With a 30% market share now IE 6.0 is another driving force behind this trend. At the high privacy level IE 6.0 will not accept cookies from any site without a compact P3P privacy policy.
Locking out such a potentially large segment of users will make you hurry things up. I know a lot of our ECommerce clients are suddenly moving very quickly in this area because of IE 6.0.
My manager was sitting down with our group discussing getting a small demo of a small portion of our application running. Our application was in the very early stages of development so even the small demo we were talking about would have been a herculean effort so to motivate us he promised he'd take us all out for dinner. Being a somewhat crazy bunch we upped the offer by saying we'd deliver a more complete demonstration. To that he promised if we could deliver then he'd take us and to dinner and eat whatever we put down in front of him. The challenge was set!
A day or so after the challenge one of the developers in another group was talking about having had is male cat "fixed" and receiving the cats balls (in a vial of some sort of preservative) from the vet. Being possessed of an evil streak we decided that if we succeeded with the challenge then our managers meal would be the cats balls!
He wasn't particularly worried by this when we told him. After all, in his (and our) opinion the task at hand was impossible.
As it turned out, it was impossible to deliver what we promised. Devious minds however decided it wasn't impossible to cheat which we did, creating a brilliant concoction of smoke and mirrors, finishing it a few moments before the delivery date.
With bated breath we all watched on as our manager sat down at the fake demo and proceded to test it out. After 10 minutes he turned around and told us he didn't know how we did it.
With great ceremony the owner of the cat brought forward a plate with two small cooked balls of meat on them surrounded by a garnish of carrot strips (of course).
I have never seen anyone grimace so much as our manager did that day. After much procrastination and excuses he picked up the knife and fork and managed to cut the smallest possible sliver he could. No matter how much we cajoled him though he wouldn't put it in his mouth.
Then a brave member of our group proclaimed, "Don't be such a wuss" and grabbed a whole ball and popped it in his mouth, chewed and swallowed before saying "Yum!"
Well our manager couldn't stand by after that and ate ate his portion (it was so small I swear it wouldn't feed an ant).
After we recovered from the hilarity and picked ourselves up from the floor the owner of the cat pulled the jar still containing the cats balls from his pocket and told everyone the balls were only ground beef. The guy who'd eaten the first one looked shocked and said "What, now you tell me?"
Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or otherwise making available of devices or computer programs who's primary use is to access, intercept or interfere with computer systems or communications;
Lets see there go keyboards, mice, any display device, printer and a whole lot more.
The problems could have been Verisign/IE specific. The Verisign "Commerce Site Services" certificates use the X509 v3 format. These certificates are enabled for Server Gated Cryptography which lets old export browsers establish SSL connections using 128 bit encryption. If the browser is accessing the site using a different DNS name from that in the certificate (or if you were using an IP address) then IE closes the SSL connection immediately after it's established and posts a horribly incorrect message saying that there was a server error. You can work around this one in IE by setting "Check for server certificate revocation" to true in the browser security settings.
Of course, it could have been any of the numerous other IE SSL bugs but as you worked through the FAQ I'll assume not.
Dell has some serious problems if all they can manage is 100,000 hits per day with IIS. Running that very same program on my 500MHz laptop I can pull that many hits in less than a minute.
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With a 30% market share now IE 6.0 is another driving force behind this trend. At the high privacy level IE 6.0 will not accept cookies from any site without a compact P3P privacy policy. Locking out such a potentially large segment of users will make you hurry things up. I know a lot of our ECommerce clients are suddenly moving very quickly in this area because of IE 6.0.
My manager was sitting down with our group discussing getting a small demo of a small portion of our application running. Our application was in the very early stages of development so even the small demo we were talking about would have been a herculean effort so to motivate us he promised he'd take us all out for dinner. Being a somewhat crazy bunch we upped the offer by saying we'd deliver a more complete demonstration. To that he promised if we could deliver then he'd take us and to dinner and eat whatever we put down in front of him. The challenge was set!
A day or so after the challenge one of the developers in another group was talking about having had is male cat "fixed" and receiving the cats balls (in a vial of some sort of preservative) from the vet. Being possessed of an evil streak we decided that if we succeeded with the challenge then our managers meal would be the cats balls!
He wasn't particularly worried by this when we told him. After all, in his (and our) opinion the task at hand was impossible.
As it turned out, it was impossible to deliver what we promised. Devious minds however decided it wasn't impossible to cheat which we did, creating a brilliant concoction of smoke and mirrors, finishing it a few moments before the delivery date.
With bated breath we all watched on as our manager sat down at the fake demo and proceded to test it out. After 10 minutes he turned around and told us he didn't know how we did it.
With great ceremony the owner of the cat brought forward a plate with two small cooked balls of meat on them surrounded by a garnish of carrot strips (of course).
I have never seen anyone grimace so much as our manager did that day. After much procrastination and excuses he picked up the knife and fork and managed to cut the smallest possible sliver he could. No matter how much we cajoled him though he wouldn't put it in his mouth.
Then a brave member of our group proclaimed, "Don't be such a wuss" and grabbed a whole ball and popped it in his mouth, chewed and swallowed before saying "Yum!"
Well our manager couldn't stand by after that and ate ate his portion (it was so small I swear it wouldn't feed an ant).
After we recovered from the hilarity and picked ourselves up from the floor the owner of the cat pulled the jar still containing the cats balls from his pocket and told everyone the balls were only ground beef. The guy who'd eaten the first one looked shocked and said "What, now you tell me?"
Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or otherwise making available of devices or computer programs who's primary use is to access, intercept or interfere with computer systems or communications;
Lets see there go keyboards, mice, any display device, printer and a whole lot more.
The problems could have been Verisign/IE specific. The Verisign "Commerce Site Services" certificates use the X509 v3 format. These certificates are enabled for Server Gated Cryptography which lets old export browsers establish SSL connections using 128 bit encryption. If the browser is accessing the site using a different DNS name from that in the certificate (or if you were using an IP address) then IE closes the SSL connection immediately after it's established and posts a horribly incorrect message saying that there was a server error. You can work around this one in IE by setting "Check for server certificate revocation" to true in the browser security settings.
Of course, it could have been any of the numerous other IE SSL bugs but as you worked through the FAQ I'll assume not.
Dell has some serious problems if all they can manage is 100,000 hits per day with IIS. Running that very same program on my 500MHz laptop I can pull that many hits in less than a minute.