Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

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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Modifying the siebns.dat file

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

siebns file cannot and MUST NOT be modified by hand using any text editor as it is CRC checked by an Oracle algorithm, e.g. vi, and what used to happen is that you should send the file to Oracle Support … Continue reading →

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IBM Lotus Notes 8 on Linux

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik
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Live USB Ubuntu 8.04 Installation (Persistent)

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

Article Source: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Live USB How-to Tips and Tricks: You can just use gmountiso “sudo apt-get install gmountiso” to mount the iso file instead of doing it manually. You can just download the “initrd.gz” file instead of … Continue reading →

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