As enterprises begin to understand and exploit the business value of social networking applications, they are increasingly relying on a cloud computing model to make it work.
Network security isn't easy, but there are plenty of ways to maximize the return you get on your efforts. Here are fifteen ways to gain a lot more security for less effort than you might expect.
Your small business software toolbox should include at last one graphics software app. Here’s what you need to know to pick the right graphics package -- plus a selection of software for every budget.
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Trademarks and free software can make a volatile mix. It is understandable that a project would want to ensure that code shipping under its name is "the real McCoy", but modifying the source and distributing the result is a hallmark of free software."
<b>Tech Republic:</b> "I recently read a blog posting that denounced the use of sudo as insecure because of the following (briefly summed up and paraphrased) reasons:"
Relational databases are designed for multiple simultaneous users, and Microsoft SQL Server is no different. However, supporting multiple users requires some form of concurrency control, which in SQL Server's case means transaction isolation and locking. Read on to learn how SQL Server 2008 implements locking.
Relational databases are designed for multiple simultaneous users, and Microsoft SQL Server is no different. However, supporting multiple users requires some form of concurrency control, which in SQL Server's case means transaction isolation and locking. Read on to learn how SQL Server 2008 implements locking.
<b>Blog of Helios:</b> "A dry spell, whether it's a true lack of rain or more metaphorically, a slowdown in business, can be a reason for concern. We've pretty much exhausted our computer stock and there hasn't been much to do lately for The HeliOS Project."
As it continues its efforts to grab share from heavyweights like EMC and IBM, NetApp has entered into an agreement to acquire Bycast to boost its unified storage strategy.
<b>Dissociated Press:</b> "It's only a few more days until Penguicon, North America's finest science fiction and open source software convention. I'm not only psyched to be attending, but I'm flattered beyond words to be one of this year's Guests of Honor"
In this installment we'll explore optional and named parameters in C# programming. This is an option that has long been around within the Visual Basic language, but is newly introduced in to the C# language in the .NET Framework version 4.0.
<b>The Register: </b>"Ylmf OS 3.0 has been released from a Chinese software maker with the familiar Luna theme found in Microsoft's Windows 7 and Windows Vista predecessor."
The company started out with a server virtualization aggregation tool that makes many boxes look like one. Now, it's enhancing its formula and splitting that image into a second virtual machine.
<b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.4 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.4 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release we have changed the Bordeux UI from a GTKDialog to a GTKWindow, the "OK" button has also been re-named to "Install"."
The Data Manipulation Language (DML) includes the major commands, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT...INTO. Today's article focuses specifically on the uber-useful INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT statements.