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April 29, 2013
A Script to Automatically Update Clamav Packages — 2013
Five years ago I posted a script to automatically download and compile the latest clamav (an excellent open source multi-platform antivirus program). Due to the reorganization of sourceforge, it needed to be updated. Here it is:
#!/bin/sh
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## Documentation:
## Please modify…
May 31, 2012
ORCID Proposes Unique Identifiers For Scientific Authors
Uniquely identifying people in an electronic database can be a very hard problem. I ran into this problem on my first project with TCG and it has come up a number of times since then. Given a large enough sample size, you can find…
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…
September 5, 2007
Mythbusting — be careful!
In the Washington Post today was a story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300933.html) about research by Norbert Schwartz into what people actually understand when myths are “busted.” (See “Metacognitive
Experiences And The Intricacies Of Setting People Straight:
Implications For Debiasing And Public Information Campaigns from…
April 9, 2009
OMB directs agencies to pay for Grants.gov improvements
OMB released a new memo last night, directing agencies to provide past-due and new funds to support the improvement of Grants.gov. Attachment A of the memo shows that OMB expects agencies to send over $12 million to Grants.gov by April 13th, $6…
July 27, 2011
ACT-IAC releases results of grants management survey
ACT-IAC’s Collaboration & Transformation SIG recently released a white paper titled “Industry Survey of Challenges to Improve Federal Grants Management”. The group surveyed industry participants to identify opportunities for improvement of the Federal grants management process and associated systems. The conclusions are…
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…
November 21, 2005
Justice gets lower IT budget
Also from GovExec.com, I see a report on the FY06 State-Justice-Commerce appropriations bill, which effectively cuts the Department of Justice’s IT budget. It already looks like IT will be a primary target as Congress tries to get the country’s budget back on some…
May 5, 2008
Office 2007 converter for OSX
After receiving a lot of files with the dreaded “.docx” filename extension, I discovered that Microsoft has a converter available for OSX that transforms these Windows Office 2007 files into Mac Office 2004 format. It’s not perfect (it’s in beta right now) and…
July 8, 2024
Insights from a Decade of CPARS Data at TCG
By Lisa Alferieff, TCG COO
Companies that contract with the Federal government know that positive Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) ratings are gold and serve as a report card, of sorts, to help the government with future source selection. The government…