DfT shared-services plan under fire
News The claim is made by the NAO in its report, published on 23 May, 2008, which says the DfT's original estimate was over-optimistic. The DfT's original expectation that the shared-service centre could become operational one year after an outline...
[May 23, 2008, 11:24]
MPs condemn DfT shared-services failure
News Although the DfT knew its initial assumptions were incorrect just two months after the project started, it stuck to its original plans. This would have saved the DfT £52m. The DfT must now work to deliver a functioning system which provides...
[December 16, 2008, 9:13]
Shared-services project makes DfT tech bill soar
News A late-running shared-services programme has raised the cost of the Department for Transport's IT projects from £300m to nearly £400m. The department deposited a list of its IT expenditure with parliament on 17 December showing that its agencies...
[December 29, 2008, 8:38]
SANbox 9000 Directs an Ensemble Cast of Postproduction Systems
White Papers Using a mixed IT environment for postproduction creativity makes the high quality of Digital-Film Tree (DFT) projects stand out in Hollywood. DFT wanted to build a Storage Area Network (SAN) to consolidate the storage for multiple, data-intensive...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
Open Source only viable way to do shared-services
Talkback DfT should take a leaf out of Becta's book and start investigating Open Source. Until DfT, Socitm and Gordon Brown's Government lose their unhealthy love-affair with Microsoft, we will continue to have these repeated disasters, and we will continue...
[May 23, 2008, 14:15]
Government database security breached
News Two of the departments that have been hit by security breaches include the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) and the Department for Transport (DfT). The DfT has admitted that eight security breaches of databases controlled by the...
[November 1, 2006, 10:07]
Never admit you are wrong !!!
Talkback "Although the DfT knew its initial assumptions were incorrect just two months after the project started, it stuck to its original plans. You've got the answer right there. The Civil Service culture seems to have a really big problem with admitting...
[December 17, 2008, 14:12]
Online travel portal nears departure
News The UK's online travel information service has completed the second stage of its development with enhanced features now available as a test portal, the Department for Transport (DfT) said. According to a DfT spokesperson, the site is being...
[August 4, 2004, 12:20]
Quantization and Its Effects on OFDM Concepts for Wireless Indoor Applications
White Papers One basic component of common OFDM systems is the computation of the DFT. This paper discusses some fundamental aspects of the implementation of an OFDM modem for wireless indoor applications. Therefore, some efficient FFT algorithms like the Split...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
MPs condemn government's data failures
News Susan Kramer, the Liberal Democrat shadow for the Department for Transport (DfT) described the news of the latest breach as "mind bending", saying: "If that happened last May, why was the Secretary of State — never mind this House — not informed?
[December 19, 2007, 7:12]
High-street ID card plan won't work, MPs say
News The Department for Transport (DfT) advised the committee that it was becoming increasingly difficult for Post Office staff to spot high-quality fake passports that were being used for over-the-counter checks when applying for driving licences.
[July 10, 2009, 11:31]
Government tackles Greenwash (does that include its own spin?)
Blog DFT Not a specifically IT-related missive but given the amount of greenwash sloshing around the tech sector, IT companies should take notice. Defra has just announced that its recruited a steering group to help update its green claims code:
[February 18, 2009, 11:03]
Signal Processing Quick Study Guide. FREE first 2 chapters in the trial version
Downloads DSP Techniques Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) A derivation of the discrete Fourier transform Discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT) Bilinear transform Z-transform Aadvanced Z-transform Discrete cosine transform Modified discrete cosine transform...
[July 31, 2007, 8:00]
Signal Processing Quick Study Guide. FREE first 2 chapters in the trial version
Downloads DSP Techniques Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) A derivation of the discrete Fourier transform Discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT) Bilinear transform Z-transform Aadvanced Z-transform Discrete cosine transform Modified discrete cosine transform...
[July 31, 2007, 8:00]
Civil Service Failures
Talkback Yet again we have another costly management failure in the Civil Service - and yet again there is no acceptance of responsibility by those responsible for the waste. Senior and middle management must be made to take career responsibility for their...
[December 16, 2008, 12:28]
Check RAM when a Windows install fails
News Although I was unable to find any information about this specific problem, I decided to download Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test (DFT) -- this utility would both test the drive and allow me to erase the drive's boot sector.
[February 5, 2003, 11:53]
Parallel computing and serial stupidity
Blog The Department for transport (DFT) has directed all UK airports to introduce testing of liquids contained within the clear plastic bag carried within hand baggage. That's based on FPGAs - Field Programmable Gate Arrays, chips designed to have their...
[May 1, 2007, 1:59]
