Interestingly ITV PLC was, until 3/12/2003 called:
2232ND SINGLE MEMBER SHELF INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED
The very definition of the phrase buying a company off the shelf
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- Wed 07 Jul, 2004 21.38
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Company Infomation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2746
- Wed 07 Jul, 2004 12.29
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Looking for a large mobile phone?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17781
The equivalent numbers in the UK are on this page:MrTomServo wrote:The numbers 555-0001 through 555-0999 are not assigned to anyone, and that's why they're used in movies and things.
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/licensing_numbe ... /num_drama
- Tue 06 Jul, 2004 23.49
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Looking for a large mobile phone?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17781
I've got a classic GPO model 746 dial telephone (the standard phone that was in most UK houses from the late 60's up until the early 80's), in 'hotline red' as my telephony instrument. A beautiful machine to use (there's something satisfying about using a rotary dial), and I don't think you can bea...
- Tue 06 Jul, 2004 23.47
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Looking for a large mobile phone?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17781
- Mon 05 Jul, 2004 23.47
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Hotmail
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2336
Re: Hotmail
...nice to see that when their server is busy they have a snazzy holding page: <html> <body> This server is too busy. </body> </html> ...TVF's is better then that! And this from the world leading software company, supposedly! If the server really is too busy, they don't want to make it even busier ...
- Mon 05 Jul, 2004 23.44
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Looking for a large mobile phone?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17781
Am I not right in thinking that the nationwide '01' prefix change was designed to make extra numbers available, but didn't? If you think about it, it makes no sense whatsoever. Yes it does, If they didn't add the digit 1 to the front of all numbers then we wouldn't have been able to expand to numbe...
- Mon 05 Jul, 2004 21.30
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Looking for a large mobile phone?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17781
Am I not right in thinking that the nationwide '01' prefix change was designed to make extra numbers available, but didn't? If you think about it, it makes no sense whatsoever. Yes it does, If they didn't add the digit 1 to the front of all numbers then we wouldn't have been able to expand to numbe...
- Mon 05 Jul, 2004 21.15
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Looking for a large mobile phone?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17781
The 0207, 0208 thing in the o2 tariffs is a legacy thing. Both o2 and Vodaphone used to charge calls depending on geographical location. On older phones the dialling code of the area you were in was displayed on the screen. Of course it does mean that o2 customers who choose 020 7 and 020 8 as their...
- Tue 01 Jun, 2004 11.05
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: HELP! Corrupted System file
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1652
- Mon 31 May, 2004 19.31
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: HELP! Corrupted System file
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1652
HELP! Corrupted System file
This is on behalf of a friend of mine. He installed an application today and when the PC (windows XP) restarted it gave the error message: 'Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM' I looked up this on Google and found several identica...
- Thu 27 May, 2004 09.55
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Advice for people having trouble with Pop-Ups on IE
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1473