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Hi, can anybody help? Starting this afternoon, OK am., each time I try to login to hotmail my avast a/v pops up with a warning about malware being detected and locks up hotmail. I use firefox but the same thing happens with IE. My OS is windows 7 ( genuine ). I've tried to sort it out but I'm not a techy. I did a restore but I still get the same thing happening. I can stop it and use hotmail if I disable avast. Everything else seems to work although I did lose all my bookmarks and some sites seem to have changed appearance.

Thanks! Anybody?

Anyone have a phone no. for the driving school accross from Foodland?

Thanks.

Some of us don't use facebook and don't want to but if your tips are helpful why not post them here, the forum lacks useful posts these days. BTW could you explain what is the foot valve or post a pic? Thanks!

Something to be careful of if your friends are as you say late 60's/not too fit. The waterfalls are an easy trek but when you get to them they have many steps going down. Not too bad until you start to climb the steps back to the top. Whew!!

Another site that seems interesting is the bat cave. There is one north of the park about half way to Pak Chong. Again the walk is not too difficult although about 3 klicks through the jungle. Except when you get there you have to climb 200/300 feet up a mountain side and if you wait until the bats appear it's dark when you need to climb back down!

Plenty of accomadation north of the park, restaurants and some entertainment. Only worth one day/night in my opinion.

So you are suggesting they walk 3 k's and then climb a mountain to see the bats that everyone drives out in front to see with a much greater view ?

Read the first sentence of my post!!

Something to be careful of if your friends are as you say late 60's/not too fit. The waterfalls are an easy trek but when you get to them they have many steps going down. Not too bad until you start to climb the steps back to the top. Whew!!

Another site that seems interesting is the bat cave. There is one north of the park about half way to Pak Chong. Again the walk is not too difficult although about 3 klicks through the jungle. Except when you get there you have to climb 200/300 feet up a mountain side and if you wait until the bats appear it's dark when you need to climb back down!

Plenty of accomadation north of the park, restaurants and some entertainment. Only worth one day/night in my opinion.

You need a landline for TOT. Unfortunately I don't have one.

Well it was pretty good for 1 1/2 days but at 2 pm this afternoon my BTV internet crashed again and I have had no internet ever since.

Anyone else? Or is it just me ?

Thanks for any feed back.

Hi Mobi,

I live quite close to you but I don't know if BTV was OK or not yesterday afternoon as I was out. Last night it started disconnecting but seemed OK when I went to bed. This morning it was disconnecting every few minutes from 6.30 until about 7.45. I always think this is when BTV staff report for work, discover a fault and fix it. (It has happened before) Right now (9.23) it is working but at a reduced speed to that I have been recieving these last few weels. I have been quite happy with BTV for the last 3-4 years having used T N T before that.

Hope things pick up soon !

Called at floating market yesterday to look around and walk off lunch. Entered carpark from road alongside railway tracks and surprised to see it almost empty. When we tried to enter market we were stopped and asked to pay. My Thai isn't good but I understood they were asking for money and I could see the turnstiles you are supposed to go through. One of my friends, a Thai lady spoke to them and told us it was free for Thais but 200 baht for everyone else. Needless to say we turned around and left. No wonder the carpark was nearly empty!

Sure you don't mean HiFX ?

The longer you go without, the easier it gets! I saw McVities plain chocolate wholemeal digestives in Foodland the other day along with Hobnobs and just walked on by!!

Hi Mogy and thanks for your reply. It does make sense what your saying but in the case of my friend, he has no kids and only uses the intenet very sparingly. I've been getting on at him for years to upgrade to someone like BTV.

He lives a way off the road so used the dongle instead of paying to have a cable run. I was wondering if there's any work going on with AIS in the area as up to a couple of weeks ago he didn't have this problem. Even his mobile phone can sometimes play up !

Help ! I'm making this inquiry for a friend who cannot connect to the internet.

He is trying to connect using a dongle and AIS.

He lives about 1/2 mile from Maprachan lake.

The sim card has plenty of hours left on it but just lately connection has been very flakey.

Does anyone in this area use the same method for connecting to internet and do you have the same problem?

Any useful advice or information would be gratefully received!

Thanks

If you are a F1 fan you have to get the new Truevisions HD box and watch it in HD on ESPN. Fantastic picture and lots of coverage. Only problem is the adverts. What more do you want, better than being there.

Bear in mind that if you are on the "Gold" package you cannot receive ESPN HD !!

If you go to channel 109 and forward the time to 1850 it does show F! coverage but it's more than likely either True or ESPN will make a complete <deleted> up of it !!

And why would that be likely? So far this season and the last god knows how many years we have been able to watch the F1 on Star Sports via True without any problems whatsoever.

Why !! Well last night they used channel 109 for broadcasting Olympic cycling and weightlifting, transferring coverage of F1 qualifying to channel 136 ESPN HD !! That's why !

Hopefully tonight they will show F1 on channel 109 although they have it also advertised on channel 136 ESPN HD.

I also got to watch the Sky coverage this morning but as rixalex says, it's sods law that the result will be shown before we can watch the race!

If you are a F1 fan you have to get the new Truevisions HD box and watch it in HD on ESPN. Fantastic picture and lots of coverage. Only problem is the adverts. What more do you want, better than being there.

Bear in mind that if you are on the "Gold" package you cannot receive ESPN HD !!

If you go to channel 109 and forward the time to 1850 it does show F! coverage but it's more than likely either True or ESPN will make a complete <deleted> up of it !!

