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Vandenbrink provides a tool called VPNSCAN for auditing remote IP addresses for compliance with an existing remote access policy.

Thompson reviews several freely available documents that can help with managing IT security.

OpenOffice.org has released a beta version of its open-source application suite that doesn't require Mac users to install X11, a Unix windowing environment.

Core lab has announced the release of Universal Data Access Components (UniDAC), a powerful library of nonvisual cross-database data access components for Delphi, Delphi for .net, and C++Builder. Now, UniDAC provides support for all claimed database s...

The DAISY xml format, an accessibility standard in development for years, has gotten a big boost by virtue of Microsoft developing a DAISY plug-in for Word. But if the big document-authoring players are getting on board, where's Adobe?

Learn tree nomenclature and how to build binary trees that can recursively traverse and draw their own nodes.

Learn how to use STA COM objects asynchronously without blocking your main thread.

The Visual c++ 2008 Feature Pack incorporates C++ language changes that move C++ closer to the upcoming C++0x standard. The new language elements build on the powerful features of the C++ language, and include support for regular expressions, function objects, and a number of new STL containers as well as many other new features. Review some of the new language features, and see how they can be incorporated into C++ applications.