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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

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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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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