Followup on the Novell eDirectory situation….

In my previous post on the subject, I was telling you that we are moving our Mac directory services from Apple Open Directory to eDirectory by Novell. I did not have many surprises. But some things are breaking, all can be fixed. The Wiki service won’t like to authenticate to an external alien LDAP server …

Proper Apple Open Directory Alternative…. Finally

When I first came in at my current work place, in 2007, there was no directory service for all the Macs I had to manage. There was an Active Directory, but no Mac OS X machines was bound to it. When we replaced the production server by a shiny Intel Xserve, I did set up …

Migrating Apple Open Directory manually from Snow Leopard Server to Lion Server

Apple Open Directory was always a weird and misunderstood part of Apple Server strategies. The Open Directory system in Lion seems to have several  drastic changes to it’s structure and while moving from Snow Leopard to Lion using Apple provided Tools, I stumbled on these problems after the migration. Unable to add replicas Unable to …

Viau Ford, Ou pourquoi tout le monde déteste les concessionnaires automobiles

Il y a 4 ans, nous avons loué une ford focus 2008. Après 4 ans, 1 accident et deux accrochages elle a survécu et comme elle nous convenait, nous avons décidé de l’acheter. A date,  avec Viau Ford, ce fut toute une galère. Je sais, je demeures a Montreal et j’ai un dealer a Saint-Rémi. …

It was a fun run while it lasted

As many of you are aware of, I’m a really devoted customer of Teksavvy, my internet provider. But now, you can say I “was” one of their customers. I was for almost ten years and it was awesome. They were the first to allow me to have my own servers, no port blocking, decent bandwith …

Faire payer les innocents…

Dans le cadre de mon travail, j’ai vécu une expérience horrible, frustrante, et totalement ridicule avec iWeb Technologies, qui fournit quelques services pour nous, dont le email pour quelques domaines. L’Adresse de notre serveur partagé s’est retrouvée blacklistée la dernière fois le 22 Février, probablement parce qu’un bozo dans la même machine que celle que …