A new eBook by Issac G that explains how to setup a dedicated server using Webmin is now available from www.thededicatedserverhandbook.com. Videos from the book are also available on YouTube.

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 merges all…

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 ./’…