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11 hours ago, JSixpack said:

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(2) If a machine is bricked (as does happen with Windows upgrades quite a lot),  "Choose Recovery/Startup repair/last known good config at bootup" is hardly going to help.

 

In fact it does usually help, if the problem isn't hardware--but you may be understandably unaware of the fact as a Linux afficionado. We'll just have to agree to disagree on that point.

I guess you don't know the meaning of the term "bricked".  From the dictionary: to brick - cause (a smartphone or other electronic device) to become completely unable to function, typically on a permanent basis.

If a device is "bricked" there is no "Choose Recovery..."

33 minutes ago, JSixpack said:

 

Right. Now you update and then you're using that later version. Or you hope you're using it--maybe it bricked your system. Kernel backups, great! In that case you pray you can find your way into the interactive menu to select your older kernel that worked. But maybe you can't. Then you can pray you can get into the terminal and run a command to roll back. But maybe you can't get that far either. So then you get out your boot disk and find and edit the grub.conf appropriately. Now geeks might find this fun & interesting. But really how's an average user even to begin? Best hope is probably a full restore from an image. Get out the Clonezilla! Uh, how recent is that image?

 

Windows? Choose Recovery/Startup repair/last known good config at bootup. Done (probably, lol).

(1) In 15+ years of using Linux (various versions, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mint, Mint LMDE) not once have I had a problem with upgrades, and not once has my system been "bricked".

(2) If a machine is bricked (as does happen with Windows upgrades quite a lot),  "Choose Recovery/Startup repair/last known good config at bootup" is hardly going to help.

6 minutes ago, peterb17 said:

As I said in my previous post - it clearly states -if you carried out the civil union in New Zealand - to dissolve it one of you must be domiciled in NZ

 

 

If (and we don't know that yet) it was done at the British Embassy/Consulate in New Zealand, it was done on what is legally British soil and so is subject to British law, so is nothing to do with NZ law.

People writing about "making a new will" clearly don't understand the actual situation.  A will will not allow the partner to visit the individual in hospital, attend any funeral or have any say in the arrangements, &c.. In such matters a relative will have control.  It will also not allow the partner to receive any pension benefits.

Of course, this varies by country, and is a very complex situation.  Clearly annulment of the CP is by far the best solution for the OP, however that may be achieved.

OP, what I don't understand is why this is anything to do with the NZ authorities.  The CP is under UK law, so it's up to the UK to dissolve it.  (I'm presuming the CP was done at the British Embassy in NZ.)  And if it wasn't done in the Embassy, then it's a CP under NZ law, and it's up to NZ to dissolve it - nothing to do with the UK.

3 hours ago, fatdrunkandstupid said:

Trade Thai Shares not American Stocks

Did you post a link to that highly misleading article before? (Someone did.)  (Perhaps you're part of the scam?)

The full title of the article is "Trade Thai Shares Not American Penny Stocks".  That is vastly different from regular American stocks, and the article is aimed at those deluded or desperate fools interested in highly speculative investments.

It's also written by a source that is highly interested in hyping Thai shares with little rhyme or reason.   (Note the website name, "thaishares.com".)

In other words, it's a source of highly dubious information.

20 minutes ago, MekkOne said:

 

We got a biologist in here...

 

Crustaceans form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice and barnacles. The crustacean group is usually treated as a subphylum, and thanks to recent molecular studies it is now well accepted that the crustacean group is paraphyletic, and comprises all animals in the Pancrustacea clade other than hexapods. In other words, some crustaceans are more closely related to insects and other hexapods than they are to certain other crustaceans

Congratulations upon your ability to copy and paste from Wikipedia.  I'm in awe.

Not so much congratulations upon your failure to understand what you've copied.

Anaesthetising any animal includes a risk of death.  Should not be done unless strictly necessary.

Have you tried getting him in a car? Tempting him with his favourite toy or treat? You may be worrying unnecessarily.

Take it in small steps.  First get him into the car with the engine off.  Then progress to with the engine on.  Then to taking him on very short rides - preferably to somewhere he can get out and have fun.  Soon he'll love getting into the car.

(Some dogs love looking out of the window, so do try winding the window down a bit so he can poke his nose out.)

1 minute ago, KittenKong said:

Simplest way is to have an ATM card issued.

Mee tae dai doesn't come with an ATM card.

Are you set up for Internet banking? If so, just transfer the cash to the trusted individual's account, and he/she can then withdraw it as cash.

14 hours ago, William C F Pierce said:

Many thanks, the links are most helpful. Just one question can stocks be bought and paid for at a Thai Bank.

 

To the best of my knowledge, no.  You need to go via a stockbroker.  Only funds (usually only those managed by the bank's asset management arm) can be purchased at a bank here.

22 minutes ago, bazza73 said:

Vista by rights should have sunk Microsoft, but I guess they had enough cash backup to survive that abortion.

I believe Windows Vista sold 20 million copies in the first month after launch, compared with 17 million copies over the first two months for WIndows XP.  Hardly a commercial flop.  Didn't every use it, so can't comment if it's a steaming pile of doggy doo-doo.

