Highwayman

I'll assume "WWW.MLC.COM" was a typo as that's a translation site, not an investment company. Just visited www.mlc.com.au, no problems from Thailand using WindowsXP OEM on a Thai purchased Compaq computer. Didn't even have cookies enabled and still connected in a couple of seconds, didn't use a proxy either. Maybe you need to look at your security settings, too high perhaps?

Sometimes you hear of people having problems trying to use a Thai isued credit card on the internet but haven't heard of problems using a genuine version of Windows.

Thetyim, in Firefox tools/options/security trying ticking the boxes there, then clear the cache and see if that makes a difference.

Gmail is really starting to look good now that you can change fonts, colours etc. it starts to become more usable, even with Firefox. To use colours and fonts in Firefox with Yahoo! you have to install an extension which is a bit flaky whereas Gmail works just fine as is.

Interesting to see the reason for the larger mailbox is that some users were starting to run out of space. Unless you send lots of picture and photo files then even 1Gb is heaps for most users.

I'll continue to stick with Yahoo! for my main account for now because of Address Guard, the best built in anti-spam tool l've found so far.

Yahoo! will have 1Gb of storage later this month btw.

I'm trying to figure which is more bizarre, the article in The Nation or the response from tutsiwarrior.

I just use the fax program that is included with WinXP, although you usually have to activate it yourself (somewhere in Program Access & Defaults), it probably won't appear on your list of installed programs until you do this.

I don't actually use it with the internet on, don't think you can anyway, certainly not on dial-up. I only send a couple of faxes a week and know when to expect a reply.

If you have Outlook (not Outlook Express) then l believe there is even an option to fax an e-mail to someone who does not have a computer.

Not having a scanner, l just type my fax as a Word document, select print and from the drop down menu select fax. A fax wizard then opens up where you enter the details. As l send most faxes to the same couple of contacts l have a macro which completes the details and starts sending the fax in less than a second. I've seen what the received fax looks like at the other end and the quality is excellent. I was going to buy a fax machine once but decided to save my money as with just a few faxes a week the WinXP fax program does the job. Try it out before spending any money on shareware or a real fax machine. You may find you already have all you need.

Were those photos of the border crossing taken on a long weekend?

I've never seen even a tenth of the amount of people shown in those photos (even using a tele-photo lens) whenever l've crossed the border at Poipet.

Yes, page 7B in todays edition of The Nation, (Thursday March 31, 2005).

The article is headed;

AUTO TALK: Shedding light on flashing lights.

These foreigners, who generally are not well off, usually live in small provinces, like in the Northeast. Sometimes these farangs even trick fellow farangs. As far as I know, the Thai authorities are carefully watching these people and waiting to get their hands on evidence to go after them. Without evidence the police could be accused of violating the bad farangs’ rights.

But today, I have some questions from a good farang concerning the use of indicator lights in Thailand.

The Nation 31.03.2005

Not a troll but an article from todays edition of The Nation.

btw, is it my connection or is this site slow today? I'm using ADSL but it's like l'm using TOT dial-up.

I won't post the link just yet, but the topic is from one of the following:

Bargirls

Beer Chang

Housing

Food

Charities

Elephants

Investing in Thailand

Thai pharmacies

Swimming

Otop

Driving

Football

Air conditioning

Somtam

Religion

What could it be?

Now, for those of you who haven't seen this article, l would bet that never in a million years would you predict the next sentence and the subject of the article. I don't know what to think after reading this.

For those who have seen it, please don't spoil it for others.

So, what do you think this article is about? Any ideas?

Many Americans and Europeans choose to spend their retirements in Thailand. Thais are generally very nice to foreigners, and we sometimes tend to honour them more than fellow Thais. The majority of foreigners who come to Thailand are good people and don’t cause problems. But some capitalise on our generosity and use Thailand as a hiding place to get away from crimes they have committed back home. Some even go further and start committing new crimes in this country.

Today there are certain foreigners who rely on being “farang”, and trick Thai women from the provinces into marrying them. In return they give the women a small amount of money every month in exchange for being able to live in the Kingdom permanently. In the process they also get a partner in bed.

Some of these farangs take advantage of legal loopholes by setting up independent organisations and find ways to publicise themselves. They go to the provinces, donated a petty sum to schools, or take photos at restaurants and small factories in the villages, all so they can send the pictures abroad and claim they are doing charity work. They are angling for support money from international organisations. They lie to people and say that they work for an NGO, even though their work does not benefit the public and is merely a commercial enterprise.

These foreigners, who generally are not well off, usually live in small provinces, like in the Northeast. Sometimes these farangs even trick fellow farangs. As far as I know, the Thai authorities are carefully watching these people and waiting to get their hands on evidence to go after them. Without evidence the police could be accused of violating the bad farangs’ rights.

Looking at the fonts l have installed l have a couple that might not be Microsoft fonts, DB Thai Text(4 ) and Kodchiang(4). I thought most UPC fonts worked with Thai e.g. Angsana but not sure about that.

I know you can write on Thai Visa using Thai text, but can you open a new Word document and type that in Thai?

Other than that l have no more ideas other than to check you have your location as Thailand. There are settings in Play in WMP but l don't think they help your problem.

Good luck.

Everything displays as it should.

Just a thought...in the Advanced tab, besides selecting Thai in the first window, have you checked the boxes for 10021, 20838 and 874 in Code Page Conversion Tables?

