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July 6, 2005
NasBackup and the amazing Butch
TCG has a bunch of staff spread across the country. This presents a number of technical challenges for data security and corporate data integrity. We’ve put in place measures such as our VPN, which has created an internal “LAN” that’s proving very…
August 24, 2023
The Most Important Civil Rights Leader You Haven’t Heard Of
In 2019, TCG adopted Marvin Caplan Park, a small greenspace a few blocks from TCG’s headquarters. This was part of our annual social cause that year to support state, local, and national parks. In 2023, TCGers voted to renew that commitment to…
March 14, 2008
Reaching Out to Financial Assistance Stakeholders — NGMA session notes
Today I attended the NGMA lunch where Lois W. Paul of the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, presented “Reaching Out to Financial Assistance Stakeholders.” I was most interested in Lois’s discussion of the ways in which the Bureau has…
February 21, 2006
Kentucky vies for NBAF
I see that Kentucky has thrown its hat in the ring for NBAF (National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility). in a joint effort sponsored by Congressmen and the governors of Kentucky and Tennessee, the University of Louisville, UT and Oak Ridge National…
October 26, 2006
Google seeks access to Grants.gov data (and others) — what about RSS?
They’re already indexing every book on the planet, so why not government data? GovExec reports that Google is trying to open government data to Internet search engines (though I can’t imagine which one they have in mind!) to better enable users…
July 20, 2012
Oracle Nightmare: Recovery With Missing Redo Files
Here’s a mistake you only do once: delete Oracle’s flash_recovery_area thinking that you can save space. You see, to quickly configure Oracle Backups (here is a great and brief how-to), it’s best to turn on “archivelog”, which instructs Oracle to create transaction…
July 6, 2011
Emergency Recovery of Zimbra’s OpenLDAP
Last weekend (July 3rd, 2011), Washington had a tremendous thunderstorm, which led to a long power outage. We have a number of experimental and development virtual machines in our local server farm that were impacted, but what was truly hit hard was an…
April 10, 2007
FFATA pilot rumored
Word reaches me that OMB is moving ahead with a pilot FederalSpending system, relying on federated search technology coming from the Navy. Agencies that will apparently participate in the pilot include the three GMLOB leads (Education, NSF, and HHS/ACF), HUD, and DOD. …
August 30, 2012
TCG’s Judith Turner to Chair NGMA Technology Committee
TCG vice president Judith Turner has been named the new chairman of the National Grants Management
Association’s (NGMA) Technology Committee. Judith also serves on NGMA’s Board of Directors. The first job of the technology committee will be to review the…
July 10, 2006
Federal Transition Framework briefing
The government’s Chief Enterprise Architect, Dick Burk, is giving a briefing on the Federal Transition Framework (FTF) on Thursday, and it’s open to anyone with an interest in Federal enterprise architecture. Check out the FedBizOpps posting for all the details. Many…