• VirtuaWin -  This one is my favorite. It’s pretty much perfect.
  • It even has an extra option to preserve the dynamic order of applications on the taskbar, so it’ll work with Taskbar Shuffle.
  • When I first started it I got an error that the hotkeys couldn’t be registered, but I just had to disable the corresponding hotkeys in Winamp and the Intel Graphics control panel to avoid conflicts.
• PowerToys Virtual Desktop Manager – This works pretty well, but there was some flickering for me when transitioning between desktops, and it takes up way too much room on the taskbar.
• Dexpot – This works well, but the interface is kind of clunky.

This is pretty huge for someone as neurotic about organization as I am.

In order to get around the “opaqueness” problem, there are several browser extensions that will automatically expand the short URL — my favorite is Explode – which goes a long way toward mitigating the negative impact on user experience, but doesn’t solve the fundamental design flaws or security concerns.

First, you have to load the following kernel modules on the hardware node and/or set them to automatically start during the boot up process:

modprobe ppp_mppe
modprobe ppp_deflate
modprobe zlib_deflate
modprobe ppp_async
modprobe ppp_generic
modprobe slhc
modprobe crc_ccitt

After doing that you should see something similiar to this when running lsmod

[root@me ~]# lsmod | grep ppp
ppp_mppe 39816 0
ppp_deflate 39168 0
zlib_deflate 52760 1 ppp_deflate
ppp_async 45056 0
ppp_generic 63632 4 ppp_mppe,ppp_deflate,ppp_async
slhc 39680 1 ppp_generic
crc_ccitt 35200 1 ppp_async

Second, you have to tweak the VPS’s conf file:

vzctl stop [VEnumber]
vzctl set [VEnumber] --features ppp:on --save
vzctl start [VEnumber]
vzctl set [VEnumber] --devices c:108:0:rw --save
vzctl exec [VEnumber] mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
vzctl exec [VEnumber] chmod 600 /dev/ppp

Once that’s done, you can follow the normal instructions.

After that, you might need to uncomment the require-mppe-128 or mppe required,stateless line in /etc/ppp/options.pptp (depending on the VPN server). You may also need to manually create a static route to the network, with route add -net 10.1.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 ppp0.

You can check /var/log/messages for details about negotiation errors.