Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Add a new HDD to a VM without rebooting on Ubuntu server

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik

Firstly, install scsitools package: sudo apt install scsitools Then run the command rescan-scsi-bus: sudo rescan-scsi-bus That’s it, your new virtual HDD has now been detected. Another way would be to do it with a loop and without the need for … Continue reading →

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A cute little screenshot and annotation tool on Linux

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik

A very handy screenshot tool that works very well on my KDE plasma desktop on Ubuntu 19.10 is ksnip, which you can get from here: https://github.com/damirporobic/ksnip Just download and install the deb file and that’s it! Enjoy!

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Restart network manager indicator in KDE Plasma Desktop

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik

sudo service NetworkManager restart Note: This is specifically for the network icon in the system tray and is different from the network-manager service which controls the whole Linux network manager: Tested on Ubuntu 19.10 with KDE Plasma 5.16.5 Source: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=200935

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Copy with rsync over ssh

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik

From remote server to local one: rsync -avzhe ssh remote_user@REMOTE_IP:/remote_folder_or_file /local_destination_folder_or_file From local server to remote one: rsync -avzhe ssh local_folder_or_file remote_user@REMOTE_IP:/remote_destination_folder_or_file That’s it, Enjoy! Sources: https://www.tecmint.com/rsync-local-remote-file-synchronization-commands/

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Build Synergy in Ubuntu 19.04

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik

Synergy software, which shares your keyboard and mouse to multiple computers through the network, is no longer available in the Ubuntu 19.04 repos, so the only remaining option is to build it from source: sudo apt install qtcreator qtbase5-dev cmake … Continue reading →

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