Comments on: Google Chrome now blocking some encryption certificates https://www.habitablezone.com/2018/05/01/google-chrome-now-blocking-some-encryption-certificates/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert https://www.habitablezone.com/2018/05/01/google-chrome-now-blocking-some-encryption-certificates/#comment-41449 Robert Tue, 01 May 2018 19:04:11 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=70737#comment-41449 Computers have actually improved a lot since the days of XP, both in the hardware and the software. To be brutally honest, for your own good, the problem is self-inflicted. So since you can afford it, get yourself a new computer and make the various pains go away. They're pretty trouble-free any more. Windows 10 is surprisingly stable for Microsoft. For hardware, I'd recommend spending a little extra to replace mechanical drives with solid state drives, so the noise and wear-and-tear goes away too. You can fit a modern PC into a box 4"x4"x2" (see <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=intel+nuc&oq=intel+nuc&ie=UTF-8" rel="nofollow">Intel NUC</a>) that bolts on the back of your monitor, and the PC itself will almost disappear. You can use money to make things disappear. Just ask Michael Cohen. Computers have actually improved a lot since the days of XP, both in the hardware and the software. To be brutally honest, for your own good, the problem is self-inflicted.

So since you can afford it, get yourself a new computer and make the various pains go away. They’re pretty trouble-free any more. Windows 10 is surprisingly stable for Microsoft. For hardware, I’d recommend spending a little extra to replace mechanical drives with solid state drives, so the noise and wear-and-tear goes away too. You can fit a modern PC into a box 4″x4″x2″ (see Intel NUC) that bolts on the back of your monitor, and the PC itself will almost disappear.

You can use money to make things disappear. Just ask Michael Cohen.

]]> By: ER https://www.habitablezone.com/2018/05/01/google-chrome-now-blocking-some-encryption-certificates/#comment-41448 ER Tue, 01 May 2018 18:40:58 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=70737#comment-41448 And about every other time I log onto Outlook Express to check my email it times out on me. At other times I get an Internet Security Warning that says; <blockquote>"The server that you are connected to is using a security certificate that could not be verified. "The certificate CN name does not match the passed value. "Do you want to continue using this server?" </blockquote> Then follows a "YES" and "NO" buttons. If I press "Yes" it works fine and I can read my mail. On those instances when I do NOT receive the Internet Security Warning and I time out, and logging on several more times does not get me the message, (this usually occurs when I've been logged on for a while) I simply email myself a dummy email, I log out of Outlook Express, then log back in again. This time, the Security Warning invariably appears, I toggle "YES", my test email arrives, and I'm in business again. It seems like I've learned multiple little work-arounds and quick-fixes like this that allow me to continue operating. These kluges may work, but I haven't a clue why. I usually try some trial-and-error logic that eventually gets me back on line, but I have no idea how or why it works. Why should I have to spend my time and effort debugging my tools? Why do I continue to get error messages and warnings that don't tell me how to fix the problem, or even what it is? I don't mind learning a technology if I can benefit from its capabilities, but I really resent having to re-learn it over and over because they can't resist tweaking it in order to extort a new purchase out of me. Sooner or later my system is going to stop functioning altogether, not because of a mechanical malfunction, but because the Lords of the Net have decided I need to spend more money. I can afford it, but I am seriously considering not replacing it, and learning to live without a computer. These bastards really piss me off. I'm tired of being part of their business plan. And about every other time I log onto Outlook Express to check my email it times out on me. At other times I get an Internet Security Warning that says;

“The server that you are connected to is using a security certificate that could not be verified.

“The certificate CN name does not match the passed value.

“Do you want to continue using this server?”

Then follows a “YES” and “NO” buttons. If I press “Yes” it works fine and I can read my mail.

On those instances when I do NOT receive the Internet Security Warning and I time out, and logging on several more times does not get me the message, (this usually occurs when I’ve been logged on for a while) I simply email myself a dummy email, I log out of Outlook Express, then log back in again. This time, the Security Warning invariably appears, I toggle “YES”, my test email arrives, and I’m in business again.

It seems like I’ve learned multiple little work-arounds and quick-fixes like this that allow me to continue operating. These kluges may work, but I haven’t a clue why. I usually try some trial-and-error logic that eventually gets me back on line, but I have no idea how or why it works. Why should I have to spend my time and effort debugging my tools? Why do I continue to get error messages and warnings that don’t tell me how to fix the problem, or even what it is? I don’t mind learning a technology if I can benefit from its capabilities, but I really resent having to re-learn it over and over because they can’t resist tweaking it in order to extort a new purchase out of me.

Sooner or later my system is going to stop functioning altogether, not because of a mechanical malfunction, but because the Lords of the Net have decided I need to spend more money. I can afford it, but I am seriously considering not replacing it, and learning to live without a computer. These bastards really piss me off. I’m tired of being part of their business plan.

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