Security experts are torn between just how far the government and the private sector should go to protect critical data from cyber criminals without violating individual rights.
Tip of the Trade: VNC makes it easy to log into a full desktop on a remote server. Follow these steps, and your Debian Linux server will be up and running in no time.
Improve your CSS skills using .LESS, a free, open-source port of Ruby's LESS library. LESS (and .LESS, by extension) is a parser that allows web developers to create style sheets using new and improved language features, including variables, operations, mix-ins, and nested rules.
Scaling IT systems either breeds high levels of automation to make the infrastructure manageable, or it ends up breeding a huge mess. Here are five signs that you need to mend your ways.
You can use Java APIs not only to help translate characters, strings, and text streams to other languages, but also to convert Unicode character sets to non-Unicode and vice versa.
<b>Christofoo Review: </b>"Right now, Lenny (5.0) is the stable release, and Squeeze (6.0) is in testing. Sometime "soon" Squeeze will get frozen, which means the regular flow of package migration will stop, and from then on it will only get bug and security fixes through a method of back-porting."
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "Mark Shuttleworth had a dream: the big Linux distros should agree to have version numbers identical to those of kernel components and refresh them every two years. The dream now is more real than ever."
Menus are basic components of any application. A well-designed menuing framework should be flexible, customizable for both look-and-feel and functionality, and easy to integrate into applications.
Many articles on database administration take the perspective of trying to help you do your job better. We thought we might take a different tack and poke a little fun at some of more egregious mistakes we've seen over the years at IT shops.
<b>Linux Foundation:</b> "Matt took some time recently to share his perspective with me on why Canonical can take Linux places Red Hat can't, how Linux beats Apple, and how the Ubuntu community's passion and focus on design will change the way people see Linux for a long time."
<b>IBM Developerworks:</b> "Why repeat yourself? You can configure Vim’s comprehensive event model to execute time-saving scripts whenever particular editing events—such as loading a file or switching between editor modes—occur."
Windows 7 brings a new level of maturity to Windows Search, and by taking advantage of new MFC functionality first publicly unveiled with the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010, writing a Search filter handler for a MFC application can be easily accomplished.