Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 came out last week, and I thought I’d take a moment to do a new post about connecting to a workplace VPN that uses Windows Server’s built in PPTP ability.  Not a lot has changed, so you can also refer to the older article here. The process is simple, but oftentimes [...]

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Thanks to reader Marc S. for the early heads up on this. It seems you really never can judge a book by its cover! I blogged a few weeks ago on why Google would never do IMAP. Well, it’s time to eat my hat. Getting started with IMAP for Gmail Here’s a capture of the [...]

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Someone asked me again today what would happen if you ran a virtual machine inside another virtual machine. I pointed them here, and decided it might be time to revisit this again. So here we go – Why? Because we can! Anyone familiar with virtualization technologies has wondered about it. There’s XEN, Qemu, VMWare, VirtualPC [...]

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