http://www.jeremycole.com/blog ...or blox of junk? Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:22:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en AKA How to stop Windows SBS2003 from shutting down automatically. Most of this info was found here: http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=173731 Note: Removing this service apparently violates the license agreement for Microsoft Small Business Server. See the details here if you care. Tools you'll need – Process Explorer from www.sysInternals.com http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx As you probably know, ... http://www.jeremycole.com/blog/2008/06/24/how-to-stop-the-sbcore-service-service-or-how-to-use-sbs2003-as-a-normal-server/ 4GB of wasted hard drive space for something I don't use.  Now you can disable it in 1 second: Win-R, cmd to open a command prompt. Type powercfg -h off and press <ENTER>. That's it. http://www.jeremycole.com/blog/2008/05/18/how-to-disable-hibernation-in-windows-vista/ 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, ... http://www.jeremycole.com/blog/2008/04/10/installing-an-oem-intel-2200bg-mini-pci-card-into-a-bios-locked-hpcompaq-nc8000/ This applies specifically to the iSCSI Intiator for Windows XP, but might apply to other versions as well.  Check to see if there are underscores in your volume group and/or volume names. http://www.jeremycole.com/blog/2007/11/09/the-iscsi-name-specified-contains-invalid-characters-or-is-too-long/ OK, I was going to finish this off at some point, but I've gotten busy with other projects, so I figure I might as well post what I have so far...  If there's any interest, let me know and I'll see if I have any more useful insight...   Step 1: Get this stuff: Intel Matrix ... http://www.jeremycole.com/blog/2007/11/09/downgrading-from-vista-to-xp-on-gateway-mx8711-and-similar-vista-only-laptops-without-a-floppy-drive/ I was working on a post about downgrading a Gateway MX8711 from Vista to XP, but it was more fun to go through some old files and put the Smooth And Naked page back up...  Also fitting because Smoothwall 3 was just released. http://www.jeremycole.com/blog/2007/09/13/procrastination-and-firewalls/ 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 http://www.jeremycole.com/blog/2007/08/15/mount-wrong-fs-type-bad-option-bad-superblock/ 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 ... http://www.jeremycole.com/blog/2007/07/26/installing-vmware-server-on-centos-5-64-bit/ Shredded cabbage. http://www.jeremycole.com/blog/2007/07/25/coles-law/ A quick registry fix revealed here shows how to increase the POP3 email retrieval speed on Small Business Server 2003.  Yes, having SMTP mail delivered directly to the server is better, but first things first! 1. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/SmallBusinessServer/Network/POP3 Connector" 2. On the "Edit" menu, point to ... http://www.jeremycole.com/blog/2007/07/25/sbs2003-exchange-pop3-connector-polling-interval/