Delete Fonts from Ubuntu

I installed many fonts and many web pages were looking very bad with these fonts, so I decided to remove them

  1. Navigate to the “.fonts” folder
  2. Delete the font

That’s it 🙂

Note: This only applies to user fonts, i.e. the fonts you installed using a specific user, in other words, fonts that you downloaded, viewed and then clicked “Install Font”.

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Temporary Tablespace in Oracle 10g

Temporary tablespaces are used to manage space for database sort operations and for storing global temporary tables. For example, if you join two large tables, and Oracle cannot do the sort in memory, space will be allocated in a temporary tablespace for doing the sort operation.

Each database should have one temporary tablespace that is created when the database is created. A temporary tablespace uses temporary files (also called tempfiles) rather than regular datafiles.
TEMPFILEs are not fully initialised (sparse). When you create a TEMPFILE, Oracle only writes to the header and last block of the file. This is why it is much quicker to create a TEMPFILE than to create a normal database file.

An example to create Temporary Tablespace:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp
TEMPFILE ‘/ora01/oracle/oradata/booktst_temp_01.dbf’ SIZE 50m;
DROP TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES;

To view Temporary Tablespace details (including TEMFILES):
select * from v$tempfile

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How to allow 32-bit Ubuntu Desktop to use more than 3 GB of RAM

This is enabled by a feature called Physical Address Extension (PAE), there is a kernel version in Ubuntu 32-bit that supports PAE, there is a meta package that does this for you, i.e. grabs the latest kernel version and allows future updates, just run:

“sudo apt-get install linux-generic-pae linux-headers-generic-pae”

Then restart your machine, Enjoy 🙂

Update: I’ve just restarted my computer, and it recognized my RAM, everything seems to be running fine till now, will keep you updated.

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How to use Portrait and Landscape pages within the same document in OpenOffice

  1. Format->Styles and Formatting
  2. Click the Page styles
  3. Right click and select “New”, this will start creating a new style
  4. Name it “Portrait” or whatever name you need
  5. Click on the page tab and choose the orientation to be “Portrait”
  6. Do the above steps again for a style that you name “Landscape”, although it should be there by default, but if you don’t find it, just create it
  7. Whenever you need to switch the page orientation, click Insert->Manual Break->Page break, and choose the style you want to apply to the new page

Voila! There you go 🙂

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Another Arabic site that promotes for innovation in the Middle East, that is worth promotion and support

 

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