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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: airman00 on February 24, 2008, 02:19:13 PM

Title: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: airman00 on February 24, 2008, 02:19:13 PM
Youtube crashed and has been down for a day now
(http://www.hip-hop.net/graphics/0000/0158/youtube_logo.jpg)


http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/15/youtube-goes-down-for-the-first-time/
 (http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/15/youtube-goes-down-for-the-first-time/)

Admin,
I think there should be an extension of the robot contest due to this youtube failue AND b/c of that little mishap with the forum earlier this year


B/c of this there will be no videos on my tutorial of the robot victim finding and obstacle avoiding !!!  >:(
any other sites I can upload video to?

don't believe me?

try going to youtube! ;)   http://www.youtube.com (http://www.youtube.com)
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: izua on February 24, 2008, 02:52:56 PM
i can confirm that (bucharest, romania as of 22:50 GMT+0200)
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: hazzer123 on February 24, 2008, 02:58:49 PM
It was down before for me, but its back up now :D

I still would welcome a small extension to the contest deadlines.
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: airman00 on February 24, 2008, 03:05:39 PM
yep its back on!!!


I guess I won't need the extension afterwards , but I wouldn't mind it ...... ;)
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: Admin on February 24, 2008, 04:25:49 PM
Because I still can't get youtube to work since "that little mishap with the forum earlier this year", I extended the deadline in the hopes I can figure it out by then:

http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=3363.0
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: garriwilson on February 24, 2008, 09:43:00 PM
HAHA, it's because Pakistan tried to block it from people in Pakistan because of those Danish cartoons that showed Muhammad.

Read this article about it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262071.stm

Classic  ;D
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: ed1380 on February 24, 2008, 09:47:28 PM
lol @ butthurt arabs

its a cartoon. think of all the cartoons making fun of mexicans, french. pretty much anyone
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 24, 2008, 09:49:08 PM
It was due to a Pakistani engineers mistake when he was attempting to carry out instructions to block YouTube from being accessed in Pakistan. I cant find the article but I read it a few hours ago. When the engineer was notified of the error, he immediately corrected it.

Heres part of the article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7261727.stm
They then posted another article with the same text but also added much more around it to talk about the method the engineer used to block access and why it went wrong. Cant seem to find it now


And darn you Garri, you beat me to it AND found the article I was looking for. hahaha darn you!
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: garriwilson on February 24, 2008, 09:53:05 PM
Muw-ha-ha-ha-ha!  ;D

The article was on my iGoogle thing where I put news. It said youtube outage and that was all that's needed to get my attention.  ;D

So, did they actually block it? lol It'd be really funny if they didn't manage to...  ;D
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 24, 2008, 10:04:02 PM
Thats exactly where I saw it too Garri hahaha
And yes, they blocked it from the entire world lol
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: garriwilson on February 24, 2008, 10:07:56 PM
Thats exactly where I saw it too Garri hahaha
And yes, they blocked it from the entire world lol
haha Awesome!
lol and oh yea I forgot that nobody could go on  ;D

Getting a little off topic tho...  ::)
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 25, 2008, 01:48:39 PM
Nonesense, were totally on topic.

YouTube is a large portion of teh 1nterw3bs :)
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: Mcrich113 on March 05, 2008, 06:32:27 PM
Don't make fun of pakistan! I aM native to it
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on March 05, 2008, 07:19:53 PM
Don't make fun of pakistan! I aM native to it
Who said we were making fun of it?
Title: Re: YOUTUBE IS DOWN!!!!
Post by: garriwilson on March 05, 2008, 09:03:02 PM
We're merely illustrating their imprudent miscalculations.

P.S. That took me 5 minutes to write.  ;D