Sysadmins can take this LAN analyzer to field locations
The Portable Surveyor from Shomiti Systems acts as a network psychotherapist. Not only does it analyze LANs, it makes house calls.
Optra lets you print remotely via the Web
The Optra Se 3455 network laser printer from Lexmark International Inc. prints at pretty good quality and decent velocity. But as the pages came flying out, I heard a grinding noise from the paper-feeding engine.
Cable modems, DSL answer the call
In digital communications parlance, the convergence buzzword simply means that cable, telephone and other communications providers are zeroing in on a single goal: low-cost, high-bandwidth, persistent Internet connections.
THE BELTWAY AND BEYOND
The Defense Department is hard at work implementing electronic commerce procedures for its buying. But DOD is divided between thinking of these nascent programs as ways to take advantage of revolutionary technologies or as burdensome processes laden with historical requirements. How DOD directs this policy choice will reveal how the department will interact with industry in years to come.
MY TURN
With two laws now on the books that prohibit the government from competing with the private sector, you'd think there would be more hue and cry about the E-biomed project proposed by the National Institutes of Health.
ANOTHER VIEW
Are your agency's managers concerned about establishing performance measurements? Or do they feel, as some undoubtedly do, that this too shall pass?''
Editorial
From lawyers alley along Washington's K Street to Capitol Hill, and from chief information officers' suites to agencies' most distant bureaus, a consensus is emerging that security is the Next Big Thing in the federal systems arena.
At the Naval Academy, a Dell PC's the BMOC
Plebe envy joins the list of challenges that upper-class midshipmen at the Naval Academy face this year, right after beating Army on the football field.
Workgroup printer plays hide-and-seek with NT
A current radio advertisement in the Washington area has someone impersonating an Army officer saying that if Minolta Corp.'s PageWorks printers are good enough for the Army, they're good enough for you.
On New Year's Eve, he'll be at the epicenter of Y2K action
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Peter A. Kind increasingly finds himself in the year 2000 hot seat.
Andersen wins Education pact
The Education Department last week chose Andersen Consulting of Chicago to oversee the $200 million to $300 million modernization of its student loan systems.
Government CIOs get their own university
The school bell's ringing'for federal systems executives who want to take graduate courses but have few hours each week to spare.
In Corps, comm officers move up ranks
With one Marine Corps communicator-general celebrating the first-year anniversary of his promotion and a second selected for promotion, Defense Department officials are offering different takes on whether the communications career path has gained clout within the department.
PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR
September14-15 Building the Federal Work Forceof the FutureConference. Washington
Sprint's FTS vet joins Qwest, will lead government division
James F.X. Payne, Sprint Corp.'s government assistant vice president who helped land both the FTS 2000 and FTS 2001 long-haul communications contracts, has joined Qwest Communications Inc. of Denver to lead its government markets division.
Clinton creates council to protect nation's critical infrastructure
President Clinton last month signed an executive order creating the National Infrastructure Assurance Council, which will be a senior-level group working to protect the nation's critical infrastructure.
Koskinen will demonstrate how history repeats itself, Y2K-style
On New Year's Eve, time might actually fly, at least for the president's year 2000 czar.
Corel enhances its own version of Linux with an auto-installer
Corel Corp. has designed its own version of the Linux operating system around the Debian Linux kernel, the K Desktop Environment and other freeware applications.
Compaq enterprise systems come with a free upgrade to Win 2000
Compaq Computer Corp. is selling its enterprise client systems with free upgrades to next year's Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional release.
Navy sets PKI implementation test, will try smart cards during pilots
The Navy will implement a public-key infrastructure through several pilots of multipurpose smart cards.
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