Highwayman

Shouldn't be much difference if any price wise between DDR2 and DDR400 now.

In any case George has probably already ordered his new set-up.

This is from the Gmail FAQ, it may help some people having trouble logging in to Gmail.

How do I get rid of a JavaScript error?

JavaScript errors are usually caused by Internet security software and browser settings.

Here are two potential solutions:

Log in to the secure HTTPS Gmail interface at https://mail.google.com.

Close all open browser windows and disable any third-party firewall, anti-virus, or ad-blocking software. Open up a new browser window, and adjust your privacy and security preferences.

To adjust your preferences in Internet Explorer, please follow these steps:

Click the 'Tools' menu at the top of your browser, and select 'Internet Options.'

Click the 'Privacy' tab at the top of the dialog box, and select 'Low.'

Click the 'Edit' button, and enter 'google.com' into the 'Address of Web site' field.

Select 'Allow' to override the handling of particular cookies.

Click the 'Security' tab at the top of the dialog box, and change the 'Security level for this zone' to 'Low.'

Click 'OK.'

Next, clear your browser's cache. To clear your browser's cache in Internet Explorer:

Click the 'Tools' menu at the top of your browser, and select 'Internet Options.'

Click the 'General' tab at the top of the dialog box.

Click 'Delete Files' under 'Temporary Internet files.'

Select 'Delete all offline content' by checking the box.

Click 'OK.'

Now open a new browser window and log back in to Gmail. Try clicking on the links that were causing problems.

If this works, you can now re-enable your third-party security or anti-virus software.

Thetyim, you say you can send an e-mail from the forum. If you use Outlook/Outlook Express, can you get into Gmail that way instead of from your browser? For me l've found that sometimes if l have a problem logging in one way, the other way usually works.

It started about three weeks ago.

So how long have you been using Firefox 1.5? Have a look over at the Mozilla Forums to see if others are having the same problem.

Firewall would have been top of my list (blocking the Java download) but you said you disabled it. Is it possible your firewall has settings for 2 versions of Firefox? Maybe 1.5 has too high a security setting and the previous version of Firefox had a lower level? If you're not using the Windows firewall have you tried using that instead to see if it makes a difference?

Try disabling your adblocker, clear the cache and reboot.

With Gmail you can access it via http or https l think, it's mentioned in their FAQ, try both.

Apacer DDR 512 / 333SO-DIMM DDR 512 MB PC2700

1,947 at Hardware House who have shops at both Pantip and Fortune.

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The price the computer guy pays will be lower than what you will find on the site l quoted, plus at Zeer or Pantip the prices are usually a bit cheaper than what you find on Thanni.com.

Last time l was at Zeer l ran into a friend of my wife who was working at one of the mobile shops who said to me to just find what l wanted and the prices so he could go later on and get 5-10% off because he worked in the complex.

Getting everything put together shouldn't cost much as most of the people building computers there probably aren't even making 300 baht a day and it won't take them all day to put a basic computer together so at the prices l suggested the computer guy still makes a decent (Thai) margin.

Could be a bit on the high side but without knowing the exact items (brand names) you're being quoted on it's hard to be sure. Looking at http://www.thanni.com/ my take on prices for what you're getting would be:

CPU - 7890

Hard Disk - 3500

RAM - 4000

Mobo - 5000

Case - 1500

Total - 21890

Motherboard could be +/- 1000, HD +1500, RAM is anyones guess but 4000 is what most people would spend, someone into gaming could easily pay double that. A cheap case is 1000, a well known brand like Lian or CoolerMaster can be 2000-5000+, 2000 hopefully gets you something that's well built with good ventilation.

Is it possible that the balance might cover an improved cooling system and power supply? That's something you will need to check as a lot of the cheaper cases don't have good airflow and come with a poor quality power supply. It is worth paying a bit extra for brands like CoolerMaster, Enermax etc.

Thai guy wearing the black t-shirt.

Much as l like Firefox l came to the conclusion a long time ago that it is best to wait a few weeks before upgrading if for no other reason that there always seems to be some extensions that will not work with the latest versions. I thought that might have sorted itself by now but going by the reports on assorted forums it hasn't.

If you have a copy of todays Nation handy check out the photo on the back of the first section (page 14A). I think someone must have been asleep to let that one through.

George, are you serious or did you ask so that everyone would take a look at that hideous flash presentation The Nation have put on their site?

In Firefox:

Go to Menu/ Tools/ Options/ General/ Fonts + Colours

I have the following set up:

Serif

Verdana Ref

Arial

Courier New

I think The Nation page once you get past the promo looks okay with that, see what you think.

Public ‘can use Air Force C-130 planes’

Published on November 25, 2005 The Nation

Defence Minister Thamarak Isarangura said yesterday that the Royal Thai Air Force aircraft that media tycoon Sondhi Limthongkul said was used to transport friends of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s sister is sometimes made available for the general public’s use.

