Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Improve Intel Graphics Performance on Ubuntu 16.04 (and variants)

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Ahmed Tawfik

This solved a very annoying problem for me, as the screen was heavily tearing and I didn’t like the video playback performance. All you need to do is the following: If you are using Ubuntu 16.04, then you don’t need … Continue reading →

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How to enable 3D Acceleration for guests in VMWare Workstation Pro 12.5

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Ahmed Tawfik

Just edit the file ~/.vmware/preferences and add the following line mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = “TRUE” That’s it, enjoy! Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/537787/enable-3d-hw-acceleration-on-vmware-workstation-10-on-ubuntu-14-04

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How to encrypt a USB Flash Drive in Ubuntu using LUKS

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Ahmed Tawfik

We lose USB Flash drives all the time, so if you hold any sensitive or personal stuff, you’d better have it encrypted, just in case. Important Notes: This works only on Linux, won’t work on Windows or MAC Before you … Continue reading →

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Compress PDF Files Effectively in Ubuntu

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Ahmed Tawfik

Found a great script that does an amazing job with compressing PDF files whilst maintaining a good quality: Get the script from here: http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/shrinkpdf/ Just copy the script to a text file and make it executable, then run: ./shrinkpdf infile.pdf outfile.pdf … Continue reading →

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How to solve Google Chrome Flickering on Ubuntu 16.04

Posted on October 23, 2016 by Ahmed Tawfik

Just do the following two steps: sudo nano /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop Scroll down to the “Exec” line Add two additional parameters, so that it looks like this: Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable –disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds –enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers %U That’s it, now restart Chrome and it shall work perfectly! I … Continue reading →

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