This morning, I was having a Windows XP problem, and the first thought that popped into my mind was, "Oh, I'll just post it to Perl Monks," followed quickly by, "That'd be really off-topic."

So, my question to you dear monks is:

When you have questions about topics other than Perl, where do you go for answers?

As I see it, the best features of PM are:

• Easy access to newcomers, while still providing extraordinarily good advice for non-newbies
• An extremely active user base (fast responses, and breadth of knowledge)
• Good site layout (more-interesting/generally-useful stuff gets front-paged. more obscure stuff gets Super Searched)

Are there any user-supported sites like PM for, say, Linux hardware issues? or databases? or even non-programming topics, like legal advice?

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