Is 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>...
What 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...
I 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?
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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...
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.
@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.
I 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...
I 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.
In "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?