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You are lucky, she asks only for 2,000 bath/month to save in the bank. She's too cute, if I were you, I would marry her right away !

My wife needs at least 10K a month, and she will not save it to the bank, she will spend it right away

It seems you have never been married before?

Got a 90 day report due tomorrow - going to Chang Wattana from Rama 9 Rd - should I take the highway north from the MRT HQ area, go over Ram Intra to Lak-Si and Chang Wattana (from the East) or

should I take the highway from Rama 9 to the west and then turn north to Chang Wattana, heading East to the government complex?

In short, coming from downtown Bangkok should I approach the Government Complex and Immigration office from the East or from the West to avoid the traffic/road blockage/flooding ?

Thanks

I went there at 9:00AM this morning, from Ratchada via Ram Intra / Laksi. I didn't see any water at all, no more cars that usual and small queue at the desk. It is bit messy outside the complex because all cars are parked there.

The only big issue: all copy shops are closed, so better bring all copies you need.

You should try : sudo apt-get install -f

a tool to convert video from various formats (mainly AVI) to mp4 to use on my i-pod

You can also use online converters like : http://media-convert.com/convert/index.php

Select "iPOD" as output format.

Gnome default browser is Epiphany ( http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/ ) which uses FF rendering engine but is much, much less bloated. It has adblock plugin, tabs etc and it's really 100% compatible to Gnome unlike FF. Same-same but better and lighter.

My wife uses FF 3.0, she connects to internet only twice a day to sanook website and lately I noticed that her FF profile has a "places.sqlite" file that is... 640Mb FF takes about 4 seconds to start and almost as much time to close it on a 2.5Ghz dualcore.

Anyone noticed that http://mirror.in.th/ is dead ?

# whois mirror.in.th

Domain: MIRROR.IN.TH

ACE: MIRROR.IN.TH

Registrar: T.H.NIC Co., Ltd.

Name Server: NS1.SIPA.OR.TH

Status: REGISTRY-HOLD

Updated Date: 20 Feb 2008

Created Date: 23 Jan 2006

Renew Date: 23 Jan 2006

Exp Date: 22 Apr 2009

Thunderbird was supposed to be "a lightweight mail/news/RSS client" but in Linux it is nothing but a slow, bloated and buggy app. It looks like a pre-alpha test version coded by a Windows user totally irrespectful of gnome standards I think Mozilla should keep coding for Windows but forget about Linux !

To me, the best and fastest email clients for gnome are :

1/ Claws-mail

2/ Evolution.

I have TOT and I SSH a lot everyday to several servers and don't have any problem. I can't SSH to google or any other servers I don't own.

I think that if TOT wanted to sniff your traffic you would likely never know about it.

Maybe you should check your own computer for virus ? A friend of mine, who uses windows, asked me to find out how and why all his servers (4 of them) were hacked. They all had some nasty PHP scripts uploaded but he couldn't find how the hacker uploaded them. As I didn't find anything in its servers logs, I asked him to bring his own computer : he had a nasty windows virus that, each time he was uploading to his website via FTP, was also uploading all that PHP cr@p to his 4 severs

If it works with FTP, it could also work with SSH.

PS. If you go into the TOT office to make the change in service, you'll need a photocopy of your passport & current extension of stay stamp or whatever you have that makes your stay in Thailand official.

You are right : I brought my wife to TOT office and it worked

However, before upgrading, you should login to your TOT modem (http://192.168.1.1/ login: admin, pass : tot) and look at those 2 values named "SNR Margin" and "Line Attenuation". In my case, they are to bad to get a speed above 2.5Mbps and upgrading to 4 or 5Mbps would make it worse than a 2Mbps line.

Debian 5.0 "Lenny" is out.

If you want to try it :

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/

There are a lot of CDs, but only the first one is needed for a base install (debian-500-xxxx-CD-1.iso).

There is also a LiveCD but I'm not sure at all it can be installed from it.

It's a bit better today however TOT in BKK gave us new IPs. Instead of the usual 125.25.xxx.xxx we now have 113.53.xxx.xxx and the main problem is that they don't have a reverseDNS. I was wondering why I was quicked out by my own servers while trying to log in via SHH

All that mess is probably just due to an anchor... I'm just wondering what will happen when some wannabe terrorists will play with submarine cables.

I had the same problem and just found out why :

Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication

By Malcolm Fried and Lars Klemming

Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged.

The failures cut the flow of ``data of various kinds'' between Europe and the Middle East, and there's no timeframe for when communications will be restored, said Sanjeev Gaur, director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India. France Telecom SA, which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem, said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31.

Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East, Europe and America have been damaged, according to the U.K.'s Interoute Plc, which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities. The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy. In January, an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast.

``The information we have is a bit sketchy, but chances are that it will have been an anchor again,'' Jonathan Wright, Interoute's director of wholesale products, said in a telephone interview. ``Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems.''

Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East.

Egyptian Outage

``Customer services and some mobile-phone customers'' at Vodafone Group Plc's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure, said Simon Gordon, a spokesman for the U.K. company. Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure, he said. Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point.

