Posts by St Marlowe

UK space firms forced to adjust their models of how the universe works as they lose out on Copernicus contracts

In other news =- head in sand isolationists fail to spot that this code was broken by European police forces and passed to UK under EU cooperation agreements. This will be much less likely or possible after Jan 2021. Taking back control - looking good eh?

Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines

Late 60's IBM 360 - same thing here. We woud have not considered a PDP a mainframe though.

Night shift was 11-7 curry first and a few beers for the ride - usually finished by 4 and playing cricked in the gaps between dist racks, As above - great times.

I watched one of thse drives fail the drop test! - hit every step on the way down!

As a salesman - selling 2 of those drives was a quarter's qota.

Will someone think of the taxpayer? UK.gov needs to stop burning billions on shoddy procurement, says Reform

Re: Fines ?

"What is needed is that EVERY contract must follow a template that binds the supplier to specific deliverables in specific times, with large and inescapable penalties for non-delivery. Private companies certainly are very sensitive to potential fines, and their bosses will quickly realise that over-promising will cost them."

The Template should also BIND the customer to the Spec that they signed up for. While an in-house project has the ability to move the goalposts, expecting a suppler to respond to suh moves at pace without incurring costs is unreasonable and leads to high costs for change management

Vote Lib Dem, doom humanity to extinction

The Register??

Stick to Technology

At least there is a pretence that you might have some idea of that about which you pontificate!

Or does Murdoch have a shareholding?