PinnedArabic Case Insensitive In Database Systems: How To Solve Alef With and Without Hamza ProblemWhen I first started learning database systems, I ran into problems dealing with Arabic text in databases. Since these problems were specific to the Arabic language, I couldn’t easily find solutions on the internet. I try in this post to summarize the solutions I know to a common Arabic text…Database7 min readDatabase7 min read
Mar 13, 2021Fix: “Initramfs unpacking failed” while trying to install Ubuntu Server in Virtual BoxJust posting a fix that took me hours of googling. While trying to install Ubuntu Server 20.04 on Virtual Box 6.1, and after mounting the Ubuntu Server ISO then starting the VM, I encountered this error: Turns out I reduced the RAM of the VM to be 512MB, adjusting the…Virtualbox1 min readVirtualbox1 min read
Dec 1, 2020How to recover a corrupted flash memory using F3 tools under LinuxNote: This tutorial requires Linux. If you want to test your flash under windows check out: test-and-detect-fake-flash-with-h2testw So you have a corrupted flash memory, you copy files into it and when you try to open it later, they don’t work. There are number of reasons for this problem, one of…F35 min readF35 min read
Dec 1, 2020Jedi stopped working after upgrading LinuxI recently made a clean install of Debian 10 (Buster). I migrated my emacs.d and .emacs hoping that everything will work as usual. I didn’t have much trouble with Emacs except for Jedi Server, which is responsible for Python auto-completion, has stopped working. It took me some time to fix…Emacs2 min readEmacs2 min read
