Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

My Story with Hibernating Ubuntu Lucid

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Well, I couldn’t find an appropriate title for this article except the above one! The story is simple, I suddenly couldn’t find the “hibernate” option while shutting down and this annoyed me a little bit, I took a quick look … Continue reading →

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FoxTab: 3D tabbed browsing in Firefox

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Today, I’ll introduce to you a Firefox addon that I liked, it adds some nice eye candy to Firefox and works on all platforms (Linux, MAC and Windows). This addon is named Foxtab, and it’s one of the most popular … Continue reading →

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Reporting a bug in Ubuntu using apport-bug or ubuntu-bug

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

I was experiencing some system freezes and I really didn’t know what to do, I found this tool – which was there for a pretty long time, but I wasn’t using it – to gather data from your system and … Continue reading →

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E-mail writing: GMail Text Templates or Canned Responses

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Sometimes I need to add certain templates of text – السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته and و عليكم السلام و رحمة الله و بركاته in my case – in many of the e-mails that I receive or send, … Continue reading →

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Move Your Gmail Signature Above the Quoted Text

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

I have been having a hard time – since a very long time ago! – using the GMail signature when replying to any e-mail, especially very long ones, as the signature is inserted after the quoted text, i.e. at the … Continue reading →

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