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So what #

By Pete mcQuail Posted Tuesday 9th December 2008 14:04 GMT

exactly was on there that the IWF didn't like?

Blocked #

By Dick Emery Posted Tuesday 9th December 2008 14:26 GMT

Brown's underpants.

Bird flu and influenza? #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 9th December 2008 14:33 GMT

Isn't that resilience in itself? Having two of the same thing on your top 4 just in case one of them is debunked?

nice to see #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 9th December 2008 14:42 GMT

Nice to see they using Linux for hosting the website to save cash on Windows licences, oh wait

Nothing to do with resilience... #

By glennog Posted Tuesday 9th December 2008 15:03 GMT

And everything to do with either bad application configuration or (more likely, considering the questionnaire is presented to the user before the error occurs) bad application programming. Considering for a moment that resilience is the provision of standby or failover capability in the event of server or site failure, bad configurations and/or programming is not something that would be considered. Moreover if the application was badly written, that same application would be made available at any resilience/disaster recovery site and would present exactly the same issues. So, as you see, nothing whatsoever to do with resilience and thereby cancelling out any sense of irony the author feels.

Tell Tom Watson.. #

By dreamingspire Posted Tuesday 9th December 2008 16:13 GMT

..because he's the Minister responsible for web stuff

Hmm... #

By N Posted Tuesday 9th December 2008 17:02 GMT

Yahoo messenger & iTunes running as well? seems fairly loosely regulated on what you can run on your PC whilst stroking the ivory for El-Regizeera

Not that bad #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 9th December 2008 18:34 GMT

Agree with glennog. It is very likely it was probably a configuration error. If the form is sent via SMTP it could incorrect mail server configuration.

They must have repaired whatever the problem was. It can't be that bad cosidering the PM's site can't even have an email form. http://www.number10.gov.uk/footer/contact-us

Who are these children #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 10th December 2008 02:10 GMT

that the UK government pay to build their websites?

It is awful, and I am sure child labour is still illegal, but hey with the new welfare reforms in place, who knows what's allowed nowadays.

Title not found #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 10th December 2008 03:38 GMT

404 Page Not Found

We dob't need a resilience website #

By Dr Patrick J R Harkin Posted Wednesday 10th December 2008 08:37 GMT

The main web servers will never fail - they're run by the goverment, who understand these things!

Re: Who are these children...? #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 10th December 2008 08:50 GMT

EDS

Capita

Fujitsu

etc

etc

Riots in Mumbai, so any work outsourced there could be delayed.

Windows as a server - Gaaaaah. #

By cor Posted Wednesday 10th December 2008 15:19 GMT

Something to add to the list of illnesses and viruses (viri).

Clearly some scriptkiddie graduated from VBasic to '.NET' and bypassed the need for a formal training or understanding of coding practice.

"Oooooohhh look, I can make wizard dance in Office 2003. Now me export as HTM, cos I iz da bom!"