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[Guest]

I was going to complete an answer about this post:

How do you convert NRG to BIN/CUE? [SOLVED]


My answer was to complete the solution that the user Nathanael was having for converting an NRG to BIN/CUE. which has been mounting the NRG image using daemon tools, and then using the freeware utility called anyburn (I used the v3.0 64b portable), selecting 'Create Image from disk', enter the source drive with the nrg mounted on it and then the bin/cue file to save and hit convert.

Everything is done perfectly with a mixed mode cd format (which are hard to convert).

If some mod can move this answer to the end of that thread it will be great. It is a common problem and your's is the first pages that appears in google when searching for a solution. So...

Thanks.

[claydoh]

The thread you are trying to reply to is 6 years old, and for a version of Kubuntu that has been unsupported for a long while now.

This does bring up the question of how long we should archive EOL version posts, perhaps deleting ones over a certain number of years perhaps


And, why would suggesting a Windows program, freeware or not, be useful to someone running Linux

[oshunluvr]

WinTroll?

Probably it would be best to take down in some way, any threads for no longer supported versions - or at least ones dead for a year. This would eliminate those threads from searches. Maybe dump them to a downloadable archive in text format case someone wants to read them off-forum?

I've seen countless posts where people are reading threads that are a decade old or more and then questioning why they don't work or broke their system. We'd be doing a service to the noob's to remove stuff that really doesn't apply any longer.

[kubicle]

Probably clickbait, by a bot or human drone. If you look at the actual link address, it's fairly suspicious (not a direct link to the thread in question).

[Snowhog]

Deleting the content isn't something we want to do, unless the affect on members thread/post counts isn't to be a consideration. At this time, all the forums under EOL Releases are closed to posting, but are accessible to read/search.

We could fully close the entirety of the EOL Releases forum, making the content unavailable to everyone but the site Administrators. There is a setting, IIRC, in the Admin Control Panel that allows us to do this, making the content unavailable even to searches, both internally and externally.

[claydoh]

What about keeping search engines from indexing the truly old stuff, if that was possible? Not necessarily to close things off locally.

We've all seen people who have tried a solution to a problem found via Google that is old and outdated. Heck we've probably done this ourselves.

Just thinking and pondering

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[Snowhog]

I'll look into that.

[oshunluvr]

Heck we've probably done this ourselves.

Who? Me? What you talkin' 'bout Willis!

[Snowhog]

These are our forum Posting Options as they are currently set:

Act as Forum (Will act as category if no)	Yes No
Forum is Active (Will not appear if set to no, but remains accessible if the forum's URL is known)	Yes No
Forum is Open (Set this to 'No' to prevent any new posts being made in this forum)	Yes No
Index New Posts in Search Engine (Setting this to 'No' will prevent anyone from being able to search in this forum)	Yes No
Exclude From Double Post Merges(Setting this to 'Yes' will prevent doublepost merges in this forum)	Yes No
Help

Changing Forum is Active to No would 'hide' the affected forum; it wouldn't appear on the Forums page; but could still be accessed if the URL to it was entered. With it hidden, searches on it's content could still be performed, as Index New Posts in Search Engine is set to Yes.

Changing Index New Posts in Search Engine to No would prevent searching the affected forum.

IF we wanted to effectively prevent (casual) access to the EOL Releases forum, changing both Forum is Active and Index New Posts in Search Engine to No would be necessary. And, I believe, changes would have to be made on every sub-forum under EOL Releases, and there are a lot of sub-forums!

Personally, I think how we have the forum and it's sub-forums configured now is sufficient. No one can post in them (except KFN Administrators) but the content is searchable by any one. If a new member makes reference to threads/posts in those forums, that is 'as planned.' In this instance, the OP expressed a want that he/she won't be afforded. That doesn't prevent the 'answer' he/she wants to provide from being posted elsewhere here, with a link to the closed post, which is also 'as planned.'

[claydoh]

I was pondering on the hell that Linux support web searches can be due to the preponderance of ancient cruft from ancient mailing lists (as well as those from the sites that archive them) and old forum posts. It's not the user or us really, it is the search engines.


Gosh I hope we didn't scare off the OP!

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[oshunluvr]

Exactly my thoughts too, Clay. I hate when I search for something highly technical and get 2001 postings. Total waste of time. At least I'm smart enough to ignore those...

[claydoh]

I want to punch google when I search for [foobar ubuntu 15.10] and get results for 10.04 because there is a "15.10" somewhere outside the main content of the article or post. This still happens even if I choose to filter by date of the past year or less.