Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Create a folder for importing an Oracle dump file

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Generally speaking, in Oracle DB, for you to be able to import a dump file, you have to use a predefined list of directories in order to read the dump file from, don’t know why, but that’s how it goes. … Continue reading →

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Delete Fonts from Ubuntu

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

I installed many fonts and many web pages were looking very bad with these fonts, so I decided to remove them Navigate to the “.fonts” folder Delete the font That’s it 🙂 Note: This only applies to user fonts, i.e. … Continue reading →

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How to allow 32-bit Ubuntu Desktop to use more than 3 GB of RAM

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

This is enabled by a feature called Physical Address Extension (PAE), there is a kernel version in Ubuntu 32-bit that supports PAE, there is a meta package that does this for you, i.e. grabs the latest kernel version and allows … Continue reading →

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How to use Portrait and Landscape pages within the same document in OpenOffice

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Format->Styles and Formatting Click the Page styles Right click and select “New”, this will start creating a new style Name it “Portrait” or whatever name you need Click on the page tab and choose the orientation to be “Portrait” Do … Continue reading →

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تعلم الكتابة العمياء في أوبونتو “Klavaro” Learn Touch Typing in Ubuntu

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

برنامج يبدو جيدا لتعلم الطباعة العمياء في أوبونتو و هو، “Klavaro” و يمكنك تنصيبه من: “Ubuntu Software Center” أو ببساطة يمكنك إستخدام هذا الأمر: “sudo apt-get install klavaro”

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