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Protecting Laptop Data – Hard Disk Encryption
A laptop computer can be a great convenience: all your programmes and data available wherever you go. But along with the benefits of portability comes a huge risk: the loss of the device. A major inconvenience of losing your computer is the loss of your data – family photos / videos, financial records, emails, etc…
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An Introduction to XML
XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. In simple terms, it provides a standard method for giving meaning to pieces of data, such that a computer will be able to understand and therefore properly manipulate and process that data. Furthermore, if you were to share these data definitions with your customers and suppliers, their computers would…
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An Introduction to Free and Open Source Software
What is Free and Open Source Software? Free and Open Source Software refers to software where the author has made the source code freely available to others to view, modify and re-release. Who would develop FOSS? By and large, the majority of contributors to the growing body of FOSS are individual programmers. The explosive growth…