Put simply, I ask far more questions than I answer.  Not for any lack of motivation or interest, I put a good deal of effort into questions and answers making sure they are well explained and that I've done my own research beforehand; it's just that typically by the time I've come up with a solution the question has already been answered.  On top of that, frankly the people answering have far more specialized knowledge in their respective sections, and so I feel like my answers would only be muddying the page up.   I do -look- for questions that have been left alone, or that could use help and provide a fair answer, but for the most part I use the site to get practiced opinions as to the best methodology to accomplish a given task.   Even with my questions it's not so much that I couldn't -find- the answer, but that I want a persons opinion on how to implement it, and not a reference page with an agnostic list of functions.   Just curious if it's considered bad form to have a much higher Q-2-A ratio.
I have used the websites of SO a lot the past few months because I am busy with a large scale web project. I feel I get better answers here on SO than when I just do a Google search, maybe because I can be more specific here with my problem, and the responses are really fast.  Occasionally when I am not working I try to answer some questions, but the question almost always has an answer which is 'as good as' or 'better' than the answer I would supply.  So my question/answer ratio is about 20/1 something, if not more. When I look at my profile page I see a bucket-load of questions and almost nothing I answered myself.  Is this considered bad behaviour? I can see that this looks a little egoistic.  : One devoted to one's own interests and advancement.
My eth0 has gone and I don't have internet and network connection I had internet connection, but when I upgraded my VGA and restarted my PC then everything for eth0 has gone.     When I used ifdown:     ifdown: interface eth0 not configured   Is there something I could do?    EDIT: Content of /etc/network/interfaces    auto lo iface lo inet loopback   When I ifconfig I don't have these lines:    inet addr:192.168.1.5  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:5bff:fe5e:a5e/64 Scope:Link   In the Terminal typed:  sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces   and then added these lines in the bottom:  auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp   then I typed:    sudo ifdown eth0 sudo ifup eth0   when I send the second command I received the below message:    No DHCPOFFERS received No working leases in persistent database - sleeping   Any help? Area 51 Site is quite different from other SE sites and needs an SE footer Honestly, navigation through Area 51 is a bit confusing and seems to be much different from the other SE sites.    The feature that is very lacking is the footer with all the sites you are subscribed to so that a user can easily return to a different SE site. This one really bugs me.  Can this be easily fixed?  Also, unlike all the other sites there is no "meta" site to add comments specifically about that site.    Again Area 51 seems out of sync with the other SE sites. Rewrite rules goes away Are ores replenished over time? Highlight some words of a beamer I'm a first time Linux user. My laptop wasn't connecting to the wifi so I followed the instructions from .  On typing sudo apt-get update after that, I got this error:  E: Type 'sudo' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list E: The list of sources could not be read.   What can I do? How to manipulate a CSV file with sed or awk? How can I do the following to a CSV file using sed or awk?   Delete a column Duplicate a column Move a column   I have a big table with over 200 rows, and I'm not that familiar with sed. Linux network troubleshooting and debugging From time to time Linux and Unix users faced with various network problems. Many of these problems are presented here and at some others troubleshooting forums, but they are very concrete and contains a lot of additional technical information, and sometimes it's rather difficult to understand the main point and the real reason of buggy system behavior.   By asking this question, my intention is to start a community wiki page which allows generalizing our network troubleshooting and debugging experience. I hope the Linux and Unix users could easier recognize and solve("divide and conquer") their network problems using this page.   The parent of this page should be  . But here we should focus on troubleshooting the network problems from user- and kernel-space.  I suppose, if you:    Share the information about using some great network diagnostic tool with concrete usage examples and examples of network bugs, which they help to catch. Share the link to the great network tutorial connected with this subject Tell about a general method or recipe which allows to tackle some class of network problems Share information about your tool-set for network debugging and troubleshooting   it would perfectly fits for this topic.    