If your laptop is running either the Ultimate or Enterprise editions of Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you can take advantage of the BitLocker feature to encrypt the hard drive.
<b>GamePolitics:</b> "While Iran has been making a concerted effort of late to beef up its presence in the international game market, developers located there still must oversome a series of obstacles to create videogames."
<b>Handle With Linux:</b> "If you are looking for a Linux toy that really rocks, your search ends here. This is a stringless digital guitar and it's powered by Linux."
<b>Ernie Leseberg blog:</b> "Does having an open license for a software project, have all the advantages negated if the development process is basically closed to the outside world?"
<b>PC Business: </b>"Even now there are few applications that take full advantage of multicore processers. For those that do the benefits are huge, but some applications just don't work well in a multithreaded environment."
Marcin Policht delves deeper into the specifics of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2's Integration Services by presenting the most straightforward method of creating SSIS packages using Import and Export Wizard.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 made the life of a DBA easier by providing an enhanced auditing feature, "SQL Server Audit". The first article of this series illustrates the various components for auditing and the action groups provided by Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
This C++ tutorial demonstrates how MFC 10 delivers on it's promise by delivering the boiler-plate functionality required to build a professional Windows C++ application with minimal effort while allowing .NET developers to customize aspects of MFC behavior.
<b>LinuxLinks:</b> "Now, let's explore the 5 practice management applications at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screenshot of the software in action, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."
<b>Gnuru:</b> "The IBM ThinkPad X40 was one of the greatest lightweight ultra-portables of the time. They're aging now, but that only adds to their coolness."
<b>Softpedia:</b> "Canonical, the company behind the very popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, recognizes the potential of the emerging market and has partnered with Intel and Eucalyptus to promote its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) offering as part of Intel's Cloud Builder program."
<b>RWDub's Reviews:</b> "After installing Ubuntu 10.04, I realized that I was going to really miss my flying games. In an attempt to passify myself I downloaded and installed FlightGear, which is entirely free and I must admit it is pretty incredible."
<b>Crypto.com:</b> "A decade ago, I observed that commercial certificate authorities protect you from anyone from whom they are unwilling to take money. That turns out to be wrong; they don't even do that."
<b>LWN:</b> "Today is the culmination of a huge effort by the worldwide Nokia and Intel teams to share the MeeGo operating system code with the open source community. This is the latest step in the full merger of Maemo and Moblin..."
Ponemon Institute and Compuware study finds porous data protection policies and technologies are putting millions of customers—and their assets—at risk.
<b>WorksWithU:</b> "But much more importantly, 2010 marks OpenOffice.org’s tenth year of existence. To celebrate, here’s a look–literally, because there are a lot of screenshots–at how OOo has evolved throughout the decade."