How do you Optimizing web pages for quick downloads – network related items? quick display – browser performance? specific users? Components outside of your control (note but mostly disregard) You have little control over the network path that a network request and delivery takes. You have no control over the computing device being used to Continue reading →
How many times have you read or heard that the fix for a non-working program/web solution is to change the file permissions to 666 (allow user & group & others global read+write) or 777 (global read+write+execute)? TOO MANY! Sorry, had to shout a bit. It is distressing to read such suggestions/fixes – worse, the readers Continue reading →
Categories: Computer Technology, Problem Solving, System and Network Security, Unix-Linux-Os, Web Problem Solving Tags: 777, apache security, Georgia, global read write execute, group permission approach, limited access, Linux, Linux consultant, Linux file Permissions, Savannah, web security
A recent cracking (an illegal access of computer systems and data) of Twitter related data-in-the-cloud (my reference when using tools where data is used and stored on a remotely hosted system) is in the news. It seems that some bad person decided to guess the passwords of some users with Twitter relationships (employees or family Continue reading →
Categories: Computer Technology, Media and Communications, News/Events, Problem Solving, System and Network Security, Virtual-Cloud Computing, Web Technologies Tags: costs of weak passwords, data-in-the-cloud, Georgia, Linux consultant, Savannah, securing data, the social web, web security