Restaurant Mediteranne

If you live in the Netherlands and are in Rotterdam, you have a wide range of restaurants to pick to have dinner or let it deliver to you. Near my home you also have the restaurant called Mediteranne, located in the Spitshagen. For years(!) we ordered food there on the occassion (every once in a while ~ once every three months or something) and it normally tasted well, I had dinner there once (which was a lesser experience because the restaurant itself was empty). But we tossed them overboard permanently after recent experiences with them. We ordered food every my parents returned home from holiday, to ‘celebrate’ their return to the country. The order took place at 17.00 and were informed that it would likely to take 45 minutes, with the safety net of 60 minutes. OK! That was something we could live with. At 1810 we started calling them because we didn’t see someone yet and the hour was already over. We were informed that there was an accident with the food (it fell, or the driver of the motobike fell) and that he would leave within 2 minutes again to deliver it within 4 minutes). At 1825 we called again and were told that he already left ages ago and should have been there already. Our dinner time already expired and I needed to return Luca to home, so we told him to and that we could only accept the food without pay because we needed to microwave it. He didn’t accept (understandable) so when the kid finally arrived we told him to return the food.

In all those years and all the money we spend, we didn’t get an alternative or anything compensated, not even a sorry (“Yeah we were about to call you! We are underway!”) and only lies. Sad that a customer has to leave like this. I would like to tell you all, do not eat or order food there. If something goes wrong, you are the wrong person, not the restaurant itself. Soon we will find out if there are better alternatives. Ofcourse the story would have been different when the guy called us at 1800 that they weren’t going to make it because something happened so that we could have decided what to do. Lies do not count.

 

Apple’s time Machine with FreeBSD

Rui Paulo wrote up a nice blog post about getting Apple’s Time Machine working with FreeBSD. I am running on the same setup so it really works, have a look at his blog to read more :)

http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/10/04/apple-time-machine-freebsd-in-14-steps

 

Directadmin Marina skin

Recently I bought the Marina skin for Directadmin (the management frontend for JR-Hosting), to give a more appealing interface to our users, with an easy to implement way to customize the branding a bit for our company. For two years the skin costs 15 dollars, which isn’t that much.

What do you get for it? You get a PDF file, an install script, and a .tar.gz version of the script itself. When you use the install script, you see a bunch of quickly written shell scripts or if you use the GUI, you only see the installation being done at some point.

Now the interesting part: It does not work. The framework around it installs succesfully, one of my users can see a couple of things like the file manager, but administration options are not there. I tried debugging this a bit by hand and found a few items in the shell scripts that can be improved (submitted one of the changes upstream already, which was committed, but not everywhere :-( ). So I decided to contact support, 2 year license, 2 year support (something didn’t match because the license details tell me that I only have 1 year support?!) and got an anwer after poking a bit. I showed the steps I took and finally a few days (!) later I was asked for a screenshot. I submitted the screenshot and then… silence.

For 15Dollars you cannot expect that much, but I do expect that one at least gets a bit of help when needed. This is bad for marketing. The knowledgebase is empty, support is slacking more then I do occasionally. My idea: Just keep the standard skin for DirectAdmin, this isn’t worth the 15 dollars (yet).

Hopefully things change a bit, the skin looks really cool, but without functionality at all, you do not want to pay for it . See the screenshot for what I can see when I have installed and assigned the skin to my testuser, which happends to be an administrator.

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