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12:54 AM
Does Windows have an equivalent for su that doesn't require an Administrator to know a user's password?
 
You mean perform an operation as the admin on a regular account?
 
No.
I've got an Admin prompt open and want to run an app as an unprivileged user.
 
ahh
that makes more sense.
No idea top of my head.
 
I can do "runas /User:someone app.exe" but then it asks for their password.
I'm already an Admin, I shouldn't need to enter their password :P
It's... not possible..
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Q: Is there an equivalent of SU for Windows

BIBDIs there a way (when logged in as an administrator, or as a member of the administrators group) to masquerade as a non-privileged user? Especially in an AD environment. e.g., in the Unix world I could do the following (as root): # whoami root # su johnsmith johnsmith> whoami johnsmith johnsmith>...

 
was just reading that.
@NathanOsman indeed :P
 
12:58 AM
Wiiiiindooows!
 
 
Yup.
 
6 hours later and I finally have 15.04 workingish? Ughh I hate Nvidia lol
 
Funny, mine has worked just fine.
 
Mine completely locked up with a black screen
you're lucky, I'm jealous
 
1:13 AM
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Q: Ubuntu 15.04 bugs

Igor  PutilovWhat does everyone think if we get a single thread going for bugs and workarounds for people with issues relating to 15.04 install. Maybe a wiki type thread. I'm sure a lot of people are coming here for answers and are probably having issues finding them due to lots of disparate threads. I know N...

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Q: When does Community ♦ vote to close a question?

minerz029As the title says, when would the Community moderator vote to close a question? Example:

 
1:32 AM
0
Q: How do you make a toggle key using autokey in ubuntu

user111973I want to use autokey to toggle the e key on and off in a program called "xyz". so i press e, the program thinks i'm holding down e. i press e again, it thinks i released it. how do you do this please? or is there some other program that can do this?

 
@NathanOsman wasn't there a "backup" account that has more privileges or something
 
No idea.
 
not sure if that will let you do that, but I remember hearing that that type of account had the most privileges
 
1:49 AM
o. @Mateo -- oops... evidently my right arm fell off... damn leprosy.
 
?
 
o/
 
so, how are things
 
fine
got some gumbo in the crock pot. house smells nice.
 
@hbdgaf I'm missing the joke :/
 
1:51 AM
o. o/ mistype. arm fell off of the first one.
 
oh, ok
;)
found some cool stuff at goodwill today
 
an apple usb wall charger, a qi wireless charger, and a polaroid 320 with some accesories
 
Ooooh. A wireless charger.
 
nice
 
1:54 AM
yeah, now I can put one somewhere else, and just set my phone down in two diffrent spots in the house :)
 
I always thought one of those would go well on the night stand since I use mine as an alarm clock, but the other one would definitely go on the table by the door.
 
that and when a small thing is only a dollar or so and: store.apple.com/us/product/MD810LL/A/apple-5w-usb-power-adapter
 
Hah... I'll have to tell my boss's boss to check the thrift shop. Somebody keeps stealing her wall charger. She bought a pink one instead of trying to find out who it is.
 
yeah, sometimes you get lucky
 
in other news, someone pointed me to this: underwateraudio.com/waterproof-ipod-shuffle/…
probably the first and last iDevice I'll own, but it will be nice to hover under water and listen to some tunes in absolute silence at some point.
 
2:03 AM
hm, yeah. that would be good meditation.
 
it should defs come with a snorkel ;)
 
ok, just hit the upgrade button
15.04 here we come
 
I'm hitting the floatie and garden hose button, so i can take a nap in the deep end listening to music. not really, but you get my point.
@Mateo I see what you did there. Is LXQT the default LXDE in 15.04?
 
hm, I'm not sure
I know kubuntu went with plasma 5
 
That would be a big nope if google is honest.
Maybe it will make it in to LTS-next
 
2:14 AM
oh, so next one? that sounds like they are pushing ahead though
 
They get points for being awesome. I'm not bitching. I was just hoping to get it now instead of later.
 
I was impressed when I tried it out soon after they merged from razor-qt
 
I was impressed that I could choose a compositor, so if I want effects I can choose kwin and still use the rest of it stock.
 
yeah, back to the old ways that everything should be modular(even if the means infinite combinations)
 
Well, I won't be bug reporting if something goes horribly wrong. So, I just like having the option.
another bullet point - the gumbo in the crock pot smells delicious. i just don't want to wait until tomorrow morning to eat it. so everything is +/-
 
2:20 AM
it also helps in finding the cause of a problem, if you can switch different parts out
 
that too.
also, you have a gchat-able window open?
 
lately I had been doing "well, that has a bug with... back to unity"
like "hangouts"
 
like gmail.
 
sure, looks like
 
ok, that was all i had to ask.
 
