Root Access

lol

I posted first ;p

Yes you did. Synetech posted at the same time as me.

and i edited in 7zip after downloading the software i recommended, and reading the readme ;p

If only we could join our answers and all get reputation for it

lol

well

upvotes the other two answers

both of which covers things i didn't... which also means you both get rep ;p

2:32 AM

:D

Now with screenshots. I am waiting for Synetech to upload a GIF like he did last time to compete with me. :P

Q: Per-application audio control that works in Windows 7 64 Bit

lol

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On Windows 7, I'm still looking for a per-application adjustment of the focused program audio playback with control capability. Preferably it should have keyboard shortcuts. List of things I've tried: NirCmd: shortcuts for it pop-up auto hide taskbar, and it did not work on 50% of the programs...

windows-7 64-bit sound mixer

this one has EPIC screenshots

2:50 AM

COLORFUL

3:20 AM

@JourneymanGeek For me it has been a Epic pain in the butt :-) such a simple thing with so many little buggies . I would hand another 1/2 my rep out to the person who can control "system sounds" item seperately

3:39 AM

microsoft (win7) from XP , tossed out my toolbars , I had to toss out old hardware, which tossed out analog CD control. To get color changes i had to toss Aero :-( , they discontinued the large database of Gadgets , first time i even saw them work, and next few days gone from thier web . Changed the taskbar, biggest problem being 10 windows piled on top of eachother. Tosed out my "Top folder organised menu". forced in Full Line select in explorer.

lol

They added some bug, that has thousands going crasy where a deleted or added file item doesnt refresh the file view. Add in some great UAC security that 1/2 the people turned off. Forced the install of everything, cross linking turns them "on or Off" at will.

lol

UAC isn't that bad on 7

its easier for linux users

it was worse on vista?

ya

Vista's UAC was specifically designed to annoy

3:48 AM

I really dont mind if the system would tell me "did you want to Install" , "did you want this Driver" , and "did you know this POS program is trying to copy itself in 500 places, and is sending your keystrokes out over the web" :-)

lol

so far, all i got was , that all happens, without me :-) while it warns that i just pushed a mouse button.

up till xpsp2 there was a bit of software called winpooch that did that

it bitched at everything

@JourneymanGeek A 3rd party item, that is lesser known, is often not addressed by a virus.

good viruses have all the MS tricks worked out. if i can toss the ms tricks, and replace them with virtually unknown tricks, I might be able to confuse the viruses :-)

hey, anyone understand root here?

4:03 AM

@bambuntu Can you be more specific?

sure,

@bambuntu base part of plant , brings water and nutrients to plant, term used in computers to designate lower level things that can be the root or lower levels

I think I might be in the wrong area. sorry

@bambuntu root - for computers. yup, that's us

@bambuntu Not necessarily. Psycogeek is joking around

4:04 AM

oh really? I'm so serious.

Also, if you need a more specific audience, there is Unix.SE: unix.stackexchange.com

Is that a chatroom?

No, but they have their own chat!

/dev/chat

General discussion for unix.stackexchange.com. If you have a q...

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well, could I run something past you?

I suppose so. I'm more familiar with Windows than Unix, however

4:09 AM

I'm remastering Ubuntu as a live distro in order to run Firefox without beign connected to the user actuall hard drive. This protects viruses.

against viruses.

AH! Since you are using Ubuntu, we also have a specific site for that. :)

Oh, I thought this place was all Ubuntu

Super User encompasses all computer related issues, but we also have specific sites for more focused topics.

Ask Ubuntu General Room

Normally: General discussion around Ask Ubuntu, Ubuntu & offic...

2

I actually got here via Ask Ubuntu thinking it was just a sub site.

Ok, thanks for the heads up

It's ok. Anyway, welcome to StackExchange @bambuntu!

@studiohack So, what's the deal with these News chat rooms popping up?

Saw them on a few other SE sites, too

4:19 AM

@iglvzx News Chat rooms?

SuperNews

This room will collect technology news from various websites a...

oh... hmmm. never seen that before

It's because they were literally added within the last hour

@iglvzx let me get with my sources ;P

@studiohack lol. ok. It's just intriguing because there is no word on Meta.SO or Blog.SE

4:21 AM

@iglvzx Yeah, the first I've heard about it...

Okay, not a official SE thing - seems to be an independent user

Yeah. I just noticed. It looks like you can add RSS feeds to chat rooms.

Speaking of chat rooms, when I first joined Super User, I thought the room "Studiohack's computer" was a chat room hosted on your own personal server/computer

@iglvzx you can

@iglvzx hahahaha :) nope - just discussing my PC build

So, I guess mystery solved, Detective Studiohack

@iglvzx bows happy to be of service :) thank ye!

Haha

5:15 AM

lol

6:32 AM

@Sathya @Psycogeek @JourneymanGeek Hello guys. If you could enlighten me please, interesting but when my router was set to WPA2 and AES, my HP laptop with Windows XP SP2 with SP3 updates could not connect to it telling me to make sure network is active (or something) and that it is within range.

Today i set router's encryption to WPA with TKIP and VOILA! It worked! I don't understand how Windows XP does not support WPA2 with AES. Any ideas?

