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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

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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$@ is not "$@"

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

when you want to pass multiple parameters through you shell script, you use $@ex: #! /bin/shecho $@ and then execute this file: ./script1 hello world the script will prints “Hello world” But be ware, $@ is not “$@” !! The … Continue reading →

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Restarting USB Storage Modules in Ubuntu

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

“sudo modprobe -r usb_storage““sudo modprobe usb_storage“It’s only because I had a problem in mounting any USB storage, it happened with me onceand I had to restart my machine, and I hate having to do so 🙂Source

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