Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Using .rpm packages for Ubuntu

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

As all of you know, Ubuntu is a Debian-based distro, which means that it uses the .deb packages, but the more I work with Ubuntu, the more I discover that many packages are available in .rpm format only (or alternatively … Continue reading →

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A Great MP3 Player!

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

Before now, I was using Totem Movie Player to play my MP3 collections, but I didn’t feel it was as convenient as Winamp or Windows Media Player, and yesterday I saw one of my friends running what I thought at … Continue reading →

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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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