The pilot ID card scheme that is exclusively available to us folk here in Manchester has been a resounding success.
(Wait for it……)
The uptake on ID cards has seen 2000 people step forward as mugs, oops I mean volunteers.
2000 out of the Greater Manchester population of 2.5 million. Yet another outstanding success by database obsessed NuLabour [...]
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That went well didn’t it?
Complete garbage.
Microsoft tells US retailers Linux is rubbish. [theregister.co.uk]
Every mp3 player, camera, printer, blue tooth device, etc, etc, etc, that I have ever used, bar just one printer, have worked flawlessly with Linux with the minimum of effort.
Can you say “FUD“?
Upgrade.
After 6 and a half years it was time to upgrade my main box, Isengard.
Isengard had been running an AMD XP2500 barton core all that time with 512MB DDR ram and a well over worked GeForce FX 5500 128MB card. Over the years various hard drives have been in and out of the machine.
I’ve reused [...]
Why am I not surprised?
The reg posted the following article earlier today.
Wasted billions of government IT spending exposed.
I didn’t raise an eyebrow as this is straight from the “Stating the bloody obvious” and the “No shit Sherlock” departments.
