British govt tech supplier Capita crippled by 'IT issue' Capita, a major business and IT services provider that has scored multi-million-dollar contracts with several UK government agencies, confirmed some of its systems fell over today due to "an IT issue." Staff at the London-based giant couldn't access their own work email, their Microsoft cloud accounts, and other systems …
Yes of course and to the continent of whisky drinkers at that. I raise a glass to Asia. Next they'll be telling us we are going to start exporting milk. Another popular drink on that continent...
The thing with cheese though and I've been to Asia is that in the whole supermarket I was in it was full of aisles of tinned fish and noodles (I love that stuff btw) I found two rows of four 250g blocks of English cheese. Red Leicester and cheddar. There was American cheese though (yuck, sorry America but it tastes like plastic) so I'm not really sure we're going to get much out of it but if all that lovely dirt cheap quality tinned fish and noodles end up over here I will be in heaven.
Yes of course and to the continent of whisky drinkers at that
They (Asia and India) actually produce some fairly drinkable whiskies. They also produce vast quantities of stuff they call whisky (which is as close to whisky as most of the stuff sold on Wild West saloons - basically raw alcohol with brown colouring and, maybe if you are lucky, some food flavourings in it..). All of it would be illegal to call whisky anywhere outside their contry of origin (and probably inside it as well).
Japan also has some *very* good whiskies.
As per the article, with Crapita out of action, they can't provide the contracted services to their customers, so many other company's and organisations are also unable to provide their normal levels of service. On the other hand, customer satisfaction levels are up and THAT is news :-)
Sorry to be an obnoxious pedantic, but.....
1) "that has scored multi-million-dollar contracts with several UK government agencies" I doubt Capita has scored a single multimillion dollar with any UK government agency. Multi-million pounds, yes, but not dollars.
2) "Blighty's National Health Service organizations," Nope. There are no organizations in the NHS. Just organisations.
3) "that use Capita's call centers also". No, Capita has no call centers, but it does have call centres.
4) "did not respond to The Register's specific inquiries" Probably not, but had you made an enquiry, they may have done.
There, fixed it for you.
"organization" is a perfectly acceptable spelling in British English, and always has been; -ise/-ize is a more a "house style" decision than an internationalization. But I'm not that convinced that "house style" is that important - it just tends to lead to stupid rules about Oxford commas &c. and I'm firmly with Vampire Weekend on that matter.
Most British readers will know that multimillion dollar = multimillion pound but many international readers with some idea of what a dollar is worth won't necessarily know. I wouldn't want Japanese contracts reported here as their Yen value, as I can never remember even the approximate value.
And as for insisting on British spelling, I gave up on that years ago: I'm already typing center and color in my code and markup and, unlike pavement/sidewalk or trousers/pants (both cases where the US term actually makes more sense, ironically), there is no ambiguity.
I’m with you except for pants and sidewalk making more sense… trousers are a specific item of clothing and pavements are not always to the side of a road. That is a strange assertion I don’t think is common, a better example is elevator (as lifts don’t always lift, sometimes they drop - elevators just change the elevation of things)
Spelling wise I don’t care which arbitrary set of rules we follow as long as we can all read and we don’t change meanings (like their, there), colour and color are fine
Indulge me...
Pants is short for pantaloons. Underpants are what you wear under your pant[aloon]s. It's shortening underpants to pants that doesn't make sense: like shortening undercharged to charged.
Pavement is the artificial hard covering ("paving") of a thoroughfare: that includes the road itself (hence those road laying machines being called "pavers"). The usually but not necessarily paved surface that allows you to walk down the side of the road would seem to deserve a better name...
Pains me to say it, as I'm a Brit.
Still, none of this excuses MM/DD/YYYY for a second. I'm not that keen on the retention of AM/PM, either. Or Fahrenheit!
Consider yourself indulged ;)
I’m happy with your logic but I still don’t agree it makes *more* sense to use pants rather than trousers, they’re just different words. Not sure I know enough about the etymology of pants, pantaloons, pantyhose etc to know which came first and is more justified, and I am fine with sidewalk making sense but it’s also not *more* sense than British term. Upvoted nonetheless, also a Brit
Obviously OAC was making a Tongue-in-Cheek, Eyes-rolling, or what the Yanks would call Passive Aggressive dig at the recent "AmericaniZation" of the Reg.
There's a lot of bitterness about this crappy relationship that we have with the US, don't you know.. It started with Tony Blair joining the damned Iraq war after 9/11, and since then we've had disaster after disaster in UK politics with only the super rich making themselves even richer, everyone else getting poorer, and politics dictated by Facebook, Microsoft, Google and TikTok.
It's like we've kicked ourselves out of Europe (to please the US, perhaps) only to become a Vassal State of both America and China at the same time..
Thanks for letting me know about all the spelling mistakes in the article. Personally I gave up at "multi-million-dollar ".
Question: Are the Yanks so culturally impoverished and insular that they are unable to translate anything not couched in US terms, so have to be spoon-fed with amounts like X$ instead of the correct X£ ?
Oh, as it happens you are not being obnoxious, it' the enforced USification of El Reg that is getting up my nose.
Center, yeah, right!
I feel this pain. Many times ours have to be made-up to fit in advance of the bizarre deadlines set by people 5 timezones ahead of us with different public holidays. And at the same time sending us snot-a-grams about how they're "financial documents" and must be fully accurate and on-time.
When I worked for Crapita several years ago in the Cheltenham offices, I had a facepalm moment, where I needed to book a doctors appointment.
However on contacting my local doctors surgery, was advised I was no longer a patient!
Shocked, I asked why, only to be advised that they had written to me advising that if I wanted to remain on their patients list, that I had to confirm my intentions to do so.
(was because I rarely needed to go to the doctors)
On checking the next day, it turned out that Crapita / my employer, had screwed the pooch with the NHS letters not arriving for several thousand patients (myself included)
That was one of the final straws in my career with this crappy company!
- Bill, can you tell me what is going here? I see an invoice for 6.4M for one month of email services, by Capita Communications LLC. Why did you not check with me?
- Well, that's us, innit? Who cares if it's overpriced, it's just the left hand feeding the right hand.
- Bill it is against company policy to purchase business critical services from other Capita departments.
(knock at door) - Ahem, sorry to interrupt, but there's a little problem with our emails...
Hypothetically ..... those employed by the great and powerful C company may have no idea at all of when their systems may be back up and running.
So hypothetically ..... those employed as stated above may be required to sit on their arses waiting to be informed that they can start doing the W word again.
Hypothetically ..... the Easter Fsck Up Bunny (related to the Fsck Up Fairy) has arrived early!
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