..by Guillaume Ross
Did I wake up in 1995, or is the SAAQ restricting my choices to two banks in Quebec?
I can renew my license plates online with a credit card, but for some reason, they seem to want to force me to either waste paper and a stamp, or to go to their location to pay.
And yes, paying at their location will cost you an extra $3 on top of that $86/year driver’s license.
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 ? ??
Having issues similar to:
Trying to enable EFS on a specific OU, while it’s disable at the top of the structure or domain?
Recovery certificates from two different GPOs mixing up instead of being replaced?
Overall EFS GPOs looking like they aren’t merging properly?
Well, it’s not because EFS GPOs are supposed to behave like black magic. Turns out there’s a bug, Microsoft’s aware of it, but doesn’t think it would be a good idea to FIX IT on Windows XP and 2003.
Thankfully, all it means is you need to edit your GPOs from a Vista, 2008 or Windows 7 machine.
Opening my EFS GPOs in Windows 7, switching the Allow/Don’t allow and applying the ‘change’ fixed my GPOs. A few minutes later, and stuff was behaving like it should’ve been… Can I have those wasted hours of my life back, Mr. Ballmer?
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
Powerpoint.
Sharepoint.
Mappoint.
Performancepoint (what the hell!).
Makes about as much sense as commercials with Seinfeld and Bill Gates.
A lot of people running ESX 3.5 Update 2 have been experiencing a slight bug where you can’t start or restart VMs starting August 12th 2008. Well, that could be a problem.
Here’s a thread about the issue with some workarounds which involve messing with the host’s time. (Watch out not to sync your Domain controllers with the wrong time, or bye bye Kerberos!).
Also, today is patch Tuesday by Microsoft and I’m sure a lot of people will be installing critical security patches and rebooting Virtual Machines. That should be interesting…but hey, people will learn not to patch stuff too fast.
The real issue with this is that VMware, an enterprise solution, has built-in license management. How can companies not realize that schemes such as this always hurt the honest customer? The dishonest ones are probably running cracked versions that weren’t affected by this.
I couldn’t resist.
Actual Numbers from Google (Canada)
“I should have kissed her” : 7730
“I shouldn’t have kissed her:” 806
Results from Cuil
I should have kissed her: 4
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.
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:
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
It is the second time that Banque Laurentienne’s ATM’s are down on a Thursday at around 9:00pm. Are they doing maintenance at that time? Is their network so weak that it crashes on Thursdays when people get paid? Do they run Windows on their ATM’s and have to disable them while they deploy a security fix?
How is someone supposed to trust having access to their money if needed when the banks are closed and the ATM’s crash all the time?
