Oswulf

What operating system are you using?

And what was the worm? And what tool did you use to try to remove it?

Assuming you're running Windows, have you tried (1) booting in Safe Mode? (2) booting to the command line? (3) booting from the Windows CD?

I'm interested in doing a linguistics degree by distance learning, but Googling hasn't helped me find what I'm looking for. Does anyone know of a Bachelors Degree in linguistics that can be done remotely?

To be more specific, I'm not looking for a degree in Applied Linguistics or in English Linguistics.

I don't care which country/university the degree is from (I want to study out of pure interest - not because I want to "use" the degree).

Under 2s don't get a seat. Those over 2 do. Hence the price difference. Why they're not charged 100% is beyond me. After all, they're not going to be subsidising the costs by buying duty free.

The embassy is at 63-65 Hoang Dieu Street. It's very close to the back end of the Temple of Literature. The embassy is very quiet. When I went to get a visa there a couple of years ago I was the only customer on both visits.

Why bother with using a Thai broker? Just buy through the Internet. There are plenty of brokers which can do this for you. For example Internaxx - www.internaxx.lu

As to why you might actually want to invest in the USA, well that's another question.

Your UK pension is almost certainly paid after tax is deducted. (The tax is unavoidable.) Technically, you should also pay Thai tax on your pension, though this isn't enforced. To be careful, you should save up your pension in a UK or offshore bank account, then take the money more than a year after it's received.

Cordon Bleu @ Dusit Thani. http://www.dusit.com/news/060623.shtml

You don't say where in Thailand you are.

If you're in Bangkok, Unity (UTL) is great for serious-minded students. (The teaching style is a little old-fashioned.) The basic course takes six months - 3 or 4 hours a day, five days a week - plus plenty of homework once you reach month 3. You start reading/writing in month three, and by month five everything written is in Thai. At the end of the six months you'll be able to read Thai (albeit slowly), and write it (with plenty of mistakes). It does help, though, if you have a little spoken Thai before you start, to help with the vocabulary. All teaching is done in Thai. Most students are Korean or Japanese, so you can't necessarily cheat by talking to your fellow students in English. http://www.utl-school.com/

Unity is a breakaway from Union and uses the same basic methods and materials - but doesn't have as many missionaries.

Yes.

However, the PC will probably not have software for resizing .jpg files, so shoot your 'photos with low resolution for easy emailing.

In my opinion, head for the north. Hanoi is much more interesting than HCMC - HCMC is really just another vast Asian metropolis but Hanoi has a lot of character. For example, the Temple of Literature, the lakeside and the water puppet performances. From Hanoi you can visit Halong Bay (for a boat trip amongst the islands) and hill tribe villages as short side trips.

If you base yourself in HCMC you can do trips to the Mekong Delta and to the hill station of Dalat. There are also some nice beaches fairly close bye.

If you do decide to go to Hanoi, contact Kangaroo Cafe - they're by far the best budget tour arranger in Vietnam. (Be careful that you go to the correct place - there are lots of fake Kangaroo Travels around town.) http://www.kangaroocafe.com/

I agree with Acquiesce that about 180 hours class time will get you started with reading and writing, but even after this time reading will be painfully slow, and writing full of mistakes. You'll need a lot more study before you can read things such as newspapers.

If you're sufficiently motivated, an alternative would be to learn on your own. The AUA Reading and Writing textbooks are pretty good for self-study. Both are available cheaply (about 200 Baht each if memory serves me right) from AUA in Rajadamri.

On the menu bar, View --> Markup

'mm guesthouse' is Sherwood house..... not Tonys place

My bad. It's Steve's Place, not Tony's Place. Grumpy ex-pats versus wide-eyed backpackers. Take your pick.

The Krung Sri River hotel also has a gym/pool available to non-residents, and the newish hotel on U-Thong Road (north east corner of the island) has a gym and sauna.

The shopping is rapidly improving. Robinson opened a branch a few months ago in the Ayutthaya Park shopping centre (which is where Tesco-Lotus is). Amporn will be opening Ampomall soon, and Big C is coming, too. Incidentally, Ayutthaya Park only has 2 storeys, and no gym that I know of.

The restaurant situation for western food isn't great - but most of the junk food chains are represented (MacDonalds, The Pizza Company, Swensens, KFC). On Soi Farang, near the Ayothaya Hotel there are a number of cafes catering to backpacker tastes.

Tony's Place, a.k.a. MM Guesthouse, is a popular haunt for expats. It serves passable western food.

