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When unexpected costs surface
Contractors must prove they should be reimbursed for cost overruns.
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Defragging disks: A simpler solution
Federal agencies and corporate America are wasting billions of dollars a year on unnecessary hardware upgrades in an attempt to alleviate degraded performance on their networks when the real problem can be cheaply fixed without new equipment.
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'Hits' don't measure up
Hit counts tell agencies nothing about whether a site is achieving performance goals.
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NASA splits security duties
NASA has created an office to oversee security, but the new Office of Security Management and Safeguards will assume responsibility for only a portion of the agency's computer operations
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How it happens
A disk drive creates and saves a file by laying it in contiguous clusters on the disk drive. When that file is later read, the head in the disk drive moves directly from one cluster to another on a single track. The head stays in one place over that track and reads the file as the disk moves beneath it. As more files are written to the disk, they are also laid out in contiguous clusters.
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Optical drives: A clearer future
Departments and agencies looking for faster, more accessible storage for backing up data on servers or even critical workstations should take a look at the latest generation of CD and DVD drives.
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The Circuit
Technically, her sixyear term as chairwoman of the House Science Committee's Technology Subcommittee is up, but Rep. Connie Morella (RMd.) may not have to vacate her post.
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Reps calm IT industry
Two days after the most chaotic presidential election in U.S. history, two members of Congress assured the information technology community that the election impasse would have no long-term impact on high- technology policies or federal funding for IT programs.
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Tool offers self-help to site users
RightNow Technologies is delivering an improved tool to help agencies strengthen service to online customers
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'Big Bertha' improves scientists' view
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have a new highresolution desktop monitor to study 3D models
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SSA to quicken disclosures to states
To cut the time it takes the Social Security Administration to stop paying benefits once someone has died from months to days, SSA is changing the rules on when the agency can reveal a Social Security number to states.
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Responding internationally
International cybercrime attacks on missioncritical government or private computers from across national boundaries is an increasing threat. Can governments respond?
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ERP Version 2.0
You won't hear many companies talk about enterprise resource planning anymore.
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Brace yourself for financial crisis
FCW's Friday Financials column presents some recommendations for how to prepare for unexpected misfortune
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Congressmen ease IT worries
Two Congressmen say that the impasse over the presidential election would have no longterm impact on hightech policies or federal IT funding
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Vanguard launches fed subsidiary
Vanguard Integrity Professionals' new subsidiary is designed to market advanced security solutions and services to the federal government
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Sun adds enterprise accounting tool
Government institutions involved in highperformance computing have a new tool to help keep track of electronic and human resources
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Is Internet too public for court records?
Judicial Conference of the United States is calling for an indepth discussion of how much public access is too much
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