jobsworth

I would love to watch this video

but no matter what settings I use I cannot.

Could somebody please post the full URL of http://www.youtube.com

where I might find it.

Does this thread have anything to do with the defacing of baht buses

in Pattaya by an NGO group with stickers stating

"Say No to Violence to Women"?

Just make sure that there are not too many people ahead of you in the queue when you do it.

There is a scam whereby a travelling group will block the processing

leaving you at the back submitting your laptop

which happens fairly quickly

then when it emerges far away at the other end one of them picks it up "by mistake"

and walks off with it.

I had it done to me in Singapore.

I spoke to the airline staff who allowed me to inspect all of the overhead lockers on the flight.

Before I found it the Malaysian thieves handed it back to me.

I could not pursue the matter because it was an "accident".

Hello dave_boo,

Thank you for your kind reply to my post.

Perhaps you could help me further.

I was talking about desktop PCs and laptops

which is probably what most Thaivisa members are using

and not super computers.

As you rightly say I am not dual booting at all.

It is just what some people call dual booting.

It is in fact running Ubuntu Linux as an application on Windows XP.

Perhaps you can advise me on how to do it because I cannot.

I tried before and failed.

What I did was to install Windows XP on half a hard drive

and then install Ubuntu Linux on the other half.

I was unable to persuade either to see the other.

Than I tried visa versa.

I installed Ubuntu Linux on half a hard drive

and then installed Windows XP on the other half.

Again I was unable to persuade either to see the other.

Either of these solutions would be true dual booting.

I know that Windows XP does not support ext3,

the format used by Ubuntu Linux,

while Ubuntu Linux does support FAT and NTFS,

the formats used by Windows XP.

How do you install Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux on the same system

so that they can dual boot and Linux can see Windows files?

Thank you for your time.

here in the big smoke akak bangkok I noticed something odd lately.

Thai men in plain clothes sporting some kind of silver badge on a chain around their neck. Saw two within the last week. One was quite fat and the other normal weight? No guns or anything else to make them look like regular cops. Blue jeans and sunglasses

Saw one around Ploenchit as I was going for lunch last week and another one today on Suk Soi 8.

They weren't hassling vendors or anything - and they weren't tourist police looking to fine people for dropping their butts. Any ideas?

Sounds like fundamentalist Christians from World Vision.

Google "Gang Stalking".

Watch your back!

I am a geek.

I run it all.

I first install Windows XP.

Sorry, much as I have issues with Bill Gates, it is still the most stable OS at the moment.

Then I install Ubuntu Linux as a dual boot.

(Watch out for GRUB2 use only GRUB1 or WUBI will scramble your MBR.

Install Ubuntu 9.04 and then update it to 10.04 online.)

How do you get Ubuntu to be the default on boot?

Then I install Sun Virtualbox, now renamed Oracle VM (why?)

on both Windows XP and Ubuntu.

Then I install Windows XP in Virtualbox on Ubuntu and

I install Ubuntu in Virtualbox on Windows XP.

There can be a problem with the latest Oracle VM on Windows XP.

I have had some blue screens.

Something to do with 32 bit software running on a 64 bit Athlon system (I think.)

Of course all the time I have Windows XP underneath everything.

Using "shared folders" I can always access files on C:\.

Much as I love Ubuntu Linux it is still not stable enough for long term data storage.

Ultimately it would be best to use only Ubuntu Linux but not yet.

I suggest that you avoid WINE. Under a different configuration I nearly lost everything

and finished up with a Windows XP partition on J:.

Ah yes. Batteries and laptops. Always a problem.

Neither last very long.

My present laptop is a Compaq Pressario M2000 from Panthip Plaza.

It is 5 years old and going strong.

The transformer packed up 2 years ago but cost about 1,200 THB to replace.

But the battery has completely packed up

and I have been quoted 3,500 THB for a new one.

I run it without a battery and save the money towards a new laptop - probably an ACER.

My laptop before was a Twinhead in 2000 from Simlim in Singapore - Don't buy there. I was cheated many times.

My Twinhead had a program built into the BIOS which would discharge the battery completely and then recharge it.

This was recommended when new and then from time to time.

