Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Ubuntu Connect to AIX V5.3 XServer

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

How to redirect graphical output of AIX to Ubuntu and run: 1) Go to System ->Administration ->Login Window->Security-> untick “Deny TCP connections to Xserver”2) Log out and then back in3) Type these commands in the terminal:xhost +telnet host_nameexport DISPLAY=Client_IP:0.04) Run … Continue reading →

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How to restart the audio in Ubuntu

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

check for process pulseaudio kill it re-open it with the -D flag Audio is back 🙂

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Firefox ROCKS! Firefox Profiles

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

I have just disovered a feature that I needed sooooooooooo much @ work when having to access multiple networks with different proxies; this feature is ‘Profiles’. You can have many Firefoxes on the same OS :), each one with totally … Continue reading →

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Secure & Persistent Ubuntu 8.10 on USB Flash Disk

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

A very simple yet effective way to have Ubuntu on a flash disk with you, but not a live session as in one of my previous posts in Ubuntu 8.04, the difference between it and the live session is that … Continue reading →

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Bash Scripts To Startup/Shutdown Siebel Server and Gateway

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

The following scripts will make Starting/Shutting Down Siebel Server and Gateway a baby’s task, each of them does the following: Makes sure the user running the scripts is the “siebel” user to avoid running the processes under any other user … Continue reading →

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