While investigating why Outlook stopped working, I found the following in the EventLog: 2117? WTF?
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Win10: controlled folder access
I’ve enabled controlled folder access on my work Windows 10 machine. Now it is giving me notifications like: The idea is fine, of course I need to finetune the settings (and one click brings to the relevant settings page), but how the §$%& should I know which program to white-list? I cannot find a way […]
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Windows accounts for Kids
While being logged in with my Microsoft Account I did not manage to create local accounts for the kids. There is this nice and fluffy “Create accounts for your family” system, but that implies that you create Microsoft Accounts for everybody. I refuse to do that for kids. Sorry Microsoft, they are kids, they should […]
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Windows 10 peeves
I’m not a computer newbie. Neither am I a first-time Windows user. Windows 10 has proved to be a very mixed bag for me. Some things are very clever and nicely done, and then there are a bunch of “what the f*ck were they thinking” moments for me. I’ve now added the category “Windows 10” […]
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Testing …
Is this thing still on? My old wordpress installation has been suffering from bit-rot and the upgrade to Debian jessie completely killed the wordpress installation. I’m moving over posts and pages manually, let’s see if I get this blog (including pictures) up and running again.
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Of Ads and Signatures
Both advertisements and signatures have been with us in the analogue realm for ages, the society has learned about their usefulness and limits. We have learned that it’s (usually) hard to judge the impact of a single ad, and that the process of actually validating a contested signature is not trivial. There is a good […]
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The Edge browser
Wasn’t one of the main goals of junking the Internet Explorer codebase and building a brand new browser “Edge” the hope that there won’t be the monthly batch of patches for remote code execution vulnerabilities? I haven’t tabulated the advisories but somehow I don’t have the feeling that things have gotten substantially better. Why? It […]
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StartSSL, S/MIME and Thunderbird
This cost me an hour or two: If you try to get a free S/MIME certificate from StartCom / StartSSL, this worked fine and in Firefox the certificate was shown as valid. But once I transferred it to Thunderbird, I got an unspecified certificate error. Solution: Turn off OCSP.
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Positive Surprise …
Wow, they put up new ticket vending machines at Brussels Central train station. So instead of accepting only the Belgian-only cards, they finally work with international cards (Maestro, master/Visa), too. Progress indeed. Welcome to 2014.
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Net Neutrality und Peering Disputes
Nachdem die FCC sich schon um Verkehr-Diskriminierung auf der Kundenleitung gekümmert hat, hat sich jetzt die Diskussion auf die Zusammenschaltung von IP-Netzen verlagert. Siehe Ars Technica: Network operators Level 3 and Cogent Communications today urged the Federal Communications Commission to prevent Internet service providers from charging what they deem to be excessive fees for interconnection. […]