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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Techienotes e-mail is back online

Techienotes.info mail has now become online, you can e-mail us at: aamr@techienotes.info omagdy@techienotes.info

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Solution to Not Able to import PDF files on OpenOffice.org Lucid

Don’t manually download the extension from the website, install it from the repos instead “sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-pdfimport” That’s it! Enjoy!

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Huawei e156G 3G modem Connection not appearing in Network Manager Connections List in Ubuntu Lucid

Insert the modem Right-click and select eject Unplug the modem Plug in the modem Done! I’m using the USB Huawei e156g 3G modem on Ubuntu Lucid

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Encrypt and Decrypt Text Files on AIX using OpenSSL

There are oodles of encryption algorithms and encrypting a file is quite simple. Code: # openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -in file -out file.enc enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: password Verifying – enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: password # To decrypt, simply swap your … Continue reading →

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How to get rid of gnome-panel in Ubuntu

gnome-panel had – and is still having – a lot of bugs and problems, so I decided to get rid of it, at least till it improves and decided to replace it with Avant Window Navigator. The problem is that … Continue reading →

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