(Totally off topic, but I was recently in TOPS supermarket, and there was a checkout terminal which wasn't used displaying a screen reading "Microsoft POS".  Let's just say my first interpretation of "POS" wasn't "Point of Sale".)

10 hours ago, bazza73 said:

Windows has always been a triumph of marketing over product quality.

No.  Windows was a triumph of cost and usability for a few years.

When Windows first came it the only previous decent windowing system was Xerox Star (and its Japanese version J-Star).  J-Star (which I worked with) was incredibly expensive, and you had to buy the hardware with the O/S.

Windows (from 3.x) was affordable, worked reasonably well, and wasn't tied to specific hardware.

When Windows 3.0 was release in 1990 Linux hadn't even started.  (Linux started the following year.  The first Red Hat Linux was 1994 and it was an absolute pain to install and get up running.)

Really it's only been in the last 10 years that there has been any viable alternative to Microsoft WIndows for the desktop.

I am no fan of Windows, and haven't used it for 15+ years.  However, I have the grace to recognise that when it was initially launched it was a major step forward for the desktop with absolutely no viable competition.

19 minutes ago, meatboy said:

do check the use by dates.

You're joking, right?  Salt doesn't ever "go off".  In a million years it will still be ... salt!

I have found that most food processors die within a few months if you use them for making curry pastes.  The one exception is an Indian-style and Indian-made one from Panasonic.  It's like a tank, indestructible.  It also cuts out of it's overloaded (a rare event).  (Reset button on underside.)  Available from Central (including online ordering, ฿ 3,890), though in store is a few hundred baht cheaper.

http://www.central.co.th/p/เครื่องเตรียมอาหาร-panasonic-รุ่น-mxac400

4 hours ago, RichCor said:

It's a little propeller head as you need to know what alternative OS will run on what hardware.

It's not that hard.

Just create a bootable USB for the version of Linux you want to install.  Boot from it.  See what works (which will probably be everything for most PCs).  If OK, install.  Otherwise try a different version.

The Linux version's site will have full instructions on how to do this.

12 minutes ago, lkn said:

Just to be clear, I was looking for a short reference (ideally just one page) summarizing all the rules to be used as a reference.

 

No such thing.  Thai has so many exceptions to the rules (30+% of words are irregular) that the only way in the case of many exceptions is simply to list the irregular words.

There are no short cuts.  You simply have rigorously to learn the language ... and then practise lots.

Kinokuniya also has the AUA Reading book, 546 baht.

https://thailand.kinokuniya.com/bw/9780877275114

The Smyth book is available from both Kinokuniya and Asia Books (assuming you're in Thailand).  Around 1,500 baht.

2 hours ago, carlyai said:

If I remember correctly, the AUA reading writing books cover the rules.

Specifically the reading book.

Also good is Smyth's Thai An Essential Grammar, the first edition of which is available as a free PDF download on the Internet.

2 hours ago, maoro2013 said:

This system was supposed to be up and going a least a couple of years ago. I think there are forces that don't want this to work, after all it is a fairly simple process.

More like sheer technical incompetence.  Who in this day and age would develop a website that only worked with Internet Explorer when even Microsoft itself had ditched it for Edge? And if you actually look at the client side code, it's horrendous.

12 hours ago, Ruffian Dick said:

Does Big C carry French frozen dinners?

Not really.  Frozen stuffed pancakes.  Horrible, cardboard frozen pizzas.  Nothing else AFAIK - at least at my local Big C.  The fresh imported Casino stuff is a bit better, with a small range of edible charcuterie and cheeses.

6 hours ago, balo said:

4 dollars in the US should mean no more than 135 baht here.  If they try to sell it with the normal markup of 50% , they can forget me as a customer. 

A tad optimistic with "50%".  At TOPS Mexican Casserole is 259 baht, Vegetable Pot Pie is 199 baht.  Full range at http://www.tops.co.th/search?q=amys&dept=&brand=&page=1

17 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

the OP mentioned that he was recently diagnosed with type II diabetes...best to get the blood glucose under control as soon as possible and for this purpose a BG meter/monitor is required

That very much depends upon the severity of the condition, and the country you're in.  American doctors (and consequently their patients) seem obsessed with getting everyone to test their blood sugar levels frequently.  Others (particularly if the condition is mild) are happy with HbA1c and fasting sugar testing every few weeks.  If both tests come back with good results, more regular testing simply is unnecessary.

For smaller amounts, an online currency broker is almost certainly going to be most cost effective since charging is typically % based, rather than a fixed fee.

One such broker registered by the FCA is HiFX.  They support transfers to Thailand.

 https://www.hifx.co.uk/

There are quite a few similar brokers.

19 minutes ago, scasey said:

School just opened, so why are students having test ? No wonder the student failed miserably . There hasn't been any material learnt yet . Teachers fault. I think the teacher is willing to lose his or her job fighting with parents ! Rookie.

Fail!

Teachers use testing to establish what students do and don't understand.  This enables them to tailor their teaching to the students needs - not teaching things the student already understands, reteaching things the student hasn't grasped.  It also provides a baseline so the teacher can see how much each student improves over the course of a term.