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Mechanical splicing is almost impossible to do right on Single Mode fibre (what ISPs use). It's just too thin and the tolerances too tight. As has already been pointed out, the equipment used is called a fusion splicer i.e. it actually melts the fibre together, We have one, it cost us over 50,000 Baht and that was with an 'industry insider' discount. You can get them cheaper but not very good and limited functionality. The good ones will have optical Time Domain Reflectometers that actually read the light 'shape' of the fibre and give you a pretty accurate location of fault distances to help you locate them. . . In summary, forget about fixing it yourself.

PON networks were designed to service multiple premises. I find it comical that anyone thinks they need a 2.5 Gbps connection at home. It's just so absurd, and ISPs are never going to give you that speed anyway except in very short bursts to fool an online speed test.

Analysis tools are useless for data resilience. Faults and failures usually just come out of the blue. A sane backup and replication regimen makes recovery tools redundant.

I'm reminded of a defunct news website called The Korat Post. Some longer term expats will remember it. It was run by some idealistic American that ended up getting a defamation case filed against him. I can't remember what it was all about, something to do with a police colonel suing him for defamation. It all got nasty and I'm sure it was very unpleasant for him and his wife. . . but there never seems to be an end to these foreigners that should be old enough to know better. You can't transfer your ideals to Thailand and expect them to fit snugly into place. He ended up shutting down his rinky dink website, bleating on about it being the death of his freedoms or something like that, but it was because there was a total lack of interest in it, not just in the English language sphere but locally (Thai). The reality is nobody gives a shjt about some old farang wagging his finger at locals and if you put it online you get a harsh lesson in 'Thainess'.

Meh, give a dog a plastic toy and it loves you instantly, even to it's own detriment. Cats however take work. . . Go on holiday and leave your dog, it goes crazy with love and affection when you come back. A cat just sneers at you and gives you the "Oh, you're back then. Have you see the litter tray? You'd better get cleaning". . . I love cats for this reason. In all seriousness though, I have a thing about Felidae in general. While I don't like to see big cats in captivity beyond the purposes of species preservation, I always head straight for the big cats whenever at the zoo. Magnificent animals.

Actually this is precisely what we did. When the pandemic started we stayed open for around 6 months, skeleton staff, all of them with a wages haircut. After six months of that we just shut down completely because we were haemorrhaging money, mothballed over 200 rooms, shut down everything (the IT and WiFi systems alone use around 2 kilowatts for example), wrapped the entire place in plastic, drained the swimming pool (not a small undertaking). The only thing we kept running were the security cameras and just enough fibre optics to make them work. A year later we re-opened, took on a few of our old staff, a few new ones. We've had a 'relatively' busy new year and some interest from the civil service in using our meeting rooms. We're surviving, but we're a diverse company and this is not really on topic. . . I just want to comment on this absurd notion that you can now stay in 5-star luxury for 500 baht per night thanks to the pandemic. Hotels are a costly endeavour to operate and maintain. Further, certain services must be maintained in order to keep star ratings (bars, pools, meeting facilities) and hotel licencing rules (security cameras, fire equipment etc etc), it's VERY expensive to do that. You have to pay for that as a guest, even in these difficult times. If people can't understand that, try buying a car at below cost, or a pizza.

Happened to me once around 20 years ago. My cat got into a fight with a neighbour's cat and I stupidly tried to separate them. My own cat sunk it's teeth into my thumb, it was panicked and in defense mode, the teeth went right through my thumbnail down to the bone. The pain was incredible. Immediately went to ER, straight onto antibiotics but it still swelled up to the size of a balloon.

I know a thing or two about how these review systems work. Take Agoda for example, while all the reviews are genuine, the system is rigged in a way that it's very hard to score a hotel less than 6/10 unless your really trying to hurt them. If you have a 6/10 aggregated average on that site, you're a terrible hotel. See, this kind of irritates me. Hotels are very good value in Thailand compared to much of the world and the margins are wafer thin. I read a lot of comments that guests are 'powerful' with pricing due to covid. Actually that's not really true and it discloses a fundamental misunderstanding of basic business practices. . . if a hotel is forced to sell room nights below their baseline costs for operating the rooms and all the associated services, the hotel might as well just close, which is what many have done.

I'm responding to comments that HDDs are obsolete. They're not, and will likely be in use long after everyone here is dead.

The point is you can't criticise the driver of the 18 wheeler without more evidence. Yes, it's necessary for drivers of large good vehicles to pull out in front of other drivers to make progress. Nobody gives way to truckers, nobody. Without commanding the road, they would sit at the same point all day with their indicators on.