Somebody posted an article about how laptop batteries could be rebuilt with new batteries,

which don't cost nearly as much.

IT mall in Chonburi maybe?

Are you sure that you don't mean http://www.elephantbar.com ?

Does anybody know if Thai tourist visas are still $38

or are they now free again?

There seems to be some confusion about this.

They were free until about March 5th 2010.

There was a rumor that they would again become free on or about April 1st. 2010.

Yet they remained at $38 all during the red shirt riots.

Are they finally free now?

Or is this just another rumor?

The US has already offered evacuation for NGOS like USAID etc...

Whoppee.

By "etc..." do you mean World Vision and all of those other US spies?

If it really happens that would be the one good outcome from all this mess.

About 10 years ago my then girlfriend bought a puppy from Chatuchak market in Bangkok.

It too was sick from distemper and soon died.

It was a brown English cocker spaniel and quite adorable called John Brown.

Apparently it came from a breeder in Chang Mai and had a slight cough.

It was fat from worms and hungry because it had been starved to improve presentation.

The vet showed us a noticeboard of healthy puppies for sale.

I think that the vet was an honest lady.

The moral of this story is never buy a puppy from a market since you don't see the conditions it came from

and distemper with a cough is very common, fatal and untreatable.

Hi AyG...

just use the alternative port 587 and the problem is gone... and yes, most of the ISP's in Thailand are blocking port 25!

Yes.

Any idea why port 25 is blocked?

I wonder if all or some of you that are replying ask the person you take with you, home or to your rooms, for a ID card to make sure the girl/boy is over 18 and not 17 years and 11 months and 29 days old ?

I wander if the ID card is in fact the ID card of the girl/boy

and not another ID card borrowed from an older friend.

I a reminded of travel in a shared taxi in Cambodia

where all falangs are considered large.

It is normal to:-'

sit an extra passenger in the driver's seat

sit 2 in the front passenger seat either one in front of the other or side by side

sit 5 on the back seat

there is a falang surcharge for not being small.

Maybe you have none of you noticed that for the last year

there has been an army of watchers in Pattaya

from World Vision (Christian) and ICE (US customs).

as a part of operation twisted traveler.

Have you never been eyeballed by groups of mostly older white people

in teams of 2 and 3 or younger falangs with ugly Thai ladies

pretending to be married?

They were all in Cambodia and especially in Phnom Penh.

where they were successful recently in closing all of the foreign bars.

Now that they think that their mission in Cambodia is finished

they have all come here.

Obviously they hope that they can accomplish the same in Pattaya.

You guys are a little bit more advanced than me but I wish to catch up.

I have discovered sun virtualbox and

in addition to dual booting windows xp and ubuntu 9.10,

I like to run windows xp on linux and linux on windows xp.

There was a mini linux than ran on a 2GB usb drive

but it often crashed and ran out of disk space if any packages were updated.

Right now my problem is disk access on the host system.

ie how to access c:\ on linux - done

ie. how to access /home on Windows XP - more difficult.

On Linux

sudo mount.vboxsf windows-share /host

works.

But how do you do this on windows xp?

Something to do with MiniGW which I don't really understand.

I love this thread.

Please say some more about what you are doing and how.

I believe that the pollution comes from the oil refinery in Laem Chabang

which is about 30Km north of Pattaya.

None of the many chimneys, which are visible from the bus when going to Bangkok

near the clover leaf intersection, have filters.

It would make the process too expensive.

Have you noticed how everybody gives a small cough when approaching Laem Chabang?

In addition to the particulates which enter the lungs and can cause bronchitis

there is a white powder which settles on the furniture and the floor.

Also there is sometimes be a smell of burning wood or rubber which may be connected.

Of course when the wind does not blow from the north the air quality is quite ok.

The air quality monitoring vehicle located near Mike Shopping Mall and Soi Diana in 2nd road

is not always there. It comes and goes.

I have heard that Canon have a service center for camera in MBK Bangkok.

(The Canon service center in Pantip Plaza is only for computer printers.)

I have owned a Canon A540 which was stolen and now a canon A590.

The Powershots are all similar and at various times

I have seen similar problems to what you describe.

They are excellent cameras but all seem to go wrong in similar ways.

