Posts by Anonymous John 2374 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2007
The NAO (not having a mainframe) then passed the database to KPMG to process.
So the NAO was paying a profit-making business to extract usable data instead of HMRC doing it in-house. A rather convoluted way of auditing a Governemnt department.
Little or no cost saving there.
"Were the IT Dept involved?"
Has to be. Nobody else has access to the entire database, or a CD writer. Records can be accessed one at a time, and only if the reference number/National Insurance number is known.
The BBC referred to an IT worker this morning.
It's a bit rich the Tories trying to exploit this. Does anyone believe it wouldn't have happened if they'd been in charge?
"Long battery life. Leave wireless on and recharge approximately every other day."
Not only can you connect to your neighbour's WiFi network, but you can keep your gadget charged from it too.
Cheaper than the £433 Iliad though.
http://www.iliadreader.co.uk/products.htm
I do prefer paper books, but my Pocket PC, Mobipocket, and 100 + books, comes into its own when travelling or not at home.
I don't object to web adverts as such. But if I go out to buy a magazine, I don't have to wait while the newsagent goes next door to get the adverts. Neither does he follow me home, and stick them over whatever I'm trying to read.
Techniques that some web advertisers think are acceptable. Not to mention the hidden close buttons that sometimes don't work.
"could that be one of the MoD's newfangled invisible sheds then?"
I don't see it, to be honest.
Anyway, from www.esa.int
Launch update
11 November 2007 The next Ariane 5 flight is now scheduled for 12 November. The launch window opens at 10:06 UTC/GMT (19:06 Kourou, 23:06 CET/Paris) and has a duration of 54 minutes.
Due to a electronics problem with a solid rocket booster. And according to the BBC news website will be rolled back to an inspection shed.
I now have this mental image of a huge wooden structure full of lawn mowers, plant pots, and assorted rusty tools.
Where's my gardening jacket?
Possibly they're worried about it damaging other panels if it suffers further damage. It isn't fully rigid until fully extended. Which is why they can't allow the portside panels to rotate to track the sun, until it's sorted one way or another.
As things stand, they can't retract it or extend it further without risking further damage. I imagine it's possible that they may get more power by jettisoning it and allowing the rotating joint to rotate. Even docking a spacecraft with the ISS could damage it.
I doubt it will be necessary though.
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