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    map of korat; the nitty gritty roads and muu baans, r there any?

    in Isaan

    Posted

    Sure.

    Personally I prefer using menu option Map Creator within app Oruxmaps for converting ( downloading ) a manually selected piece of online Google Maps ( presently max. 512 MB allowed per map; selecting all tiles available ) to an ( inside app Oruxmaps ) automatic selectable new local offline map.

    In case a user might experience lack of sufficient free internal SD card storage space app FolderMount can be used to create a mount point and transfer all Oruxmap files to an external SD card.

    Oruxmaps can be used for quite accurate local GPS tracking while walking and / or biking. Via app My Tracks created Oruxmap tracks can be loaded into Google Maps running on e.g. a PC or laptop for checking and editting.

    Where's the rain?

    in Isaan

    Posted

    Don't know. Clouds present for days now, but only clouds, almost no rain. Expect ( some ) local rain to fall this evening ( approx. 18 km North of Ban Muang ).

    Bitcoins banned in Thailand

    in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments

    Posted

    Possibly the worlds first bitcoinfarm has been detected on the 2nd of April ( so not the 1th ) in Goirle, in the Netherlands. This illegal farm consisted of 21 computers for mining bitcoins. In the Netherlands mining of bitcoins seems to be allowed as long as you do pay your electricity bills. When taking into account all bills to be paid then no profits will be made ;-)

    Any advice on the hdmi android sticks?

    in IT and Computers

    Posted

    Existence of a free port of Android to x86 platform may reduce the need of buying an adroid stick or android TV box:

    http://www.android-x86.org/

    XBMC's capable of running on many different platforms ( including Win 7 ):

    http://xbmc.org/download/

    HDMI sticks using Android:
    - IPPea TV
    - Minix NeoG4
    - Motioncoding Nova
    - Rikomagic MK802IIIS
    - SmartTVAPPStick STAS
    - Tronsmart MK908II
    - Ugoos UM2

    Android TV boxes:
    - Minix Neo X5
    - Minix Neo X7 Mini
    - Minix Neo X7
    - Ugoos UT1
    - Ugoos UT2
    - MK888B/UG300B/K-R42
    - E-M6 /MX
    - MyGica ATV520
    - MyGica ATV1200

    Note:

    dr. Fish at Minix knows exactly how to nibble financial feet of low budget customers lol ... X7 remote is pretty useless. After having plugged in a Neo A2 Airmouse / Flymouse / Keyboard usb receiver the X7 WiFi may stop working! Had to add an usb extension cable to let the DHCP protocol finish its job. Still searching for a suitable remote having a Thai keyboard. Officially only industrial customers of Minix are allowed to use the built-in plug and play touch screen functionality. Far too many upgrades. Guess what's going to happen after a major significant hardware breakthrough elsewhere...

    One Observation Where I Admire Thai Culture Over My Own

    in General Topics

    Posted

    One of the previous stories reminds me of a wedding planner who organized a wedding located quite close to the border of France and Belgium. She should not have told me what to do, which was, sitting down all evening at a specific table of her choice. That made me feel furious, and so I lost my appetite for attending more of those weddings. Maybe more people felt that way and now I see she's probably at work somewhere in Bangkok lol ...

    Reloading Win 7

    in IT and Computers

    Posted

    Routes you've actually been walking in the past will probably still work fine today. Not sure whether or not some of the suggested shortcuts mentioned in this thread will work for you. Some language settings, such as user interface language settings in e.g. install wizzards, are in control of the chosen system locale.

    Tobacco Report

    in Farming in Thailand Forum

    Posted · Edited by jacnl2000

    While I was testing XBMC video music plugin Vevo and managed to lower its default bitrate I accidentely stumbled across this vid:

    The cigs presented in here do not look quite familiar to me: too dark. Premium wrappers used by La Paz did not as the brand name La Paz may suggest originate from Brasil but Java ( Indonesia ) which is relative close to Thailand ...

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    Tobacco Report

    in Farming in Thailand Forum

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    What not much people do know, besides my mother and me, is in the late 70s also a connection existed between La Paz in Boxtel and pipe tobacco seller the Douwe Egberts Koninklijke Tabaksfabriek Joure ( more specifically brand name Coopvaert DE ). Allow me to present one of those special packages ( one of my most favourate collectors items ) which originated NOT from Joure but came straight out the production fascility of La Paz in Boxtel:

    Coopvaert.JPG

    I know it is a thought provoking picture, in many ways. So, the well known Dutch brand DE is not only connected to Jumbo DE coffee beans but also strongly to tobacco. The very special 50 gram package of FL. 1,95 shown in the picture above kept its excellent smell after more than 40 years! I do use this collectors item regularly, as a dog, yes, so only for feeling, looking and sniffing, so not for smoking, nor as snuff, nor am I going to use it for chewing ... lol ... Btw. todays exact taste of Jumbo DE beans in our homemade Dutch coffee does not really differ from those produced by much cheaper Lidl Arabica beans. Maybe these different brands of beans are using the same huge storage fascilities owned by only a small group of money makers today or maybe our very special recipy of making coffee at home is capable of overruling differences in qualities between beans available today, or maybe it is simply me getting old and a more precize realistic less fantastic view upon how todays world is working.

