UPTIME ALL THE TIME
temporary power outage can be a pleasant experience if you are, say, at a downtown restaurant with your significant other. The waiter lights a candle and fills your glass with a little more cabernet sauvignon.
Extra features are key to keeping
Servers running mission-critical applications must have minimal downtime. That's why the features that accompany a symmetric multiprocessing Pentium III Xeon server are important.
SERVING YOU RIGHT
With performance and storage demands on systems growing exponentially, managers need to do more than add size and speed to their servers. They need to multiply.
PERSPECTIVES
What a difference a year makes.
FROM THE EDITOR
One of the most talked-about trends is the convergence of computing and telecommunications. Voice networks are taking on more and more data traffic. Companies are putting their voice traffic over their IP data networks. At the device level, wireless PC Card modems and hybrid phone-organizer-computers are more and more common. New notebook computers can double as office machines.
Systems managers recount tales from the code trenches
Exactly what was it like to be on the front line of the date code fix-it effort?
Transportation IT crew makes a party of systems testing
Name: Jim SlaughterAgency: Bureau of Information Systems, Pennsylvania Transportation Department (PennDOT)Title: Year 2000 coordinator and application development chief...
IntelliFix app runs well'when it runs
Year 2000 fix-it packages abound for PCs, but none of them seems to work on every PC.
A Web browser can give you access to printer info from here, there '
Many color laser printers are in a new category of Internet-ready devices that can be configured, managed and used from a PC anywhere in the world, provided it's online and runs a popular browser.
Coast to coast, agencies hustle to finish Y2K work
As Yogi Berra said, predictions are tough, especially when they're about the future.
Ready or not: Where the states stand on Y2K
To paraphrase 17th century poet John Donne, comparisons are odious. But could they shed some light on how the states are faring in year 2000 readiness?
FROM THE EDITOR
The year 2000 date code D-day is like an earthquake whose exact moment of occurrence is known in advance. For the most part, state and local governments have heeded this fact and have worked methodically toward getting their systems ready to handle the
COUNTY LINES
Focus, focus, focus. As 2000 approaches, coun-ties should heed these words: Copy shamelessly, know what to let go, and prepare for contingencies.
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.
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