Day after Win 2000 launch, Microsoft issues patches
FEB. 18—If you installed Microsoft Windows 2000 yesterday, you likely received an electronic notice today announcing some fixes.
EPA shutters its Web site amid security concerns
FEB. 17—The Environmental Protection Agency last night pulled the plug on its Web site, heeding the demands of House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley, who said the site posed a security threat.
DOD focuses on knowledge management but can't pin it down
Defense Department officials are looking for ways to use knowledge management.
Langston leaves DOD with eye on the past and future
As he left Defense Department service last month, Marvin J. Langston saluted the information technology revolution of the past five years and pledged to keep in touch with his former colleagues.
AF bases take on net control
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO'Faced with excessive support costs for a mishmash of systems at 14 bases, the Air Force Materiel Command is establishing centralized network control centers through a 1-year-old initiative.
BRIEFING BOOK
Pulp-free. Air Force officials are enthusiastic about getting away from paper documents, and they are reviewing electronic publishing products that are compliant with the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment, said Col. Bernie Skoch, director of the service's chief information officer support.
MiTAC enters the telephony server market
MiTAC Industrial Corp., a maker of industrial PCs, is entering the server market with a line of rugged, high-performance servers for applications that need maximum uptime.
Automated planning via Web is one of many new federal conference services
The General Services Administration's Office of Governmentwide Policy recently amended rules for conference planning in its Federal Travel Regulation.
One card is key to many nets
A secure government office has begun using the 2in1 PC controller card from Voltaire Advanced Data Security Ltd. of Vienna, Va., to connect to public and secure networks from a single PC.
INTERNAUT
Do government agencies rely too much on intrusion detection while neglecting to make computer systems more secure?
New Exchange Server 2000 will go beyond e-mail
The next version of Microsoft Exchange Server will take advantage of Windows 2000's Active Directory for better overall security and more flexible configuration.
Share and customize data with project management application
Mesa/Vista 3.5, a project portal for managers who share access to data about projects, lets all participants customize what they see through their MyVista browser portals.
ION 7000 monitors help JPL keep current on power usage
Surge protectors and uninterruptible power systems aren't enough for a massive research center such as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Scalability and security will be improved, on the next SQL Server, Microsoft says
The next version of the Microsoft SQL Server database server application will scale up and down significantly better, according to Barry Goffe, a SQL Server product manager.
Weather computer zooms in
A week after a surprise Jan. 25 snowstorm blanketed the East Coast, National Weather Service scientists were still conducting post-mortem simulations on their just-installed IBM RS/6000 Scalable Parallel supercomputer.
POWER USER
Readers who search the Web often know that search engine differences aren't limited to user-friendliness. Some sites index many times more Web pages than others.
CIO Council to absorb GITS Board
FEB. 17—The Government Information Technology Services Board, a major player in efforts to reinvent government, will be dissolved and recast as the foundation of a new electronic government committee of the Chief Information Officers Council, officials confirmed.
Flexible text editor still takes too much memory
I started using HomeSite for Web text editing back in 1996. The lean, elegant editor created by cartoonist Nick Bradbury has gone through three releases after acquisition by Allaire Corp. without losing its simplicity.
Norton AntiVirus 6 for Mac stays on guard
Version 6.0 of the popular Norton AntiVirus package for the Apple Macintosh is a fast and easy route to always-on protection from known, unknown and macro viruses.
There's little need to rush to upgrade from NT to Win 2000
Users have been installing brand-new Microsoft Corp. operating systems for as long as they've had PCs.
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