Installing an OEM Intel 2200bg Mini-PCI card into a BIOS-Locked HP/Compaq nc8000

Thought this was worth a try, so I grabbed a $7 mini-pci card off ebay, and after waiting about a month for shipping from China, installed it into the laptop.  Only then was I hit with the dreaded:
104 unsupported wireless network device detected, system halted, remove device and restart
Ack.  OK, so a quick search brought [...]

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock

When you try this:
mount -t smbfs -o username=jeremy,password=secret //server/share /mnt/directory
and your computer tells you this:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //server/share, or too many mounted file systems

You are probably running something like Fedora Core 3, and
You should try this:

mount -t cifs -o username=jeremy,password=secret //server/share /mnt/directory

Installing VMWare Server on CentOS 5 64-bit

This is basically the same as a regular install, with the addition of step 3.  The extra libraries are for vmware-config.pl, and xinetd is required anyways.
Step 1: Download VMWare Server
wget VMware-server-1.0.3-44356.i386.rpm
Step 2: Install vmware server
rpm -ivh VMware-server-1.0.3-44356.i386.rpm
Step 3: Install required files / libraries
yum install libXtst-devel libXrender-devel xinetd
Step #4: Configure VMWARE server
vmware-config.pl

RoundCube Personal Settings Do Not Save Properly

The issue in webmail where your Identities and personal settings are not being saved has been fixed.  (On my server, anyways.)
Thanks once again to HowToForge and the people there with way too much free time.

Codename: Chicago

Things I hate:
- Googling “hp 1020 vista drivers” and coming across 1,000,000 posts from people who want to let me know they hate Microsoft but have no useful information to share.
- Being told by HP that Microsoft’s new operating system does not support my laser printer (but don’t worry, we’re working on it), and by [...]

ISPConfig and SSL Certificates (CentOS 4.4)

Goal:
To use the same SSL certificate for your ISPConfig control panel on port 81, and on your web site running on port 80. (I’m writing this from memory, so if I’ve missed something, let me know.)
1. Do yourself a favor and perform a perfect setup of CentOS 4.4 and ISPConfig. When you’re running the ISPConfig [...]

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