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If you have a laptop and are going to carry it on the plane they WILL make you take it out of the bag and x-ray it outside the bag. If you carry a bag that you use for other things make sure you go through it carefully. They will take and keep anything with a point or an cutting edge. Pack and check your tools.
If you have a wise guy who likes to crack jokes about guns, knives, bombs, etc leave him home.
You can carry own two items if one of them is small and "personal." That does not mean a small suit case and a back pack. I tried. It means a small suit case and a pocketbook or a very small briefcase. Maybe. It depends on the airline to some extent. If there are things that you really must carry on (medicine - always carry on medicine - the last thing you want is to be 1000 miles from home with meds that you need to stay alive on) than put them all in one bag.
Lots of electronics will often kick off a complete bag search. I've seen it happen so I nolonger carry on the 10-port hub and extra ethernet cables I used to keep in my back pack. I check them.