What's the best GENERAL Linux forum?

Naturally, the best distro forum is right here, but where do people go for general Linux questions, discussion, kernel topics, etc? I drop into LinuxQuestions and LinuxForums every now and then - anyone have other recommendations?

Dusty wrote:I prefer making a fool of you too.[..]
I need no help on that front. I used the restroom at the grocery store yesterday, came out and wandered aimlessly through the produce section for about 10 minutes, gave a few "hellos", dropped a kiwi in my basket, and finally noticed my yellow shirt poking through my pant zipper. It was too late at that point to make ammends. I just put on my shades, walked to the register, stood in line, gave a few stares back, checked out, and walked calm and cooly back to my car. Hands intact and never leaving the basket once...
A fool? yes. But, a damn cool fool at that...
My recommendation Dusty, do like me...put your sunglasses on when you type in these forums. It won't seem so bad after you hit "submit"...

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Sorry that you are not getting help.
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http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/index.htm
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[Main Image|www.computech.com/images/temp/1.png]
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[Side Are Expanded|www.computech.com/images/temp/2.png]
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[Streaming Weather Collapsed|www.computech.com/images/temp/3.png]
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Such beautiful and professional mockups. Which quite contradicts this:
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[Sun's New To Java Center|http://java.sun.com/learning/new2java/index.html]
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Hi Daniel,
If you need to use the master page for multiple site collections, then you’d better to choose the option 2 or options 3, as you do not need to make copies of the CSS or JS files and re-upload them to each site collection.
And per my knowledge, option 3 is better. Because the CSS or JS files are stored at the local system of SharePoint server in option 3, it is faster than referring a file which is stored in database in option 2.
Generally, it depends based on your situation as you don’t like option 3 when the CSS or JS files are not accessible in SPD.
Thanks,
Victoria
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What's the best way to replicate the contents of servers?

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Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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i am not an english speaker and i am not an American citizen.And many others here are not primary or secondary English speakers either. How can you expect them to understand you if you use strange abbreviations? Programming is an exercise in precision. If you have a question here, you would do well to communicate it precisely.
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