'Amarillo' video crashes MoD PCs

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  1. Spiral Architect

    Spiral Architect Cooked on Phonics

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    A spoof video of the song (Is This The Way To) Amarillo - performed by British soldiers in Iraq - has crashed Ministry of Defence computers.

    More here

    May have crashed the computer system, but at least everyone can see the funny side of it.

    Theres a clip of the video on there but if anyone has the full video I would very much like to see it.
     
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  2. Springs

    Springs Boing boing

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    i heard about this on the radio 2day and thought it was hilarias.. really wanna see the full video tho...
     
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    you'd of thought there would be some kinda DoS prevention system with priorities for information wouldn't you?

    or did the MOD just put their system out to the lowest bidder!
     
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  4. Nath

    Nath Your appeal has already been filed.

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    hehe....made me chuckle! :D :hehe:
     
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  5. Haddy

    Haddy World Domination

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    DoS prevention wouldnt have done anything to stop that as they were genuine requests for data. Im sure those services werent ment to coupe with such a large file trasnfer to so many users.
     
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  6. Spiral Architect

    Spiral Architect Cooked on Phonics

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    I get the impression from just watching bbc news a mninute ago it was just the e-mail system.
     
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  7. unrealhippie

    unrealhippie What's a Dremel?

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    I have it! Soooo funny! Hmm its 51.5mb aswell!

    For those that didnt notice, you can stream view it at bbc!
     
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  8. Guest-16

    Guest-16 Guest

    I refuse to install realplayer and firefox doesnt like real alternative.

    Anyone got another copy?
     
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  9. TheAnimus

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    if i've got 100,000 legitimate packets going to my ftp, my remote desktop port has 10 packets going, the 10 get QoS prioritied up.

    i know the MOD had on an old system a similar idea of priority!
     
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  10. Spiral Architect

    Spiral Architect Cooked on Phonics

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    The stream on the bbc is just a 30 second clip.
     
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  11. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    Get RealPlayer Enterprise and say no to most options...enter garbage in the form here, they don't need your email addy.
     
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  12. Springs

    Springs Boing boing

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    i was able to play it via WMP...
     
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  13. cpu121

    cpu121 What's a Dremel?

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    Full 57MB video if anyone is interested.
     
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  14. Spiral Architect

    Spiral Architect Cooked on Phonics

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    Looks like they have taken it down due to excessive bandwidth usage!

    Aparently you can get it from The Suns website (www.thesun.co.uk) at a charge of 50p. All proceeds go towards war funds etc.
     
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  16. Herbicide

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    /me hugs college connection.

    - H.
     
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