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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

How to enable/disable a network interface on Windows from command line

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Ahmed Tawfik

Assuming “Ethernet” is the name of the network connection you need to enable or disable: To enable: netsh interface set interface “Ethernet” enable To disable: netsh interface set interface “Ethernet” disable

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Search for files with certain size and extension

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Ahmed Tawfik

I was looking for a large PDF file that was above 100 MB. The file was inside thousands of other files and folders, so I used this command to find it: find . -type f -size +100M | grep -i … Continue reading →

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How to get rid of GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema ‘***’ does not contain a key on Gnome 40+

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Ahmed Tawfik

In case you mess up the schema for any reason and you are no longer able to open the Gnome settings, e.g. gnome-control-center, just do the following and then logout and back in (or simply reboot): rm .config/dconf/user That’s it! … Continue reading →

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Cracking WiFi keys with Aircrack-ng and hashcat using GPU

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Ahmed Tawfik

Disclaimer This post is for educational purposes only and should NOT be used otherwise. The primary aim is to understand how a weak WiFi password can be compromised in a few minutes, if not less. Introduction In this post I … Continue reading →

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How to reset displays (monitors) settings for KDE Plasma and GNOME

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Ahmed Tawfik

Originally posted on Just Some Techie Notes!:
In case your display arrangement or settings, e.g. when you have 3 screens and you are for some reason unable to reorganize them or change their settings, just reset your display settings: For…

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