VA's Gracey headed for dot-com
MAY 31—Harold F. Gracey Jr., the outgoing chief information officer of the Veterans Affairs Department, said he will join Fedbid.com of Germantown, Md., as vice president for government affairs. Fedbid will start operations in the fall, according to its Web site, and will be a business-to-government marketplace specializing in credit card purchases and online bidding. Today is Gracey's last day of federal service.
Los Alamos National Lab returning to normal after brush with wildfire
May 30—Los Alamos National Laboratory employees are still taking stock of the damage caused by a wildfire that terrorized parts of New Mexico for more than two weeks this month.
Don't despair; a service rep might be able to help
Erin Beasley exists. Unlike Betty Crocker or Uncle Ben, Erin is a real person'a spare-parts order fulfiller deep inside Dell Computer Corp.'s vast support organization.
iDisk service helps iMac users ease into life after floppies
As Apple iMac and thin-client users already know, the floppy disk is on its way out.
SystemSoft's CardWizard makes Windows NT friendly on the road
The crash-prevention features that keep Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 up and running on desktop computers can hinder operation on notebook computers.
LAB NOTES
First 820s get 86ed. Intel Corp. last month said it would replace as many as a million motherboards shipped since last November in the company's biggest recall since that of the first Pentium processors with floating-point errors back in 1993.
How much abuse can this gear take?
Portability does not always equal vulnerability for notebook computers and digital cameras.
FrameMaker 6.0 embraces XML and other formats for Web output
The FrameMaker 6.0 publishing application from Adobe Systems Inc. can output book-length documents in Extensible Markup Language as well as in Adobe Portable Document Format and Hypertext Markup Language.
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING: New Products
The TidalRAID storage subsystem from Western Scientific of San Diego has dual active controllers and up to 864G of RAID Level 5 storage per cabinet.
USPS extends contracts for POS One initiative
The Postal Service will install 13,400 additional customer service terminals in post offices under an extension to the Point of Service One (POS One) initiative.
SigmaPlot 2000 graphing software gears up for output on the Web
SigmaPlot 2000 graphing software from SPSS Inc. of Chicago has new graph types and an electrophysiology add-on module for biomedical data. The module reads large data sets directly into SigmaPlot without extra data acquisition software.
Did you hear the one about sound coming out of a computer? It's a good one and getting better
The only sound from the earliest computers was the popping of vacuum tubes. Sound was more or less an afterthought even when PCs began to reach office users' desks.
Notebook PC does not live up to its rugged image
The Panasonic ToughBook CF-37 might not be a superspeedy multimedia notebook, but it's no slouch. Its light weight suits it to a crowd other than macho road warriors.
BUY LINES
The recent flurry of virus attacks incapacitated plenty of corporate and government information systems. Published reports noted that up to 80 percent of governmental systems around the world were affected by the ILOVEYOU and JOKES viruses that appeared early last month.
Altec Lansing delivers power, clarity for a price, but Labtec's $80 four-speaker system rings true
It takes a good speaker package to accept and play high-quality digital audio signals from your computer's sound card.
HP scanner is so easy to set up, you can start using it in 10 minutes
The phrase 'easy to install' on a product box generally means I'll spend only half a day instead of all day and night setting up a new device.
CIO OUTLOOK
Every government information technology manager faces the challenge of justifying emerging technologies to program managers and bean counters. You can't just show them an article in the latest issue of GCN/State & Local about this or that new technology and obtain funding.
FROM THE EDITOR
State and local governments are trying to forge a revolution using the tools of incremental change.
FileMaker Pro is logical database pick
The makers of the four leading desktop databases all make the same claim: Our product is the best and the easiest to use.
IBM tests Linux version for S/390 line of servers
IBM Corp. has quietly released an experimental version of the Linux open-source operating system for its System/390 enterprise server line.
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