Top vendors offer new Pentium III systems
Forecasting no end to the price-performance boom, top PC makers last month brought out 600-MHz Pentium III systems for little more than what slower predecessors cost. Most of the new 600s offer a choice of a slimline form factor in addition to standard desktop and minitower configurations.
SGI hedges its bets with a Linux cluster for security, Web serving
SGI has made a strategic shift toward the Linux operating system in its new four-way Pentium III Xeon server, the SGI 1400.
Surveys: Human error is culprit in data loss
Recent studies suggest that user errors and hardware failures do more damage to organizations' data than the hacker attacks that draw the headlines.
Bankruptcy court keeps MS-DOS database
Last year, the Federal Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Georgia faced the century rollover with a growing workload and an aging MS-DOS database application that used only two-digit dates for year fields.
You can troubleshoot Active Directory without waiting for Win 2000's release
Months before the arrival of Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, NetPro Computing Inc. has released its DirectoryAnalyzer software for troubleshooting the new network operating system's Active Directory.
Oracle, Microsoft face off
Two of the world's largest software companies are going head-to-head in the federal database market. Microsoft Corp. claims its SQL Server 7 relational database management system has made big inroads, but long-dominant Oracle Corp. maintains Microsoft is not even playing in the same ballpark.
POWER USER
Long-time readers know my bias against upgrades: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Latest Norton AntiVirus version is a security blanket for NT Server
It takes a scorecard to keep track of the antivirus software industry, but Symantec Corp.'s Norton line is a long and, for the most part, successful breed.
CaptureEze captures screen images, but not at a high resolution
You can save $40 just by reading this article.
Have you heard? Montego II's Quadzilla is the Godzilla of 3-D sound
The Montego II Quadzilla audio accelerator card from Turtle Beach Inc. has a name that suggests computer gaming, but it is an audio workhorse.
ScreenPro monitor utility helps make bigger better
Bigger is better, at least for monitors. The jumbo ones are easier to read, can fit bigger images on a screen and let you work in several applications at once.
Tool makes virtual desktop nine times bigger
As 19- or 21-inch monitors with 1,280- by 1,024- and 1,600- by 1,200-pixel resolution become standard for power users, the screen already looks like the wide-open spaces.
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.
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