Posts by G G Madden

Red flag: Verify to be marked 'undeliverable' by gov projects watchdog

My failed attempts at being Verified are available on YouTube, "GOV.UK Verify Failure" and "GOV.UK HMRC Fail Again".

ReactOS 0.4.11 makes great strides towards running Windows apps without the Windows

"HMRC's services all offering its own Government Gateway"

Wishing to access my income tax account online, and having failed with Verify and Experian, I tried HMRC more directly, but the credit reference agency that HMRC used took two seconds to tell HMRC that they should not recognise me.

So I am not allowed to look at my income tax account, though I have been paying income tax to the Inland Revenue and HMRC for several decades. It seems that one needs to have a credit record in order to be recognised as a person.

I recounted my failure in a YouTube video on GOV.UK HMRC so boring that it has only been viewed eight times in two weeks. Who cares?

Windows updates? Just trust us, says Microsoft executive

In July, on one computer, I spent three days wading through stuff I did not want before reverting to Windows 7. Nevertheless, KB2952664 has continued to appear on my computers.

Today, on another computer running Windows 7, I found that KB2952664 4.7 MB had been ticked as an important "update", and KB2952664 4.7 MB - 4.8 MB was an optional "update".

Has KB2952664 really become important and benign and in two different forms?