http://unix.stackexchange.com – When I tried to "sudo su" instead of "sudo su -" after having been logged in as root and su-ing to another user, it tries to sudo me as the new user, but via root... When I type env, it shows still username=root in the environment. Is sudo not looking at the currently logged in user, but at the enviroment parameters? (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Wandera, a startup that offers enterprises a cloud-based solution to reduce the costs of mobile data through compression and better management, is announcing that it has closed $7 million in funding. The Series A round comes entirely from Bessemer Venture Partners, and is in addition to a seed round Wandera quietly raised last year from angels including Klaus Hommels and Alex Zubillaga. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://stackoverflow.com – I have a perl script running as root, and from within it I want to execute a system command bar as a lesser priveleged user foo. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://forums.fedoraforum.org – For me, Fedora 18 has been the worst since Fedora Core 1 and, perhaps, 7 & 15. I believe it was fatally compromised by the Anaconda issues and was never able to fully recover. Up to this day, its behavior in all machines I have it installed has been sub-par. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://unix.stackexchange.com – I have an issue where when I try to build a really large project, my machine starts swapping (several GB) even though there's plenty of memory (14 GB in fact). (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://crunchbang.org – Hello all,I've got two plain text-editing programs that I use, JDarkRoom and Sublime Text.http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/http://www.sublimetext.com/I've built shell scripts to allow me to open them more quickly. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://ubuntuforums.org – Hello, I recently installed Gnome Shell in Lubuntu 12.10. GNOME Classic works fine but GNOME 3 does not work. I do not see an error message. When I log into GNOME 3, I just get a screen that displays my wallpaper on it. There is no panel at the top and I am unable to launch any programs. Only notifications seem to work. (Hardware)
Email this pagehttp://ubuntuforums.org – Hello Forums, Background: I a few months ago I found a Dell Latitude D420 in a box of office things on the street. It was accompanied by its (19.5V 4.62A) [UNGROUNDED?!] power adapter and a docking station. I'm most familiar with Ubuntu so for convenience/functionality sake I'm going to have Ubuntu 12.04 installed. (Hardware)
Email this pagehttp://ubuntuforums.org – I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and bash. I've written a pair of shell scripts that allow me to set an alarm which, after ringing, unsets itself. The first, alarmset, allows me to enter a time and modifies the alarm line in the crontab. (Hardware)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Facebook is getting into the “Android launcher” market, the company has confirmed, thanks to its new Facebook Home application announced today. The app, as previously reported, is new software that integrates the Facebook experience deeply into the Android operating system. But Android launchers today aren’t a very large market, relative to the reach Facebook has in mind. (IT news)
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