House Appropriations Committee OKs funds for Customs, IRS overhauls
JULY 19—The full House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday passed by voice vote the Treasury-Postal fiscal 2001 spending bill, which provides $14.4 billion in discretionary funding.
Data pilot enhances ER care
To succeed at building a comprehensive data warehouse of medical trauma information, Scott A. Optenberg had to devote as much attention to people as he did to data.
POWER USER
It's great that the government encourages informative, fast-growing agency Web sites. The flip side is that it takes employees much more time to support them, refresh material, fix broken links and so on. Some software tools available online can be a big help.
Directory Snoop checks under the hood and more
Programs that examine the lowest levels of hexadecimal data on a hard drive are much scarcer now than in the days of MS-DOS, because Microsoft Windows purposely shields users from arcane commands.
Microsoft builds a better mouse by scrapping the roller ball
The Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical finally convinced me that the roller ball had to go. If I'd needed any additional convincing, the IBM ScrollPoint Pro mouse clinched it.
LAB NOTES
A printer with teeth. Last month at the PC Expo trade show in New York, Epson America Inc. demonstrated Bluetooth wireless radio connectivity between an Epson color printer and an IBM ThinkPad T20 notebook computer.
Wireless Web still has strings attached
Turn on, tune in and unplug. It's no digital-age promise from a Timothy Leary clone. The wireless Web is coming, but it's not quite here yet.
CLIENT SIDE
The reasoning behind the proposed split of Microsoft Corp. befuddles me.'It's not that I think Microsoft should stay as it is. Nor am I advocating its breakup. I'm just puzzled at the way Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson and the Justice Department want to split the company.
PATCH PANEL
My first Patch Panel column was written just as Microsoft Windows 2000 was released. I had been testing Release Candidate 2 and had just enough time to install the shipping version of Win 2000 Professional. A few weeks later, it was reported that Microsoft Corp. had left out some important information about the Kerberos security tool it had pre-announced and that I had described in my column.
Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows operating systems are nearly as common as keyboards in desktop computing, but the server versions of Windows lag significantly behind such OSes as SunSoft Solaris in the management of database, Web, file sharing and application server machines.
Former IBM executive to take charge of FBI's systems
JULY 18—FBI Director Louis J. Freeh has appointed longtime IBM Corp. executive Bob E. Dies as the assistant director of the bureau's Information Resources Division.
Tips, Tools, Tricks for Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows 2000 is many things, but it is not particularly easy to get up and running. It's a new, expansive operating system with new code, tools and features, and in some respects it requires a new approach to network management.
START
Microsoft Corp. is revving up to launch seven new server products that collectively will make up Windows 2000 DNA, or Distributed InterNet Architecture, the company's platform for building Web applications.
3-D Web is on the way
JULY 17—A free software developer's kit from the Web3D Consortium of San Ramon, Calif., will go out this month to members and to visitors at the Siggraph trade show in New Orleans. The Summer2000 SDK CD-ROM contains open-source and community-source X3D software tools, a conformance suite and 3-D content developed by members of the consortium, formerly called the Virtual Reality Modeling Language Consortium.
Delaware governor signs digital signature bill
JULY 17—On Friday, the First State was the first state to enact legislation that recognizes digital notarization and time stamping in electronic-commerce transactions.
Navy sets DOD-wide BPA for Microsoft server products
JULY 14—The Navy has signed a three-year blanket purchasing agreement that gives all Defense Department agencies a 15 percent to 25 percent discount off the schedule prices for Microsoft Corp. server products.
Amendment earmarks $105 million for Customs modernization
JULY 13—The House Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday approved an amendment attached to the $14.4 billion Treasury and Postal Service fiscal 2001 budget that would allocate $105 million for a much-debated Customs Service modernization effort.
Citizen input will be key to e-government success, Lieberman says
July 12—Collaboration between government insiders and citizens will lead to an effective electronic-government agenda and thoughtful enactment of legislation, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) told an E-Gov 2000 audience today.
IRS overhaul will tie IT to mission, modernization director says
JULY 12—The IRS' modernization project will focus on acquiring information technology assets that will improve the service's ability to fulfill its mission, Bert Concklin, the agency's new business systems modernization director, said yesterday.
Army setting up world's largest education portal
JULY 11—Army Secretary Louis Caldera yesterday announced that the service will begin handing out notebook computers and printers to thousands of soldiers as early as December for online study at what he said will become 'the largest education portal in the world.'
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