Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

How to set up HP printing on Ubuntu — HP Laserjet P1005

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

Some HP printers can use one of the drivers already installed by default in Ubuntu. In those cases, all you usually need to do is plug your printer into your computer, and Ubuntu will recognize it and prompt you to … Continue reading →

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Install Moblin 2.1 in Virtualbox

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

I faced a problem while trying to test the new release of Moblin (2.1) which is an OS primarily designed for netbooks. When trying to boot from the live image, I get an error message stating that the kernel is … Continue reading →

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Convert IMG files to ISO in Ubuntu

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

I searched and searched and then found what?? Just rename the file to .iso 😀

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AccuRev auto completion

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

AccuRev supports auto completion for its commands/Depots/Streams through a third-party plug-in.Download form here:http://www.fepus.net/software/accurev-tools/accurev-bash-completion-3.1.tar.gz

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Bash Script To Find and Delete All Files Except Some When the filesystem reaches a specific size

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

#!/bin/sh # This script checks if the /siebel filesystem reaches the warning limit of free space# And then delete the old logs except those of last 12 hours warninglimit=1572864    # This number is in KB, it’s equal to 1.5 GB,                        … Continue reading →

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