Category Archives: General

Tax-on-web and Firefox 4

Posted by on May 15, 2011 4 comments

If you are trying to use the Belgian Tax-on-web application with Firefox 4, you might get an error message ssl_error_renegotiation_not_allowed when you try to log in with your Belgian eID.

This seems to be caused by a change in Firefox 4 regarding SSL authentication (more info on: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security:Renegotiation).

It can be fixed by changing a preference in Firefox. Follow these steps:

  • Open Firefox
  • In the address bar, type about:config and press Enter
  • Confirm the security warning
  • Scroll down until you see security.ssl.allow_unrestricted_renego_everywhere__temporarily_available_pref
  • Double-click this line to set the preference to TRUE

Watch a brief demonstration of this procedure.

This should solve your issue. Changing this preference is a security risk, so it is a good idea to repeat the procedure and set the preference to FALSE once you are done with Taxonweb. Or you can add the URL of the sites to the preference security.ssl.renego_unrestricted_hosts to set this option for a specific site.

Don’t forget to check the Taxonweb configuration guide for Firefox if you encounter other issues.

The (near) future of Productivity according to Microsoft

Posted by on March 16, 2011 No comments

On a regular basis, Microsoft produces nice videos about their view on Information Worker Productivity in the future. This video shows the very near future: all products shown in the video are available as far as I can see. We are only waiting until companies implement them all, and until information workers start acquiring the competences to work with these tools in an efficient way…

Stubborn OneNote: cannot rename notebook section

Posted by on October 6, 2010 No comments

My favorite note-taking tool, Microsoft OneNote, has been bothering me for quite a while with a strange issue: for some reason, it renamed a section called “Customer notes” to “Customer notes 2″, and I could not change it back.

After some investigation, this was the origin of the problem:

  • My notebook was synced to a SharePoint document library
  • It was probably called “Customer notes” before, but a sync conflict added a second section “Customer notes 2″
  • I deleted “Customer notes” and tried to remove the 2 in “Customer notes 2″, but no luck.

The cause: when you have a section that contains attachments, OneNote creates a subfolder called <name of section>_onefiles. When I deleted the section “Customer notes”, it did NOT delete the folder “Customer Notes_onefiles”. That’s why I could not rename “Customer notes 2″ to “Customer notes”, because the corresponding subfolder “Customer notes_onefiles” already existed.

I deleted the old “Customer notes_onefiles” and then I could rename my section. I’m a happy OneNoter again !

New theme, same blog

Posted by on June 28, 2010 No comments

Since the upgrade to version 3 of WordPress, I was having performance issues with the Sleepy Blue theme I used for this blog. Time for something new: I am now using the SimplePress-2 theme. I think everything is up and running again, but don’t hesitate to comment if you would see something that is not displaying correctly.

Office 2010 – where did the “Share” menu go?

Posted by on May 18, 2010 1 comment

In Office 2010 Beta, the File menu contained a Share option, that allowed you to save a file directly to a SharePoint site, or even to SkyDrive.

I was looking for that option in the final release, but could not find it. Well, the Share option is no longer there, but all the functionality is under Save & Send.

It took me a while to figure that out, so I thought I might share it with you.