USB: This Bus Is Going Places
If you haven't yet boarded the Universal Serial Bus bandwagon, you will want to find out where it's going. It's a technology that lives up to its claims and fills a growing need for a way to add peripherals to a system.
VR IS THE REAL DEAL
Virtual reality has long been a technology without a home, unless that home was a supercomputer or, at the least, a high-end mainframe. The many benefits of VR were filed away in most people's minds with rocket cars, 'Star Trek' and cool, futuristic and unattainable worlds.
Visio creates common drawings for artistically challenged users
There is a place for objectivity in technical journalism, but I cannot be objective when writing about drawing applications. Users don't consider just features and price when choosing them; they buy for the feel of them. For me, the drawing system of choice is Visio Corp.'s Visio Standard, no question.
DRAW IT ALL
Users don't ask much from computer-aided drawing software. Just everything.
Search for processing-power grail means more functionality in chips
While the Wintel world waits for the highly anticipated 64-bit Merced microprocessor to appear sometime in the next year, RISC workstation vendors are not sitting still.
Risc Workstations Hold The High Ground
In the technical workstation market, performance rules. Whether you're a medical researcher, aerospace design engineer, military commander running a battle simulation or a microchip designer, you want systems that are fleet enough and powerful enough to minimize your wait for large data sets to load or for complex 3-D images to draw on-screen.
PERSPECTIVES
One of the most difficult aspects about the freshman year of college is accepting the responsibilities of freedom.
FROM THE EDITOR
It was only a couple of years ago that the people who decide what a supercomputer is abandoned defining them in terms of millions of instructions per second or other speeds 'n' feeds. Now, a supercomputer is defined as the fastest computer available.
PACKET RAT
Rat has viewed with wonder the recent hacker defacements of government Web sites belonging to the FBI and the Army, among others. Federal law enforcement efforts seem to be provoking new waves of electronic attacks, just like spreading chum for sharks. And the act went international when Serbian hackers defaced the White House Web page during the Kosovo bombing campaign.
On turning 50, GSA celebrates rebirth
When 16-year-old Nancy Potter started work at the General Services Administration, she tapped out forms and letters on a manual Remington typewriter. Fifty years later, the deputy budget director uses Lotus Notes on her Dell OptiPlex GX1 PC loaded with 64M of RAM.
FBI: Gun check flaws lie with reporting, not system
Over the past six months, gun dealers nationwide sold about 1,687 firearms to buyers who should have been disqualified after their names were submitted for a review by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Army opts for ATM in upgrade of its battlefield comm systems
The Army has accepted the first tactical communications systems upgrade that combines voice with multimedia asynchronous transfer mode transmission.
Agencies fail to integrate goals, budgets, GAO says
When the Clinton administration submitted its 2000 budget in February, agencies filed their first Government Performance and Results Act plans. But most of those plans failed to tie the agencies' goals to their budgets, a report by the General Accounting Office says.
ATF may beat estimates
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' seat management program may beat general industry cost estimates by more than $4,000 per seat, according to numbers shared this month by the bureau's chief information officer.
Daley makes push for his 'e-commerce department' campaign
Commerce Secretary William M. Daley's plan for a paperless environment by 2002 is the culmination of more than a year of groundwork, but its success will depend on Congress' willingness to fund the initiative and the department's acceptance of massive change.
IT projects get a boost in DOD spending bills
The Army's Force XXI digitization program, Defense Department information security and the Navy's Information Technology for the 21st Century initiatives received hearty budget increases in both House and Senate fiscal 2000 Defense appropriations bills.
Salary weighs on mind of feds execs, poll finds
Government executives believe that competitive salaries are critical to recruiting and retaining key managers, but few think the government will provide salaries comparable to the private sector, a new survey has found.
Senate bill would keep chemical data off Net
The Senate has passed a bill that would keep sensitive data about chemical plants off the Internet.
SPAWAR loses out as Navy intranet developer
While Navy officials named a program executive officer for the service's intranet project, an admiral refuted suggestions that his vision for the $200 million voice, video and data network has been dismissed by higher-ups.
Education models systems overhaul on IRS approach
The Education Department's Office of Student Financial Assistance is redirecting its mission around one idea: 'We help put America through school.'
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