I have 3 rotary cutters - my smart one that I keep up in my sewing room, a cheaper one I take to patchwork group and another that I use only for paper and card. No knitting needles. Tried it but too slow for me so I gave all my needles to the patchwork club for when we get beginners.
@wild edges We drove home from dance class on a "scenic" route expecting to see loads of Xmas lights around the harbour and seafront at Les Sables. Still there but not lit. Avrillé, on the way home, has already taken down all its lights. Our village didn't even put any up this year.
Most places used to leave their lights up and on till Chandeleur/Candlemas but maybe they're all saving energy. As it is, street lights go off at 10pm and public buildings and publicity signs must all be dark at night now.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
1) The software issue list appears not to have shown a major problem
2) The auditors never picked up an issue or detected who had access to which parts of the system
3) The courts presumably 'accepted' the figures a computerised system gave and never questioned them
...how on earth did it ever get this far? What I find scary - especially with the future that we're heading into - is the acceptance of '...the computer says....'.
The clock on my computer runs slow. Every few weeks I have to bump it on a couple of minutes. I don't understand why. It's a computer, it's connected to the internet, where is it leaking time and why can't it bloody correct itself?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The clock on my computer runs slow. Every few weeks I have to bump it on a couple of minutes. I don't understand why. It's a computer, it's connected to the internet, where is it leaking time and why can't it bloody correct itself?
All the laptops I've had (Linux based) use NTP - if I were you I'd check to see if you can configure your computer to use that (or similar).
Obviously whatever the Horizon issues are, they do not affect all the postmasters. But I can't believe that after all this time, there isn't something somewhere documenting what the issues are. I worked for software houses for most of my working life and each had their own fault logging systems - even if that was just a spreadsheet. They mentioned on the radio this morning that issues are still occurring with the software - fine, software is never bug free and some take years to surface and fix - but I still find it hard to believe that the bugs causing these financial issues aren't known (or at least what the symptoms are). My point being is when you know what the bug(s) is, you can potentially know who then that bug(s) affected.
I'm not certain about this, but in the drama, I think they showed that they ( the postmasters legal team) finally got hold of an un-redacted fault log and that was one of the main breakthroughs in the case.
Even my post that was generally critical of government procurement of software was removed.
Let's just say, in reality it's not just governments that get it wrong, but in my experience they're worse at it than other organisations. And possibly less subject to regulatory oversight (I work mostly in the aviation sector where the regulatory environment is rigorous).
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@wild edges We drove home from dance class on a "scenic" route expecting to see loads of Xmas lights around the harbour and seafront at Les Sables. Still there but not lit. Avrillé, on the way home, has already taken down all its lights. Our village didn't even put any up this year.
Most places used to leave their lights up and on till Chandeleur/Candlemas but maybe they're all saving energy. As it is, street lights go off at 10pm and public buildings and publicity signs must all be dark at night now.