I have UAC permanently turned off. It keeps warning me that it's turned off, but it really is a tradeoff between constantly giving permission to do things and having a tooltip box pop up every so often.
Don't you always have to input a root password on Linux if you want to change the settings? I know you have to on Mac OS X...
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