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Regulators cracking down on outsourcers
Insight perspective As more financial institutions look to outsource core parts of their operations to external suppliers, managing adherence to compliance is paramount, says industry watcher.
Tags: Offshoring, Risk Management, Data security, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, Outsourcing, IT Security, Outsourcing Company, Regulation, Information Security
Clean up haphazard character spacing in Word
Techguide If you find letters truncated or otherwise out of order after manipulating your Word document, it's because Word is trying to accommodate for spacing--and not always very well. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to correct haphazard character spacing in the document.
Beware the storage virtualization quick fix
Techguide iSCSI, virtualization and business continuity are key to EMC's future, as Ken Steinhardt well knows.
UK data-protection spot checks due this year
News The U.K. information commissioner has confirmed that his office will be getting new powers to carry out spot checks on any company in the United Kingdom holding data on individuals.
Tags: Data security, Policy and management, Local Government, Data Controller, Conference, Computer, compliance, Infosecurity Europe, London, U.K.
British ID thieves face jail time
News U.K. government proposes up to two years in jail for crooks who misuse other people's personal data.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security
Learning Oracle ADF: Simple JSF data view/entry form
Techguide Rex Baldazo shares more his learning experience working with the Oracle Application Development Framework.
Tags: Databases
Visualize data with new Microsoft controls
Techguide Tony Patton explains how to get and use the Microsoft Chart Controls for .NET 3.5.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, .NET, Series, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Data, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, 3D, .NET, Microsoft Chart Controls
Compress data streams with GZIP and Zip
Techguide You can easily compress and decompress any text or binary data to or from any input/output stream using either a file or any other stream, with the common formats GZIP and Zip.
Tags: Java, Programming languages
Compress data streams in Java
Techguide You can compress and decompress any data stream in Java. Peter Mikhalenko shows you just how easy it is to compress data streams with GZIP and Zip data formats.
Consider using Oracle objects for OLE in Windows
Techguide Oracle Objects for OLE (OO4O) is a set of software layers designed to provide access to an Oracle database from Microsoft COM Automation and ActiveX compatible languages such as Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), IIS Active Server Pages (ASP), Windows Script Host, and Visual C++.
Learning Oracle ADF: Master-detail forms
Techguide Rex Baldazo looks at the more common case for Oracle ADF, where there is a master-detail relationship.
Tags: Databases
Build powerful Web interfaces with a free JavaScript framework
Techguide Scriptaculous allows you to easily add powerful AJAX-based user interface features to Web 2.0 applications. Web developer Tony Patton explains how to use it.
ACLU chapter flags Facebook app privacy
News Chapter aims to raise awareness of fact that not only can third-party apps on Facebook's platform access your data, they can see some of your friends', too.
Tags: Web 2.0, Security, Privacy, User Data, sexual orientation, Northern California, photograph, American Civil Liberties Union, e-mail, Facebook
Create hyperlinks from one Word document to another
Techguide You can link your documents together--hyperlink, that is. Mary Ann Richardson explains how you can create hyperlinks to refer your readers back to information in different Word documents.
Windows NT 101: Get an overview of the registry
Techguide Any administrator who has worked with computers running Windows NT or any other Microsoft Windows systems should be familiar with the registry. Microsoft defines the registry as "a unified database that stores configuration data in a hierarchical form."
