[Gllug] BBC Open Source

Rich Walker rw at shadow.org.uk
Wed Jul 13 13:42:21 UTC 2005


John Hearns <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:03 +0100, Nix wrote:
>
>> 
>> Didn't you know about the BBC's aircraft carriers? :)
>
> TV detector van.
> Look at the antenna array on the pictures I sent.
>
> The Harrier on the ski-jump is fitted with Shrike missiles.
> Turn that TV off NOW if you don't have a license.

I thought it was for shipping DVD's across the Atlantic.

(Do the calculations. Latency is *terrible*, but aggregate bandwidth is
pretty good...)

cheers, Rich.

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