Posts by J.G.Harston 4268 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Mar 2009
Ditto. I had a Freedom Of Information request for "everything". I replied that I had almost ten years of documents, to go through them to decide which were relevant to the request and provide them I estimated would take XX hundred hours, shall I be billing for £16,500? The request was withdrawn.
Yeah. When I was doing software installation for part of the NHS, I would get people on site demanding I insttruct them on how to use the patient record and prescribing system. If I knew that, don't you think I'd be a clinicain, not an IT monkey???? I just deliver the piano, I can't play the damn thing.
Functionality is being killed by Design. Every time my neighbour asks me to do something with her PC I am stumped trying to find the power button invisibly moulded into the decorative surround. It's the same with her TV. Not only that, but what should be a rocker switch is actually something that bounces back, so when you look at it it is screaming that it's already turned on.
"needing around 40 MB of hard drive space, and using around 200 MB of memory"
What demented defintion of "small" is being used here?
" (there's no right click mapped by default but you can configure one). "
Err..... that already exists, the "Menu" key between the right Windows key and the right Ctrl key.
"There are also keyboard shortcuts for switching windows."
That also already exists. Alt-Tab
Is a wheel included?
"still need to release a few features for Windows,” he explained. Those features include window dragging and text highlighting by selecting two different hints, triggering whatever text editor is being used to highlight whatever’s between them."
THAT.
ALREADY.
EXISTS!!!!!!!!!
YEAH GLODS!
When I do my backups, I afterwards physically unplug the master drive and boot from the backup drive and spend some time "exploring" to confirm what's there.
I then unplug the backup drive, write the date on it, put it in my backup bookcase, and plug the master drive back in.
As others have said: NOOOOOOOoooooo.......!!!!! Single point of failure.
Plus, we already have distributed remotely accessible electronic patient records, privately supplied to GP practices by such as EMIS, SystmOne, Focus, MediTech, others I can't remember. The only failure point is the NHS - ie, hospitals - haven't had to boot put in hard enough to force them to sign up to something. Remember, GPs are *NOT* part of the NHS, they are *FUNDED* by the NHS, and so for decades they have been on the ball with this stuff through individual decision making, instead of The Government imposing some One Record System To Bind Them All. EMIS is Egton Medical Information System written by a couple of doctors at Egton GP Practice, originally on BBC Computers. In the 40+ years since the NHS has failed to do anything even as basic.
******ing portable/mobile phones. If I sent a three-legged wooden horse galloping through nearby electronic equipment with my amateur radio, I'd have the licensing authorites down on top of me like a huge pile of building material stripping my license from me. Yet ******ing phone companies get away scott free.
I did that with the 2021 census. I objected to the US company HMG had employed, but I am a strong supporter of censuses (family history nerd) so filled in the form on paper with my best non-machine-readable cursive forcing them to eat into their fixed-price profits employing humans to read my writing. :)
Turning a once-per-year job where you have nine months to get around to doing it into four quarterly jobs that each must be done within three weeks.... plus the annual job.
I often don't get the banking or other accounts up to the end of the previous month until two or three weeks into the next month, I can *NEVER* do accounts up to the end of the previous month. It's 11th April today. The latest my current financial records run to is 22nd March. I *CANNOT* start last year's accounts until June. (I usually do them in July.)
I already "do tax" digitally. I have an annual spreadsheet, with boxes on one page with the numbers I need to type into the HMRC website. Nothing more is needed.
Having to do quarterly returns won't "save me time", it will add to my workload, and rush me. Instead of nine months to get around to doing my annual return, I have three weeks to get a quarterly return in.
The only "digital tax software" I need is Excel. I made an effort to try and track down how I can just upload the needed details, but everything funnels me into "sign up to our free stuff, give us your bank account details and...." Sorry? Bank account details? **** OFF! Luckily I'll have paid my mortgage off in a couple of years and will be able to afford to stop doing paid work, so this will just result in me being forced out of the employment market - in the middle of screams from employers screaming that they can't find any staff.
