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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

How To Compile and Install Tora 2.1 with Oracle Support on Ubuntu Jaunty

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

sudo apt-get build-dep tora sudo apt-get install libqscintilla2-dev Download instant client of Oracle Database (all zip files and extract them to one folder) ./configure –with-instant-client=PATH_TO_YOUR_INSTANT_CLIENT_FOLDER Follow the instructions – if any – and complete any missing steps make sudo make … Continue reading →

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Firefox + Adblock Plus + Java Plugin Crash Problem Solution

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

At last, my firefox setup is perfected: (Source: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4422) This issue was SOLVED here,comment #6 at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501173#c6. Change the plugin firefox uses for java, from libjavaplugin_oji.so to libnpjp2.so.Done. For a system wide change: Code: Select all # rm /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so# ln … Continue reading →

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Unix Terminal shortcuts

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

On Unix-like systems, most of us use shell to do much of daily tasks, and we use terminal to issue commands.These terminals may be from a Unix system such as gnome-terminal, Konsol or througt MS-WINDOWS such as butty or F-Secure.This … Continue reading →

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Secure Copy (scp)

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

If you want to copy files between two Unix-Like Hosts in the same network, use this amazing command: scp file_name mhewedy@compu10:~/work/ where :file_name : is the file to copymhewedy@compu10:~/work/ the directory to copy the files to, indicating the machine name … Continue reading →

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Revert back to ubuntu usplash theme

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

sudo dpkg-reconfigure usplash-theme-ubuntu

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