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Vehicle Storage – SAAQ Cliq

Guillaume — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:15:19 +0000

Online service available

* Monday to Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.

* Sunday noon to 11:00 p.m.

Note: Any operation completed after 11:00 p.m. will not be recorded.

via Vehicle Storage | Online Services SAAQclic | SAAQ.

What ? The government computer only gets in at noon on Sundays ? ??

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

Guillaume — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:33:11 +0000

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

Guillaume — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:42:59 +0000

Weird marketing from Sun

Guillaume — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:51:58 +0000

Does this make anyone want to buy it? Why would I want to buy an Identity Management solution when I see that? What, it’s so great the people who work with it have time to learn ballet instead of how to use it? Wow.

However, this is very amusing:

http://identityhero.sun.com/

Run over people to “provision them” , manage groups, give Single Sign on capability to users, burn auditors…

And the third weird to hell thing about this is the video about Federated Access/Web SSO. Yes, I said Federated, so an obvious bad pun would be…uh..this