Thank you ProbPossConf

I installed Linux Mint 20 cinamon on an old HP laptop. For 6 months it has performed perfrctly apart from the very occasional lock up.

Today it will not start properly, I get a 2 line menu offering me " Linux Mint 20 cinamon "

or Advanced settings. I selected the first anf the LM symbol appeared for a few seconds the was replaced by:

[0.006383] do_IRQ: 1.55 No Irq handler for vector

BusyBox v1.30.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.30.1-4ubuntu.3) built-in shell (ash)

Enter "help" for a list of built-in commands.

(Initramfs) _

I have no idea what this means, entering help brings up a lot of meaning les gobbledegook.

I need an expert to guide me.

I have not yet been able to find a repair shop in the Chiang mai area which will touch Linux, all insist that they are Windows only.

Does anybody know of a Linux specialist ?

I know I have asked this before but I cannot find the replies and the search facility does not help.

The menu bar at the top of the introduction page of Firefox browser has dropped out and I cannot find how to reinstate it.

Expert(s) please guide me.

I live just off the Hang Dong -Sanpatong bypass road between Hang Dong and Sanpatong.

My car needs a roadworthiness test prior to relicencing.

Where would be the nearest testing garage. I do not want to drive too far until I have the car legal.

I tried growing them two winters ago in Chiang mai province. The seeds (sent by post from a UK seed merchant) failed to germinate.

Last December Makro, Big C and Rimping all had them frozen, from Denmark if I remember correctly.

I went to Promenada on Monday for the same purpose. I arrived at 8am sharp to find it closed and stencilled on the door the opening hours of 11am to 8pm Mon to Fri. There were also opening hours for Sat and Sun. which I did not take any notice of and cannot remember.

I then made my way to Immigration at the Airport Drive Through counter and handed in only the form and my Passport. It was returned within 1 minute with the receipt and no request for any additional document.

Another petty official enjoying his power.

During an inoculation session for tuberculosis at school when I  was about 13 one of my classmates fainted, but she was known to faint at the sound of a car farting. She set off a chain reaction, 4 more girls fainted before they even got into the medical room.

There are about 30 folders in the "pictures" memory section of Win7. Some folders contain only 1 image, most have several images all relating to each other. 

22 hours ago, seajae said:

so changing down the gears, applying the hand brake or  turning off the engine were all ignored, driving to fast and having no reflexes or even being able to think seems to be a major problem with many road users here, yet the idiot is praised by the news for being an idiot and failing to do what he is paid for, driving safely and making sure his vehicle is road worthy

Well said, I have been teaching my granddaughter how to stop using gears and handbrake. At her official lessons no instructor mentioned it.

I have over the years  saved large number of photos in my computer. I now want to transfer them to a memory stick leaving the originals in place on the computer.

At the moment all I can think of is to copy  each file individually and drag the copy to the memory stick.

There must an easier and quicker way. Advice needed from an expert please.

Check the number of sockets offered, most thai house have only a few , hence the ubiquitous used of trailing extensions. When I built our new house 3 years ago I specified at least 4 double sockets in each room and 6 in the kitchen. Our electrician was surprised and at first was reluctant to put in so many. He had to have his mouth stopped with gold.

My apologies, I started a new thread on the same subject before I spotted this one. i hope to follow it with interest

I am not sure if tis is the correct forum.

What has gone wrong with the Pound ? KrungThai Bank today gives a rate of THB 42.26 and TransferWise 42.27. The pound has been steadily climbing (by nearly 2 Baht) for 3 weeks.

After losing the newsletter for several days I contacted Support an had my EMail Address reinstated. I the bean to receive two copies of the same newsletter every day. However I am now receiving multiple copies each day, yesterday between 1146 and 1157 I received Seven copies of the newsletter titled " Tracking app now mandatory for foreign tourists;" What is happening ?

13 hours ago, sanuk711 said:

UK doing everything to ensure people can have summer.........

 

What day they having it this year.......??

Local guru says summer will be on a Thursday this year.

Linda Eye Clinic on the west side of Mahidon road just south of Buak Hat corner. Try Google Maps.

Paranoia has set in !

Wife refuses to buy fresh prawns from any source including our local shop, which used to source its supplies from Samut Sakhon but no longer does. She claims that seafood carries the virus and has been responsible for "many" cases in Chiang mai.

I was always under the belief that a virus needed a living host and would soon die without one.

What is the truth ?  Is seafood as safe as I believe it to be ?

The /sound of Music was very americanised. I saw a scene where the family sat down to a meal and used the cutlery in the american fashion, quite differently from the european way. An aristocratic naval naval officer like von Trapp would have insisted on proper etiquette. It jumped out of the screen an hit me in the face and partly spoiled the film for me.

A follow up question: if a vaccinated and thus immune person comes into contact with an infectious person, and only discovers it later, how long should this vaccinated person self-isolate or be quarantined foe ?

I posted a new topic about rain before I was aware of this one, Mods, i suggest you remove mine to here.

Hurray, At 1830 today it rained moderately for about for 30 mins. The preceding 10 mins had been very windy (nothing compared with an Atlantic gale in the west of Scotland) but enough to cause the usual hour long power cut.

Hurray again, 2300 more rain , this time for 10 mins. and the TMD radar shows the probability of more in about one hours time. The temperature has fallen 5Deg C immediately and I look forward to clean air tomorrow

It appears that the virus will be beaten by the various vaccinations now coming on the market.

I am puzzled by some of the reports, not one mentions the possibility of a vaccinated person passing on an infection. We have seen that an infected person without symptoms may pass on the virus infection to a 2nd party.

A vaccinated person will not contract the disease, but, will he or she after being in contact with another infected person (with or without symptoms) carry the virus and pass it on to an unvaccinated victem?

We received a Christmas card from friends in Port Glasgow today, it was posted ordinary airmail on Dec 7. When I enquirer at our local P O at the beginning of Dec. I was told that no Airmail for U K could be accepted, only Seamail.