Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

How to force remove an erroneous package in Ubuntu

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

If things get messy and you weren’t able to remove it using the package management tool (apt-get or aptitude), then you can manually remove the package: Open /var/lib/dpkg/status as root, “sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status” and search for your package and remove … Continue reading →

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Terminal Terminal Terminal Terminal :)

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik
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Type The Command Once, Execute in Multiple Terminals: keyboardcast

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

“sudo apt-get install keyboardcast”, nothing more to say 🙂

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Getting X11 forwarding through ssh working after running su in AIX

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

After logging to a remote server using the “ssh -X user@host” (assuming that you have enabled X11Forwarding in your “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” file, and then restarted ssh by issuing “stopsrc -g ssh” and then “startsrc -g ssh”), you can run any X-windows … Continue reading →

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rmconverter: Convert Real Media Files to MP3 or WAV

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

TBD

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