Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3718
One of the myths surrounding the modern digital satellite signals is that it is overly sensitive to rain fade. In...
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:50:33 +0800, Bernd Felsche
krw SBS had originally been formed equal partners with IBM, Comsat, and Aetna ... for doing computer-to-computer data transmissions. A big issue was that the communication group had strangle hold on computer-to...
Historically, Scotti were Irish, the term was used to identify the Irish who emigrated to Western Caledonia and later dominated that country, over the locals who were Brytonnic (sp?) Celts, Picts, and Danes, with a strong Anglo-Saxon incluence in the Lothians.
I would be about 2500 metres, I signed up with BT Broadband first, and time went by (with no broadband) , so I signed up with TE (The former Irish State company), and have a slowish broadband (some of the problems with it may involve security issues, so there is no point in discussing that ).. I believe the reason that BT didn't provide a connection was that TE, who owns the exchange, would not cooperate in BT installing their connection there, as you mention below.
No alarm here, my daughter was in rented accomodation in Dublin when there was a problem, and she now lives nearby that spot, enquired recently whether anyone had ever arrived to check on that alarm, and nobody ever had, I suspect myself that the landlord had an operating system alarm for a while, then stopped paying for it, relying on the box to deter burglers :)..
-- greymaus Just Another Grumpy Old Man
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3719
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