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Ceefax - ill

serious problems... apparantly (July 2007)

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FromtheNorth
Ceefax seems to be ill tonight - It's not updating.

See this link on the BBC News website
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RDJ
Is the BBC News website down too? That link dosen't seem to work and can't access any of the BBC News pages at all.
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Reboot
RDJ posted:
Is the BBC News website down too? That link dosen't seem to work and can't access any of the BBC News pages at all.

It's up. That page just says:

BBC News website posted:
Ceefax out of action
Due to a serious network problem beyond our control, large parts of Ceefax has been out of action.

Consequently, we have been unable to publish updated market data.

Our technical staff are working to fix the problem and our services will resume to normal as soon as possible.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Incidentally - "large parts of Ceefax has been out of action."? It's "a large part has" or "large parts have". Shocking...
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Markymark
Reboot posted:

Incidentally - "large parts of Ceefax has been out of action."? It's "a large part has" or "large parts have". Shocking...


Obviously the spell and grammar checker is also affected.
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stevek
you mean the ability to check the web operators' abilities to proof read is out of action

it's all working now though
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tvarksouthwest
It was a real blast from the past seeing that message displayed on Ceefax! Back in the 1980s it was common for TCF or various captions to be shown in place of Pages from Ceefax because the system would frequently crash. Yet since around 1990, disruption to Ceefax has been more or less non-existant, and no in-vision Ceefax has been lost since then (if it is, they'd usually source P198 from the other channel).

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