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 on my Thunderbird 8.
After installation is done and restarting Thunderbird, you’ll find two new icons for determining left-to-right or vice versa.
Update: I found it to be a very buggy add-on and sometimes views English text from right-to-left.
Here are the shortcuts that were of utmost importance to get me productive with KSH:
“stty erase ^?” to remove the ‘^?’ symbol when the backspace key is pressed.
“Ctrl-p” shows the previous command that you typed, pressing several time will get you sequentially to older commands
“Ctrl-n” shows the next command in case you used “Ctrl-p”, i.e. navigates forward
“Ctrl-b” moves the cursor back one character
“Ctrl-f” moves the cursor forward one character
Here is a screenshot of a table that contains most of the shortcuts
Note: Not all of them work, like the reverse search, have no idea why yet.
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
# and runlevel [2345])
stop on runlevel [016]
Source: http://anonir.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/ubuntu-lucid-disable-services-from-starting-during-boot/
It worked perfectly with the latest version of Ubuntu as of this article (Oneiric, 11.10)
sudo update-rc.d apache2 remove
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 /media/L_AAMR/slash_home_before_Oneric_25_Oct_2011.tar /home/aamr –exclude=VirtualBox\ VMs/
In the above example, I tarred all the contents of my home folder “/home/aamr” onto a TAR file inside my external HDD: “/media/L_AAMR/slash_home_before_Oneric_25_Oct_2011.tar” excluding the Virtual Machines folder “VirtualBox\ VMs/”, I used the relative path here as I was standing on “/home/aamr”.
Update: For some reason the folder with spaces “VirtualBox\ VMS/” didn’t work out, so I used a wildcard instead “Virtualbox*” and it ran correctly.
Just Some Techie Notes! 