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March 14, 2008
More on Asterisk (Evolution)
I wanted to change the email message that’s sent out when someone leaves a voicemail. The easy way would be to modify /etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf, adding the following to the “[general]” section: emailbody=New voicemail message received\n\nDuration: ${VM_DUR}\nTime: ${VM_DATE}\nSender: ${VM_CALLERID}\n\n\t\t\t\t–Asterisk\n
Of course, on Evolution…
May 1, 2007
Complete Cost/Benefit of Enterprise Grants Management deck
Courtesy of our friends at Grantium, we can post all three presentations [PDF] that were given at a Grantium-sponsored event last week about “Cost/Benefit Analysis of Enterprise Grants Management”. The presenters were:
Sandy Swab, Grants Consultant, talked about The Drivers for…
September 6, 2006
NIST publishes secure Web Services
NIST has published a paper (Special Publication 800–95)that addresses the problem of deploying Web Services in an SOA while maintaining security. Some of their recommendations:
Using XML encryption to ensure confidentiality.
Using XML signatures to ensure integrity.
Using Security Assertion Markup…
October 27, 2006
Resolving CVS Commit Conflicts with Word Documents
CVS is extremely popular for configuration management (with Subversion quickly gaining speed). It uses “optimistic locking” in which multiple users can work on the same file at the same time, and any conflicts are resolved when the file is “checked-in”. …
September 11, 2007
FDP: Grants.gov Update
Terry Nicolosi provided an update on the Grants.gov system. She was joined by Harsha Rao, Gary Alfano (both from General Dynamics), Doug Privelege (from Adobe), and Vince Sprouls. Lots of interesting information here, including the fact that IBM Workplace Forms…
February 15, 2007
Federal Spending is up!
I see that the Web site intended to help guide development of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) system is live! Through the Federal Spending site, anyone can submit comments to the FFATA Task Force that’s working on the…
May 18, 2011
Grants.gov will be competed among 8(a) firms
Much of the discussion lately in the grants management systems community has been about the upcoming recompete of the Grants.gov IT support contract, currently held by General Dynamics IT. A sources sought was issued in April and now word reaches me…
September 25, 2019
Who says Shared Services are Only for Back Office Functions?
by Dave Cassidy, Vice President
The consensus answer is: almost everyone. The problem is that almost everyone is wrong.
By eliminating duplicative work and saving taxpayer’s money, federal shared services can have a huge impact on modernizing IT in the federal government.…
November 22, 2011
Telecommuting is great for productivity (but possibly bad for families?)
Telecommuting GOOD! And also telecommuting sometimes bad, maybe.
August 24, 2011
LAMHDI Annual Planning Meeting Focuses on Expansion
LAMHDI, the NIH initiative to Link Animal Models to Human Disease, held its annual planning meeting last week (August 15–17) in Bethesda. Attended by scientists and researchers from nine cooperating institutions and several federal agencies, the meeting focused on ways…