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.
A docking station gives mobile employees flexibility as they come and go from the office, and Toshiba's docking station offers one-plug connectivity between any notebook PC and a host of peripherals.
<b>ZDNet:</b> "Important examples are to be found in the world of open source. Linux crossed the chasm on servers. It failed to do so on desktops. Yet Android, a Google-developed Linux distro, seems fated to succeed."
When it comes to DVD ripping and burning, Linux users must choose between GNOME simplicity and KDE completeness. Bruce Byfield wonders if either choice is completely satisfying.
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "Some of us are still waiting for the year of the Linux desktop. Some think it’s already here. One thing is certain however, Linux does not have a majority desktop market share. By the time we get there, perhaps the entire idea of what a Desktop is will have been re-defined, thanks to “The Cloud”."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "In part one we made a basic movie with kdenlive. Pretty easy! But we can make a better movie by adding some effects, so Akkana Peck shows us how to add transitions between scenes, music and titles"
A study shows that while most SMBs worry about small business computer security, they have no idea how to prevent it or how to protect themselves from bank fraud and identity theft.
<b>Datamation:</b> "Should a netbook be treated as more as a mobile device than as a laptop? Should developers assume that netbooks are used for light computing such as social networking, rather than for productivity?"
<b>Around the Web:</b> "After considerable searching, head-scratching and digging, I finally found that it is accessible via a Gnome configuration setting."
<b>IT World: </b>"The Unreal team handled it pretty well, in my opinion. They embraced the suck and made a clear announcement free of blame or denial--an announcement that also pointed out how to confirm the trojaned version and how to replace the trojaned version with the clean version."
<b>Linux Journal:</b> "Synergy (synergy2.sf.net ) allows you to use the keyboard and mouse of your primary computer to control all the other computers around you. Best of all, it is free, works with Linux, OS X, and Windows."
<b>IT News Today:</b> "Linux is full of some amazing tweaks that go far and beyond other operating systems. Last week I wrote about using scripts to simplify shell commands, and today I'm going to take that a step further, but it takes a little bit more leg work"
<b>ars Technical:</b> "Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced today that its Ubuntu One cloud service will soon gain support for mobile contact synchronization"
<b>Phoronix:</b> "The Pogoplug is a network attached storage device that is far more than a basic NAS like the Icy Box NAS4220, but the Pogoplug can integrate with social networks like Twitter along with providing a rich web 2.0 interface for accessing the device from anywhere in the world."