Thamarak took the floor to answer an interpellation from Democrat Party deputy leader Alongkorn Pollabutr regarding allegations that the Air Force allowed Thaksin’s sister, Monthatip Kowitcharoenkul, to use the C-130 aircraft to transport her friends to her house-warming party in Chiang Mai.

Alongkorn asked what criteria the military required to allow the general public to use the state aircraft.

“This particular incident aroused the suspicion of taxpayers. It was interpreted as abuse of the individual’s privileges because despite being the sister of the prime minister, she does not hold a state position,” Alongkorn said.

Sondhi initially brought the public’s attention to the issue with a copy of an official document that suggested that Air Force chief of staff Air Marshal Sukamphol Suwannathat had approved Monthatip’s use of the plane.

Thamarak said all Air Force cargo planes are used regularly to fly to the North and northeastern provinces twice a week to transport supplies.

“If there is space left on the plane, friends and relatives can board the aircraft but they cannot take any legal action in the case of any fatalities caused by an accident,” he said. He added that anyone could seek the Air Force’s permission to use the plane and that the approval of such a request would be based on seat availability.

Alongkorn questioned whether the Air Force had really approved Monthatip’s request, suggesting that military friends of Thaksin could have used the Air Force’s official stationery.

Thamarak said he had ordered an investigation into the use of official stationery and added that anyone found to be abusing official resources would be punished.

I hear people say watch it on television but we haven't been able to get ASTV1 on our cable feed for days now since it was pulled. They also say many thousands will watch it on the net but that can't be right. Few people in Thailand would have a fast enough internet connection to watch streaming video surely.

Maybe l've missed it but has Chuwit had anything to say on all of this?

The Coder summed it up nicely.

SD-RAM is outdated and if bought new is not exactly cheap. Few modern motherboards support it so you're unlikely to be able to transfer it for use in any newer system you may decide to buy in the future.

This PC l'm using now has an old Duron 900 so l upped the memory from 256 to 512RAM. Using WinXP the performance has improved greatly. I used to get programs stalling and freezing often but now that rarely happens. I don't play high end games but if l did, judging by the performance on mid range games l've tried it would be a bad idea. Increasing the RAM further would not have as dramatic an effect so would be a waste of money imo. 512RAM is the sweet spot for a machine like yours.

Spending money other than on RAM would be foolish, maybe a used VGA card. Upgrading to a new VGA card that can handle the latest games would mean a new CPU, cooling etc. Any extra money would be much better spent on buying a complete current model machine which will be much better value for your outlay.

Earlier this year l got a new budget computer for a friend. It cost half the price of what l paid for this machine about 3 years ago, has double the memory, a DVD-RW instead of a CD-ROM, a Celeron 2.6 instead of a Duron900, a LCD monitor etc. etc.

While it was good of your friend to give you the PC he probably worked out that it was not worth upgrading. Throw in some memory and keep it for the internet and older games and then in the future just buy a new machine. Have a look at some of the online retailers and when you see what you can get you will realise the folly of spending money on something so outdated.

A lot of processors are made in Malaysia, AMD especially.

Thailand is the source for a lot of hard disk manufacture. Seagate with six billion dollars in annual sales is a company that has a large part of it's production based in Thailand. Western Digital also employs thousands of Thai's.

Listening to the Radio Australia news feed on Metropolis FM last week and they reported that Thailand and Cambodia were copying Singapore and Malaysia in attempts to silence critics by bankrupting them through legal action. I know that's not news to most people but still, it's not something you usually hear reported so bluntly in Thailand.

I heard the PM say one time that Metropolis was his favourite radio station. Maybe he never listens to the news as if he did Radio Australia would probably face legal action or no longer be available in Thailand.

Interesting to see the amount of damages claimed for being insulted compared to compensation claimed for serious injury or death in custody. Loss of reputation is valued 100 times more than life itself.

I was on the subway 3 months ago when two soldiers boarded with a dog and it was checking everyone out. Must not happen to often judging by the reaction of the Thai's on board who were all eyes. Can't remember if it was an alsatian or a labrador. I liked how they had it fitted out with little booties on each paw.

I've a similar set up to paulfr except l use an S-Video cable as it made a visible difference to picture quality for me using satellite. While l can use the timer on the recorder l have to have the UBC box switched on to the channel l want to record.

We just got a brand new UBC box as the last one was zapped by a power surge when lightning hit transformers either side of our house. UBC replaced it for free but it's going to take a couple of months to get parts for our new Samsung tv which also got zapped. The first replacement box lasted a week before failing. The new ones are smaller and an improvement as when you use the remote it has a much wider range, with the older box we had had the remote had to be pointed very precisely at the UBC box or it wouldn't work.

I did a lot of research, mostly on the internet. After a while every motherboard looked the same!

On thing l found useful was to download some of the motherboard manuals in PDF format that l was interested in from sites like ASUS. You can get basic info from a lot of online retailers but sometimes it isn't 100% acurate so looking through the manual can be very helpful. ASUS and Gigabyte seem to be the best regarded boards from what l've read.

