Category Archives: Ubuntu

Right-to-left e-mail composing in Thunderbird with Bidi

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

If you want to write Arabic, it’s very annoying to use left-to-right text direction, and it’s not supported natively in Thunderbird. One of the solutions is to use the “Bidi” add-on for Thunderbird, I was able to successfully install it … Continue reading →

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How to stop mysql from starting up automatically in Ubuntu Desktop

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

MySQL uses a different mechanism other than apache2, so you can simply comment the three lines inside “/etc/init/mysql.conf” Change this: start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems and runlevel [2345]) stop on runlevel [016] to this: #start on (net-device-up # and local-filesystems … Continue reading →

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How to stop apache2 from automatically starting in Ubuntu Desktop

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

sudo update-rc.d apache2 remove

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How to exclude a folder when using TAR to archive

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

I’m generally using the “tar” utility to backup my stuff, but sometimes I need to exclude some folders, especially very large folders such as those for Videos or Virtual Machines, this is the syntax you need to use: tar -cvf … Continue reading →

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Adding multiple rows/columns to a spreadsheet in LibreOffice Calc

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

Inserting more than one row/column at a time To insert multiple rows into a Calc spreadsheet at one time, select the same number of rows as you want to add, beginning at the row AFTER where you want the insertion … Continue reading →

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