28 posts in Windows
Shan uses her iPad a lot, but a lot of the more serious (interior design) work needs to happen on AutoCAD or Photoshop. That is just not going to work on an iPad.
When we're travelling (read: holiday) she's carrying an old Lenovo ThinkPad 13 (great device!) just "in case" she needs to open AutoCAD and edit something minor or read the drawings/dimensions. But honestly, most of the time that device is turned off and dead weight.
I am not sure what is the problem -- I've upgraded Shan's 27" 2k monitor to a 32" 4k monitor and AutoCAD LT recently updated from 2021 to 2022. Shan's been using a 2017 i5 NUC (NUC7i5BNB) with 32Gb RAM using the onboard GPU. Something that should be plenty for a bit of Windows, Chrome, Photoshop and AutoCAD LT.
For the past few weeks, several times a day her screen would black out for half a second or so and then everything should go back to normal. Sometimes it would happen several times in a row, sometimes it wouldn't for hours on end.
EDIT: ING is now A- (not reflected in this blog post). EDIT 2: Keytrade & Hello Bank also went to A. I’ll post a new blog post later tonight. EDIT 3: Updated post here.
Part three, or how I single-handedly “fixed” SSL at the Belgian banks. ;)
Part one and two are available here. Not related but useful nonetheless NY Times article about bank hackers.
Argenta promised to fix their SSL, so it’s the time to check everything again.
I previously wrote about Belgian banks & SSL. Updated version (15/02/2015) here.
Going through my Google Analytics I noticed some noteworthy network domains, which Google discribes as “The fully qualified domain names of your visitors’ Internet service providers (ISPs)”.
Tested using SSL Labs on 20/01/2015. Updated version 01/02/2015 here and 15/02/2015 here.
Only providing the weak points. Once there is one SHA1 key in the chain, I will report everything as weak.
Check SSL Labs for a full report, including what they actually did good (if anything).
Grade A
Grade B
Due to continuous Access errors, I decided to reinstall Office Professional 2010 (64 bit).
As I couldn’t find the original CD key I installed it with, I used another one from another installation. So far so good, installation went fine, etc.
Once I started any Office app, it popped up this error: “Microsoft Office professional plus 2010 cannot verify the license. blablabla useless crap check control panel”
I’ve tried:
However, this seems to fix it for me:
I lolled.
Word (or Office in general) refusing to get proofing tools to work (spelling checker doesn't work, spawns these odd errors, won't find any spelling mistakes, etc).
Lots of Googling and running Microsoft "fixit" applications didn't do much.
Simple fix: run setup of the proofing tools again, and select repair, reboot, and all should be good.
