Agreed!
I'm a Perl guy, and everyone thinks that Perl looks like line noise - although it doesn't, if you have decent coding practices. I keep getting handed projects that involve fixing PHP, and...I hate it.
Because of PHP's low barrier to entry, everyone picks it up - and starts writing crap. I'm not saying any other language is better - it just seems like this happens most often with PHP.
Doesn't it already allow this, in the form of the tinyurls it converts all your URLs to? Admittedly, it doesn't give you quite as much fine-grained control as writing HTML to link things, but doesn't it still let you link URLs?
Sharepoint tends to get used in intranets, as opposed to being publicly available - we have one setup at our office, although I can't say that we use it for much - it's too clunky to do much other than keep a company-wide calendar, and make sure documents everyone needs to get to are available. If I'm not mistaken, there are also licensing fees to deal with when you set up Sharepoint(although I could be wrong, I didn't set it up).
I think that might just be a pathing issue - it's been happening to me for the last week or two as well, and I'm up in the frigid wastelands of Canada, using Shaw internet.
Ah, but can you open.docx files, using Office 2007? Because people on PCs can. And they always send them to me. My "current" version of Office can't open them.
While that is possible(and yes, I've heard of and perpetrated both XSS and CSRF attacks), I doubt that a bank would not ensure that any content delivery network it uses doesn't stand up to the same security standards as they do. Try talking to their support if it still bothers you, or download an add-on that will block content from other sites, and see what their site is like without it.
Something like that. As far as I know, they aren't actually compromising anything - all they're doing is serving you content from another server. As near as I can tell(I'm not an Akamai client), Akamai doesn't track the content it's delivering - only that it's delivering it. So your security isn't really being compromised; you're just being paranoid. The reason that they are using Akamai instead of their own servers is to that they can make sure your online experience with their interface is as smooth and responsive as possible.
If you take a look at the book "High Performance Websites", they have a chapter called "Use a Content Delivery Network". Here's a paragraph that explains what a CDN(like Akami) provides:
A content delivery network (CDN) is a collection of web servers distributed across multiple locations to deliver content to users more efficiently. This efficiency is typically discussed as a performance issue, but it can also result in cost savings. When optimizing for performance, the server selected for delivering content to a specific user is based on a measure of network proximity. For example, the CDN may choose the server with the fewest network hops or the server with the quickest response time.
Akamai is what's known as a "Content Delivery Network" - you use them to try and make your website a little bit more performant.
Realistically, they don't/need/ to use Akamai for their CSS, JS, or image files - they're just doing it to try and make things a little more zippy.
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I know a couple people who become terrified when they can't check their e-mail - to the point of attempting to cause me harm - does that count?
What about Cthulu?!
You hardly even need to worry about used, for the older-gen stuff - a brand new gamecube(and paper mario) is only $70 at the wal-marts up here.
Agreed! I'm a Perl guy, and everyone thinks that Perl looks like line noise - although it doesn't, if you have decent coding practices. I keep getting handed projects that involve fixing PHP, and...I hate it. Because of PHP's low barrier to entry, everyone picks it up - and starts writing crap. I'm not saying any other language is better - it just seems like this happens most often with PHP.
Terrorist.
Ah - my mistake, then. I cheerfully admit to being a monkey.
Are you sure it's not clickable? These both seem to work - regular link and tinyurl link
Doesn't it already allow this, in the form of the tinyurls it converts all your URLs to? Admittedly, it doesn't give you quite as much fine-grained control as writing HTML to link things, but doesn't it still let you link URLs?
Sharepoint tends to get used in intranets, as opposed to being publicly available - we have one setup at our office, although I can't say that we use it for much - it's too clunky to do much other than keep a company-wide calendar, and make sure documents everyone needs to get to are available. If I'm not mistaken, there are also licensing fees to deal with when you set up Sharepoint(although I could be wrong, I didn't set it up).
I think that might just be a pathing issue - it's been happening to me for the last week or two as well, and I'm up in the frigid wastelands of Canada, using Shaw internet.
Ah, but can you open .docx files, using Office 2007? Because people on PCs can. And they always send them to me. My "current" version of Office can't open them.
Well, it is called the "Recycle" bin...;)
While that is possible(and yes, I've heard of and perpetrated both XSS and CSRF attacks), I doubt that a bank would not ensure that any content delivery network it uses doesn't stand up to the same security standards as they do. Try talking to their support if it still bothers you, or download an add-on that will block content from other sites, and see what their site is like without it.
Something like that. As far as I know, they aren't actually compromising anything - all they're doing is serving you content from another server. As near as I can tell(I'm not an Akamai client), Akamai doesn't track the content it's delivering - only that it's delivering it. So your security isn't really being compromised; you're just being paranoid. The reason that they are using Akamai instead of their own servers is to that they can make sure your online experience with their interface is as smooth and responsive as possible.
Aw...I was hoping it would actually say "piss up a rope".
Akamai is what's known as a "Content Delivery Network" - you use them to try and make your website a little bit more performant. Realistically, they don't /need/ to use Akamai for their CSS, JS, or image files - they're just doing it to try and make things a little more zippy.
You mean you actually /do/ want to talk to her?
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