My CRM Session @FCIH Intiatave Program

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Osama Magdy

Last Wednesday, I’ve delivered a session about CRM “Customer Relationship Management” in my dear faculty “Faculty of Computers and Information – Helwan University” 🙂

Many many thanks to the organizers, and whoever made efforts to make this day successful. And for audiences, I wish you liked the session, and I’m waiting your feedback and opinions.

As I promised during the session, the following are some CRM resources and websites for those who are interested:

1. CRM:

2. Siebel CRM:

3. SAP CRM:

4. Open Source CRMs:

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Solution to Not Able to import PDF files on OpenOffice.org Lucid

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Don’t manually download the extension from the website, install it from the repos instead “sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-pdfimport”

That’s it! Enjoy!

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Huawei e156G 3G modem Connection not appearing in Network Manager Connections List in Ubuntu Lucid

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik
  1. Insert the modem
  2. Right-click and select eject
  3. Unplug the modem
  4. Plug in the modem
  5. Done!

I’m using the USB Huawei e156g 3G modem on Ubuntu Lucid

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Encrypt and Decrypt Text Files on AIX using OpenSSL

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

There are oodles of encryption algorithms and encrypting a file is quite simple.

Code:
# openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -in file -out file.enc
enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: password
Verifying - enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: password
#

To decrypt, simply swap your -in and -out file parameters and add a -d to the command line:

Code:
# openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in file.enc -out file
enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: password
#

Source: http://www.unix.com/aix/28903-file-password-protection-encryption.html

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How to get rid of gnome-panel in Ubuntu

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

gnome-panel had – and is still having – a lot of bugs and problems, so I decided to get rid of it, at least till it improves and decided to replace it with Avant Window Navigator.

The problem is that gnome-panel automatically loads at the start of the gnome-session, so I tried first to delete all the panels by right-clicking and choosing “delete panel”, but this wasn’t useful as there must be at least one gnome-panel that you can’t delete, here is the much better solution which keeps your gnome-panel configured exactly as you want it so that you can return to it later and preventing it from automatically running at session startup:

  1. Open the gconf-editor (from the terminal or anywhere else)
  2. Navigate to destkop->gnome->session
  3. Open the “required_components_list”
  4. Remove “panel” from the list

Restart your gnome-session: “sudo restart gdm” or simply log out and back in, it’s gone!

Important Note: If you get stuck by disabling the gnome-panel without having avant – or likewise – running, simply at the login screen choose the “xterm” session instead of “gnome” and login, In the opened terminal run “gconf-editor” and add “panel” to the list again, and finally restart your session.

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