CIO OUTLOOK
Like many states, Georgia has been living and breathing the year 2000 readiness problem. We in government have had to respond to practically every readiness question and challenge imaginable. We have been probed from every quarter, managing in a fishbowl of public scrutiny.
Letters to the Editor
I read your editorial in the July issue [Page 12] and had to offer what I think is a bit more insight into traffic cameras. I don't have a problem with cities installing cameras at stoplights. However, the mere fact that 90 percent of ticket recipients pay their fines without question does not mean the system works.
$tate Y2K spending
In all, states estimate the cost ofdate code work will top $3.8 billion
Midwest town heeds prophetic words on year 2000 problem
One fine day in 1987, Dick Brich, data processing supervisor of North Platte, Neb., was thumbing through a trade magazine. An article about the year 2000 date code problem caught his eye.
Chicago checks readiness with offline test bed
HICAGO'When Chicago officials need to test the city's 911 system for year 2000 readiness, they use an offline test bed that includes at least one of each component in the system.
California's top cities promise critical systems are A-OK for Y2K
LOS ANGELES'California's largest cities'Los Angeles and San Francisco'fuel screenwriters' disaster fantasies and have survived real-life upheavals in the past decade. But emergency preparedness officials in both camps declare that emergency communications systems will be 2000-ready.
MONITORS
The CRT monitor is the biggest space hog on a desk, and most users would jump at the chance to replace the bulky tube with an elegant LCD'but only if they didn't have to spend a lot of money or sacrifice image quality.
Lab Notes
Access denied. Ah, the joys of market competition. Now that the Web browser wars of a few years ago have balanced out to an uneasy detente between Microsoft Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp., GCN Lab reviewers are rediscovering the advantages of having multiple browsers and versions installed.
State, local governments warned they'll have to fend for themselves
State and local governments will be responsible for handling any immediate problems in their own back yards that arise from date code glitches, the nation's year 2000 czar said last month.
Color laser printers
It used to be a no-brainer. For fast, low-cost text output, information technology managers bought monochrome laser printers for their workgroups. When they needed bursts of color for reports, slide shows or occasional graphics, they supplemented the lasers with inexpensive ink-jet printers. Case closed.
CONTINGENCY PLANNING
It's Dec. 29, and New York State Office of Mental Health officials have just been informed that the agency's pharmaceutical management system will likely fail in less than three days.
Tennessee children's services agency comes up with a contingency plan
As they await completion of a new, year 2000-ready system, many Tennessee child services caseworkers will go up to six months without direct access to Department of Children's Services databases.
Briefing Book
Cyber seabag. Navy officials have reconsidered a plan to lease notebook PCs for all incoming enlisted recruits on the fiscal 2001 budget, a service spokeswoman said.
Federal execs honor their own for systems successes
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.'An FBI information technology executive and a Defense Department program for establishing enterprise-wide software agreements received honors last week at the 38th annual Interagency Resources Management Conference.
DOD is game for teaching crisis strategy
If a military crisis occurs today, intelligence strategists must sort through reams of e-mail, intercepted phone calls and rapidly changing maps, while an all-news television channel blares in the background.
This little device has every comm link except a phone
Outside the dedicated audience for Palm handhelds, the personal digital assistant market has yet to take off in a big way. But Motorola Inc.'s PageWriter 2000X has the potential to make PDAs mainstream.
BIA launches tribal lands net
After three years of design and development, the Bureau of Indian Affairs last week began using a system that will manage more than 56 million acres of American Indian title land.
Justice expects an E-FOIA avalanche
A recent lawsuit provides an inkling of the demands that regulatory agency information technology personnel could face in complying with Electronic Freedom of Information Act requests, a Justice Department official said.
PACKET RAT
The sudden influx of wealth from the Rat's rMachines cyberventure is making a big impact on his financial lifestyle. He now has finances.
State helps U.N. get servers, thin clients
The State Department recently helped coordinate a $3.5 million systems donation to the United Nations' tribunals that are prosecuting war crimes in Kosovo and Rwanda.
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