freesat boxes do internet

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Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Paul Matthews
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Brian wrote:
"Ceefax" is a registered trademark of the BBC Corporation.
Anyone know what the letters BBC stand for?


It's a common thing with abbreviations. The number of abbreviated
company names where the last letter is 'L' and yet the compant is
referred to as "ICL Limited" is amusing.

'BBC' stands for the 'Brown Boveri Corporation' - well, doesn't it?


actually it was Brown, Boveri & Cie

or: British Bacon Corporation, Barking Brassware Company, Borough of
Brentford & Chiswick and probably many others. Brown Boverie has now been
absorbed by a larger firm but of course they were the reason that the beast
tat Acorn made became the British Broadcasting Corporation MicroComputer.

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From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

Ian Jackson wrote:

'BBC' stands for the 'Brown Boveri Corporation' - well, doesn't it?

Not only! Boston Business Computing was another.

$375,000 was paid by Auntie in 1999 to sort that one out ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/05/bbc_domain/

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Adrian C

"charles" wrote in message
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'BBC' stands for the 'Brown Boveri Corporation' - well, doesn't it?

For many years passengers on the Doncaster-London line could see a decrepit
wooden building with the letters BBC writ very large upon it in white paint.
This was the clubhouse of the Bawtry Bowling Club.

Bill

the thin client that a previous poster pointed me to on ebay was very
interesting, but does mean the mini-PC beast is in the guest room.
Since these tellies are generally wall mounted there isn't much space
to hide a thin client box. Plus the electric use would be scary!

I know this off-topic for this group, but does anyone know of a PC OS
thingie where one intel-type PC could serve many web browsers? Since a
web browser is a really light weight application then I know there
used to Microsoft things that could do virtual servers, kind of like
the mainframes I used to work on...

All the tellies have a satellite F box on the wall behind connected
back to the cupboard, and also going to this faceplate but coiled up
behind is a CAT5e cable, unused right now but there "in case". These
cat5's run back to where the Sky boxes are....

Thanks ! Simon

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They open the internet browser on their Wii games machine, point it at:-

http://www.ceefax.tv/

..and punch in page 3xx etc. Says it all about so called 'Digital Red
Button Text' doesn't it ?

I have put the Internet function onto our Wii and the picture is horrible.
Also plugged a USB keyboard in but it is not working.

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David

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message ne



They open the internet browser on their Wii games machine, point it at:-

http://www.ceefax.tv/

..and punch in page 3xx etc. Says it all about so called 'Digital Red
Button Text' doesn't it ?

I have put the Internet function onto our Wii and the picture is horrible.
Also plugged a USB keyboard in but it is not working.

I got a cheap wireless one from Tesco and it works fine on the Wii.

These are also fun and work on the Wii:
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10779

L3K

On 12 May, 22:39, simon m wrote:
my wife and I have a 17 bedroomB&Band have very nicely installed Sky
in all the rooms using just the FTA channels. Works nicely, and the
Sky boxes (one per room!) are in several cupboards out of sight etc,

Just noticed this review in PCPro -
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/18514...greenhive.html

Not sure it's a particularly cheap option but something using KVM
externders over cat5 rather than thin clients might be worth
considering, again if your TVs can take a PC input