BRDC: BGP omission &#39;a disaster&#39;.
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The British Racing Drivers&#39; Club has branded the decision to leave the British Grand Prix off the 2005 Formula One world championship calendar &#39;a disaster for the sport and the motorsport industry in the UK&#39;.
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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It can be the hardest word Registration and web hosting company 123-Reg has again apologised to customers hit by hardware problems which meant some customers' websites fell offline.â¦
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The ongoing security measures continue to cause disruption at British airports, more flights are cancelled. Are you affected?
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Comment is free: Stephen Glaister: Metronet's collapse shows the fatal flaws of PPP, and the folly of relying on consultants.
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Safety guidelines criticised by investigation into crash that nearly killed presenter.
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A planned Black Hat demo of a technique for undermining Trusted Platform Module hardware-based security has been abruptly withdrawn from the schedule. Nitin and Vipin Kumar had provided an abstract for their talk, but they're not saying why they've withdrawn.
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Business & money: Â· Weather-related delays rose by 500,000 minutesÂ· Regulator may impose fine over signalling upgrade
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This domain will self-destruct in five seconds "In the past couple of weeks, over 70% of the non-jurisdictional contacts my Office has received have concerned registerflyâ¦ In most circumstances, the matter would be refered to Mr. Mike Zupke, ICANN's Registrar Manager, and he would in turn pass along consumer concerns to the registerfly contactâ¦ If, however, Mr. Zupke determined that the matter you are complaining about is unrelated to the Registrarâs Accreditation Agreement, or any other ICANN policy, he will likely encourage you to work out the situation with the registrar..." ICANN Ombudsmanâs Blog, February 12, 2007â¦
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Haven't we heard that before? A three-hour outage that left many BlackBerry users unable to send and receive email was the result of an upgrade gone wrong.â¦
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government suffered new embarrassment over missing data on Monday when it revealed one of its contractors had lost the details of 3 million learner drivers.
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About 70,000 BT business broadband customers have had trouble logging onto the internet on Friday due to a technical fault.
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Motorsport.com. There was bad news for the British Grand Prix on September 30th, as the 2005 provisional F1 calendar does not feature Silverstone.
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After the Child Support Agency (CSA) debacle earlier this month, when it emerged that the Â£450m system built by EDS still isn&#39;t working properly a year and a half after its supposed completion, the DWP crash seemed impossibly incompetent.
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The British Racing Drivers&#39; Club has refused to increased its bid for the British Grand Prix and the ping-pong game of who gets the blame for the demise of the event with the latest statement having lobbed the blame back into Bernie Ecclestone&#39;s side of
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No other suitors yet Breatheâs rescue of Biscit Internet is off, the would-be rescuer announced this afternoon.â¦
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Science & environment: Â· Apple announces UK sale date for Â£269 gadgetÂ· Rural customers face network problems