Monthly Archives: August 2010

Uninstalling Adobe AIR Applications on Ubuntu Lucid

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Today, I installed the “adobeair” package to have the Adobe AIR runtime on my Ubuntu Lucid to be able to install Adobe Air Apps, and installed the Tweetdeck application afterwards, the problem is that I didn’t like the application as … Continue reading →

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Welcome Onboard, Sharaf

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Today, I’d like to welcome our newest member; Mohamed Sharaf Eldin. He’ll be the first author on this blog to write about Management, Leadership …etc, I’m sure he’ll be a great value addition, since that as much as we need … Continue reading →

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Convert CD-quality WAV to 8bit mono WAV using ffmpeg

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Today I needed to record something in a WAV file that shouldn’t exceed 100 KB, when I used the standard “Sound Recorder” in Ubuntu, it recorded using the default CD-quality recording (resulting in a 280 KB file, so I used … Continue reading →

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Techienotes e-mail is back online

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Techienotes.info mail has now become online, you can e-mail us at: aamr@techienotes.info omagdy@techienotes.info

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How to connect to a specific SID using sqlplus under Unix

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Osama Magdy

A very easy way to connect to a specific SID (other than the default one) using sqlplus, is to make this SID “temporarily” the default SID. Just change ORACLE_SID environment variable to the required SID name: export ORACLE_SID=sid_name Then connect … Continue reading →

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