Squaddies Humour (hits MOD)
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Squaddies Humour (hits MOD)
Does anybody have access to the Army version of the Tony Christie Way to Amarillo? Apparently it's called 'Squaddies Humour, Is This The Way To Armadillo?'. It is, apparently, an excellent p1ss take of the Peter Kaye video and filmed somewhere hot and sunny.
I understand that it had a BIG impact on the MOD and Strike servers today!!!!!!!!!!
I understand that it had a BIG impact on the MOD and Strike servers today!!!!!!!!!!
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Sorry no copy (someone will post a link I'm sure) but you're right about the impact. 52 Megs or so as an e-mail attachment started to circulate on DII and crashed the whole e-mail system. Mine was off for 5 hours before I gave up and went to the pub.
Watched the video on someone else's machine - very good: done with style, humour and plenty of skill. It must have taken some organising and detailed planning. An excellent example of the good humour of the British fighting man even when faced with harsh conditions and a degree of adversity - who would dare complain?
Watched the video on someone else's machine - very good: done with style, humour and plenty of skill. It must have taken some organising and detailed planning. An excellent example of the good humour of the British fighting man even when faced with harsh conditions and a degree of adversity - who would dare complain?
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Gulf Amarillo 53mb
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Absolutely Brilliant!
Mouthful of tea hit screen as the gate guards in their shreddies joined in.
Well done the Royal Dragoon Guards.
(Heads off to download the Kosovo one).
Mouthful of tea hit screen as the gate guards in their shreddies joined in.
Well done the Royal Dragoon Guards.
(Heads off to download the Kosovo one).
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Causing quite a stir on Defence Net!:
WARPs, please disseminate this information to all units at all levels.
There is an email with an .wmv attachment currently circulating throughout the MOD which is causing e-mail servers to crash. The email, entitled “Squaddie Humour” contains a 52.742 megabyte .wmv file. It is a spoof of the Peter Kay video “Is this this the way to Armarillo” in a .wmv format. The file is entitled “Is this the way to Armadillo?”
Because of its size and the passage of this file between email accounts, e-mail servers are becoming overloaded and are crashing.
It is imperative that all recipients of this email delete the “Squaddie Humour” email upon receipt, ensure it is deleted from their “deleted items” folder, and do not send the document to others.
WARPs, please disseminate this information to all units at all levels.
There is an email with an .wmv attachment currently circulating throughout the MOD which is causing e-mail servers to crash. The email, entitled “Squaddie Humour” contains a 52.742 megabyte .wmv file. It is a spoof of the Peter Kay video “Is this this the way to Armarillo” in a .wmv format. The file is entitled “Is this the way to Armadillo?”
Because of its size and the passage of this file between email accounts, e-mail servers are becoming overloaded and are crashing.
It is imperative that all recipients of this email delete the “Squaddie Humour” email upon receipt, ensure it is deleted from their “deleted items” folder, and do not send the document to others.
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Question - Is the problem with the video itself, or the fact that folks are sending a 53MB email file? The vid seems innocent (and funny) enough, but I can understand if there is concern over such large files being sent via official email servers. wg13_dummy's link is a good solution...
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Email Problem
Question - Is the problem with the video itself, or the fact that folks are sending a 53MB email file?
Once you have a handful of people with it, the space taken gets eaten up alarmingly. Eventually the email servers will run out of storage space. Also the time taken to send that kind of attachment also clogs up network connections etc.
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I once put a GEMS suggestion in about this very subject. The problem was that someone knew someone at X Gp who seemed to get all the funnies that were going around. He sent them to his friend, who in turn sent them on. As described here, the Mail Server was continually filling up, taking people's time to clear and leading to loads of imploring for people to delete subject emails.
My suggestion was that a directory be created on the Stn that was there purely for funnies. Everyone would have access and be able to store things there. My own estimate was that this would save at least 95% of the space that was currently being used up by these emails.
Needless to say, it was not adopted; the powers that be preferring to take the view that people shouldn't being sending these funnies as it was against the SyOPs.
If anyone else wants to submit the same GEMS, I only require a 10% commission! I didn't even get a £25 encouragement award!
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My suggestion was that a directory be created on the Stn that was there purely for funnies. Everyone would have access and be able to store things there. My own estimate was that this would save at least 95% of the space that was currently being used up by these emails.
Needless to say, it was not adopted; the powers that be preferring to take the view that people shouldn't being sending these funnies as it was against the SyOPs.
If anyone else wants to submit the same GEMS, I only require a 10% commission! I didn't even get a £25 encouragement award!
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Email box size limits
Most email service providers limit the size of individual users mail boxes. I believe the default parameter is 10Meg, although under certain conditions this can be raised.
Consequently, If the total of your messages and attachments exceeds 10 meg an error message should be generated to say that the recipients mail box size has been exceeded.
However, this is not always apparent in the "undeliverable" status messages returned to the sender from the server.
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Consequently, If the total of your messages and attachments exceeds 10 meg an error message should be generated to say that the recipients mail box size has been exceeded.
However, this is not always apparent in the "undeliverable" status messages returned to the sender from the server.
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