From: Adam 

Rich wrote:

>    Can't you even remember the noise that you post.  If you statement
> "if compiled for windows then it requires windows" then wine could not
> work, right?
>
>    As for your claims "once spat out by the compiler it has verious
> expectations which only a given OS (& usually only on a given cpu
> arch)can provide.", well this is false too.  I can't speak for other
> vendors but the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler and linker and used to
> target multiple environment from Windows to Windows CE to the .NET
> Framework and other ECMA/ISO standard compilant environments to EFI, a
> boot environment supported by Intel and others.
>
>    I thought you were working for sun.  Did I misunderstand something or
> are you just no longer with them?
>

I have a new job. One which I can talk about. I have had it since before
the (UK) election.

I was having to be a sun person to all extents & purposes when I was
going into online gambling, credit card, mobile phone etc. companies to
have a little look about. Personal information rich companies. I even had a
desk etc at GMP & got t wander along to some of scott's boster
speeches. Maybe it's just me but corporate enthusing US style.....ummm
anyway...

However I have done my Bob the Big Brother Builder (B4) stint & while
the ppl in the donut in Cheltenham were keen, I've done all the FCO &
mil & home office stuff I want to do for a long long time.

So now I'm pulling together the NHS progam for IT which is nice coz

(A) I can talk about things.....now that the election is over as I was
given a "if you think what you were doing before was sensitve then you
ain't seen nuthing compared to your post in an election campaign"
talk. Apparantly health is a major electoral issue & I was not to talk
to anyone about anything wrt what I was up to till the votes were counted.

(B) It's actually helping people rather than seeking to control them. I
have become jaded wrt power.

Fairly chunky project 70 odd million punters, 700 million prescriptions
every year, huge medical imaging files etc.etc.

Oh & a budget somewhere between.....well to quote the an old article
coz obviously I still have to work off the "already public domain
only" rule:

http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,97140,00.html

"Last month, the U.K. government's Department of Health announced that
its 10-year estimate for the cost of the project had jumped from $11.4
billion to between $27 billion and $55 billion."

It's a long story but in essence I was involved a while back in specifying
& trying to stop people b*ggering up a wholly new sort of ID'ing called
LRS (Legitimate Relationship Service) which looked at what
  your need for the information was etc. e.g. just coz I'm a doctor that
doesn't mean I can look at my wife's records etc.

Job done & back to B4 or....possibly LRS is part of B4 but I couldn't
possibly comment.

Oh & I get to work in Leeds which is nice for the wife rather than
bizarre places down south or "on site".

Now I just have to drag health care out of being the "world's largest
cottage industry" & luckily given the budget pointed to above, I
can get a lot of people's attention.

I should point out that while I can say more than I used to be able to, I
can not talk specifics & if you wish specifics I have to direct you to
a pr/communications office.


Adam

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