Posted by Toby A Inkster on 06/28/07 14:41

rf wrote:

> Bah humbug. I'll go back to my TV. Why should I pay to watch some little
> bloody tiny mpeg on my computer when I can watch my TV projecting a 10 foot
> wide image onto my lounge room wall?

IP Geolocating: The BBC have superb data on which IP addresses are UK
based and which are not -- British ISPs are only too eager to let the
Beeb know their IP address ranges, because otherwise their customers
lose out and the ISP loses customers.

They use geolocating to supply this stuff free to the UK, and sometimes
charge for it elsewhere. This is because the whole shebang is funded by
the British licence-payer. (Yes, I know you have the ABC, but the BBC
licence fee is an order of magnitude more.)

> Addendum: My tennis partner has just informed me she simply cannot
> get this to even work on a MAC :-)

Yes, the BBC has been hauled in front of the Office of Communications
(government regulation body) about this matter. They are apparently
working on it.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
[OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 7 days, 18:11.]

Long-Awaited Zeldman Article
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/06/27/zeldman-in-time/

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