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November 26, 2008
Next NGMA Meeting — January 14th
Just a note for your calendars: The next NGMA Training Luncheon is on January 14th. The speaker is to-be-announced but an interesting chat accompanied by great food (Maggiano’s, 5333 Wisconsin Ave NW) is hard to turn down. And you can also…
November 24, 2008
Getting Sabrent SATA Host Cards to Work
To support a large number of hard drives on our backup machine, we bought a Sabrent SATA 4 port PCI host card (SBT-SRD4). Guess what? It hangs with our 1TB drives. In fact, it will hang with anything larger than 175 GB!
Instead of…
November 19, 2008
KTvid lives! Affordable mobile two-way video now available
Our friends at KT-Tech have just released KTvid, a really-very-cool mobile video technology aimed at consumers and businesses. Their press release says it best:
KT-Tech has accomplished what no other company in the wireless industry has achieved: enabling real-time, high-quality, person-to-person video…
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…
NGMA Training on Wednesday!
Just a reminder that the NGMA is holding its next training luncheon on Wednesday. Here are the details:
OMB Circular A‑102: The “Common Rule” and 2CFR Part 215 — Uniform Administrative Requirements:
Speaker: Janice Joyce & Jean Feldman, National Science Foundation
Program…
GMLOB on Presidential transition radar
I just saw this page from the GAO’s Presidential transition site, which includes the following:
In 2005, GAO recommended that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget ensure that efforts to develop common grant-reporting systems, such as through this…
November 11, 2008
Lines of Business: OMB’s Mistakes and How It Can Fix Them
Here is the fundamental challenge: Each new grant program passed by Congress creates a tiny new fiefdom in a government agency. This fiefdom directly gets funding and has the ability in many cases to set up its own management processes and systems.…
November 4, 2008
A Script to Automatically Update Clamav Packages
Clamav is an excellent open source multi-platform antivirus program that we use on our systems and projects. While clamav comes with utilities to update the antivirus definitions, there isn’t a utility to update the engine (instead the antivirus update gives a warning).…
October 15, 2008
Grants.gov Newsletter Fall 2008 now available
It’s here! The major headline is that Grants.gov has passed the 200,000 application mark for FY2008. Quite an achievement!…
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…