Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Remove Carriage Returns From Text Files Edited on Windows

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

Sometimes people change text files – that are supposed to run or get processed on a Unix/Linux system – on Windows text editors such as notepad, this messes up the file as Windows puts a carriage return (read as ^M … Continue reading →

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Use Your Bluetooth Phone To Access The Internet

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

This is really cool! I could finally access the internet over a bluetooth personal area network (PAN) on my Ubuntu Hardy, here are the steps: Install the following packages: bluez-utils, bluetooth, bluez-gnome, bluez-hcidump you will need to enable the BlueTooth … Continue reading →

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Create Keyboard Shortcut to Kill/Open avant-window-navigator when playing games

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

I really like compiz and awn (avant window navigator), but awn causes me a problem when playing games; they just keep flickering till I get mad, so everytime I start a game I have to manually close awn and after … Continue reading →

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How to Switch Page Direction in Firefox 3

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

In Ubuntu 8.10 after installing Firefox 3, I received an e-mail that contained a mix of Arabic and English words and since the default text direction is left-to-right, it was very difficult to read and I couldn’t find the context … Continue reading →

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How to search for a file using the "find" command (not case sensitive)

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

find . -name “*” | grep -i

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