For those who want to access virtual private network based on PPTP protocol through Ubuntu Edgy Eft, you might find the most helpful network setting tool in NetworkManager.

If you are playing video using MPlayer and your screen is wide, you might notice that all videos are slightly longer than expected. This problem can't be fixed using the usual aspect ratio. It is not a bug but a great feature of MPlayer that you will never see something like this in other player.

A WinXP machine beside me has been infected by a sort of malware. I don't know what it is but I'm sure it is very annoying. Avast! didn't help me to fix this problem. It is not the fault of Avast! because it is totally free of charge and I know it is just an antivirus software. Malware may not be categorized as a virus. Anyway, I can't live with this one anymore because of its annoyance.

หลังจากที่ปรับแต่งไปเมื่อวันก่อน (อ่านย้อนหลัง) ก็มีคนใจดีช่วยแนะนำ วิธีแก้ปัญหาแบบอื่นๆ เนื่องจากผมก็ยังไม่ค่อยพอใจผลซักเท่าไหร่นัก เลยดีใจเป็นการใหญ่โต ทำให้ต้องเสียเวลามาปรับต่อรอบสอง

ISPConfig is one of the most powerful control panel for hosting on Linux. It offers lots of useful features. However, the default user name for obtaining email is in form web1_user where as 1 is the web identifier and user is the user name in that domain. Actually, we don't know its domain. The preferable user for reading email should be , however, ISPConfig created the user web1_user which is not meaningful for end-users. Fortunately, it is possible to configure to add support this scheme.

The most widely used virtual private network protocol is PPTP for sure. I don't know why but my friend would like to have this own VPN server for use in some special case. He has a server with Ubuntu Edgy. That's my story. Fortunately, we have Poptop aka Open Source PPTP server for Linux and it is available on Ubuntu Edgy by default.