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March 23, 2009
“Show me the subawards data!” sayeth Coburn
As reported in Federal Computer Week today, Sen. Tom Coburn has asked OMB why subaward data is not yet available on USASpending.gov. A pilot program was in progress in the middle of last year but little about realizing the end goal…
October 3, 2006
Commentary on S.2590 in Information Today
Information Today has a good article on the history and future of S.2590, the database of the federal grants and contracts. The author notes that,
The database will only be as good as the data included in it. The current data collection…
March 26, 2008
Creating an RSS feed From an iCalendar Zimbra Stream
At TCG, we have moved to using Zimbra for company-wide collaboration and are rather pleased with its mail and calendar capabilities. Within the system we created an event calendar to hold vacations or company events, and I thought that an RSS…
December 18, 2020
Best Practices for ICAM Shared Service Providers
Way back in 1993—a lot of time in internet years—a New Yorker cartoonist created what became one of the most oft-cited memes about cybersecurity. A dog sits at a desktop computer saying to a fellow canine, “On the internet, no one knows you’re…
May 7, 2010
The Insanity of Stop Loss Market Orders and Impact on Cloud Computing
Computers around the world are ready to sell, sell, sell! I don’t mean on-line stores, but stop loss orders. At first a stop loss order sounds great, if not a necessity: if you hold stock at $100 and you want to protect yourself,…
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…
March 31, 2009
We will return to Grants.gov, say several agencies
The Federal Times published an article yesterday with some interesting quotes and comments from several federal agencies who are now accepting grant applications through home-grown systems rather than using Grants.gov. Of those interviewed by The Federal Times, the consensus appears…
March 27, 2012
Project: Facebook Data Liberation — Part 1
One year ago my wife, Elizabeth, started a facebook group to help encourage people with their personal exercise programs. She didn’t know if her friends would be at all interested in participating. It turns out that not only were they interested…
December 3, 2007
Cheap Microsoft and Parallels licenses for NIH users/contractors
This is an interesting tidbit: If you work at the National Institutes of Health as an employee or contractor, you are probably eligible for discounted license prices on many Microsoft products and Parallels Desktop for Mac, or so CIT’s latest…
April 12, 2006
Recovering RAID on Linux in Rescue Mode
The software RAID on Linux works very well. Our backup machine (still using Red Hat 9) uses a RAID‑5 with 6 drives: 4 hot and 2 reserve. When a main drive fails, a reserve is auto-magically brought in (thanks to the “md” daemon).
But last Sunday…