BBC websites down tools and head outside into the sun for a while The entire BBC website (less iPlayer) went down briefly this morning. Auntie's online offerings, ranging from free online news to telly and radio listings, recipes and educational content for kids, were all briefly offline. All the BBC's sub-sites were throwing up HTTP 500 errors, complete with a nice little graphic of the …
Oh, poor souls! Meanwhile, here in the Grim North, AKA Nobodygivesafuckia, we've already had 30+C highs, once again proving, were proof needed, that if you don't live in the South East, you don't count.
Bake, you artisan sandwich eating property-obsessed snowflakes. Feel that? That's what not being in control of your life feels like: Inescapable.
Joking aside, the BBC could melt into an amorphous puddle of media luvvie nonsense and I wouldn't care.
I managed to take down the Doctor Who site for an hour or so about 5 or 6 years ago. One wrong character in a .htacess file was all it took. Dev and Test were not 100% identical to the live environment it seems.
Ringing up the admin guys in White City to request them to restore the file from the nightly back ups was fun. "What is your business case for requesting this". "Nothing flipping works!"
AC obvs
In 'Media Village' data centre/apps room/etc in W12 which does much of BBC and other channels' playout was specced years ago to be able to cope with 30 degrees outside temperature....always seemed a little low to me.
That was for the technology they expected to put it in then. It was never 'full' in my time but with things like virtualisation, there is less space used but it can use more power.....
Also I believe BBC news web stuff might be at least partially hosted there and that row of bays was always rather warm and closely packed.
End the License Fee and axe the TV tax.
We put single mothers living in poverty in jail for not contributing to Gary Lineker's £1.7m salary.
We take mothers away from their children for not paying the massively over inflated salaries of bourgeoisie.
This is socialism, this is communism.
The BBC wants to find away to fund itself and if it wants to continue pushing its ultra left wing propaganda on the nation.
Look everyone – Terry Fuckwit has found the interwebs!
If it's socialism how can the salaries be so varied? Large variations in salaries are a key characteristic of market economies.
There have always been reduced rates for people on lower incomes.
But nice of you to think of the single mothers and other poor people™. Obviously, they shouldn't have tellies in the first place. Such carelessness should not be rewarded by indolence: bring back the workhouse!
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