The shop let me sit with the technician as the system was assembled

I think some shops would want to charge you double for that but in Thailand they seem okay about it

If you're into the latest games then AMD is by far the best choice for a CPU, not Intel. Runs cooler as well.

If you will be using Pentium 4 then make sure you install a good cooling system. Lian make some good cases but can cost 10,000 baht for a top of the range one. Plenty of cheaper brands around for around 1000 baht but you need to inspect them for quality, you don't want too many sharp edges and poor airflow. There's one shop in Pantip that has a good range (i.e. not cheap) of cases and cooling gear. If you enter Pantip and look straight ahead it's one of the shops you can see at the front on the 3rd or 4th level. It has some cases with the internals visible in the window so a short walk around will find it easily. Make sure you get a decent power supply, too many cheap Chinese versions around which aren't the most reliable longterm.

Memory wise if using Intel then use DDR2. With AMD DDR400 is good, DDR2 for AMD is not compatible yet, maybe another couple of months until the new M2 motherboards are available, maybe longer for Thailand. Get a motherboard that supports dual channel memory and use 2x512MB instead of 1x1GB RAM. If someone is building it for you make sure they know to select one that can utilise the memory config suggested, not all motherboards can.

One thing to keep in mind with building to order rather than buying a complete system like Compaq, Acer etc. is the OS. Is the guy building it for you going to use a genuine version of Windows, that's if you want Windows of course. Genuine XP is around 4000 baht.

There are of course two sides to every story but if true surely someone at the Australian Embassy should be brought to task over this. It's possible to read a number of things into this account but l still find it hard to believe that anyone could be so callous.

In such a case, is the embassy official in charge of such a funeral able to overide the considerations of everyone else present? I would have thought a spouse would be the person everyone would defer to rather than an embassy official and if the spouse was late everyone would have the decency to wait, even an embassy official. It's not like we're talking about a business appointment or sporting event.

In todays Nation newspaper:

Shocked at lack of empathy for the bereaved at funeral.

I have to admit that I am not in a good mood right now. I have discovered a lack of empathy, a lack of humanity, which is for me simply outrageous!

Let me ask this: if you where in charge of a funeral set to begin at 2pm and the widow wasn’t able to show up at that exact time because of a traffic jam, would you then say to the others gathered around you, who are mainly members of the widow’s family, “I don’t care. 2 o’clock is 2 o’clock. We start the ceremony now. Cremate the man!”

No? Me neither. But that’s what happened last Wednesday. The daughter of my good friend from Ubon Ratchathani lost her husband after only two and a half weeks of marriage, due to an abrupt heart attack which took his life.

He was only 44 years old. They had been together for about two years and were very happy. She is in her sixth month of pregnancy. They looked forward to establishing a family. The couple had planned for some time how he could move to Thailand and stay with his beloved wife. He was talking about becoming an English teacher, as he is – was, I mean to say – an Australian and therefore very fit to teach students in English.

My wife, from the same village as the widow, and I arrived a bit too late, too. Due to a traffic jam, of course. We sat down with the widow, regretting that we didn’t make it. I was angry at myself for not having left our flat half an hour earlier.

It was then that I learnt, from the gruesome crying of the widow, that a person from the Australian Embassy had, despite protests from the widow’s family and even from one of his own personnel, a Thai citizen, forced the personnel at the temple to perform the ceremony and start burning the body.

All of the widow’s family, except the widow herself, was present.

So a Thai widow, who had just experienced a shock that others can’t imagine, isn’t entitled to have funeral rites for her husband postponed for half an hour?

The lack of humanity, empathy and emotional intelligence was shocking, and still is.

Who would start a ceremony before the most important participants have arrived, whether it is a funeral or a wedding?

I've had my last three yearly non imm. "O" multiple entry visas issued at Melbourne, the most recent being May of this year.

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Yes, a one year multiple entry "O" visa each time, l do a visa run every 90 days and get a new visa when l return to Australia each year to see family etc.

I take an original marriage certificate, we were issued two when we married. They just make a photocopy, the application has taken 5 minutes max. each time. I'm not sure but l'd be surprised if any embassy or consulate anywhere would issue a one year visa without sighting the original.

I thought last time that maybe they would ask for some financial details so l opened a Thai bank account and transferred a suitable amount from Australia but in three years l've never been asked for anything when l've re-entered Thailand, just get stamped in and sent on my way. Maybe l've just been lucky so far.

As for the woman who runs the consulate.....

I remember handing the application each time to a young Thai girl but when l've collected the visa it's always been handed to me by a cheerful Australian man who l presumed was the consul but maybe l'm mistaken.

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I listened to The Ashes series recently on Live Five. There were two speeds, 48 and 22 kbs l think, the 48 speed was too fast for my connection but the 22 kbs came in loud and clear all day long. Haven't tried listening to the soccer as l can watch that on UBC if l wish.