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Open Source Government Tidbits
BY Matthew Burton | Wednesday, July 22 2009
A few brief items about the progress of open source software within the US Government: The US Postal Service just finished migrating its 1300 servers from Solaris to Linux. It's part of a wider effort to move its entire ... Read More
Some Thoughts on Firefox @ DoS
BY Matthew Burton | Wednesday, July 15 2009
I wrote a Web application for a federal agency, and last week, it was deployed. Two days ago, a systems administrator wrote to tell me that he was experiencing errors when using the app with Internet Explorer 6. "And you ... Read More
Quintessential E-Government in Muncie, Indiana
BY Matthew Burton | Sunday, July 12 2009
According to legend, a man disguised as a pizza delivery boy used to shuttle secret communiques between the CIA's and NSA's respective headquarters, about 25 miles apart. This was before the two agencies' networks were ... Read More
PdF09 Twitters From the White House to White Flight: Whatever
BY Dave Witzel | Saturday, July 11 2009
I'm pretty confident that danah boyd's was the most talked about talk during the Personal Democracy Forum 2009 Conference in New York City. I can say this because she was mentioned more than 750 times in the twitter ... Read More
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