AF command right-sizes its inboxes
What's it like to migrate 140,000 users to a new mail application?Chaotic but also cathartic'especially behind the scenes'the Air Force Materiel Command is finding out. Over the next year and a half, the command will move users from Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003.
FAA clears rollout of net backbone
With the all-go sign given for a new communications backbone, the Federal Aviation Administration has taken the first step toward saving roughly $700 million on its telecommunications costs over the next 15 years.
Sun embraces desktop Linux
Sun Microsystems Inc. is trying to undercut enterprise Microsoft Windows desktop deployments with the Java Desktop System, which will cost just $50 per user per year, or less for agencies that abandon Windows.
Don't worry, Unix isn't past its prime'yet
Unix is not pass'certainly not in the government. But is it becoming a legacy operating system that will soon grow too pricey to support?
Try out this app to wipe PCs of unwanted files
Just because you've deleted a file doesn't mean it's gone.Programs such as SecureClean from WhiteCanyon Inc. of Orem, Utah, can retrieve deleted passwords, credit card information and online transactions. I recently used SecureClean to dig up a password I couldn't remember on an old Pentium III PC.
Share-in-savings guidance on the way
Federal agencies and their contractors will soon have more guidance on how to do share-in-savings contracting, officials said yesterday at a Washington conference about the rarely used procurement method.<br>
Four women praised as government leaders
Four women leaders in government received honors yesterday at a Washington ceremony sponsored by Accenture LLP.<br>
Size does matter in files
How many times have you tried to e-mail a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation only to have it bounce back because the message was too large for the recipient's e-mail gateway? It has happened to me more times than I can count.
Latest WinBook's a good deal
If you're looking for an executive notebook PC without an executive price tag, check out the WinBook W.Perhaps the most noticeable trend in notebook design today is a move from squarish to rectangular LCDs. My test unit, a WinBook W160, had a 15.1-inch-diagonal rectangular screen with an aspect ratio of 15:10 and native 1,280- by 854-pixel resolution.
Finally, an OCR app that doesn't disappoint
OmniPage Pro 14 represents a first for the GCN Lab'it's an optical character recognition program that works, and works well.It's been more than three years since the lab looked at OCR packages. The reason? They never measured up to our expectations. No application ever received a grade higher than C. And filled-in forms flummoxed every one.
The lowdown on financial apps
<b>What is it?</b> The financial apps in this guide are enterprise-level tools, often part of an enterprise resource planning package, that can gather data from thousands of sources into a single ledger. They are designed for government use. All the programs listed except Axapta run on Linux, Unix and Windows.
Better on balance
Government bookkeeping used to involve people in green eyeshades who painstakingly wrote transactions in heavy, lined ledgers. The eyeshades are gone but not all the ledgers are, even in shops that long ago built mainframe accounting programs.
Incoming
<b>Gotcha.</b> The team that captured Saddam Hussein last month was from the Army's most digitized unit, the 4th Infantry Division from Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colo.
Navy tests new air traffic system
The Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Md., recently began using an upgraded air traffic control system that station officials expect will speed up data transfers, increase data volume, improve training and enhance security.
Navy e-business unit targets back-office projects
The Navy's eBusiness Operations Office works like many military units; it finds a target and looks for the simplest, most efficient way of hitting it.But in the case of the e-business office, the targets are ways to improve the service's back-office operations, and its ammunition is the funding to support them.
60 percent of taxpayers eligible for free e-file
Most taxpayers are eligible to use the IRS' free tax preparation and electronic filing program, the agency announced today.<br>
SCO: Open source is bad for the economy
The SCO Group Inc. sent letters to every member of Congress this month urging them to consider the potentially negative effects of open-source software, a SCO spokesman confirmed today.
Power User: In '04: better XP, WiFi; more spam
Look for a major upgrade to the Microsoft Windows XP operating system this year.As more agencies head toward XP migration, Microsoft Corp. is beta- testing XP Service Pack 2 with recompiled code that Microsoft hopes will eliminate a lot of buffer overrun vulnerabilities as well as other flaws that keep security patchers busy.
Lackland adds fiber to its blade diet
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, is feeding fiber to its PC blade farm.About a year ago Lackland began replacing its 200-plus desktop computers with rack-mounted ClearCube PC blades in a locked server room. Users have been testing desktop fiber command units called C/Ports from ClearCube Technology Inc. of Austin, Texas.
Internaut: Government shouldn't break its privacy promises
Now is make or break time for federal online privacy policy.Several parallel efforts are under way, some of which increase government commitment to privacy, while others openly break trust in the government's data collection integrity.
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