Jean-Paul van Ravensberg

Jean-Paul van Ravensberg

Nexus 7 (2013) is running slowly - the fix!

Speed up your Nexus 7! My Nexus 7 was running very slowly on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. I’ve tried to hard reset the tablet several times, but after a couple of weeks it became very slow again with even 2 apps installed. I followed the 2 steps from the following video of “Abs Recon -Solutions”. The Dynamic Gesturing option wasn’t available on my tablet, but disabling Gesture Typing worked perfectly fine! https://www.

Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta - Here we come!

I’m so happy to tell you that I’m one of the 5 people from Avanade Netherlands that will attend Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta this year! We are all really excited as this is the first time that we attend a big conference like Ignite. Last year I followed a lot of online presentations from home, and the high quality of the presentations makes this the best Microsoft event of the world.

PowerShell Function to Restart a Process

My notebook connects to a Docking Station with access to my receiver with speakerset, 2 screens, power and a KVM switch for my mouse and keyboard. When I lock my laptop, the sounds switches from the receiver to my internal speakers. When I unlock my laptop, the sound switches back but the Spotify application doesn’t play any sound. Closing the application doesn’t solve this problem, because the application will crash and I have to use the Task Manager to force the application to close.

Let's Encrypt leaks 3.125 email addresses

First of all, I absolutely love Let’s Encrypt. It’s a very easy way to protect a website. All WordPress.com websites are protected with an SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt as well. I received an e-mail this morning from Let’s Encrypt about their new Subscriber Agreement. Above the message, there is a big list with 3.125 e-mail addresses including my own e-mail address. Looks like they forgot to put those email addresses in the BCC of the email.

Nexus 5X 32 GB vs iPhone SE 16 GB

My current work phone is a Lumia 925. Because it’s 2 years old, I can choose a new phone. This is a very hard choice, because I like the design of the iPhone, but I prefer Android above iOS. It would be an easy pick if I could choose the Nexus 6P, but the iPhone SE and the Nexus 5X are some really good competitors. I’ll use this blog post to help with my decision.

Configure Azure VPN with PfSense and a Dynamic Routing/Route-based Gateway

In this step-by-step, I’ll show you how to configure PfSense with an Azure Site-to-Site VPN by using a Dynamic Routing Gateway/Route-based Gateway. This even works with a VPN behind a NAT setup. I was looking for a stable solution that could handle the new Route-based (IKE v2) Gateways. This tutorial is based on the new Azure Portal. Prerequisites A Hyper-V Host (Windows 10 is fine as well) 2 Hyper-V Virtual Networks.