This weekend I have devoted my time for playing with the new and famous frameworks Django, Pylons, and Ruby On Rails.
Almost 80% of the weekend I spent on installing them, if you don't wanna spend time by installing these frameworks and want start playing with them immediately, you are welcome to use my already configured virtual machine for Virtualbox.

First of all you will need Virtualbox, then download image of my virtual machine:
Server 1
Server 2

Extract the archive and import the virtual appliance to Virtualbox




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Run the following command in terminal:

sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type Boolean --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list True

To fix the subj issue
add the following lines:

export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1
gconftool-2 -t bool --set /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/keyboard/active false

at the top of /etc/X11/Xsession

If you need any help with RDP on Linux, let me know

P.S Tested on Ubuntu 9.10

sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true