Not sure if this is what u r looking for. This is a public park with walk path around a lake of about 200M diameter. It is at the SW corner at the jnct of 3240 and Hwy 7.

http://goo.gl/maps/J5xR

Sorry, that's not the one I had in mind!

must be one of these 2 locations...

http://goo.gl/maps/BRTTj

I have a Thai friend who is a teacher at the temple school on the righthand side of 3240.. i will check out the lakes the next time i am visiting him.

I went to location A and it is indeed a temple and school complex. Just to be on the safe side we asked some people if it was OK to walk around. Yes! The place was almost deserted, a few Thai guys doing a bit of grass cutting etc. We took the walk down to and around the lake and then back to the temple. Not a great distance, took less than 45 mins. We asked if it was possible to walk in the opposite direction ( NW ) but were told no!

Nothing spectacular about this complex ( quite modern ) and we were also asked if we had a dog with us so I presume dogs are NOT allowed! There were quite a few houses amongst the trees and people were building shacks down near the lake. They thought it really funny that farangs wanted to walk around even though we told them it was for excercise.

In all, not really worth the effort!

We drove up to location B but felt like we were intruding into peoples lives so just turned around and went home.

Some months ago there was a post about walks. I've tried to search for it but no luck.

This walk is just off road from the 3240 towards the Khao Mai Kaeo X rds. with the 331

I've looked on Google Earth and there are 2 locations which could be the place.

If anyone knows about this walking area could they please post any thoughts or advice about using it.

Is it safe, public area etc.?

Thanks in anticipation.

A word of advice, sorry if you already know this.

2 stroke engines can produce a lot of smoke and unfortunately a build up of carbon especially in the exhaust.

Some 2 stroke oils are worse than others doing this.

When I first bought my weed-wacker 9 years ago I used a cheap brand and after about 1 year it needed a decoke!

After, the guy who fixed it told me about using a better quality oil and recommended Castrol 2T Activ something or other and not to use as much as the marks on the filler bottle indicate. Since then I have only used Castrol and only about 1/4 to 1/2 the marked amount. It's not needed another decoke and no problems with using less oil.

Probably bought the oil from Tesco or similar.

Hello

thanks for your info, but i can easily clean my own pool ...as for my thai wife ??? do i need to explain to you how difficult this would be. i work abroad so i need to employ someone to handle this while i,m away.

currently getting charged 2,000 bht, for about 10 mins work each visit, twice aweek.

som nom na.

You wife could probably handle the job as good as some of the pool cleaners I had to put up with before I decided to do it myself. I found myself having to train a new cleaner every few weeks whilst still paying for the job to be done.

2000 baht is not a prohibitive charge if the pool is kept in good order. It's better than paying less and finding every time you want to use your pool there's a thick layer of green slime over it!! The choice ius yours!

If you want your pool cleaned on the cheap, do it yourself!

It's not as hard as it seems, you can buy the chemicals and test kit for about 3,000 baht, enough to last about 1 year with your pool size. If you don't have the telescopic pole, flexible hose and vacuum head etc. these will set you back about 6,000 baht.

The cost for someone to clean your pool would be about 1,500 to 2,000 baht per month so you will save about 9 to 15,000 baht in the first year. Total time to keep your pool clean - 2 hours per week max.

Job done!!

They used to tell us if we sat in front of the TV too long we would get "square eye balls!" Obviously this was nonsense and I read that yours eyes would let you know when you had been viewing long enough, making you feel tired etc. Now, as a pensioner, I'm experiencing a "tingle" in the back of my head that I am putting down to eye strain through spending too much time in front of the monitor and the TV. So I guess it means your body knows when you've had enough and not to exceed the dose!!

It's funny that no-one else seems to have noticed anything wrong but when talking to a friend today he said he experienced the same problem. After the SBK on Sunday they showed MotoGP and the problem did not occur.

BTW I have an almost new LG LCD TV so I don't think the problems lies there.

Just been trying to watch SBK on ch. 109 Star Sports. When the camera is focussed on something that is still - no problem but as soon as you see a side on view of the racing all the movement goes "blurred"

Any movement is the same. blurred. I even noticed the same thing happening at certain times during the Wimbledon transmissions. Is anyone else experiencing this??

I'm not any kind of expert but does it have anything to do with refresh rates.

BTW all my other channels seem OK.

I regularly order r/c stuff from HK and the time it takes to get here is getting longer and longer. Thai customs are a pain! There is no hard and fast timing in their procedure or what they charge on duty. 4 years ago things came through customs OK but now they can be held up for a week or more! Don't always rely on what the tracking tells you either because I'm pretty sure they only get round to updating the tracking when they feel like it! I've had 3 same size packages come through within days of each other from the same supplier with very similar contents. The first 2 were delivered by the postman without any charges, the last one I had to collect from the PO and pay 80% of what the contents cost in duty. OK, you can refuse to pay and tell them to have it reaccessed but I doubt if you will see it again! Your parcel as been there 3 days, don't worry. If you live outside BKK it may take another week to reach you. Sorry I can't give you information to make things sound easier!

Having said that I have not yet lost anything even when the airport was closed down, in fact at that time I got an r/c plane through without paying any duty!!

I have an account with HiFX. If you look at their site now you will see an exchange rate almost the same as World First.

Once you log in and start the process of exchanging funds you will see the rate drop by about 1 baht per pound!

The only way you may be able to gain with these companies is if you know or think that by the time your money as progressed through the SWIFT exchange the pound will have fallen otherwise SWIFT is the cheaper way to go!

http://www.thailandpost.co.th/rate.php

OK I give up !!

What have they done with UK, England, Gt.Britain or whatever else they call our land of birth?