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I'm going to use the "M" word. Microsoft has a very good spyware aplication now. It is a beta release and it is free right now. I think they will charge later or bundle it, anyway. I have tried many of the ones you mention and have had varying degrees of success. But for me the spyware de jour is the one form Microsoft.

Father and son night is a little different than what I remember Brits fighting over a game is just hard to believe but it sounds supiciously like a stereotype

Just go to Pan Tip and buy a console that is chipped. No worries about regions ever again.

If it's not Prague I'll bet I'm close

My wife is very frugal with her money. She is not so inclined with my money

what exactly is on the auction block

I got stopped for speeding one time comeing back to BKK. I was prepareing my IDUNNO face and he starts speaking english. BIG surprise. He was real nice told me to slow down we talked about the states, he had been to California, Very nice guy he smiled as he gave me the ticket

Yes, but you would want a proxy you configure yourself.

There are two things about GPRS to keep in mind:

1) low bandwidth

With your own remote proxy server on the Internet, you can run filters to strip out advertisements, large images, animations, etc. to reduce the amount of junk that must be pulled over GPRS to view a page. This helps with sites that do not have their own low-bandwidth mode (try the text only version of thai visa!)

When I was stuck with GPRS, I connected to my proxy via SSH port-forwarding with compression enabled in GPRS. This also helps because lots of the text content of the web is very compressible. The images often are not, however, so the benefit here depends on the type of sites you visit.

2) high latency

By having a proxy you can get more connection reuse, so there is not a slow round-trip establishment of new TCP sockets all the time over the GPRS link. Your browser needs to keep connections open to the proxy and also do request pipelining if the proxy supports this.

Also, by having the remote proxy strip out many of the advertisements, some of the slower multiple round-trip web tracking bugs and other annoyances will be resolved by the filtering proxy instead of by your browser.

These benefits are not without their costs, as they may cause some sites to misbehave. No doubt, the creators and operators of such sites think it is evil to use proxies like this. I think it is evil to operate such sites, so I was OK with abandoning them in favor of other sites that were more proxy- and filter-friendly.

Thanks, that helps alot I will be saving that bit of wisdom in a separate file, as I have come to expect TV people to give some great information. Thanks again.

This post has helped my to decide which truck to buy. What is the best way to deal with the dealers. I guess my question is : are there any cultural things going on with the dealer here in LOS, in the U.S. you go in and put the screws to the dealer. And hope you come out on top. Any tips or ideas,

Do any of you use a proxy server with your GPRS connection. Would that speed up the download time to any great degree?????

I got one and so did my Thai wife within 24 hours. One of the easiest visa we ever got.

hi, i have a similar problem, i am a eu national, and my passport expires in august this year.

i live in phuket and go to ranong every 30 days.

now i can go one more time and enter thailand with a pasport valid for 6 month.

but after that?

i mean they cannot send me away if i am in burma and want to thailand.. or how is that?

i am planning to go back home in august to get a new passport, but for now i would like to stay in thailand.

you could just take a copy of your passport to your embassy and tell them that you lost yours and need to get a new one.

Whilst I can understand most people complaining about the slow speed on GPRS there are a lot of people who actually don't have a land line let alone ADSL etc.

I use either a Nokia 6100 or a 6260 and GPRS here in Thailand and then when I go to another country I just buy a local sim card and get them to set up a network connection.

I have a program called Mail Express Pro which turns my laptop into a server and do all my emails etc from there.

It works OK depending on the local base station.

I agree with you on the speed part. slow is better than nothing. I use it when we go up country for visits. I have a blue tooth card I use to connect, I have been told that is as fast as it gets??? Maybe someone has the tech data on the speed.

GPRS comes in at dial up speed so it is painfully slow. I use it only as a last resort. By a local GSM chip and it is not as expensive as roaming.

Thanks for the information, I thought there might be more but there must not be to many members out there that use the water taxi?????

I have never taken the time to learn how to use the water taxi. I have been to the docks a couple of times and on first look that it was all in Thai.

Anyone want to give me some tips on useing them.

going home one night from the BTS I jumped on a motorsy. The guy was real animated and I didn't know what he was saying. This kept up for a while and he kept turning around to talk. I kept pointing to watch the road. the last time he turned around he side swiped a taxi. We bounced off the car and he hit the gas and went flying down a small soi to get away from the taxi. He got away from the taxi and got me home with a couple of scratches. When we go home he see's my Mrs. and they start talking like old friends, come to find out he was her cousin and he had been trying toget me to recognise him as he was yapping at me on the ride home. Now when I see him he won't take money and it is a nice calm and slow ride home.

I have been going there since the MRT got going. It is so convenient, just an escalator ride up and there it is

At least she will be more comfortable in prison there for the rest of her life.

My ex was a catholic. And when family of a catholic play the religion card it is a slippery path to hel_l for the non associated. SO best of luck.

I have been in smaller cities and felt in danger. But BKK is great just use common sense and don't do stupid things and you will be allright.

How far in the worlds airports could a Thai get if they were asking questions in Chinese?????

http://signup.totonline.net/

That is the TOT website it was down last time I tried give it a try or here is a link to an old forum thread:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=53712

It has some informative advice as does all of the forum.

I want to take this time to Thank TV for a ton of good information, I thought I knew it all