Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Fix Keyboard Sound Controls; Ubuntu Hardy on IBM Thinkpad T60

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

I have a ThinkPad T60 (hda-intel sound) and I was noticing that the volume buttons produce very coarse/abrupt volume changes. I guessed that the volume buttons were changing some internal (direct to speaker) volume and, because of key mappings, were … Continue reading →

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Restore GRUB

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

1. Boot from a Live CD (any Linux distribution, doesn’t matter)2. Open a terminal window3. Type “grub”4. Type “root (hd0,6)”, or whatever your harddisk + boot partition numbers are (pressing tab on the keyboard will auto-complete for you)5. Type “setup … Continue reading →

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Latest Screenshot from my laptop

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik
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Getting (compiling) the latest version of Beagle Indexing Service on Ubuntu Hardy

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

I couldn’t find pre-compiled packages (.deb) for the latest version of Beagle (0.3.9), so I thought about compiling it myself, I did the following: Downloaded the new source files from http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page (beagle and libbeagle) and extracted the files. Opened a … Continue reading →

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An Ubuntu Resource Treasure: Ubuntu PPA

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

Ever tried installing packages that weren’t built for your version of Ubuntu? I’ve tried that HELL lot of times!The solution was in front of my eyes, but seems I was blind or something :S; It’s Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive): … Continue reading →

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