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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Setting Up a CVS Server on AIX -> Draft

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

Download the RPM package from the online AIX Linux Toolbox Install it using RPM, if it doesn’t exist, download the installp image for RPM first and install it using Smitty Install the RPM package using “rpm -ivh cvsxxxx.rpm” CVSROOT environment … Continue reading →

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Quick Tutorial: How to Setup Visual Mining NetCharts for Siebel 8 on AIX

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

I’m using user “siebel” to do all the below, it’s not recommended to use “root”. Download the installation files from Siebe’s image and upload it to the server decompress the file and navigate to: enu->unix There is only one file … Continue reading →

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Command to display Hardware specs of an AIX Server

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

prtconf In order to be able to read the info, you should offcourse pipe to more, i.e. prtconf | more  

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Revert to your old Ubuntu splash theme after installing Kubuntu or Xubuntu Desktop using galternatives

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

Install galternatives sudo apt-get install galternatives run with sudo galternatives or from menu Applications/System Tools/Alternatives Configurator Find default.plymouth and select /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth Mouse pointer can also be changed from x-cursor-theme Credit goes to Ginsu here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1462523 You can change A LOT of … Continue reading →

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Enable Right-to-left Support in Lotus Symphony 3 through CTL

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

I was translating a document from English to Arabic in a Lotus Symphony document and it was really an annoying experience, as pressing the right cursor goes left and vice versa, as well as many other annoyances. I searched the … Continue reading →

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