Posts by Glen Williams 3 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2007
I have been playing with the dev preview this morning. Initially I was having the same trouble. I was getting a DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL stop message referencing storachi.sys
It appears that the preview at present doesn't play ball with the VirtualBox SATA controller. If you go into the settings of your created VM, Under storage remove the disk from the SATA controller and re-add it in as an IDE disk that 'may' fix your problem as it did mine.
In a lot of jobs where you have a position of trust, companies and public sector employers can perform a Police background check.
With a police background check any returned results would surely be confirmation of guilt of a crime, or at the least issues that have been reported to the 'proper' authorities and therefore much more reliable.
I have been in positions where I needed to agree to this check to allow me to work, and I have no issues with this.
I know these background checks can take quite some time, and it not as quick as logging onto a website. However surely a better use of the money going into this would be to help streamline the Police check process?
Rather than this absurd guilty because you can't prove your innocence rubbish.
To Matthew Collaery,
Thank you very much for your post. It made my smile, and then weep with the amazing familiarity of it all.
How long have you been out of the NHS? Just to comfort you I can tell you that absolutely nothing has changed.
It doesn't matter if its a National System or a shoddy VB 4 App with an Access backend database. Hospitals seem to get all manner of programs in from companies that arn't interested in providing after sales support.
I myself am an IT worker in the NHS, and have had many a conversation with software providers due to problems experienced along the way. 99% of all calls have been met with the likes of "it's not my responsibility" "it's your proxy server" "it's your firewall" or the famous "it's a local networking issue".
Considering local support contracts are paid for the only word I can think of describing alot of support offered is "jobsworth".
These responses have left our department high and dry on many occasion. Essentially forcing us to have to figure out a solution ourselves. And more often than not provide one, for systems that are not ours, that we should have support for.
It is stressful but I must concur that it is satisfying in the sense that you are doing your job (and someone elses) very well. Not that this is recognised by the users as any piece of bizarre software used around the Trust is for us to fix and us alone.
May I also congratulate you on the past tense of "Having Been an IT worker in the NHS"
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