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September 1, 2005
CMMI FAQ
TCG’s Senior CMMI Level 2 Mentor, Maureen Sullivan, just published a great article on www.tcg.com: What is CMMI Level 2 … and How Do We Get There?: A Brief Guide to CMMI Level 2 for Small Software Development Organizations. The article is intended to…
October 15, 2008
GPC Webcast: October 28th, 2pm‑3.30pm
Jason Miller of Federal News Radio alerted me to this notice. Attendance in person is limited to 50 people but the webcast is open to all-comers. See the Grants Management Events Calendar for more details (iCal, HTML). According to the…
November 13, 2008
NGP meeting/webcast on Tuesday!
One week, two major grants management meetings. Phewy!
The NGP is holding its bi-monthly meeting on Tuesday from 1.30pm‑3.00pm at the Department of Education in Washington, DC. Here’s the agenda. E‑mail TheNGP@AOL.com by noon on November 17th to register. You…
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…
January 12, 2009
FDP Meeting notes (Day 1)
I finally made it to the FDP meeting today, just in time for the last presentation of the day, which is fortunate because I won’t be at the meeting tomorrow at all. (Clients want meetings; I consider myself fortunate!) Unfortunately Mark Bussow’s…
July 7, 2009
GSA funds new Grants.gov pilot
According to this posting on FedBizOpps, GSA is giving Symplicity Corporation some funds “to acquire a pilot that will facilitate the need to support the efforts of the Recovery Act of 2009 and rebuild and possible deployment (sic) of a working pilot…
October 7, 2016
Building a Culture of Transparency and Trust in Corporations
Horror movies trade in darkness and fog because there is something about the unknown that triggers anxiety and distrust. These instincts apply to every aspect of our lives, from Presidential candidates releasing personal information like emails and tax returns, to…
July 13, 2012
GAO Report Dumps Grants Overlaps in Wrong Lap
The GAO Report released this week that looked at overlap in Department of Justice grants programs found an alarming number of overlapping programs and, not surprisingly, grants applications that repeated the same language for programs at different DOJ agencies.
“DOJ…
September 14, 2005
Experiments in Rapid System Restoration using Tardiff
One great feature of Linux and other Unix variants is that you can quickly make a “bare metal” restoration or duplicate of a system provided you have a full backup of the original. (With Windows, the registry requires special tools in order…
July 27, 2005
VoIP and telework
The government’s been trying to get more people to work remotely for many years now, with legislation that mandates agencies to enable more staff to adopt this mode of working and prevents government contractors being penalized for the use of…