Sathya

seems more like your wireless chipset doesn't support WPA2

WinXP supports WPA2 +AES

^ that

after SP2

SP1 didn't iirc

Thanks guys!

@JourneymanGeek Ah you mean that SP1 did not support such encryption and SP2 can support?

yup

@JourneymanGeek So the problem is not within wireless NIC but Service Pack? Or both?

6:39 AM

Its probably not windows

Its more likely the NIC as satya said

@JourneymanGeek But i have mixed SP2 and SP3

Oh

Yeah got it

no, if you installed SP3, you have SP3

Well the laptop is from 2006.

@JourneymanGeek I installed SP3 but it shows SP2

@JourneymanGeek I had SP2 and then after a few years updated to SP3

something obviously went wrong with the SP install

and it can.

6:41 AM

it should show the version you have

@Sathya Cheers!

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek ah, thanks for clarifying

After messing with service packs and upgrades for XP, i gave up and finnaly purchaced a Xp disk with the updates. If your messing with putting on tons of hotfixes and service packs, doing it slower and in order of time can help

lol

@Psycogeek Well.. @JourneymanGeek What :)

6:44 AM

I just use wsus offline updates

hey they were cheaper then too :-)

I vaguely recall the SP2 disk being free

or bundled with something rediculous like a pack of floppies..

oh, no, that was IE

@JourneymanGeek But who knows, maybe that update which is on your DVD now could have include bugs and online update could have newest version of that update.

@Borisyo: i just run the update script again. and store the updates on USB so i can refresh them

When i was putting on these crasy layers of hotfixes, i am going through the Drivers and Dlls , trying to figure out what occured. there are some things a person should never have to see

6:46 AM

Well this probably saves you gigabytes of bandwidth and time which is most important...

@Borisyo: it also means i can set a system to update overnight and get it updated

Where can i learn how to do this Offline Update?

download.wsusoffline.net

@JourneymanGeek you are not running this everytime there is update, right?

naw

just for initial post first install patches, or if i am unsure if a system is up to date

6:52 AM

@JourneymanGeek Supposedly after new Windows setup?

ya

or in cases like yours

@JourneymanGeek I feel if i run this now, it will do more mess.

this downloads offline installers in bulk

and applies them

up to you

@Boris_yo make a image backup of the system first. if it all works , make a backup image of the system all "updated"

keep both to test between the one and the other , then you can report bugs for an OS that is discontinued :-)

Offline whole service pack install superuser.com/questions/347245/… For deployers , works better for users than the winders updater , when attempting to do to many at once.

@JourneymanGeek @Psycogeek Is there a way i can "Favorite" Superuser questions?

Sathya

7:01 AM

@Boris_yo click on the star

@Sathya Thanks.

back in XP updating, many users would report a specific problem, then along comes "mister never had that problem, your all wrong" who has 50 computers all running perfect. Well mr perfect used deploying, not the windows updater.

we wont mention, that mr perfects computers were all the same also, with all the same hardware, and all the same limited software, and were locked down, and had nothing to do with everyone else :-)

@Psycogeek And that mister is Journeyman?

@Boris_yo no, ask him, but I think he has a wide and diverse knowhow

lets try this @JourneymanGeek Is windows a completly bug free operating system, that nothing ever goes wrong ?

7:47 AM

@Psycogeek: bug free operating systems don't exist

sure there's issues. And it can occationally be annoying. A lot of what i know is built around mitigating those annoyances

@JourneymanGeek That proves it, Journeyman geek has not been replaced by a stack exchange bot :-)

and i use offline updates primarily cause windows update borked an update to SP2 ;p

and i had to reinstall and waste a day waiting for patches to download and install

I am connecting through smartphone's tethered bluetooth dial-up connection to internet now. I can see i can set baud rate from 115K to 921K. How do i know which baud rate my smartphone's bluetooth is capable of?

bluetooth... dial-up?

brain breaks

Its not dialup i think

@JourneymanGeek It is Bluetooth DUN

PDANet is app that allows to do so.

8:05 AM

@Borisyo with old modems and older serial stuff, often I would just set it all the way up, then see how it worked, lower it as it fails (untill it works reliable), and any manuel setting of was to set it close to the max. usually negotiation speeds were adjusted by the programs , when it gets packet losses, and fails?

@Psycogeek use PING to test for packet loss?

@Boris_yo i only rely on ping when normal activity fails. I have tethered before, but only one style of teather, and only based on software that existed on the devices. they never even gave me any manuel controls

8:43 AM

@Psycogeek Whoah! Smartphone's CPU is at 78% usage because of a bluetooth tethering.

then it must be working :-)

Paul

@JourneymanGeek while it isn't dial up in the traditional sense of a modem dialing a number, you still do an ATDT*99***1# to call the number via the same mechanism you would with an old analog modem

When we had some tethering going, seeing if i could get rid of an ISP, the phone did sit there and cook (slang for, it was staying hot). That phone did not have Cpu use indicator.

ahh

eww

shows how little i know about phones, and how much i've forgotten about dialup ;)

Paul

@Borisyo I don't think any attention is paid to the baud rate when it isn't a real modem. I could be wrong though - are you seeing a speed issue?