Tag Archives: fail

My April Fools

April 1st. I had a fairly event­ful day, first I found that the phone sys­tem at $work has been mis-configured since it was installed. Sec­ond I got a call from some­one I had worked with a few years back about a sys­tem that did not have back­ups that had a raid hic­cup tank­ing the sys­tem

autofs: Error logging fail

Why do appli­ca­tions have such hor­ri­ble error mes­sages. Non-specific errors are really not any more help­ful than not log­ging at all. I was recently set­ting up aut­ofs for mount­ing home direc­to­ries from an nfs server. The lit­tle bug­gers refused to work right. All I was see­ing in the log­file was a notice that an attempt was

Microsoft Mediaroom Personal Server Odyssey

Ewwww, scary isn’t it. No Its not Hal­loween, but you may have entered the twi­light zone. Right, I never touch Microsoft prod­ucts. Well in actu­al­ity some­times I do (I just don’t brag about it). Some of the devel­op­ment at $work uses Microsofts Medi­a­room, and I have a “Per­sonal Server” (great name right?) that the devel­op­ers use.

HP Support Fail

From time to time  I have not so pleas­ant sup­port expe­ri­ences. Today I had another.

Support Fail

I am a big fan of chat sup­port. I don’t have to drain my bat­tery wait­ing on hold until its my turn in the queue. Plus when deal­ing with error mes­sages its infi­nitely more help­ful to be able to copy/paste to the agent. Sadly find­ing com­pe­tent help is still an issue. Here is an excerpt