Right now I have poor picture quality despite my multi megabytes

and will be visiting MBK soon.

Pattaya Baht buses. Always a good one.

I want to know what happened to the 30 Baht air conditioned bus,

which was running a few years ago.

The red bus stops are still there.

I heard that the driver received a visit from the Baht bus mafia

and decided to quit his job.

After all Bangkok has a mix of public transport of all sorts without a problem.

Let us hope that one day Pattaya has the same.

There is plenty of work far all.

Almost all countries allow 99.5% or better gold bullion to be moved without tax. You may be asked to declare it when you enter or leave a country, but few places actually have tariffs on it.

This stems from agreements passed decades ago when gold was money and it was common to transfer gold between banks.

Other metals, such as silver, or gold that isn't nearly pure bullion, do not necessarily enjoy this same protection.

This is really interesting.

I tried asking this question to a British Customs Officer

in the departure lounge at Heathrow Airport where tourists can reclaim VAT.

All I got was a cheeky answer

"Hatton Garden"

"You going to wear one of those little gold bars around your neck are you"

"We'd need to look at it"

And his colleagues in the background were all smirking.

Anyway it appears that there is free movement of gold bullion between countries.

Another possibility was storage in Perth, where the gold was purchased.

Leaving it in my hotel room was a bad idea but I got away with it.

Apparently some of the banks will rent out safe deposits.

Bali (Indonesia), Goa (India), Koh Kong (Cambodia), Southern Africa and southwest Western Australia featured among the top 10 regions.

?!?!?!

I once got stuck in Koh Kong for a night on the way to Sihanoukville. There was almost nothing there, except for hotels and beer bars (this was in 2002 I think). My impression was that the whole town's business model was based on tourists getting trapped for the night because they missed the one boat to Sihanoukville. At the time, the Thai-Cambodia Bridge hadn't been completed yet and the only way to Sihanoukville was by boat. The border crossing from Thailand opened at 8am, and you had about 30 minutes to get through and try to catch the boat, which required a taxi or moto ride to a pier some distance away. Maybe the first few people caught it; the rest of us stayed the night in Koh Kong. I have a hard time believing that this narrow window was a coincidence.

It was cheap though.

Apparently it has been been built up a bit since then (and perhaps there was more to it than I knew at the time). Admittedly, since I had no intention of staying there, I didn't do any reading on the place in advance. The staff at the hotel were helpful, but my Khmer was minimal, and their English not much better. I ended up taking a somewhat sketchy motorcycle tour to a "water fall" for the afternoon, and finishing up the evening at a beer bar with my moto driver and his friends (whose food and drinks of course I ended up paying for, although the total bill was quite reasonable).

Has anyone here been to Koh Kong in recent years?

I am in Koh Kong now.

It is a quiet place with no major attractions where nothing much happens.

I love it for that reason. It is good to escape from the activity in Thailand.

Of course it is changing very fast.

Since the bridge to Thailand opened about 5 years ago

and Thailand has finished the 4 new bridges on the road to Phnom Penh,

it has become a bus station for tourists journeying between

Thailand and Cambodia.

And there are many more motor cycles and 4 wheel drive vehicles.

Despite all of this it is still worth a visit.

Also Johnny Walker is not available in England

because the Scottish owners did not like to pay the English tax.

It only available duty free at an airport.

So it is so nice that it is freely available in Thailand.

I love Johnny Walker Red (with 2 n's.)

I mix it with ice and Coca or Pepsi Cola in a short flat glass.

Be careful where you buy Johnny Walker Red.

I cannot name names.

Some shops sell fake refilled Johnny Walker

which is not as smooth or as good as Mekhong whiskey which is much cheaper.

Also there a Chinese taboo that you must not mix an expensive

drink like Johnny Walker with a cheaper drink like Coca Cola.

That is what they say in Singapore.

I don't agree.

After that I think I need a drink.

I had a similar but different problem on an earlier version Of Ubuntu.

The fix was the same as you mention. Enable the LAN card in Windows and then it will work in Ubuntu.

It had something to do with power saving.

Windows would switch the LAN card off and on.

There is an option under Windows network to disable this.

I forget which one. I just tried them all.

I feel insulted by this image and I am neither Thai nor Buddhist.