2:31 AM
@ByteCommander it that from physics class, or health class...
@hbdgaf cool
 
@Mateo it's supposed to be a photon not a sperm
 
;)
so really likeing this hexagon/cube background system76 had in their wallpapers
 
that's pretty nice
 
2:47 AM
I'm trying to think of ways to have a one time use authorization code - that is also anonymous, maybe like gpg generated or something?
 
For what?
 
so like admin generates code -> gives to user -> user uses code to interface with service, knowing no private information was used
@NathanOsman like a survey monkey type of thing - but needs authorized but anonymous users
 
You could just use a random number generator of sufficient cryptographic quality and keep track of the codes you issue. Once one is supplied, it is never permitted again.
 
kind of like a way to know the survey was legit - but not knowing exactly who filled it out
yeah, that could work, maybe I'm just thinking too much, not like the code would be displayed on the other end - so no matching them up afterwards
 
3:12 AM
ok, restarting - hope to be back with 15.04
everything seems fine, yay system76!
 
3:27 AM
o/
 
o/
 
so I made 124 rep today, a majority of it on one answer
I think that qualifies as decent given the iOS app crashes after every answer post/edit
 
I saw a nice answer from you today, maybe it was that one?
 
depends on which one you mean
 
oh, wow that did get lots of votes
 
3:29 AM
I made a couple answers in the past hour or so
 
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A: What version of Ubuntu is most efficient and stable as a small-scale server?

Thomas W.You are asking different questions essentially, and are also requesting an opinion. Let's split these analyses up then I'll add my two cents. Desktop vs. Server Edition Which do you want to work with more, a GUI or a command line? Better question, do you want to deal with the overhead of a ...

 
and yes it's that answer that gave me a bunch of rep
I bet it's because I split the analysis up and gave my opinion
 
I saw it around +1 or +2
 
rather than outright saying "Just use foobarbaz x.y" :P
yeah it got a massive set of upvotes
and sorry about speed of response - I'm on my phone :/
 
time to start voting to dupe to that one ;P get even more votes and canonicalize that post :)
 
3:32 AM
heheh
indeed I think that's a more suitable one but this seems to be a special case - one that I usually don't see
I think I have a few other canonical posts around
 
so, just upgraded to 15.04, feels good and everything went without problems, strange I never seem to have some of the crazy problems seen on the site...
 
askubuntu.com/questions/553937/… is an answer to the NGINX flavors one and is canonical since my fingerprints are all over that package
an my bug triage q/a combos from a while ago too, they're canonical
and my "Why do the repositories not have latest software versions" question... xD
@Mateo I'm still on 14.04 but I have VMs for the other releases since xD
 
I'm getting 5-8 second startup, I think the switch to systemd speed some things up, maybe
 
mmm, it might have.
my 15.04 server VM boots up quicker than my 14.04 one so maybe
but I will wait to 16.04 to upgrade - by then the systemd bugs will likely be ironed out.
 
also depends on what I count from - from my button press - or from the bios splash, either way this laptop is fast
 
3:38 AM
heh
 
@ThomasW. by that I suppose you mean we'll have gone back to SysVInit?
 
lol.
 
just thought I'ld help people with their witty retorts...
 
urgh i hate having to code an apport hook from a phone :/
 
3:44 AM
hehe
EXT2-fs (sda2): error: unable to read superblock. #systemd why are you ingoring my configuration???
systemd. So bad it ingores configurations.
Whatever ingoring is.
 
ooo, tweak tool corner window snapping, cool:
 
neato!
 
un-one-boxed: youtube.com/…
sup @Lucio
 
4:01 AM
@Seth: ...and your Canucks are out of the playoffs ;-)
 
@NathanOsman ;p :(
 
@NathanOsman I didn't think Canadians called Canadians Canucks.
 
@hbdgaf The "Canucks" are Vancouver's hockey team.
Don't ask me why they chose that name :P
 
Well that explains it.
 
Hi all!
 
4:03 AM
o/
 
\o
 
wish firfox had overlay scrollbars
but I found a plug-in that just removes them ;)
chrome has a nice hidden flag for theirs:
gives you a transparent bar
 
@Mateo are you the zorro?
 
from subprocess import check_output
for v in check_output(['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\\VC\\vcvarsall.bat', 'x86', '&&', 'set']).strip().split('\r\n'):
  v = v.split('=', 1)
  os.environ[v[0]] = v[1]
That is the ugliest hack I've had to write in a very long time.
 
@Lucio that is ua switcher ;)
installed it for testing once
 
4:11 AM
It runs a batch file that sets some environment variables, dumps them, and then parses the output to inject them into the current Python process.
 
@Mateo "Mozilla/5.0 Gecko (Chrome) Zorro! Zorro! Zorro!"
 
4:22 AM
@hbdgaf I'm getting used to this world of Every month can be a new proyect. Yeah, there are tons of projects, it's all fine. But hey, I can never catch a break.
 
