If you’ve ever wondered how to determine your current run level, use the command who -r This works for Solaris and Linux (at least the ones I’ve tested)

If you’ve ever tried to use CFEngine for package management, you know that it is basically useless. CFEngine only supports installing packages and not removing them (yet). It has some crazy limit defined at compilation time which limits the number of packages you can install. (see Google://cfengine “Too many arguments in embedded script”) It…

Here is a quick howto on installing and setting up PPTP on Ubuntu.Specifically I’ll be attempting to configure this machine to use the Israeli ISP 012 over a cable modem. 012 provides some sort of installation package for Linux but it doesn’t support Ubuntu. Anyway- here are my steps:xhost +sudo su-export DISPLAY=’:0′echo ‘deb http://quozl.netrek.org/pptp/pptpconfig…

Recently this issue came up on the linux-il mailing list. Apparently one of the bigger Israeli ISPs started enforcing a bandwidth cap clause in their Terms of Service after they realized that their lines were overloaded. A couple people pulled out the following statistic: P2P still represented 60% of Internet traffic at the end…