first price: Windows 7 XP Mode. Alternatively you can look at running Windows XP in a virtual machine using software like Virtual PC, VMWare, or VirtualBox. XP Mode is the nicest since it integrates straight into your desktop on Windows 7. However you need a fairly high spec ...

No Because virtual machines requires software that simulates and interacts with the host machine, and for networking for example needs to install drivers on the host, a version that will run off a pen drive for example is a long way off still. The biggest limitation is the integration into the ...

I recently discovered, or possibly rediscovered, that all deleted items are "forced-visible to all 10k users all the time." I never considered rep gain to be something with a downside before, especially because there's no way to directly message a non-diamond 10k user to ask for something to be ...

I did nothing to cause the issue and nothing was required to be done to fix the error. Just after I posted this question, I tried rebooted the system again and this time it logged me in just fine. I'm sorry, Googlers, I'm as stumped as you are.

A few times I've started to type a question in SO that was pure math or physics or statistics or finance, and then bailed out. I've seen a couple simple math questions get closed (or at least get close votes or complaints) for not being programming related. Obviously, the relationship between ma...

This will be resolved after we deploy tonight.

I'm at work, and I work in one of those "open concept" offices. I'm the only IT person in here. I really don't want people to think I'm watching Flight of the Conchords when I'm just trying to edit a question a few times.

I plan on using a "base script" for my initial database version 1.0.0 but after that I will require change scripts which "upgrade" the database to newer versions. I'm not sure how to name these scripts in my repository. I was envisioning something along the lines of: Baseline-6.0.0.sql Patch-6...

Who is the hot lady in the ads for IssueTrak on SF?

I am a bit new to the mod status, but here is my take: I am fine with the way it is currently. I don't mind looking through flags and seeing what people are having problems with. Mods are there for the edge cases and usage issues. I will go in and read the comment trails and find out what the ...

The thing I hate about Itunes is that you have to use proprietary software. What website can you buy the same (mostly) commercial music, and just download mp3's or whatever through a web browser?

Closed. Yes, this is an interesting question, but there is now over 1200 answers (41 pages). In terms of data (since this is tagged as "research"), there is nothing to gain from having this question remain open (there should be more than any interesting metrics to be retrieved from this many answ...

What James said. The answers to my original question made it clear that there was definitely interest, but also there was definitely some impedance mismatch between GotW and SO. One mismatch was that most GotWs consist of multiple questions that lead into each other, which is an effective tutori...