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Lacie Tech Support doesn’t know what a share is

Guillaume — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:26:37 +0000

I recently got a Lacie D2 network drive. It has been working pretty well, I’m using it for SMB share, AFP share, time machine and to share movies and music to my ps3.

I own a copy of Office that is the download-able version. It is basically a selft-extracting exe that then runs a setup.

I had it stored in a SMB share on the Lacie drive. I ran it. The setup crashed. Then, AFP crashed on my NAS. Rebooting it made things worse. AFP wouldn’t start. Bonjour wouldn’t start. Not long after, SMB wouldn’t start.
Logfiles seemed to indicate that the system’s drive was full. I presume the system is stored on Flash storage in the NAS itself.

I contacted Lacie support. They could only instruct me to reset the unit to factory settings. At least, no data was lost.
I then asked if it could be related in any way to me running a setup file directly from the share, expecting them to tell me there is a known issue when reading a file and writing a lot at the same time or something similar..
Instead, I got this reply:

Tech Support dude.

Makes no sense
Posted: September 3, 2009 @ 7:23 AM

It was related to running the .exe file on the drive. The file is proprietary to an OS such as XP, Vista, or Mac OS X. Running the file on a non-conforming OS is going to create severe havoc and other issues. I am glad the reset resolved the issue.

Regards,

Tech support dude

Weird book themes

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How can people be looking for so many Unix books yet… The first one here isn’t unix related at all!

Useful error messages. Or not

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Funny Graffiti

Guillaume — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:58:00 +0000

Why would someone write “Wood Killer” …on a plywood board? Perhaps because they have to cut down trees to build the condos?

Homer pothole

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Is it just me or it really looks like him?

Picture of a pothole that strangely looks like Homer Simpson

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XKCD on "Regrets"

Guillaume — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:14:51 +0000

( http://xkcd.com/458/ )

I couldn’t resist.

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“I shouldn’t have kissed her:” 806

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I shouldn’t have kissed her: 0

My regret is actually having wasted time to check this out. I actually feel guilty comparing anything to Cuil, since it might generate some “buzz” around it.