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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers resolv.conf Post 302331063 by Neo on Friday 3rd of July 2009 09:22:48 AM
Old 07-03-2009
Hi Dan,

Glad you found your answer.

One of the issues with any forum, especially a large one, is how to prioritize the questions. Most forums, like this one, are "flat" in a sense that all questions are treated equally, so to speak.

Because of this, I am considering to create a new forum called something like "The Bits High Priority Forum" or something like that. In that forum,
posters who have urgent questions can spend their Bits to get higher priority from any volunteer, like me, who might look in that forum first.

For example, if we charged 20,000 Bits for a high priority question, this means that new members who simply register and login for the first time, will not have enough Bits to post in the high priority forum. On the other hand, member who make contributions will have plenty of Bits, like all the active members who have been around for a long time.

In addition, of course, new member could get more Bits by winning them in the casino, a lottery, or having other members give Bits to them for great replies etc. In addition, of course, a new member, in theory, could contact another member and make a real cash offer for their Bits.

As an example, you could ask, via a PM, "Hey Man, could you sell me 1,000,000 Bits for $5 dollars. I will PayPal the money to you, OK?"

I don't think I would sell 1,000,000 of my Bits for $5, but someone else might! Or, you could offer more.... this creates a market, of course, based on the buyer and the seller.

The point being that active members who contribute are rewarded by the Bits activity system. In addition, there would be a way to get higher priority for important questions.

These are my thoughts, and hopefully, something like what I have described would solve the problem of certain people who have been around for some time, not getting the priority they desire.

Cheers.
 

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dpkg-reconfigure

DPKG-RECONFIGURE(8)                                                   Debconf                                                  DPKG-RECONFIGURE(8)

NAME

       dpkg-reconfigure - reconfigure an already installed package

SYNOPSIS

        dpkg-reconfigure [options] packages

DESCRIPTION

       dpkg-reconfigure reconfigures packages after they have already been installed. Pass it the names of a package or packages to reconfigure.
       It will ask configuration questions, much like when the package was first installed.

       If you just want to see the current configuration of a package, see debconf-show(1) instead.

OPTIONS

       -ftype, --frontend=type
           Select the frontend to use. The default frontend can be permanently changed by:

            dpkg-reconfigure debconf

           Note that if you normally have debconf set to use the noninteractive frontend, dpkg-reconfigure will use the dialog frontend instead,
           so you actually get to reconfigure the package.

       -pvalue, --priority=value
           Specify the minimum priority of question that will be displayed.  dpkg-reconfigure normally shows low priority questions no matter what
           your default priority is. See debconf(7) for a list.

       --default-priority
           Use whatever the default priority of question is, instead of forcing the priority to low.

       -u, --unseen-only
           By default, all questions are shown, even if they have already been answered. If this parameter is set though, only questions that have
           not yet been seen will be asked.

       --force
           Force dpkg-reconfigure to reconfigure a package even if the package is in an inconsistent or broken state. Use with caution.

       --no-reload
           Prevent dpkg-reconfigure from reloading templates. Use with caution; this will prevent dpkg-reconfigure from repairing broken templates
           databases.  However, it may be useful in constrained environments where rewriting the templates database is expensive.

       -h, --help
           Display usage help.

SEE ALSO

       debconf(7)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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