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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Your Favorite Tech Support Web Sites and Why? Post 303022217 by bakunin on Tuesday 28th of August 2018 01:05:47 AM
Old 08-28-2018
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Originally Posted by Neo
Where are your favorite tech discussion hangouts and why?
I am old and my nerdness has worn off over time. I prefer to hang out in person *) with people like me. I have a "regular's table" for UNIX and Linux admins and most of the tech questions i am interested in are discussed there.

Speaking about tech questions: 30 years ago i was interested in things like how to save a few CPU cycles in an echo canceller on a DSP but today i am more interested in "strategic" things: how to most efficiently run datacenters, DevOps methods, etc.. Such topics are less a matter of "factual know-how" but more driven by paradigmatical issues and generally "soft issues". Internet forae rarely have such topics, probably because there is no "one true answer" to such questions. If i want to know "how to change this format into that" then there are at best a handful of ways and all of them can be tested to either work or fail. A question like "how to organise a data center" is answered by something that is much less "true" or "false".

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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. -a, --all Reconfigure all installed packages that use debconf. Warning: this may take a long time. -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> 2011-06-22 DPKG-RECONFIGURE(8)
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