{"id":778,"date":"2009-05-29T00:12:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T00:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2018-04-19T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T21:53:16","slug":"server-fault-now-in-public-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2009\/05\/29\/server-fault-now-in-public-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Server Fault now in public beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/serverfault.com\/\">Server Fault<\/a> is now in public beta!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/serverfault.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/29ServerFault.png?w=730&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Jeff Atwood and I launched <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\">Stack Overflow<\/a> last fall, we really wanted it to be a site for and by programmers. But the engine behind the site, the Q&amp;A engine with voting, editing, and tagging, could obviously be used in a lot of other professions.<\/p>\n<p>The first field we picked is close to our heart: system and network administration; as programmers, we often end up doing system administration ourselves. And it\u2019s the perfect domain for a Q&amp;A engine&#8230; there are a million detailed problems that depend highly on lore to get right. There\u2019s no way to accidentally discover<a href=\"http:\/\/serverfault.com\/questions\/1649\/why-does-iis-refuse-to-serve-asp-net-content\"> aspnet_regiis.exe -I<\/a> until someone shows you the trick. How much time have you wasted trying to figure out <a href=\"http:\/\/serverfault.com\/questions\/1966\/how-do-you-find-what-process-is-holding-a-file-open-in-windows\">which process is holding a file open<\/a> preventing you from deleting an otherwise empty directory? Can you <a href=\"http:\/\/serverfault.com\/questions\/4906\/using-dd-for-disk-cloning\">use dd to clone a disk drive<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Thus, <a href=\"http:\/\/serverfault.com\/\">Server Fault<\/a>. If you already have a Stack Overflow account, you\u2019re all set up, although your reputation score, badges, and favorite tags are separate. It has all the great features from Stack Overflow which I talked about at Google last month (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ\">video<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/001269.html\">Jeff<\/a>: \u201cI am sorry to inform you that you may be a system administrator or IT professional.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Server Fault is now in public beta! 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