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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by SirSickboy View Post
    By displaying a brightly colored beach towel icon?

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  • DiscoStu
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    Originally posted by ratewhore View Post
    Isn't there a radio button somewhere to change the language?
    Dunno, didn't test that bit

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by ratewhore View Post
    Isn't there a radio button somewhere to change the language?
    yup, but not on the msaccess front end they were using





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  • ratewhore
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    Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
    It was indeed
    Isn't there a radio button somewhere to change the language?

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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    What sort of software dev costs £121,000,000

    I mean, it's not sending men to Mars is it? It's running some payroll and holidays.
    SAP.

    HTH.

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  • Alf W
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    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05...s_costs_money/

    More 'cutting edge' reporting from the nasty little right wing rag.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    I think I hear the phrase "Lessons must be learned" marching towards the debacle with ill-deserved confidence.

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  • dinker
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    This reminds of the Criminal Asset Confiscation Office (?) which costs more to run than the assets it confiscates.

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  • SirSickboy
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    Workers were left struggling with an IT system that issued messages in German, wrongly recorded that staff were off sick and randomly confiscated staff holidays.
    By displaying a brightly colored beach towel icon?

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    Government IT projects are money laundering rackets IMO; ways of extracting money from the public purse and making it clean, carried out by mates of politicians in exchange for directorships, etc after political office.
    So in a way its a mechanism for the distribution of wealth.

    Sorted.

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    Government IT projects are money laundering rackets IMO;
    SAP
    Last edited by Moscow Mule; 16 December 2008, 09:47.

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    What sort of software dev costs £121,000,000

    I mean, it's not sending men to Mars is it? It's running some payroll and holidays.
    Government IT projects are money laundering rackets IMO; ways of extracting money from the public purse and making it clean, carried out by mates of politicians in exchange for directorships, etc after political office.

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  • DiscoStu
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    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
    It's not the software build, it's the consultants to configure it. Probably SAP.
    It was indeed

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    What sort of software dev costs £121,000,000

    I mean, it's not sending men to Mars is it? It's running some payroll and holidays.
    It's not the software build, it's the consultants to configure it. Probably SAP.

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  • DiscoStu
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    Umm, I may have had a small hand in it

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