I’ve recently purchased ZTE MF667 USB Modem from Mobinil Egypt and I had some hard time connecting it to my Ubuntu 14.04 laptop, the main problem was that the modem is read as MSM (Mass Storage Media) not as USB Modem, I tried installing usb-modeswitch library but I couldn’t get it to work, I think […]
Hi, this post describes how to use rbenv and bundler to handle multiple ruby versions and gems installed with each (rails for example), there’s an alternative to that (RVM) that does something similar but I preferred rbenv as I think it’s simpler. rbenv basically lets you have multiple ruby versions on your machine and you […]
Hello every one, I’ve recently had a very annoying problem in Ubuntu 12.04, when I connect an external monitor both displays original and external are black with the mouse pointer at the edge of the extended monitor and the computer is un-responsive to any thing no CTRL+ALT+DELETE or CTRL+ALT+F1, even when I disconnect the external […]
I recently installed recordmydesktop (screen recording tool) on Ubuntu 12.04 and I faced the following error when I finish recording and encoding starts “/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtheora.so.0: undefined symbol: oggpackB_writeinit” After 2 days or something debugging and trying various solutions I came out with the following 1. It seems that libtheora0 on ubuntu repositories has some problems 2. […]
This is a mini “how to” to integrate apache tiles 2.2.x into a simple web application using JSPs, it shows how to define a sample template and add two pages using it, the reason of making this tutorial is that I spent 2 days searching the Internet for something similar but I didn’t get any. […]
I recently installed ubuntu 11.04 and I made dual boot with windows XP – actually I didn’t make it ubuntu handled this- and I decided to switch for my personal use and @ my work environment as much as I can, I’ll try to mention here some of the issues I faced and how to […]
A nice trick to avoid the autorun virus on the flash memory on Windows platform without the need to an Anti-Virus Delete the autorun.inf file from the root of the flash Create an empty folder named autorun.inf on the root of the flash This way the virus won’t be able to create an autorun.inf file […]
I recently downloaded firefox 4 and I installed it as an upgrade to the 3.6 version, I faced an annoying problem of freezing the browser when I open it nothing seems to be working I can only minimize, maximize or close. When I start it in a new profile – you can do that by […]
From my experience I found that the best way to convert .doc files into .pdf files freely and without any evaluation marks or searching for serials or cracks is to open the file with Open Office then select File –> Export as PDF. This will produce a PDF document with the same name as the […]
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