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
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:00:32PM +0100, Mark Hynes wrote:
On Jun 17, David Cantrell wrote:
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.
No, they're using
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)
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
At 07:14 AM 2001.06.13 +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
I need to read the news more often, I was thinking about Louisiana!
I also need to get a better grip of the geography: I thought
LA. was the Florida side of Mississippi and Alabama.
No, it's the place where I was born -- Lower Alabama. Also
Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 1:16:12 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
DC On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Mike Jarvis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Larry speaks in a bit over 9 hours. Yippee!
DC Actually - he doesn't :)
DC http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/2255236
It all worked out ok.
From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt.
do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like the end of the
world was nigh?
Hmm, not sure... but is the feeling helped buy having someone in the White
House who has no real
From: Paul Makepeace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
PS -- that is one truly obnoxiously big sig.
I apologise profusely for my employers lawyers need to avoid any form of
litigation due to something that I may or may not say to the right or wrong
person while sending an email which may or may not
://www.gateway.gov.uk/ security system only lets users
perform transactions when using IE. Opera challenges the
UK government to support World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
standards and let British citizens enjoy full access to the
Web from different browsers, platforms and devices.
In the future
Robert Thompson wrote:
I apologise profusely
Sorry, you'll have to give me a hardcopy version of that before I'll believe
you:
E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free
as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed,
arrive late or incomplete, or
Isn't there some cough/ perl module that might allow us to rig a
sig-stripper to be installed at dircon? Where sig = any trailer that has
more than four un-para'ed lines. Or give these people a damn shell
account. Or SOMETHING.
(Actually I don't really care I just got carried away with the
* at 11/06 21:38 +0100 Robin Szemeti said:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote:
Didn't ukonline.co.uk complain about trademark infringement a while back?
Is gateway.gov.uk the result? and is there any possible trademark confusion
with this address?
ring ring
'hello .. is
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote:
From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt.
do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like the end of the
world was nigh?
Hmm, not sure... but is
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
Oh yes, I vaguely thought on reading about the floods in The South
that maybe this was supposed to be a message like Repent your sins or
I wash you off the face of the Earth.
I think it's more along the lines of the Creator(s)
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote:
I know a state-of-emergency (or whatever) has been called
to right it has, as I understand it this means now that you are supposed
to drive a 5.3L V8 rather than the 7.1L V8 unless absolutlely necessary
...
oops .. read 358cubic inch and 427ci ... these
Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 2:55:38 PM, Chris Benson wrote:
CB On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote:
From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt.
do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Mike Jarvis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Larry speaks in a bit over 9 hours. Yippee!
Actually - he doesn't :)
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/2255236
Dave...
--
Drugs are just bad m'kay
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 2:55:38 PM, Chris Benson wrote:
CB I wash you off the face of the Earth. If so it missed Washington DC
CB by about a 1,000 miles and Texas by 500. It probably missed GWB by a
CB couple of light years.
At 18:51 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
Monday morning
Precisely. And using Java et al is a discrimination against the mobility
impaired.
Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't
afford, don't have, morally object to, are too old to learn to use,
computers.
Sure,
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:56:19AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
At 18:51 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
Monday morning
Precisely. And using Java et al is a discrimination against the mobility
impaired.
Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't
afford,
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't
afford, don't have, morally object to, are too old to learn to use,
computers.
How come. It's an alternative to, not a replacement for, the usual paper
based forms; isn't it?
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:19:21AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:56:19AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
I haven't looked at the certificate issue, but most of the things I've
read so far state that it's only a problem because they've made it a
problem by using
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:26:39AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
(If I understand the current requirements, you have to buy MacOS (from Apple)
or Windows (from Microsoft) to run your free (no cost) browser)
IIUIC IE on MacOS lets you look at the site, but you can't do anything
useful due to
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:26:39AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
(If I understand the current requirements, you have to buy MacOS (from Apple)
or Windows (from Microsoft) to run your free (no cost) browser)
Looking at open.gov.uk, there is mention of the move to ukonline.gov.uk
but no mention
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote:
Didn't ukonline.co.uk complain about trademark infringement a while back?
Is gateway.gov.uk the result? and is there any possible trademark confusion
with this address?
ring ring
'hello .. is that the government? .. oh good. I'd like to complain
On Sat 09 Jun, Robert Shiels wrote:
Assume for a moment that I'm using lynx on Linux, and I want to send the
government my tax return securely. What are the security implications, can
it actually be done. I don't want to go off half-cocked and complain about
something when I don't fully
From: Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: www.gateway.gov.uk
As a public service I would exhort all of you to go to this site and then
complain when it tells you that you are using an 'Unsupported Browser'
(which I guess will be more than half of you :)
I agree that this is pants. I
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:54:01PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
From: Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As a public service I would exhort all of you to go to this site and then
complain when it tells you that you are using an 'Unsupported Browser'
(which I guess will be more than half of
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:06:24PM +0100, 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.
And nothing to do with the deal struck between Microsoft and the government.
No.
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:09:23PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:06:24PM +0100, 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.
And nothing to
On Sat, 09 Jun 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
From: Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: www.gateway.gov.uk
As a public service I would exhort all of you to go to this site and then
complain when it tells you that you are using an 'Unsupported Browser'
(which I guess will be more
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:26:40PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
I tend not to pay much attention to conspiracy theories.
Me neither.
http://linuxtoday.com/imgs/microsoft/gateway-microsoft-rationale-statement.pdf
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This process can check if this value is zero, and if it is, it does
something
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:10:38PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
I complained to the UK Online helpdesk .. they deny all responsiblity
for the thing .. but can give you helpdesk contacts for the 3 government
agencies contained within the 'government gateway' site .. of course they
deny all
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:59:48PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Are these e-mail addresses? If so, does it make it possible to forward all
4 denials in 1 message To: all four and ask for one joined up government
answer?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19340.html says the man to talk to
On Sat, 09 Jun 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:10:38PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
I complained to the UK Online helpdesk .. they deny all responsiblity
for the thing .. but can give you helpdesk contacts for the 3 government
agencies contained within the
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:59:48PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Are these e-mail addresses? If so, does it make it possible to forward all
4 denials in 1 message To: all four and ask for one joined up government
answer?
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