Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Putting the Current Date in a Spool File Name in sqlplus

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

 Using SYSDATE you can query the current date and put it in a substitution variable. The substitution variable can then be used in a SPOOL command: column dcol new_value mydate noprintselect to_char(sysdate,’YYYYMMDD’) dcol from dual;spool &mydate.report.txt— my report goes hereselect … Continue reading →

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Some useful Google Chrome extensions that I use – Part 3

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Well, this is the article number 200 in this blog, I’m so proud of this 🙂 Copy Without Formatting: Enables you to copy text from any website without its formatting, very useful in some situations where you just need to extract … Continue reading →

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Some useful Google Chrome extensions that I use – Part 2

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

SmoothScroll: As the name indicates, it allows smooth scrolling of the web page, makes chrome more elegant 🙂 MiddleButtonScroll: A feature that I really wanted and couldn’t find at first on Chrome is the ability to click the middle mouse button and … Continue reading →

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Some useful Google Chrome extensions that I use – Part 1

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

AdThwart: Blocks ads based on Firefox Adblock plus filter engine. I prefer this one to the others as it works exactly the same as Adblock plus on Firefox, and other seem buggy, up till now. Google Mail Checker Plus: Checks your Gmail, … Continue reading →

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