Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Software I Use For Windows

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

In my current task, I had to use Windows not Linux :(, and of course I had to adapt to this and use my favorite software there, here are they: Browser: Mozilla Firefox + Adblock plus + Mouse Gestures pluginsMail: … Continue reading →

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Running 32-bit apps on 64-bit Ubuntu

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Ahmed Tawfik

In order for this to run correctly, you just need the 32-bit libraries required for any 32-bit application, and instead of searching for these libraries – which is a very tiring task in my opinion – you can just download … Continue reading →

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Administrating Subversion: Adding and Removing Users

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Ahmed Tawfik

Adding and removing users to a Subversion repository is quite a straightforward process, just do the following: You’ll find a folder called “repos” in your filesystem which contains the different repositories you’ve created. You have to access the repository you … Continue reading →

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Performance Tip in OpenOffice.org 2.3

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Ahmed Tawfik

I’ve just read about a performance enhancement tip in OpenOffice.org, tried it out, and surprisingly, I found a performance BOOST in its startup. Just open OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc or any other product and click Tools>Options>Java and remove the check from … Continue reading →

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Changing the Username and Password used to access the Subversion repository

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Ahmed Tawfik

One of my teammates; Ahmad Salah from the IFX team has just faced a simple, yet annoying problem; About 2-3 days ago, he wanted to log in to the Subversion repository to access the project files and I gave him … Continue reading →

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