Monthly Archives: November 2011

Right-to-left e-mail composing in Thunderbird with Bidi

If you want to write Arabic, it’s very annoying to use left-to-right text direction, and it’s not supported natively in Thunderbird. One of the solutions is to use the “Bidi” add-on for Thunderbird, I was able to successfully install it … Continue reading

Posted in Ubuntu | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Working with KSH

Here are the shortcuts that were of utmost importance to get me productive with KSH: “stty erase ^?” to remove the ‘^?’ symbol when the backspace key is pressed. “Ctrl-p” shows the previous command that you typed, pressing several time … Continue reading

Posted in Unix | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

How to stop mysql from starting up automatically in Ubuntu Desktop

MySQL uses a different mechanism other than apache2, so you can simply comment the three lines inside “/etc/init/mysql.conf” Change this: start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems and runlevel [2345]) stop on runlevel [016] to this: #start on (net-device-up # and local-filesystems … Continue reading

Posted in Ubuntu | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

How to stop apache2 from automatically starting in Ubuntu Desktop

sudo update-rc.d apache2 remove

Posted in Ubuntu | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment