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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Workaround for Ubuntu Karmic Bug: Window List buttons do not always respond to mouse clicks

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Here is the bug URL I got the solution from there as well, as this was an extremely annoying bug for me and I consider it a FATAL One! Open a terminal and run the following command: “nohup env GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 … Continue reading →

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Extract audio from a video file in Ubuntu

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

“mplayer -dumpaudio GummyBearSong.avi -dumpfile gummybear.mp3” Where: “GummyBearSong.avi” is the source video, in the example above it was 30 MB “gummybear.mp3” is the output audio file (in mp3 format), was about 3 MB in size Another method that worked flawlessly with … Continue reading →

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Enforce any application to appear full screen in gnome

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

In Gnome, you can force any application to go full screen;Open System=>Preferences=>Keyboard shortcutsUnder “Window Management” assigne any key combinations such as “CTL+SHIFT+F” for “Toggle Fullscreen mode”.Open any application (firefox, eclipse, ….) and press “CTRL + SHIFT + F”, the program … Continue reading →

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pass entire parameters in shell scripts

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

example bash file: save the following in a file called print.sh#!/bin/bashecho “$@”and then :chmod +x print.sh./print.sh hello worldNote that, all the parameters you pass to print.sh will be passed to echo, this because of “$@”

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List sessions for a user using Siebel CLI

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

“list sessions for login user_name“

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