Portugal Telecom SGPS SA, Portugal's biggest phone company, has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the ``impact is very small,'' said a company official. Sonaecom SGPS SA, Portugal's second-biggest fixed-line phone company, also said that is diverting traffic to other routes.

France Telecom's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure ``greatly disturbed'' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia. At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia, 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service, according to Orange.

Traffic `Congestion'

The Internet traffic ``from Mumbai to London has now been re-routed via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route,'' Reliance said in an e-mailed ``traffic disruption update,'' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services.

The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow.

``You can re-route the data through other cables, but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks,'' Interoute's Wright said. ``So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted.''

Some of Interoute's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably ``affected'' by the failure, Wright said.

``It's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean,'' Wright said.

A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station, the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected, according to information received from Telstra. Flag Telecom Group Ltd., a Reliance Globalcom unit, operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions.

Fixing Problem

Reliance Globalcom doesn't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem, said Anurag Joshi, head of the company's global network operations center.

The SMW4 cable, also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia- Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network, connects 12 countries: Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy and France.

France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area will cast off tonight at 3:00 local time for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board.

Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable, then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable, France Telecom said, adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and that the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31.

Firefox plugin "User Agent Switcher" would have been easier to install

http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/

the only firewall is with the router

so how safe am i?

You DO have a firewall in your Linux distro, one of the best and most powerful : iptables

That's the main difference between Linux and Windows : it's there, it's working well, and it doesn't bother you every 5 mn with a pop-up window telling you it has blocked this or that

$ man iptables

Open a terminal and type :

$ zenity --warning --text="90 day report"

It has a lot of options (calendar, popup, tray icon...) :

$ zenity --help

You could also use a Text to Speech synthesis software like 'festival' and run :

$ 'echo "90 day report" | festival --tts:

There are plenty of notification tools, all you need is to create a cron job.

Place a shortcut on your desktop

A Linux app that wants to place an icon/shortcut on the desktop ??

It was probably coded by a Windows maniac

Thai workers also use the same blackmarket system to bring back money to Thailand from HK and SG.

Give them the money before noon, get the money (someone will make a deposit) in your Thai bank in the late afternoon.

Its works like a charm !

I don't know about the Indian system though but it should be the same.

I just restored my backup 2.5 HD yesterday. It had very important data regarding my company.

I used the good old way to do it, as I already did twice in the past and it worked :

- put it in an 2.5 HD external case

- put it all in... the fridge

- don't freeze it, just leave it 30/45 mn maximum

- take it out of the fridge and plug it right away to another PC USB port

It didn't work the first time, but the second time I was able to copy all 100GB data (even though it was on a XFS encrypted partition )

Thanks to my blue Panasonic fridge

In Thailand for fast download there's http://mirror.in.th/ and few others.

If you can't download it, then just ask them to ship you a free CD : https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

Well.. it's blocked again !

Looks like they unblocked it by mistake (the maid pressed a wrong key while cleaning the keyboard)

I just noticed today that TOT unblocked port 25.

The good part : I can send emails from my Linux box

The bad part : I checked my spam folders and there is already 1 spam coming from a compromised TOT user

Received: from [118.174.58.xxx] (118.174.58.xxx.adsl.dynamic.totbb.net [118.174.58.xxx])

by xxxxxx (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 2E50E3C0008F

for <xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:46:25 +0200 (CEST)

Received: from [118.174.58.xxx] by mx0.qq.com; Wed, 10 Sep SE Asia Standard Time

Message-ID: <3216642d$376c6ed9$42298453@tengzhoucn>

From: <[email protected]>

Subject: *** SPAM ***Our store specialization is natural remedy for men and women.

Date: Wed, 10 Sep SE Asia Standard Time

Fortunately, according to the date field, they never heard about the RFC 2822 but I'm not sure that TOT will keep the SMTP port wide open if they start again to spam the whole planet.

That one is not an African scam, but the title is fun. I received it today and it was sent from Russia :

Subject: Going to Pattaya, take this

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:14:44 +0200

http://xxxxxxxx.com

VIAGRA

10 pills x 50mg $37.00 ($3.70 per pill)

30 pills x 50mg $69.00 ($2.30 per pill)

60 pills x 50mg $124.00 ($2.07 per pill)

90 pills x 50mg $179.00 ($1.99 per pill)

120 pills x 50mg $213.00 ($1.78 per pill)

http://xxxxxxxx.com

At least we know now where Russian spammers spend their holidays

Did you try to press the Escape key during the boot splash screen ? It will perform extended tests (memory and hardware).

The reflow seems the only way to fix it (that problem is well known on Thinkpad T4x serie and has always been fixed that way).

Actually it's not a big deal to do if you have the heat gun, a thermometer and time to unmount all parts!

The only 4 beeps error sequence I know about all Thinkpad models is a problem with the security chip on the MB.

Bring it to IBM center (Ari BTS), they are quick to fix problems. I've been there 3 times, never seen a queue, no need to call before, they changed twice my Thinkpad fan in 30mn and once the LCD panel in 2 hours. Much quicker than HK or SG.