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Valentino Rossi is a very technical rider, the circuit in Buriram is more about speed and will favor the Ducati riders who have much higher maximum speed and power. The Honda's and Yamaha are build to perform excellent in and out of corners, braking and overall stability...

Like Mugello in Italy, it's difficult to win on a slower motorcycle...

Any official Yamaha dealer will work...

https://www.advice.co.th/product/spare-part-notebook/keypad-acer

For 680 THB in Thailand with Thai/English keyboard layout... no difficult custom clearances or import TAX

19 minutes ago, Ace of Pop said:

In Lotus Extra the other day early A Monitr that gives out Customer Info had not opened correctly and was showing .THIS IS NOT A GENUINE WINDOWS etc, so if it's too expensive for Lotus , it is for most of us.?


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Good attitude my neighbor doesn't do it so why should I do it...

If you go for cheap you can even get a MS Windows Pro license for much less, 365 THB or even less if you buy a few checkout https://www.mlhionline.com/products/microsoft-windows-10-professional-32-64bit-oem-key

Is it legal, they say it is... and we trust everybody now-a-day...

6 hours ago, JaseTheBass said:

 

Legal Windows 800b
Office 365 1990b (Pro user, so alternatives are no good - even the official Mac version is bug-laden)
Defender AV free
Adobe CS2 free & legal (expensive and not available on Linux if you're a pro like me - and no, replacement programs don't work when you're swapping files with clients).

So, for me and many other pro users, Windows is the only option. At least it's rock solid and the only problems my office gets are self made.

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It seems that your "free" Adobe CS2 is very much illegal software.... "There has been clarification since this story broke. Adobe has not officially released the CS2 software for free. Instead, it has canceled its CS2 license management servers because of a technical glitch, so for those with existing licenses it is now offering downloads that do not require contact with the licensing servers."   https://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-releases-creative-suite-2-for-free/

or https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2013/01/update-on-cs2-and-acrobat-7-activation-servers.html

6 hours ago, JaseTheBass said:

 

Legal Windows 800b
Office 365 1990b (Pro user, so alternatives are no good - even the official Mac version is bug-laden)
Defender AV free
Adobe CS2 free & legal (expensive and not available on Linux if you're a pro like me - and no, replacement programs don't work when you're swapping files with clients).

So, for me and many other pro users, Windows is the only option. At least it's rock solid and the only problems my office gets are self made.

Sent from my Cray II supercomputer
 

I have no idea which shop offers MS Windows for 800 THB, but I would not bet my business on it that it's 100% legal. All official Microsoft outlets say 4500 THB or even more... For the MS Office 365 Pro, the 1990 THB is only for one year, it would cost 1990 THB every year...

The Free version of Anti-Virus software is only available for home users, any commercial use is prohibited.

I cannot find Adobe CS2 for free and legal, maybe point to it, Adobe CS2 can be used with Wine under all Linux versions. As alternative for photo editing you can get Corel Aftershot Pro 3, that can do things the latest version of Adobe Photoshop cannot and it can exchange files with all sort of popular file formats.

First this tread is about using legal software, according some figures 50% of the country is using some or all illegal software. Therefore we can assume that 50% that upgraded to Windows 10 still use illegal software.

Also you example about Linux is based on Mint Linux, and honestly I could never understand why it's so popular... at the heart it is a old version of Ubuntu (old kernel 4.4), while for example we use the Linux Kernel 4.11.3. The higher the number the more hardware is supported is the basic rule (we need to use the latest Kernel as some of our newest computers and graphics cards are better supported.

If Linux is so bad at graphics why " "Most of the major studios use Linux -- such as DreamWorks with more than 1,500 Linux desktops and 3,500 Linux servers. The MovieEditor Conference is an all-day event on computer-based filmmaking in downtown Los Angeles on August 3rd. Studio technology chiefs and other experts discuss ongoing work using Linux in feature animation and visual effects "

Another thing is that my girl has an thing for Apple Mac computers, so every external device (printers, USB drives, Thunderbolt, etc etc) needs to work also with OSX....

17 minutes ago, Techno Viking said:

Without Newin's "washing machine" Buririam would be nothing.

I can think of a few very influential towns in the USA and other countries that are basically build with the help of criminal money.

1 hour ago, JSixpack said:

 

We do like to think things are simple. True, and entirely consistent w/ what I'd said, but the more common scenario is that a user has already got a printer he/she was using happily w/ Windows but now is trying to change to Linux, maybe to avoid (quite rationally) Win 8 or Win 10. With luck it may work satisfactorily.

To legally use MS Windows on a desktop computer you need to get a legal copy of MS Windows which will cost you 4300 THB, second to use an Office package you can go for MS Office 365 which is 1990 THB per year or MS Office 2016 which cost 7300 THB. Depending on what you want to do more the price will go up… O and not forget you copy of Kaspersky Antivirus for 670 THB. (okay you can use for home a free version from Avast or any other…)

Please do not say you will do some video editing or working with photos, as software for that can cost a lot…

Our average Linux computer runs Fedora 25 x86_64 and has the latest Libreoffice installed, we have some branch specific software mainly for designing engine parts. Not all software on the computer is free software. We use several software packages that are not opensource one for photo editing is Corel AfterShot Pro3 (think we paid US$55 per user) which works pretty good.