4:39 AM
well.. that's about me
'night all!
 
it's fine. we're all working on something, no matter how fast it changes. i'm still on my six month hobby thing though
 
 
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7:57 AM
@NathanOsman That was the answer I was looking for: servers & desktop... ;-)
 
8:29 AM
Finally, Nautilus 3.16
 
9:27 AM
@Toroidal: I didn't install prelink:
1/ relocating Dinamically liked libraries in memory on a desktop will not significantly improve system performance
2/ it's a hack that doesn't work for all programs
So, it might cause problems with other programs and then you have to remember that you installed it and black-list that program from using prelink...
therefore: it doesn't improve system performance significantly, it does cause minor problems ==> Don't install...
(And I like stable and working)
@Mateo That's been in CCSM, like, forever??? :P
@A.B. I use nemo:
Built-in terminal
remembers view settings per directory
Icon, list and compact view!
(mine is a customised version with steampunk icons, but you get the point)
 
10:00 AM
@Fabby I don't need a built-in terminal. I have guake =)
 
searching
OK, I understand... Not for me, but I also understand you don't need nemo...
That's the advantage of the Linux world: you customize your own system as you like...
>:)
 
;)
 
11:02 AM
@Mateo No! A mixture of quantum physics and chemistry.
 
11:43 AM
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Q: Running Elementary OS on MacBookPro10,1, get random resolution changes

ZachI recently installed Elementary OS (Ubuntu-based) and every now and then my resolution drops down to a super small size that messes with my mouse-tracking and pretty much makes any application inaccessible, forcing me to restart. My hardware is that of a MacBookPro10,1, which has a discrete card...

 
12:16 PM
Wot?
MS is gonna release a "Linux" OS (Miux) prior to Windows 10?
Greeeaaaaaat. More fragmentation of the Linux community and probably make Linux look bad :P
Windows is gonna have their own version of apt-get? Wut.
Windows 10 may indeed be not that bad.
 
@RPiAwesomeness Read the date on that article.
 
>.< I can't believe I fell somewhat for that. It felt a bit fishy, but I didn't think to check the date since it's nearly May facepalm
 
Yay, option 2 on Ubuntu install now says "erase disk"
 
What is the better solution? :)
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Q: Resizing window to a particular size

Cyber LynxI want to resize a game's window to 1280x720. I tried with wctrl and xdotools but it wasn't working. I'm using 15.04. Here's a video showing the problem.

 
12:36 PM
@RPiAwesomeness They used to have their own Unix variant: Xenix!
@RPiAwesomeness April fool's day...
 
@Fabby Indeed :P
I was going to say Hello from Ubuntu MATE 15.04...but then realized I was actually in 14.04.2 :P
Forgot I had downloaded the 14.04.2 MATE ISO and the 15.04 vanilla ISO :p
 
1:15 PM
huh, just found that an intel q35 dosn't really work nice on 15.04
 
@JacobVlijm Thanks, I've had a look at the video more detail.
 
@Mateo The hard way? :P
 
1:34 PM
Yeah... So hopefully 14.10, or something will work - or maybe just a different desktop...
Since I just need a decent resolution, and at least 14.10
Will be hooked up to a TV for this: risevision.com
 
@Mateo: 2007? 0_0
Different desktop might be an idea. lxde works on stuff older than that I've had lying around
 
@JourneymanGeek well it is small - vesa mount - and free since someone was tossing it (vista sticker on it...)
 
ahh
@Mateo: ahh
yeah, sounds about right.
How small? 0_0
 
And faster than a pi, and x86 so more capable
 
heh. My phone is probably faster than a Pi
 
1:47 PM
About a 7x7x2
 
(I currently have a bay trail brix as a home server, and its decent. Even if Its doing much more than it should, ;p)
My pi's currently gathering dust ;p
 
Maybe slightly bigger than that, but nice enough to put behind a 40 something in TV
 
Plus Google dropped the api grive was using... Which was what I was using to automate the old slideshow on the pi
 
Tim
2:22 PM
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Ask Ubuntu (in Spanish)

Proposed Q&A site for ubuntu experts, users and developers in Spanish.

Currently in definition.

 
2:54 PM
^^ ping @LuisAlvarado and @Lucio they might be interested in that or not. either way.
 
doubt it will happen and if it does I want one for Dutch >:-D
 
3:30 PM
hey
how can I change my wifi signal to 5ghz? i tried everything in edit connection (changed to infrastructure), still it logs to 2.4ghz
 
3:48 PM
@Fabby? I have an urgent need for Mr.Backup! :-(
 
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Q: Why can't I connect to 5ghz?

heyIn "Edit Connections" I chose mode "Infrastructure". In router page (BT Home Hub), it shows that my android phone is connected to 5ghz, and my laptop still uses 2.4ghz. What can I do?

 

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