I'll begin from sharing the link to varios  and . Also  seem to have actual information about our subject. And for diving into linux networking we definetely need to visit . Cardioid in coffee mug? Show uncountable set of real numbers has a point of accumulation Show that every uncountable set of real numbers has a point of accumulation. How do you use unlocked rewards after each mission in Splinter Cell: Double Agent? In the PC version of Splinter Cell: Double Agent, how can you use the rewards that you receive after each mission? For example, the shotgun attachment, or the colored night vision?  My list shows that the rewards are there, but I can not figure out how to use them. How to fully delete a git repository created with init? How to apply a macro to each column of a table For every set $A$, the empty set is a subset of $A$. The empty set is a set. Therefore, the empty set has a cardinality $\geq 1\ldots$ I need a way of encoding the geometry line symbol. $\overline{AB}$ gives me the line segment symbol and $\overrightarrow{AB}$ gives me the ray symbol, I need a way to get a bar over the letters that has arrows on both ends. $\overrightleftarrow{AB}$ does not work.   Thanks! Behavior of $\|f\|_p$ when $p$ is near the endpoint of $I$ Given measure space $(X, \mu)$ and measurable function $f$. If $p \in (0, +\infty]$, below are the facts I know about $\Vert f \Vert_p$:  (log convex in $\frac 1 p$) $\forall p_1, p_2\in (0, +\infty] \text{ such that } p_1 &lt; p_2. \forall t \in(0, 1), \text{ let } \frac 1 p = \frac t {p_1} + \frac {1-t} {p_2}$, then $\Vert f \Vert_p \le \Vert f \Vert_{p_1}^t\Vert f \Vert_{p_2}^{1-t}$ ($0\cdot(+\infty)$ is defined to be $0$). (lower semi-continuity) $\forall p_0 \in (0, +\infty], \liminf_{p\to p_0}\Vert f\Vert_p \ge \Vert f \Vert_{p_0}$. If $0&lt;\mu(X) &lt; +\infty$, then $ \Vert f \Vert_p/\mu(X)^{\frac 1 p}$ is monotone increasing in $p$, combine it with (2) we get $\lim_{p\to p_0-}\Vert f\Vert_p = \Vert f \Vert_{p_0}$.  From (1) we know the set of $p$ such that $\Vert f \Vert_p &lt; +\infty$ is an interval $I$ (possibly empty or a singleton).  If $I \not\in a = \inf I$ and $a \neq 0$, from (2) we know $\lim_{p\to a+} \Vert f \Vert_p = +\infty$. If $I \not\in b = \sup I$, then $\lim_{p\to b-} \Vert f \Vert_p = +\infty$.  From (1) and the dominated convergence theorem we know that if $I \ni p_0 \neq \inf I$ and $p_0 &lt; +\infty$, then $\lim_{p\to p_0+} \Vert f \Vert_p = \Vert f \Vert_{p_0}$. If $I \ni p_0 \neq \sup I$, then $\lim_{p\to p_0-} \Vert f \Vert_p = \Vert f \Vert_{p_0}$.  If $I$ is nondegenerate and $+\infty \in I$, then $\lim_{p\to +\infty}\|f\|_p = \|f\|_{\infty}$.  If $\inf I = 0$, from (1) we know $\lim_{p\to 0+}\|f\|_p$ exists.   Question: How $\Vert f \Vert_p$ behaves when $p$ is the endpoint of $I$? To be more precise, assume $I$ is nonempty. Let $p_0 = \sup I$ (only right endpoint is considered for simplicity):  $p_0\in I$ or $p_0 \not\in I$? Can $I$ be a singleton? What if $p_0 = +\infty$? What if $0&lt;\mu(X) &lt; +\infty$?  Please also notify me if there is any mistake above. Is “ ’s ” ever correct for pluralization? Atheros AR9462 WiFI very unstable & package loss I'm having severe issues w/ package-loss and a generally bad connection w/in a WiFi-network at my uni. I'm usually encountering a package loss of ~50% and aborting connections which makes working w/ SaaS impossible.  I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 and my network-adapter is an Atheros AR9462.  Applying the nohwcrypt=1-option doesn't change anything.  Also very noticable: The connection works as intended in other networks; the problematic network uses WPA2 w/ MSCHAPv2.  Anyone can help my out here?  $ sudo lshw -class network  *-network UNCLAIMED             description: Ethernet controller        product: NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe        vendor: Broadcom Corporation        physical id: 0        bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0        version: 01        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list        configuration: latency=0        resources: memory:d3500000-d350ffff   *-network        description: Wireless interface        product: AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter        vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.        physical id: 0        bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0        logical name: wlan0        version: 01        serial: e0:06:e6:76:ba:89        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.8.0-22-generic firmware=N/A ip=131.173.74.130 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn        resources: irq:19 memory:d3400000-d347ffff memory:9fb00000-9fb0ffff I was wondering if anybody knew a command that would allow me to open a Nautilus (if that's the right name for the Ubuntu graphic/window explorer) window from the command line at the current directory that the user is at.  So, if I open a command line, and type:  cd /home/myUser/some/long/path/to/a/directory   Then, I'd like to be able to issue some command:  nautilus open-sesame   And have a graphic window opened to /home/myUser/some/long/path/to/a/directory. Is this even possible? Why use apparently meaningless do-while and if-else statements in macros? In many C/C++ macros I'm seeing the code of the macro wrapped in what seems like a meaningless do while loop.  Here are examples.  #define FOO(X) do { f(X); g(X); } while (0) #define FOO(X) if (1) { f(X); g(X); } else   I can't see what the do while is doing.  Why not just write this without it?  #define FOO(X) f(X); g(X)