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    Tobacco Report

    in Farming in Thailand Forum

    Posted

    I dont think Thai leaves can be used as the wrapper. I have to admit i'm out of my comfort zone as an expert on the construction of Cigs.

    I mostly deal at the other end of the Cig life cycle, namely the smoking end!

    My father ( an orginal Dutch manual tobacco maker ) taught me as a child at home in the evenings how to remove the main nerves

    manually out of many pretty good smelling dried brown coloured whole tobacco leaves intended as wrappers to be used in tobacco machines

    for the production of gorgious Elisabeth Bas cigars which was a brand of cigars named after this painting in the 20th century

    457px-Ferdinand_Bol_-_Elisabeth_Bas.jpg

    produced at a factory at Boxtel in the Netherlands using this painting as a logo, and their bands and the boxes for cigars of this brand are still collectors' items. Later in time these cigs were renamed to La Paz and Willem II. Production facility in Boxtel was moved to Houthalen in Belgium and Valkenswaard in the Netherlands. The rather huge leaves I see on some of these wonderfull Thai pictures trigger lovely almost forgotten memories of many dear good old friends ( thank you ! ) and also seem to be excellent wrappers, but not for cigs... lol ... After having noticed those rather strong looking nerves I'm pretty sure they are not going to feel right inside my hands, so I guess only a smaller percentage of these leaves ( of these tabacco plants ) have the potential of becoming excellent wrappers, Of course I'm not capable of judging their taste and smell because I do not smoke cigars.

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    Do the IIYAMA ProLite T2252MTS and Minix Neo X7 work together?

    in IT and Computers

    Posted · Edited by jacnl2000

    Present policy of Minix ( dated the 6th of March 2014 ): "we have driverless, plug-and-play solution ready for our industrial customers."

    Another fact is a new IIYAMA T2253MTS touch screen monitor does NOT work together straight out of the box with the X7, so this monitor has been returned immediately to the shop.

    My budget is too low to buy me a seat at the development table of Minix (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    Do the IIYAMA ProLite T2252MTS and Minix Neo X7 work together?

    in IT and Computers

    Posted · Edited by jacnl2000

    You'll buy an extremely expensive monitor for android mini pc?

    First, thank you for mentioning the celeron 1037u dual core mini pc ( elsewhere on the internet explicitly named X-26 ).

    Following thread dated October 2013 compares both the X7, X-26, and some other available contemporary devices:

    http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=176109

    Look and feel, and price of the X7 and X-26 do not differ much, less than suggested by a maybe too quick but probably not so lucky choice of words in previous post ( same price range, same speed of processors, and thus same market segment ).

    X7 has been explicitly specified as a device being capable of understanding the bidirectional part of HDMI specification

    version 1.4. However this bidirectional HDMI addon relates to ethernet usage, so not to touch screen panels.

    Additional andriod touch screen panel related information can be found here:

    http://source.android.com/devices/tech/input/input-device-configuration-files.html

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt

    http://lii-enac.fr/en/architecture/linux-input/multitouch-devices.html

    As an aside, if I would own a celeron 1037u dual core mini pc myself then I would be most likely trying to run not only Linux and

    Windows, but also tryout the latest free version of Android-x86 currently available to x86 platforms ( see e.g.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android-x86 and http://www.android-x86.org/ ).

    Following question "Do the IIYAMA ProLite T2252MTS and Minix Neo X7 work together?" has not been answered yet.

    Do the IIYAMA ProLite T2252MTS and Minix Neo X7 work together?

    in IT and Computers

    Posted

    Thinking of buying an IIYAMA ProLite T2252MTS for connecting a 22" touch screen to my Minix Neo X7.

    These devices can be tied together rather easily via both a HDMI & USB cable, BUT I do expect this
    combination not to be immediately properly working out of their boxes. It's not exactly plug and play Windows,
    but the suggested combination looks like a nice alternative to a traditional Windows computer.

    Hints about the additional work that needs to be done can be found here:
    http://minixforums.com/threads/touchscreen-issues.3268/
    http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?1802-Touchscreen&highlight=st2220t

    Somebody present here who got these two devices actually work together?

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