Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Adding multiple rows/columns to a spreadsheet in LibreOffice Calc

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

Inserting more than one row/column at a time To insert multiple rows into a Calc spreadsheet at one time, select the same number of rows as you want to add, beginning at the row AFTER where you want the insertion … Continue reading →

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Oracle DB Installation on AIX Tip

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

If you’re using Windows and running an X-server, such as XMing, and you’re willing to run the Oracle Installer, you might face the following warning: “Warning: Cannot convert string “-*-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1″ to type FontStruct” Followed by a NullPointer Exception. This is … Continue reading →

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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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