Why is it that after much discussion over many years are we still talking about software vendors putting to market applications that are plainly not ready for prime time? Applications with numerous bugs, undocumented quirks, and security holes are being developed and sold everyday by large software companies and independent application developer alike. Is it that code inspections are not widely implemented or that the testing performed is not comprehensive enough? What is code inspection and ...
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With the Macromedia's release of the new version of Dreamweaver, the Dreamweaver MX 2004, creating data ' driven pages have several requirements before you can begin making them. Unlike Dreamweaver 4, a previous version of Dreamweaver, wherein you can just dive in and everything you need are there in the application already, Dreamweaver MX requires some bits and bobs that should be in order and set up your environment. There are three things you need. Here are they: 1. A Web Server ' now, ...
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Our corporate intranet is a non-framed environment with both Lotus Domino and IIS (.Net and classic ASP) applications and content. We have between 300,000-500,000 pages of web content and documents across more than 1200 'sites' on approximately 30 unique domains. We used to have Inktomi's UltraSeek Server 3.0 as our intranet search engine which was beginning to look like its age (purchased in 1998). The Inktomi product did not handle attachments well (DOC, PPT, PDF, etc.), would not crawl ...
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You may reprint or publish this article free of charge as long as the bylines are included. Original URL (The Web version of the article) ------------ Phishing: An Interesting Twist On A Common Scam Title ----- Phishing: An Interesting Twist On A Common Scam After Two Security Assessments I Must Be Secure, Right? ----------------------------------------------- Imagine you are the CIO of a national financial institution and you've recently deployed a state of the art online transaction service ...
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Another benefit to using FrontPage is being able to create virtual directories with ease. As you know, when you specify a home directory, all of the subdirectories beneath the home directory automatically become subdirectories of the Web site as well. However, you can also designate a folder located elsewhere on the system as a subdirectory of the site by creating a virtual directory out of it. A virtual directory is a directory or folder on a server that is not in the actual server ...
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Several articles have appeared recently touting a concept known as contingency design. In a nutshell, this consists of providing assistance when your visitors do the unexpected or the blatantly wrong thing. This adds an extra level of professionalism to your site, which can lead to more return visitors (or in the case of an e-commerce site, more sales). Some examples of contingency design are described below. Error pages: 404 error - This is one of the most important contingencies to cover. It ...
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As you know if you've spent any time at all surfing the web, sometimes you will see the dreaded 404 error condition. This often occurs because you've entered an incorrect link (perhaps added a ".html" instead of ".htm" at the end of the file) or perhaps because a site has been updated recently and some links were broken. Virtually all web sites (especially free sites) have some generic 404 error page displayed when this occurs. This error pages is either (a) completely unhelpful to a visitor or ...
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Title ----------------- Video On How To Hack A PC Hacking Video - Education Or Marketing Tool? ----------------- I sat in my office for about thirty minutes trying to decide if I was going to write this article. I finally came to the conclusion that I would since this information is already freely available on the Internet, and in fact, was posted as part of a government article. (http://www.demosondemand.com/clients/fiberlink/002/page/in This video dex_new.asp), part of a sales and marketing ...
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MICROSOFT BLUES With the advent of 'Service Pack 2' for Windows XP operating system, Microsoft have really made the forums hum. Every forum on computer problems is replete with complaints that since downloading and installing 'SP2', many 'third party' applications don't work. This service pack was needed to keep viruses and trojans out of people's computers when they are on the internet, but it has caused a world wide backlash against the software giant because people's favored applications ...
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Top speed Win2000 / XP Always wanted if you could do that something extra to add more speed to you windows 2000 or XP.. Then here is an article for you. You can speed up the whole system if you can get rid of some of the unnecessary services running in the background. Just follow the instruction of how to go about it and I bet you will be more happy with your windows 2000 / XP box :-) What we are going to do is: Change the startup type of a few unneeded services from Automatic to Manual. To ...
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