As far as l can remember, any action to enable regular Thai to be used on this computer was done via Regional Language Options. I was using this computer for a month or two before l set up any Thai options so in WinXP l doubt if it relates to installing Windows, and l've never had to reinstall XP since l first used this computer.

If l was the editor of The Bangkok Post, then l might be a little worried about changing readership if this Thai Visa poll from just six months ago is any indication. Changing times perhaps.

I use Firefox as my main browser, and play around with Maxthon and Avant a little.

A properly configured Firefox browser using the extensions that are of worth to you is way superior to any other browser that l've used. If you don't like tinkering then maybe it's not for everyone. I find very, very few sites that won't work with Firefox, sites not working can have a lot to do with not having Flash etc. configured properly. The common complaint is not being able to use banking sites but no problems there for me.

How anyone can go back to IE once you've tried tabbed browsing is beyond me.

If you don't have the time to learn how to use Firefox then Maxthon is good, so is Avant, both IE shells but with a superior interface. Using IE compared to any of the other browsers mentioned is like the difference between using Win98 and XP. There will always be some people who don't appreciate the change but for most it's a positive leap forward.

I tried Netscape a few weeks back...hated it, even though it is based on Mozilla.

What are you doing that I'm not highwayman?

I've never had a problem with WMP showing Thai or Chinese fonts. On this computer l first had WMP 8 which l upgraded to WMP9 and then to the current WMP10.

The Thai music l have is a mixture of Thai MP3's downloaded from the net and Thai CD's (original and not so original) copied from the CD to my computer. I've been able to edit the Thai titles if need be.

If you have installed (selected) Thai you will be able to write thai, but only if it is the default will the file names come up in Thai.

Just to make it clear, l'm not Thai therefore l do not have Thai installed as the default language, (refer my screenshots).

If l wanted to write anything in Thai l would use a keyboard shortcut to switch over from English to ไทย. You set it up using the Key Settings tab you see in my screenshot. The other option is to use the language toolbar and switch languages that way. These are all options in XP which handles languages a lot better than older versions of Windows such as Win2000.

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I changed to The Nation last year when it was increasingly obvious that The Bangkok Post was unable to properly report many things due to behind the scenes pressure.

The Nation is by no means perfect but you do get a sense that they have writers who are less likely to have someone watching over their shoulder, telling them what they can or cannot write. Sometimes it does appear they are critical of government just for the sake of it but that's better than what you get in The Bangkok Post nowadays, where you can read some articles and think that they might as well be transcripts of government press releases.

I still get The Bangkok Post on Wednesday simply for Database which is a world class IT newspaper supplement. There is lots in there that you don't get off the internet.

I've also got to like The Nation because they even published my letter to the Editor the other day. :D

You will not be able to display Thai language file names unless you have Thai set to be your default language.

This is the way it is with my W2K installation; I presume it is the same for XP.

Apparently not.

Withnail, l'm using Win XP (Service Pack 2), and it's not a Thai version. With XP all the fonts you need come included but you do need to activate them first, it isn't automatic. You wil find help files within XP or using Google if you can't figure it out but l think it's all in Regional Language Options, maybe something else needs to be adjusted in Fonts but l don't think l had to except when l added some non-standard Thai fonts.

Screenshots sent.

Btw, when l first installed Thunderbird, l could not get Gmail up and running using the screenshots they were using no matter what l did. I eventually got it running somehow and I found out later from the Thunderbird forums that the information on Gmail's own site was correct for only a couple of earlier versions of Thunderbird.

Paul, if you want to PM me your e-mail address (Yahoo! ) l can send you screenshots of all the property settings for G-mail l'm using with Outlook Express so that you can compare with your own, otherwise l can post the screenshots here sometime tomorrow.

Most of, if not all of the Bangkok free to air tv stations can be viewed on the internet via their websites.

http://www.itv.co.th

http://www.TV3.co.th

http://www.tv5.co.th

http://www.ch7.co.th

http://www.mcot.or.th

http://www.tv11.go.th

For a more comprehensive list of Thai radio and television, with links to streaming live broadcasts like this, http://www.tv5.co.th/live/?bitrate=512 (24k) then check out Home Planet, http://home.planet.nl/~hendr012/mediaeng.htm

Links will require Real Player +/or Windows Media Player, and a broadband connection, in most cases (512 kb/s) if you want clear reception. If you have trouble seeing these broadcasts then you may also need to adjust settings such as pop-up blockers and ActiveX.

If you just want to listen to the radio then dial-up is sometimes okay.

Every week for what must be nearly a year now, there has been a full page color advertisment in The Nation for The Legend Museum of Folk Crafts.

Apart from pictures of clay figurines the only other text in these adverts is that it is Thailand's Premier Museum of hand crafted miniature clay figurines. No website, no phone numbers, no address, no other information whatsoever, apart from....

scheduled to open in 2012

Full page weekly adverts cannot be cheap, and for something that will not open (if on time) for another seven years.

Does anyone know what this is all about? Is it a government, royal or private project? It's had me wondering for a while now but no-one l've asked has heard of it either. Someone must know what it is and why on earth someone is advertising weekly a museum that won't open for seven years.

Better change that smtp port back to 465. I can receive mail but not send it using port 25.

Using 465 and everything works fine, sending, receiving and also forwarding from one Yahoo account to a gmail account onto Outlook Express.