Police freeze my PC

ChiefGrasscutter

Freeze my browser as well.
I used tasks manager to "kill" the process.

I can accept the servers are ultra busy and cannot respond - but quite why the result is a non responsing browser to anything other than task manager destroy command escapes me....

JasX

Seems to be working for me now.... only 1223 crimes in my 'local' area December 2010 including 181 violent ones...... :hello:

50Twuncle

Still not working
Someone should report it as a criminal waste of public money to "crimestoppers"

wbk666

nzseries1 wrote: »

The home page loads (eventually), but then when I search for something, that browser window (and all the currently open tabs on that window) freezes!

Our hard-earned tax dollars at work, huh? :rotfl::beer:

since when did we pay in dollars:(


Give them a chance though, its not the first website to have teething troubles and i'm sure it won't be the last.

Then again some people just HAVE to have something to complain about dont they? :rotfl:

nzseries1

wbk666 wrote: »

since when did we pay in dollars:(

You'd think after 5 years living in this country I'd know by now! Seems not.

wbk666 wrote: »

Then again some people just HAVE to have something to complain about dont they? :rotfl:

I am a real Brit in that respect

50Twuncle

wbk666 wrote: »

Give them a chance though, its not the first website to have teething troubles and i'm sure it won't be the last.

It is not as if they could not have expected so much traffic ?

nzseries1

21Twinkle wrote: »

It is not as if they could not have expected so much traffic ?

As a programmer, if I ever uttered any of the following statements:

• "It is not as if we could have expected so much traffic"
• "The browser completely freezes when the traffic is high, and must be killed with Task Manager"
• "People should use Firefox, Chrome or Opera instead"

I'd have my P45 so fast it would make your head spin.

50Twuncle

nzseries1 wrote: »

As a programmer, if I ever uttered any of the following statements:

• "It is not as if we could have expected so much traffic"
• "The browser completely freezes when the traffic is high, and must be killed with Task Manager"
• "People should use Firefox, Chrome or Opera instead"

I'd have my P45 so fast it would make your head spin.

So what's the cause ?

Sloppy Progamming

Inaccurate Traffic Estimation

Bad Luck

kwikbreaks

21Twinkle wrote: »

So what's the cause ?

Sloppy Progamming

Inaccurate Traffic Estimation

Bad Luck

My money is on somebody having it away with the database server - probably on fleabay already

nzseries1

21Twinkle wrote: »

So what's the cause ?

Sloppy Progamming

Inaccurate Traffic Estimation

Bad Luck

In defence to the programmers, it could possibly be lack of budget. £300k sounds like a lot, but that's only 3 or 4 programmers along with all the equipment and then even that's only enough for one year.

When I do contracts for big clients, we're given unlimited budget because it has to work perfectly.

However when I do contracts for small clients, there's always a budget involved, and so you have to get the most important things working first and you tidy up whatever you have the money for at the end. As people have said, once the initial reaction dies down, it will probably work just fine.