Because our company followed the opensource path for several years we not have any problems with hardware that isn’t compatible.

I can imagine that some people would hesitate to checkout Linux, but for that you can checkout reveal Linux version in the form of LiveCD’s or LiveUSB which give you the chance to us Linux on your computer without installing it… If something not work, and it seems impossible to fix or you would need to buy a new printer… you keep using MS Windows, very very simple…

33 minutes ago, JSixpack said:

 

Commonly sold in Thailand today, pal, and I chose it for that reason. Yeah, we use a lot of entry-level printers around here for printing Immigration forms. You specifically mentioned Brother, did you not? Like all printers, it's primarly and understandably targeted towards Windows users, yes. But it does offer those Linux drivers. Same kinds of scenarios are found for countless other printers and that's why there's a database dedicated to feedback on Linux compatibility.

The thing is very simple, if you use Linux you buy a printer that works well with Linux. If you run MS Windows you buy a printer that works well with MS Windows. The good part about printer that work well with MS Windows is that they're more operating system independent, for example printers that work well with Linux work also with Apple Mac...

Printers that are specific made for MS Windows are often cheaper, but mostly that also means that they're likely more expensive per printed page.

16 minutes ago, JSixpack said:

Can happen. But Google will tell you that plenty of people do have problems and it's foolish to deny that they do merely to uphold the pride of Linux fanboys everywhere. You see, I don't deny Windows problems at all, even while I prefer Windows for doing what I do--having tried both and knowing what I'm doing.

 

Sounds so good, "dedicated Linux driver sites." But let's not mislead our noobs. Problem w/ the Linux drivers on the printer manufacturer sites, IF they exist, is that they may not work or may not work as one might expect them to, not as well as the Windows drivers. Whereas Windows might give an error message w/ some information, Linux might not, as in the case of the common Brother HL-1110. Moreover, an average user may well have problems installing the driver, certainly more than w/ the Windows driver, which almost always very easy. 

 

Checked out the Brother linux print driver page and it recommends using th HL-1118 driver. Downloaded it and couldn't figure out how to install it as the only option given is to install a ppd.gz file.

. . .

. . . I went to the Brother website, downloaded and ran the linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0.1. It came up with an error message saying: Package ia32-libs is not available, but is referred to by another package.This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 . . .  Package 'ia32-libs' has no installation candidate. . . I then installed lib32z1 and lib32ncurses5 and ran the installer again. This time it complained it couldn't find lpr so I installed that. Ran the installer once more but it still didn't work. My next step was to go to http://localhost/631. I told it to Search for New Printers. Nothing. I then went to Add Printer. It showed my HL1110 and it actually worked when I finished. l

 

Sound like fun, average user? How much time you got? In short if I were using Linux and were considering buying a new printer I'd check out all the feedback on the 'net for that particular model first rather than count on luck and blithe assurances here.

I wonder who still uses a printer that old (Brother HL-1110), it was a entry-level laser printer and I would be surprised that somebody still have a working version... Was the Brother HL-1110 not one of those dirt cheap Win-Printer/GDI printers?

1 hour ago, robblok said:

If you run a business linux (in general) makes no sense.

We see that different, maybe you use at your company very specific software that only is available for MS Windows. But at our office we can do everything using computers that run Linux. Even the computers that control the CNC machines run Linux...

Another positive benefit is that nobody will install some dumb game that infects the whole company with a virus...

1 hour ago, clifric said:

Perhaps the MotoGP teams should be warned about what happened to their peers on the Superbike circuit when they visited Buri Ram recently; all their spare tyres (I'm English) were impounded at Thai Customs for some reason I never established but suffice it to say the top riders at that event were Thai

 

It's in Thailand illegal to import used motorcycle tires...

The circuit is excellent and I’m sure it will be an good addition to the MotoGP championship. But the facilities that should support the circuit in Buriram are not there… Maybe the Sport and Tourist Minister thinks that Valentino Rossi, the Highest-Paid Athletes Over The Past Decade, will sleep in a camper/trailer…

Maybe they can make a landing strip for him....

I have never had a problem with installing a printer with Linux, most printer manufacturers have excellent support and have dedicated Linux driver websites (Brother, HP,  and a few more).

You can have some problems with so-called Winprinters, but as the name says they're specific Windows Printers that use the Windows GDI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface).

Investing in a Winprinter/GDI is a risky endavor, most Windows XP GDI/Winprinters do not work with MS Windows 10. And because Microsoft often changes the way how the GDI API works it doesn't give much warranties that it will be supported.

