Author: Vince Kimball

UK government to open an e-file on every child in England

inquirerinside.com – UK government to open an e-file on every child in England. The UK government has announced plans to keep an electronic file on every child in England in a range of new child protection measures announced by prime minister Tony Blair. The children's files together with their unique e-number will be managed by… Continue reading UK government to open an e-file on every child in England

Hospital Chain Talks Up Wi-Fi

Hospital Chain Talks Up Wi-Fi. Hospital chain implemented secure wireless networking: 10 percent of doctors use it: Last year, Partners Healthcare System, a hospital operator, added wireless access to its patient systems. Today, 10 percent of doctors use the secure system to access information as they roam. Doctors can immediately place pharmacy orders, among other… Continue reading Hospital Chain Talks Up Wi-Fi

Starting with the easy steps

Starting with the easy steps. Synonym Rings and Authority Files – In part 3 of the continuing series on controlled vocabularies and faceted classification, the CV tagteam champs Karl Fast, Mike Steckel, and Fred Leise explain synonym rings and authority files and how their use can bridge the gap between natural language and complex controlled… Continue reading Starting with the easy steps

Technical Debt

Technical Debt. Technical debt is a self-evident phenomenon that is often ignored in school and universally ignored in the trade press. This often leads to unrealistic pressures, unreasonable customers, and to bad decisions. [Mark Bernstein]

MX04 subscriptions up

MX04 subscriptions up. MX04 subscriptions up: You might want to take a look at your portal page, if you have a DevNet Professional subscription… there's a couple of new things you might enjoy downloading…. 😉  [JD on MX]

New Distributed COM vulnerability

New Distributed COM vulnerability. New Distributed COM vulnerability: If you installed the anti-Blaster patch, then today's alert advises you to install another one to guard against a slightly different attack on the same vulnerability in DCOM Remote Procedure Calls. From what I read in this article, if you instead disabled DCOM's default-on state then you should… Continue reading New Distributed COM vulnerability