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Police freeze my PC

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  • Freddie_Snowbits
    Freddie_Snowbits Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    21Twinkle wrote: »
    Has anyone sucessfully accessed the new www.police.uk website - widely advertised on BBC ?
    Try it and you'll see what my title refers to......

    I would get the software [STRIKE]engineers[/STRIKE] geeks back and sort the problem out.

    Oh, and while they are at it, the tax site, NHS and DHSS need sorting as well
  • 50Twuncle
    50Twuncle Posts: 10,763 Forumite
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    kwikbreaks wrote: »
    My money is on somebody having it away with the database server - probably on fleabay already :)

    But who would buy an ancient 5Mhz - 286 - with 4Mb RAM ?
  • nzseries1
    nzseries1 Posts: 2,240 Forumite
    21Twinkle wrote: »
    But who would buy an ancient 5Mhz - 286 - with 4Mb RAM ?

    Me - they might not have erased the data completely, and then I could sell it on to telemarketers for £££s!
    You're spelling is effecting me so much. Im trying not to be phased by it but your all making me loose my mind on mass!! My head is loosing it's hair. I'm going to take myself off the electoral role like I should of done ages ago and move to the Caribean. I already brought my plane ticket, all be it a refundable 1.
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    21Twinkle wrote: »
    But who would buy an ancient 5Mhz - 286 - with 4Mb RAM ?
    Well they bought it off me so I guess another government department might.

    I gave them 10% off (so only £300 a month for the next 20 years on the bargain PFI deal I gave them) plus some trade in for the Sinclair ZX81 (+ RAM pack and gaffer tape to stop the wobbling) they'd initially specced and leased from me earlier.
  • Darksun
    Darksun Posts: 1,931 Forumite
    21Twinkle wrote: »
    It is not as if they could not have expected so much traffic ?

    It would have been a bigger waste of money to have capacity for this peak demand when it's probably going to drop off drastically after the first couple of days once the publicity has died down
  • cooldaz
    cooldaz Posts: 97 Forumite
    the worrying thing is when i put in my postcode it tells me there is no policing in my area!!!!
    Smile and be happy, things can usually get worse!
  • nzseries1
    nzseries1 Posts: 2,240 Forumite
    Just tried again, after about 4 minutes I got
    Sorry, we couldn't find a policing area matching your search.
    You're spelling is effecting me so much. Im trying not to be phased by it but your all making me loose my mind on mass!! My head is loosing it's hair. I'm going to take myself off the electoral role like I should of done ages ago and move to the Caribean. I already brought my plane ticket, all be it a refundable 1.
  • nzseries1
    nzseries1 Posts: 2,240 Forumite
    cooldaz wrote: »
    the worrying thing is when i put in my postcode it tells me there is no policing in my area!!!!

    Are they all on strike perhaps, or they've all been sent to Egypt?
    You're spelling is effecting me so much. Im trying not to be phased by it but your all making me loose my mind on mass!! My head is loosing it's hair. I'm going to take myself off the electoral role like I should of done ages ago and move to the Caribean. I already brought my plane ticket, all be it a refundable 1.
  • nzseries1
    nzseries1 Posts: 2,240 Forumite
    Darksun wrote: »
    It would have been a bigger waste of money to have capacity for this peak demand when it's probably going to drop off drastically after the first couple of days once the publicity has died down

    Yes, but rather than crashing your browser a nice redirect to a custom error page would be nicer.
    You're spelling is effecting me so much. Im trying not to be phased by it but your all making me loose my mind on mass!! My head is loosing it's hair. I'm going to take myself off the electoral role like I should of done ages ago and move to the Caribean. I already brought my plane ticket, all be it a refundable 1.
  • Tigsteroonie
    Tigsteroonie Posts: 24,954 Forumite
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    Worked fine for me (XP, Firefox, on a netbook) at 7:45 this morning ... I was probably the only person online then :D
    :heartpuls Mrs Marleyboy :heartpuls

    MSE: many of the benefits of a helpful family, without disadvantages like having to compete for the tv remote

    :) Proud Parents to an Aut-some son :)
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