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NattNatt

@thwr not seen that one yet, but tbh I've never touched Linux so would have been a guess...and I'd probably have guessed where tbh...

Weird that there are two questions the same..
Worrying that there are still people getting them both wrong (I assume - yes, I know in theory they 25% could have answered that one first and got the other right, and that 30% had answered the other first and got the first one right...but that means 55% didnt know it to start with....)

thwr

@NattNatt Thats probably because users are able to submit questions, there are nearly 1,000 as of today. Submitted six of them myself.

As for the range of topics within the questions: IT is very broad as of today - no more "Are you an IBM MVS or HP3000/9000 guy?" - just thought that the above "which" command is pretty basic knowledge, even for non-kernel hackers.

scottalanmiller

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@hobbit666 My "challenge" yesterday:

I think it was ~38% of IT pro's getting the answer

Damn

scottalanmiller

@NattNatt said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Weird that there are two questions the same..

No quality control. There isn't any oversight group checking that the things are sensible, accurate, etc.

scottalanmiller

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

just thought that the above "which" command is pretty basic knowledge, even for non-kernel hackers.

It is, very basic. Linux is the most popular OS and which is a non-admin command, even a Linux power user would know it. And it is not specific to Linux. AIX, Solaris, the BSD family, Mac OSX and others all use it, too. And I think that it is even available for Windows. So it is common on nearly all OSes and the vast majority of those deployed today. If we allow any questions that are specific to any OS, this seems the most reasonable.

thwr

@scottalanmiller TBH, the mods are doing a good job over there. Took a few weeks for this questions to become active while others I've submitted later became active after just a few hours:

Tagged it as a hard question, that's not exactly common knowledge. Taken 9 times as of today, but there's no mentioning about the number of times it was answered correctly.

scottalanmiller

Maybe they have some system to not show stats until it hits a certain threshold?

NattNatt

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

just thought that the above "which" command is pretty basic knowledge, even for non-kernel hackers.

It is, very basic. Linux is the most popular OS and which is a non-admin command, even a Linux power user would know it. And it is not specific to Linux. AIX, Solaris, the BSD family, Mac OSX and others all use it, too. And I think that it is even available for Windows. So it is common on nearly all OSes and the vast majority of those deployed today. If we allow any questions that are specific to any OS, this seems the most reasonable.

Yeah, don't have a problem, it helps us learn and get better at stuff for sure too...I've got some wrong just by not reading the question properly and some by not knowing the answer, I WANT to be challenged more, the easy questions are exactly that...too easy mostly...

But I'm the first to admit I know VERY little about Linux/ANY OS that isn't windows (I know, I'm a noob) but I am beginning to play with Linux more, it's just finding time and decent places/resources to learn about the basic stuff etc before I can move onto the harder stuff

thwr

@scottalanmiller There's a german slang term, "Klickibunti". In case I need to translate that, it's like "Clicking on shining colorful GUIs". Maybe that question was in fact a bit hard for the targeted audience (SMB) - don't get me wrong on this please

scottalanmiller

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller There's a german slang term, "Klickibunti". In case I need to translate that, it's like "Clicking on shining colorful GUIs". Maybe that question was in fact a bit hard for the targeted audience (SMB) - don't get me wrong on this please

I'm not saying that it isn't hard for the audience, just that it isn't hard.

scottalanmiller

No one knows everything, you can have a thirty year veteran that has never seen Robocopy because they just never manage Windows. These things happen, no one is exposed to everything. I'm only saying that for IT Pros, statisically, which is a more common and more basic command than basically anything you could come up with.