Just wonderin'...

[betlit]

*lol* sorry... i forgot: in europe (at least in the german speaking part of it) a (lcd-)projector is called 'a beamer'.

i never heard beamer in combination with bmw... but there may be models/labels unused in europe.

i drive a bmw but the cheapest model available (and its a used one ). a bmw 316i coupé

[djtaylor]

projector!

Amusingly, I was in Germany a couple of weeks ago and the guys there asked me if I wanted a "beamer"? I looked puzzled, then he handed me a projector.

They thought it hysterical because they thought they were using an English word instead of the German word for projector which is...projektor.

David.

[djtaylor]

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BeeMeer(W)

[stefan]

Some words are quite funny that way. For example, here in Sweden we didn't have a good Swedish word for "walkman". So "they" invented a word for it. And took another English word: "freestyle". Icky.

[betlit]

Amusingly, I was in Germany a couple of weeks ago and the guys there asked me if I wanted a "beamer"? I looked puzzled, then he handed me a projector.

They thought it hysterical because they thought they were using an English word instead of the German word for projector which is...projektor.

thats typical for germany: since a couple years it is 'in' to use pseudo-english words for technical things, also called 'denglisch' (deutsch-englisch)

most of the times it is an 'incorrect' or inappropriately used english word (like said 'beamer' *g*).

there are other examples for this:
e.g. a mobile/cell phone in german would be a 'mobiltelefon'. but in germany most people call it 'a handy'. (some germans i know even _believe_ 'handy' is used in uk/usa, too)

in switzerland a cell/mobile phone is called 'natel' (spoken nah-tell). standing for 'Nationales Auto TELefon', meaning 'national car phone'.
this is a fossil from the times when 'mobile phones' weighted >10 kg and were built in cars :-)

a walkman is a walkman here *g*. they did not invent a 'cool' word for mp3-player 'till now...

[betlit]

BeeMeer(W)

hmm.. that one was not that obivous to me, since i pronounce bmw (Bayrische MotorWerke (= bavarian motor factories)) in (swiss-)german. :-)

[bobrap]

Just one last question instead of starting a new thread. Does anyone use remote desktop connection, if not, how do you remotely control your second system?

[stu8080]

UltraVNC is my favorite, google for it, at seems the fastest and clearest over a LAN connection. havent tried it over the internet though. Its free and does the job well.

[bobrap]

UltraVNC is my favorite, google for it, at seems the fastest and clearest over a LAN connection. havent tried it over the internet though. Its free and does the job well.

Works like a champ Thanks!!

[wtg]

UltraVNC is indeed great. You can even use it on a palm pilot to control a PC.