09/07/2005 Archived Entry: "Problems"

Active Directory is a weird and scary beast.

We're having issues right now with a strange error that pops up when trying to assign permissions to a set of folders off the root of a share on one of our NAS-served disks. As happens so often, the actual error given has very little to do with the problem at hand, and calling support is a difficult prospect at best because of the complexity of our environment. On one hand, crazy problems like this are great fun to squash; on the other, squashing crazy problems like this can sometimes take for-freaking-ever.

It's Zor's birthday on Friday! He's a great friend--he got me a pair of awesome games for my birthday, and I need to find something to return the favor. Knowing that his interests lie along the lines of things that he can experience, I'm leaning toward a music or DVD purchase. Will have to stop at Fry's and see what's available. My original plan was to RMA my 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM SATA drive, but in spite of its massive data loss click-fest last month, the freaking thing refuses to fail ANY diagnostics I throw at it, including Seagate's own drive torture test. So, I haven't RMA'd it because it won't fail. Apparently, failure is reserved for situations involving actual useful operation, not testing. Stupid hard drive.

Am getting quite good at making complicated Visio diagrams that do not actually solve problems, but DO provide proof that I am not wasting away my entire day browsing the web.

Am also glad I am not a refugee from New Orleans.

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