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FIPS stands for the Federal Information Processing Standardisation and FIPS 140-2 is a collection of standards that are generically associated with hardware and software cryptography. In most cases, people can refer to this as the method of encrypting data. There are four levels under the 140-2 mandate and these - according to wikipedia - are:

FIPS 140-2 Level 1 is the entry point and roughly speaking means that components of a system must be "production-grade" and obvious kinds of insecurity must be absent.

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The Nvidia 3D Vision Kit is a new gaming technology which allows you to play the newest computer games in "Stereo 3D" (like 3D in movies, but actual video games). I can best describe the experience as an "interactive animated diorama." However there are a number of tricks needed to get the full 3D gaming experience. There's plenty of feature related info on the Nvidia.com website. In this article I will focus on the info you ...
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I have run Windows 7 for almost a week now. I like it a lot, and what's more, I like it more and more each day.

First, a couple of caveats:
As did many folks, I avoided Vista. So a lot of what is impressing me is possibly/probably stuff that is not new to Vista users. So If I rave about a "new" feature that is years old, well... just keep that in mind.
I'm using a brand-spanking new computer that came pre-installed with Win7 Home Premium; 64-bit. This caveat is two-fold: I did not upgrade from XP or install any device drivers, so I can't provide any impressions there. But most ...
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This article is a discussion on smart pointers, what they are and why they are important to C++ programmers. Following the primary discussion I present a simple implementation of a reference counted smart pointer and show a simple example of using it. Although this article does not go into detail about how to develop a reference counted smart pointer the example code at the end is very well commented and that should be enough to aid understanding.

This article is targeted at an intermediate level C++ programmer; however, anyone who develops using C++ (even as a student) would benefit from reading this article and ...
 
 
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