Re: www.gateway.gov.uk
On Jun 17, David Cantrell wrote: Out of interest, does anyone know if it's done in-house or contracted out? (I strongly suspect the latter) The latter. Via EDS and Microsoft, I believe. *shudder* EDS. That explains it then! This incompetence is further manifested in their choice of platform. even if I *could* use it, I wouldn't use it anyway, as I do not have sufficient confidence in the integrity of the server for such important information as my (eg) medical and tax data. Err, why? What do you know about its implementation as opposed to any other government website? david@lapdog:~$ HEAD http://www.gateway.gov.uk|grep ^Server Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 That, and EDS and Microsoft being involved. Ah, so primarily blind bigotism then. Note that whilst other government sites may suffer from the same problems, What problems? Other than the people behind it you've not mentioned any. -- | Mark Hynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | What are you trying to incinerate? |
Re: www.gateway.gov.uk
On Jun 09, David Cantrell wrote: So yes, the only reason for not allowing me to use it is incompetence on the part of whichever civil 'servants' were in charge of implementing it. Out of interest, does anyone know if it's done in-house or contracted out? (I strongly suspect the latter) This incompetence is further manifested in their choice of platform. even if I *could* use it, I wouldn't use it anyway, as I do not have sufficient confidence in the integrity of the server for such important information as my (eg) medical and tax data. Err, why? What do you know about its implementation as opposed to any other government website? -- | Mark Hynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | What are you trying to incinerate? |
Re: Perl training
On May 14, Martin Ling wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:27:20PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty! /obscure_quoting Heh. It's *so* good, and has even managed to remain obscure. This is probably because you can't get it anywhere any more, of course... It still seems to get shown at christmas time late on BBC most years (I think). And what better way to say I love you than with a gift of a spatula -- | Mark Hynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | What are you trying to incinerate? |
