Traffic on fiber-optic networks hits a speed bump
Network managers who want to get more speed out of their existing fiber-optic infrastructure are about to run into a technical speed bump.
Army's Guard builds out ATM video training network
To expand its video training network nationwide, the Army National Guard is buying $2.5 million worth of video equipment.
Mint outsources its e-business
The Mint makes lots of money. It expects to strike 29 billion coins this year'the kind you carry in your pocket'and sell another $1 billion worth of collectible and investment-quality coins.
INTERNAUT
Agency Web site managers have a lot of work to do over the next few months: Disable cookies, start accepting digital signatures and plug into a massive, new governmentwide Web project.
THE BELTWAY AND BEYOND
Bill Gates probably sees Joel Klein in his bad dreams. Klein, of course, is the government antitrust prosecutor who put together an unwieldy coalition of 19 states and the federal government to bring a civil suit and obtain judgment against Microsoft Corp.
THE VIEW FROM INSIDE
Thanks to the drug czar, cookies are one recreational substance federal webmasters will have to forswear. The Office of National Drug Control Policy Web site was gathering data about its users with the help of the site-tracking company DoubleClick Inc. of New York to manage the cookies. DoubleClick has been notoriously aggressive about acquiring and selling the data it gathers.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
I am writing because I have been disturbed by the lack of technical understanding in GCN stories about accessibility.
EDITORIAL
At long last, Congress has passed and President Clinton has signed a bill declaring digital signatures legal for commercial and government transactions.
Module for use with Windows version of GIS software is certified by NIMA
The Imagine NITF module for the Microsoft Windows version of Erdas Imagine 8.4 geographic image processing software from Erdas Inc. of Atlanta has received certification for compatibility with the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard 2.0.
Giant-sized NetBackup is for terabytes of data
Veritas NetBackup now comes in two sizes for different data environments.
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING: NEW PRODUCT
A.D. Experts Inc.'s 4Keeps 2.2 can reverse- and forward-engineer existing relational databases via the Unified Modeling Language or other methodologies.
Telecommuters, remote users get easier connections
DANA POINT, Calif.'The Digital Living Room conference here last month showed new ways agency telecommuters and travelers can connect to their office networks.
SANengine manages mixed storage area networks
The SANengine storage network platform from TrueSAN Networks Inc. of San Jose, Calif., does caching and resource optimization for storage area networks.
Navy high-performance site tests StorEdge T3
Now it's the network storage'not just the network'that's the computer.
CYBER EYE
It's getting more and more difficult to stop malicious e-mail attachments as virus authors and their repackagers learn to hide dead-giveaway file extensions.
ARCserve 2000 gives network managers the option of a SAN serverless backup
ARCserve 2000, an upgrade of Computer Associates International Inc.'s data-protection software, has an option for serverless backup across storage area networks.
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.
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