It's not about cost. The HDDs I use are extremely expensive and designed for the use case I describe. SSDs simply don't work, they have a finite write capacity that's used up in just weeks, maybe months and they fail. Site visits to replace are costly and time consuming. It also makes my company look bad if equipment keeps failing. Spinning rust has infinite write capacity (yes, it really is infinite, the mechanics of the drive fall apart first, we replace on a five year schedule). In our NVRs, I put database operations and OS on SSDs in RAID 10. Video storage is on HDDs in RAID 0. There will probably never be any replacement for HDDs in such an environment unless some magical new technology is created.

HDDs are going to be around for a looong time to come. I build and administer security NVRs (Network Video Recorders) in enterprise environments that handle Petabytes of data per year. Try to use an SSD in that environment and it would be chewed up in weeks, they're useless. The solution is multiple HDDs in RAID. It's the only solution actually. The read/erase/write life of rust is effectively infinite. Did I blow your mind?

Not necessarily so. Truckers get a bad rap all over the world. A well trained goods vehicle driver will learn how to properly 'command' the road. In other words, force your will on other road users. It's often the only way for them to make any progress.

Lrok pitsunakBaah. When learning Thai, I remembered the city Phitsanulok and reconstructed from there.

Some noggin took a gamble and lost. Who cares. Jeez.

Ditto that. I like to sit and sip my cappuccino in silence while thinking deep thoughts. About the topic, I think I only read 3 or 4 books in my whole life (I'm 50). I have started reading stories for my son, classics like Alice in Wonderland et al. . . Like Thais, I read my phone all the time. The sum of human knowledge is available now, right there in one's pocket.

I remember a family staying at our hotel many years ago. The mother was 'scratched' by an aggressive Macaque. When they came back to the hotel they asked for the manager, so I went down and she seemed very worried about it. I explained that I'm not a doctor, but it's only a scratch, the chances of being infected are practically nil, just to soothe her, but advised she go directly to hospital anyway. One of the problems I have up here is bats. They're absolutely everywhere, in most of our roof spaces. I'm actually overdue for a booster, so thanks for the reminder OP.

This is my understanding after researching the topic (I just couldn't accept what the doctor told me) i.e. booster every 10 years and post-exposure shots if bitten. I think he probably meant there will always be some protection, albeit greatly reduced.

Personally I find it pretty alarming that you'd even feel the need to ask this question. Rabies is endemic in Thailand. It's always fatal (please don't tell me about some corner case survivor with brain damage). Go to get post exposure prophylaxis. Go now. I was vaccinated with a course of 5 shots years ago after a bite. This apparently gives me lifetime immunity but I'm sceptical about that. About the animal, one of my cats died suddenly a few years back, foaming at the mouth, awful painful death, very upsetting to witness. I sent her remains off to the local rabies centre, even though she'd been vaccinated. They cut out her brain, blended it and tested. Came back negative. I think she was poisoned. Even so, there is just no sense in taking any chances, so why even bother asking or thinking it through. Just go.

Insecure load + Inexperienced driver. . . Identifying the racing line of the road while in a truck doesn't make you awesome. Som nam na. It's pleasing no innocents were hurt in this one.

Myself, I left the UK age 20, I couldn't wait to get out, I have nothing but bad memories and regrets there and I have to try hard not to look back. I went to Paris, started working in hotels. I was rudderless, drifting from job to job and country to country. In my 30s I married into a warm, loving, welcoming family in Thailand and had kids. I sure never imagined this is where I'd end up. I can't imagine I'll ever set foot in the UK again. Like you I have no friends other than those I've known in expatriate circles from around the world. I have no connections whatsoever from my origin country. I've been lucky in marriage. Very lucky. I feel Thailand has provided me with stability, a future, a family, love, and a place in society. This is why I have chosen to take the citizenship route. My advice, if you come to Thailand, don't be an old fool. Young fools can get away with it and start over. At your age you won't get a second shot. I did the young fool thing, learned my lessons the hard way but was young enough to recover. You'll be dating again in 5 minutes, lifestyle score 20/10. I lost count (and lost interest in counting) how many I saw go broke in 5 years and on a plane back to Blighty, bedsit in Luton or some other part of God's as$#ole, giving yourself a 0/10 lifestyle score, your neighbour will be a 50-something divorcee with clinical depression.

Tree: 5833407634443 Pjssed Driver: 0

I've not read this thread through again to refresh my memory of it but I know from bitter experience that main breakers will melt because the screws were not torqued properly onto the cable and they get extremely hot as a result. It will also explain the flakey power. You also get idiot sparks that will cut down the cable to make it fit, sometimes only a few strands of copper. Obviously this is a point of extreme heat under load. Also, if this is a plug in type CU, the cheap ones are garbage, as are the cheap plugin breakers. The plugin connections are unreliable. They WILL get hot under load on the lower quality end of the market. Also, the scrap coins from the 'knock-out' holes on the mild steel cases may get lodged in the bus bar if the installer was careless. Another possibility.

It's horseshjt. Try another branch. Think about it, a bank deciding not to open accounts is like a gas station not selling gas. It's so absurd you could only hear it said in Thailand.