In brief, if you're transferring less than USD 20,000 (about GBP 10,000) there's nothing to worry about.

If you're transferring more than that amount, in theory your bank will keep 30% for one year and not pay you interest on the withheld money.

In practice, a number of people have reported that the 30% is not withheld.

To be sure, though, it's best to make multiple transfers of less than USD 20,000.

This seems to be the best kept secret sporting event ever, p**s poor coverage on internet, no info at all, public relations manager needs a kick up the ****!! Or maybe they just don't want the inconvenience of paying spectators.

Have you seen the games' official website?

http://www.2007seagames.com/Default.aspx?a...eagames.com/eng

Thanks for your reply. I'll read those links. My windows/fonts folder has several Thai fonts already included with Vista, including the one I want ("Angsana New"), but when you open the Thai font, the example of the font is in an English language font... I'm on an XP computer at the moment, have to wait to get back on my normal Vista one. Thanks again!

To see the Thai characters of your Thai font use Charmap. That is: click Start -> Run. Enter "charmap" (without the quotes) in the open box, then click OK. Select your chosen font and scroll down to see the Thai characters.

The language packs are not what you want. They change the user interface language (things such as dialog boxes, menus, etc.). See http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...ab5ecc1033.mspx for more about language packs.

What you want to do is change the input language. See http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...30889f1033.mspx for instructions on doing this.

If there weren't Thailand, I'd be shocked.

Standard practice for systems upgrades is to develop and test the upgrade on separate hardware, and then upgrade the "live" system overnight, or over a weekend.

Either the bank is not telling the truth about the reason for the lack of service, or it's too cheapskate to purchase test hardware so that its customers can continue to be serviced without significant disruption.

There's a relatively new immigration office in Ayutthaya (about 3 months old). It's not easy to find. If you're heading out from the centre of Ayutthaya towards Bangkok, turn right at the big chedi (towards Tesco Lotus by the back road), then take the first left. Look for some impressive gates just past the stadium and turn right. Follow the (private) road until you see a yellow building - about 300 metres - and you're there.

The office is pretty quiet, and service is pretty fast (so far - since not many people know about it).

If you're coming from the Bangkok direction, turn left at the sign for the stadium and the turn's on the left.

Are you sure this is a virus/malware problem? It sounds more as if the site's URL changes frequently. Is the URL along the lines of www.xyz.com? Or is it more complicated, possibly including a date or session number? It may simply be a matter of trimming the end off the URL.

There are three different bodies which block Internet access here: the Ministry of Information Communication Technology (MICT), the Royal Police, and CAT.

MICT works by sending instructions to each ISP to block specific sites. The ISPs take a little while, and act with different efficiencies, in implementing each block request. This is why different users will experience different blocks at different times.

For example, a friend who uses True told me that my Wordpress blog was blocked. I had no problem at the time, but 24 hours later TOT had blocked it too. And since then the block has come and gone; some days I can read my own blog. Other times I get the MICT message.

Oswulf

Where's the waterpark mate?

Not 100% sure. Only been there once. It's on one of the roads out of Ayutthaya - either the Sena or the Angthong road. It's part of the Krung Sri group, and its location is shown on a model of the town inside the Krung Sri River hotel. Sorry I can't be any more precise.

There are a lot of ancient temples in Ayutthaya - 360 of them, the locals say. I think your nieces and nephews would get bored long before seeing all of them. I'd suggest that you try and make the trip as varied as possible. For example:

(1) Visit Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon

(2) Head down the same road to Wat Phanangchoen. Have a quick look at the temple. There is a large Buddha figure there at the back, but when I was there last month it was covered in scaffolding. Then walk to the riverside and take a boat trip around the island. The standard trip lasts one hour and costs about 500 Baht for two farang.

(3) For lunch try the buffet either at the Krung Sri River hotel or River View Place.

(4) Visit the elephant kraal and have an elephant ride.

(5) Visit the boat museum.

(6) Visit the Historical Study Centre. (Built as a gift from the Japanese, it has some good explanations of the history of Ayutthaya in Thai, English and Japanese.)

(7) Visit Wat Chai Wattanaram.

(8) Finish the day with dinner at a riverside restaurant. Sai Thong and Baan U-Thong are both reliable. They're on U-Thong Road, east of the hospital.

Other things you might like to consider are:

(1) The water park

(2) The house of the woman who makes fish out of leaves

(3) Boat noodles

(4) The planetarium. (Not been myself, though, so can't recommend.)