13 hours ago, JSixpack said:

 

Right. Now you update and then you're using that later version. Or you hope you're using it--maybe it bricked your system. Kernel backups, great! In that case you pray you can find your way into the interactive menu to select your older kernel that worked. But maybe you can't. Then you can pray you can get into the terminal and run a command to roll back. But maybe you can't get that far either. So then you get out your boot disk and find and edit the grub.conf appropriately. Now geeks might find this fun & interesting. But really how's an average user even to begin? Best hope is probably a full restore from an image. Get out the Clonezilla! Uh, how recent is that image?

 

Windows? Choose Recovery/Startup repair/last known good config at bootup. Done (probably, lol).

No get me wrong, but even for some MS Windows repair options you need some knowledge. Most Linux Distributions (surely the best known) will give you a boot menu after you reset the computer a few times before completely finish start-up, in this boot menu you can select the other (older) Kernel packages installed.  In worst case scenario you would need to reinstall Linux, if you select keep current drive/partion settings all your files will still be there. Even programs you previous installed still work... Of course you probably need to update the system to get the latest updates.

28 minutes ago, JSixpack said:

 

Had Win 7 for many years, no problems. Changed to Win 8.1 recently, no problems.

 

I skipped Vista (stayed w/ XP, also no problems), figured it was another Windows ME, and was sneered at by the cutting edge high tech ace commentards on this very forum.

 

 

Linux is hardly immune from crashes (including unrecoverable) and freezes, as a visit to any of the Linux forums will verify. Fixing those crashes is more difficult under Linux for an average user as well. You can read all about the deficiencies of Linux here: https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html

 

I sound like a Linux hater but in fact I love Linux and the idea of it. I've used it and have it on some flashdrives. But I get a lot more done under Windows and it supports my printer. Let's be objective here, eh?

 

 

You seem blissfully unaware of that Munich had the gumption. What happens is they start looking how to return to Windows. Linux champion Munich takes decisive step towards returning to Windows

 

 

No, Windows has always had the option of turning off automatic updates until 10 in some cases. Linux gives you the option but may not tell you what you need to know about the update and then the update may break applications or your entire system. Then you reach EOL and you need to install the new version. Article in TechRepublic notes, for example, The update manager in Linux Mint provides the ability to update the kernel independent of other updates, and without needing to resort to using the command line. While this is a much-needed improvement, the explanation of this change on the Linux Mint website is baffling. The website claims that kernel updates "aren't really updates, but the availability of packages for newer kernels." Aside from the fact that this is literally the definition of an update, this appears to be an attempt at minimizing the importance of kernel updates. In Linux Mint 18, users are only notified of kernel updates, but they are not installed by default. Actually attempting to install a new kernel results in a verbose and frightening warning dissuading users from performing the upgrade.

 

It’s true, the Linux Kernel packages are no upgrades – they do not replace the old Kernel packages and you can set a limit on how much Kernel packages you can keep as backup… For instance Fedora Linux has standard 3 Linux Kernels (previous versions) as backup.

By definition a upgrade overwrite the old version of the software, what is with the Linux Kernel not the case.

Talking about operating systems with a graphical user interface, I think we all should pay respect to Xerox Star, which had as full name Xerox 8010 Information System and was the first commercial system that combined various technologies that have since become standard, like bitmapped display, graphical user interface, icons, folders and more… It was also the first operating system that supported Ethernet networking (also a Xerox invention) and could also be configured as file server or print server.

If you look at the screen of a Xerox Star you maybe confused that you're looking at a early Apply Mac.... but Steve Job just copied the whole thing... Even taking credit for creating the first computer mouse, what is absolutly not true...

The POT is from a old joined venture between CAT and TT&T. Most of the infrastructure cables became the property of CAT after the joined venture ended.

Be aware that seeing Fiber Optic cables in your street not automatic means you can get Fiber Optic Internet at your home. Most of this cables are so-called infrastructure cables that can provide cell towers connection or provide WIFI access to spots around town...

Satellite phones are easy to get in Thailand check out http://www.acesthailand.com/arsen/

Rebuilding and recondition rear shock absorbers is for most motorcycles in Thailand not really viable option. Probably the best and valuable option is to buy new shocks.

For small motorcycles that are manufactured by one of the larger manufacturers, it’s probably not worth to refurbish the shocks. Most shock absorbers on small bikes are low quality items made from cheap/value materials, with that in mind 120,000 kilometers is a huge amount….

Nothing to do with Windows 10 upgrade compatibility, but some people forget that if you move from a Intel Z77 to a Intel H1XX, H2XX, Z170 or Z270 mainboard you likely need a new power supply also... That is one of those annoying things you find out if you live not next door to a computer shop....

In our office, we have repaired a few computers over the last few months. And with repairing, I mean buy the latest mainboard, new processor and new DDR4 memory.

Sadly I need to say that it’s not always consistent that you have no problems, in two case it went smooth, one case we needed to re-activate Windows (by calling Microsoft), and one case we got a blue screen...